<p>My son is taking AP Biology next year. He just received the summer assigments. They included: (1) Reading two chapters of the text book. (2) Writing an essay. (3) 10 pages of quiz/test. (4) A project that requires you to collect data, and to writer report with presentations, interpretations and conclusions. All these will be graded in the first week of the new school year. Is your AP Biology course like this? It seems that a lot of work is involved in this course.</p>
<p>a lot of work is involved. i didn't take it, but i have a lot of friends who took it. it's hard work. lots of reading, memorizing, labs, projects. i took physics, which was more math-centralized and analytical</p>
<p>I thought it was a very easy course. Just read your textbook once in a while, pay attention in class, and you'll be fine. No need to take notes or make study guides for tests or freak out about labs or anything...</p>
<p>I agreed with Noel. :] I didn't take AP Bio, and good thing I didn't because the teacher at my school is not very good. Also make sure your son knows which teacher it is and that he asks questions. If I were him I would try to find a student who took AP Bio and ask them when the teacher teaches, is it usually on the quizzes, tests, and on the final exams? If it is, he should take it. If it is not, don't. It's not worth it. ://// That's just my opinion. ^_^</p>
<p>it depends what school you go to, but ap bio at my school is difficult</p>
<p>My bio class required very little work but I could not have been more prepared for the AP test. All that work is really ridiculous and he won't learn the material better. The class is basically memorizing the book, nothing more. That teacher doesn't really know what she is doing.</p>
<p>Yes - at my school, AP Bio is THE most demanding AP b/c of the amount of work in the course. For summer, we had to read the first 5 chapters of the book and in class, we basically covered 1 chapter every class meeting (every other day) and had to read the chapter b4 hand otherwise we'd get a pop quiz on it. The class was discussion driven and you had to be ready to answer any questions our teacher might throw at you. There were tests (pretty difficult - must study hard for the A/B) and no curve in the class - generally in a class of about 20, only a handful of ppl got A's. We also had labs 3-4 hrs before school started for everyone else and had to come in early starting the last month prior to the AP test for review sessions/finish up the book. Def. the most demanding AP at our school, especially when combined with 5 other APs :).</p>
<p>For my ap bio class our summer homework is just 2 ecology chapters and a couple 5 or 6 page packets. not too bad, but most ap classes (or the ones ive taken anyway) give you summer homework so its not a big deal</p>
<p>My AP bio class required us to read five chapters before school started and do some of the questions, but our teacher didn't prepare us at all for the AP exam. It was the hardest AP I took in that I had to learn everything on my own, I ended up covering about 49 chapters and completely missing ecology. If the teacher can't teach, mine couldn't, I would recommend not taking the class, otherwise it might be very enjoyable. My class only got to cover about 20 chapters BTW.</p>
<p>I took AP Bio this year. We did not have any summer hw. However, partly because of this, we had a huge amount of work. We had to read and take notes on 10-15 pages per day, and we also had lab reports most weeks. At my school, AP Bio is considered the hardest course, but we did finish reading the Campbell's (almost cover to cover) about 3 weeks before the AP exam.</p>
<p>is Campbell's the one with the picture of a toucan or bird witht he big colorful beak?</p>
<p>AP bio can be very demanding. My summer work involvedreading and learning six chapters, four pages of questions that she gave us and a whole lot of worksheets. we couldnt write on anything so we had to use loose leaf, and i couldn't staple all the work together. AP bio is THE most demanding class at our school. We go over everything, and even if we have to cram in work before the AP she will make us do work on it. We had two weeks to learn 18 chapters, and by george we outlined and did worksheets on those 18 chapters in two weeks... It depends on the teacher, though, in regards to amount of work. </p>
<p>The AP coursework at our school is all really hard. I hate to say it, wzzzz, but I have seen much worse summer work than your son's...</p>