<p>Okay.. I'm a Junior who hasn't taken any AP exams outside of History. I took the European History in 10th and American History this year.
Next year I planned out my schedule to have as hard as classes as I can. Well more specificially I decided to take APs that will benefit me. "If I'm not goign to kick back and enjoy senior year, I'll take APs in hopes of getting college credit."
So I now have Humanities, AP Government, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, and Physcis.
My main concern is the difficulty of taking AP Calc, Chem, and Physics all at the same time. However, if I don't take Physics I may get caught in a remedial course in college before taking Biology (so I figure because I couldn't take AP Bio because i had not taken Physics yet).
However, my AP Calculus teacher is known as a "bad teacher" in that he doesn't prepare his students well. And I know nothing about Chemistry.
Being in this situation, I may seem to be obligated to do some self studying in Calculus and there's a possibilty of doing so in Chemistry also.</p>
<p>So my questions are: Can anyone help me with advice about studying AP Calculus and Chemistry on my own? And what exactly ARE the credits necessary to skip a year? Are scores of "3"s (assuming I receive such scores of course) in a Math, Science, and History good enough? Or I won't qualify?</p>
<p>3s at most of the schools that are mentioned here (Ivies and other top-level colleges) will not be accepted for credit - only exception I know is that BU takes a 3 in AB and ANY score in BC as long as your AB subscore is 3+ (lol). From being in ap chem, I'll tell you that if science is your thing (and especially chem) then self-studying is not impossible, but it will be hard. Though, my class was taught by a first year teacher (albeit one who worked as a manager of a chemical plant for 15+ years or so, so she is smart and knows her stuff) we probably used both periods (double period everyday for ap chem at my school) 10% of the time for notes, most times it was one period and the rest for hw or whatever actually, and I was definitely prepared for the test. However, I was on a mega science EC (NJ Science League - my most involved EC in highschool) so I was studying for those exams every month. I would take a class if I were you, those physics is probably harder to self-study than chem. Calc would be the easiest.</p>
<p>The issue of credits and advanced standing depends on what school you're going to. Some state schools will take 3's, while some top-50's will only take 5's.</p>
<p>What AP Physics course does your school offer? If it's Physics C, doing that with AP Calculus will work well. You'll learn most of the basics of Calculus in Physics C before your Calc class even covers them. </p>
<p>For Chemistry, have you taken any Chem class before? How does your school do its chemistry program - some high schools require Chem I before taking AP Chem, while others have students jump straight into AP Chem. If your school is one of the latter, then you won't need any previous knowledge to do well. Talk to current Chem students to see what they say.</p>
<p>Ack sorry. I didn't verify. Well I'm only taking regular Physics, not AP Physics. </p>
<p>I am currently planning to go to a state school so I believe a 3 will suffice.</p>
<p>And from what I gathered, "regular" Chemistry teachers aren't good (I can affirm that from current experience) so taht is why I am skeptical of the abilities of any Chemistry, including an AP Chemistry, teacher. </p>
<p>My school requires regular Chemistry (which I am taking right now) before taking AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>My Chem teacher would disagree with you because I've had her for two years Honors Chem -> Chem AP and I have to say she's an excellent teacher and I felt very well prepared for the AP, that and due to prior classes who got all 4s and 5s...</p>