<p>AP Environmental Science
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Physics B
AP Physics C</p>
<p>I don't know about environmental science. Biology is the easiest of the lab sciences because even though it is a lot of reading and memorization, but all you do is read and regurgitate. chem is harder because in addition to the memorization, there's a bit of math. And the different reactions yield different results so you can't just memorize. For me, physics B was hard, too much math and too many equations to memorize, but my friend who aced that class said physics was easier than chem. f you're a math person, physics B would be easier than chem. physics B is trig based and physics C is calculus based. In physics C, you have to derive the equations using calculus while in B, the equations are given. Is physics C offered at your school? I heard from my physics teacher who took the C class in college that it's very hard.</p>
<p>this sucks. at everyone else's school bio is just "read and regurgitate." My teacher wanted us to apply everything so the questions were never simple...my average test grade was a 75</p>
<p>AP Chem is hard. But I suck at physics, so I'll probably think that it's even worse. I found biology amazingly easy, and I didn't even have to go back and rememorize anything because it just stuck in my head.</p>
<p>If your test score were C's, it's impossible to get an A. You apply everything in AP Biology...We have a class lower than honors that does that. Our Biology classes apply.</p>
<p>I was in honors biology. And i never said i got an A for the class (although i didnt get all C's on my tests either). I got a B+. and you also dont know to what extent we have to apply knowledge as opposed to yours. I dont care if I got a B+ either because I'm still in the top 3% of my class...which is A-ok with me.</p>
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<p>Agreed. The ones I took were a joke at my school. AP Euro, especially. The teacher showed up maybe 3 out of 5 days each week and refused to tell you your grade. He told us the first day if you asked about it, he'd know you were a grade grubber and therefore lower your grade one letter each time. Yeah, I was the only one in the class to pass the AP test and the only one to get a B (everybody else got A's)... haha, I guess I'm still a little bitter.</p>
<p>The other AP's weren't so great either. They were clearly less rigourous than real college courses and mostly just another version of the "highly-capable classes" from junior high. Plus, they're run by College Board, so you know they're going to rip you off with outrageous test fees ;)</p>
<p>yes I would. AP classes are taught my unqualified teachers. The teachers teach to the test. You don't really learn because you want to, you learn to get some stupid college credit. For instance, AP Calculus AB/BC just teaches you how to memorize and plug in numbers into formulas (i.e. Taylor Series Expansion/Remainder). But do you actually learn how to prove them? Why is 0! = 1? You memorize that, but the teachers don't tell you why. That's why in general (not all courses) most AP's are a waste of time (true they save money) and do not add any significant knowledge (in my opinion).</p>
<p>From hardest to easiest (excluding Physics C, bc it's an extension of B)</p>
<p>AP Physics (watch out for second half of the year. Mechanics rocks, but E&M... not so much)
AP Biology (just a LOT of info to cram in, but otherwise a snooze)
AP Chem (yawn... easy)
AP Environmental Science (a joke)</p>
<p>i took honors bio last year in frosh year and i thought it was hard. it was the only class i didnt get an A in. but it was good because it helped me push myself harder than i've had to before.</p>
<p>My physics teacher argues that physics B is actually harder than physics C, if you are only taking one of the two exams that is, since theres not really that much calculus needed. Even though me and the rest of my physics B class never had calculus, my physics teacher would give us practice problems from physics C tests quite often. Only occasionally would we come across a problem we could not do because of calculus.</p>