Yeah, I have to agree with ksarmand’s last point. My interest in some areas of history might have skewed my view of the tests’ difficulties.</p>
AP World History was an easy 5 for me, but I guess it was because of the FRQ on the year I took it. </p>
AP U.S. History was alright. It’s really detailed and politics is more emphasized than any other AP History courses. </p>
AP European History was also alright. It’s more like AP World History since it is still broad yet still specific to one continent and its surrounding regions. </p>
In my perspective, APWH<APE<APUSH.</p>
When I was in sophomore year at my school we had AP Euro and almost everyone got 1s and 2s i got a 4 on it and three other people, and two 5’s. AP Euro requires you to understand more themes than what you study for in AP USH and the DBQs are much harder to write since they need to be highly detailed. When she retired she tried to make the school district implement AP World History since she taught both but love AP Euro for the cultural students are exposed to.</p>
APUSH was much easier since we have been exposed to the history of our country. I got a 4 and did not do one of the FRQs.</p>
SO:
AP WORLD < AP US < AP EURO </p>
Hope this helped!</p>
I think APUSH is easier than APEURO! Had to learn about so many countries in APEH that I nearly died.</p>
ap world is most difficult. think about it… you’re covering thousands of years of history!</p>
Didn’t take the class for AP Euro (self-studied), and passed. AP World was easy, and US is okay I guess. So I think it’d be world<US<Euro (just because I didn’t take the class)</p>
I think AP World is the easiest, followed by APUSH and then AP Euro</p>
Is it a bad idea to self study AP Euro while taking a course in APUSH in the same year?</p>
^I don’t think it’s a necessarily bad idea, but the two will have minimal overlap, so you’ll have to devote a lot of time to self-study</p>
Is anyone questioning the point of freaking self studying 3 history APs? It’s pointless! go for one at most</p>
I took World as a frosh and sophomore and got a 5 on the exam.
I’m taking APUSH next year as a junior and Euro the year after that as a senior.</p>
Without having taken the other two, I can honestly say that World is the easiest (IMO). It’s really interesting, so that’s always a plus, and the essays I never felt were particularly difficult, not even the one’s on the AP test. The DBQs are also do not need to be as specific as Euro/APUSH from what I’ve heard anyway, and require more analysis than anything. Also, the class was spread out over two years, so the material was never daunting or intimidating in its breadth. Whereas other kids might be freaking out over shoving in all that information into one year, we went a lot more in-depth over the course of the two years and I felt that this contributed to a fun class experience. I got a 5 and the class average was a 4.14, so that’s good.</p>
In the end, it’s a toss up between Euro and APUSH. I guess it comes down to which you find more interested, your teachers, and your efforts as a student. Have fun if you want to study for all three of them lol, which is pretty insane. Also, I find your parents assertion that World would be difficult because it would be difficult to memorize foreign names absurd and slightly ignorant.</p>
Did anyone consider that the time of the exam may have an impact on how difficult the exam appears to be? </p>
US History is in the morning and Euro is in the afternoon. Many people find it a lot more difficult to write an exam at 8 in the morning than at 12.</p>
I’ve only taken AP World and APUSH out of those three, so I can only compare two. The AP World exam’s MC was very straightforward. I remember going into the test scared out of my mind that the questions were going to be very picky with details. Luckily, it turned out that the questions were pretty easy, especially thanks to a good teacher and the PR review book. We got lucky that year since Scramble for Africa (DBQ) and the Silk Road (Change and Continuity) were two topics that we spent a lot of time studying/discussing thoroughly. The last essay was a curveball (something about North American ideologies) but I BSed my way through.</p>
The APUSH exam was kinda different from World. I went into the MC section thinking it would be as easy as my previous AP history experience. But, I found a good chunk of the questions to be more specific and different from those on released practice tests. Nevertheless, it wasn’t too hard to the extent that I was getting most of them wrong. I think I managed 60/80 thanks to a combo of AMSCO/Crash Course. The essay topics were great for me. All three were on topics that I either had an interest in or had studied during prep. (Puritans, Civil War origins, and Progressive Era women) However, I had a major timing issue since I spent majority of my time trying to perfect my DBQ, leaving only 30-35 mins to write the last two. Luckily, the DBQ is weighted more than the other two essays! </p>
I would say that AP World is easier than U.S History because of my experiences with the exams. US has a lot of specific facts and connections you have to make, while World has general trends which guide the entire course. Despite these differences, it is very manageable to achieve passing grades on both exams if you prep well. I got 5s on both :)</p>
I depends alot on your history background and what you like to learn. Like I know for a fact that my freshman world history class was basically a diluted version of AP Euro (weird I know) and that my 2 of my 3 history classes in middle school were US classes. So for me APUSH and AP Euro would be the two if I was in you situation because I only had one history class in my middle and high school career so far that would really help with world. </p>
Also what parts of history do you like to learn? Specifics? Cause and Reaction? Themes? Comparing and Contrasting?</p>
For specifics and cause and reaction I think Euro would be best. (It’s like a bad soap opera)
For themes and comparing and contrasting World seems to bit better.
US is somewhere in the middle.</p>
So In short I would go APUSH (just because you are the most familiar with it) and one other depending on who you are. Because let’s face it people learn and pick up things differently and some tests suit people more because of that.</p>
I took AP World History as a sophomore this past year and it was THE hardest class ever imagined. I didn’t have a very good teacher but also there is so much more time. You are studying 10,000 years of history. This history is focused in one region, like Euro and US and it doesn’t really follow a rhyme or reason. One lesson you will be in Africa in the 1500s and the next you’ll be in Europe in the 1600s.
There is also a rush, since an average school year is only nine months, 10,000 years is nearly impossible to cover which causes your teacher to rush through. I did horribly on the exam but manu101 was right. The questions were straightforward and easy, except for that godforsaken last essay.
I would say Euro and US, that way if you decide to take World in the future you have a more comprehensive understanding of the World material and the only country worth worrying about is Africa.</p>
World is definitely the easiest. Euro and US are pretty even, US is probably slightly harder. If you have to pick 2, I’d say the easiest thing to do would be World and Euro because they overlap a little bit, but if you’re looking for the most interesting and useful then do Euro and US.</p>
From hardest to easiest - AP World, AP US, AP European… AP World is way more reading, writing, and memorization of events. (2000 years of human mess). Just like Pandora’s Box. Don’t Open!!! AP US – Because it’s the most important History even being one of the shortest – creators of AP courses really pull a lots of “underground” stuff. It taught harder, the test is harder just because it’s our history. AP European is fun! You start studying and pulling “threads” from each area and at the end it’s all connected! Just like a Very challenging Puzzle… Any of them required a lot of reading, analyzing and writing… So if you are not in love with a books and reading in general, so it might be challenging but any Top college is way harder…</p>
In terms of the AP test:
World, European, US
Easiest -> Hardest</p>
Self-studying European History was one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever done with my free-time, though.</p>
world is definatley the easiest
us is definatley the hardest</p>
its mainly because of the teachers & how well you learn as well
like i didn’t take apush, i wanted to but i didn’t switch my history class in time & i was stuck in a class full of idiots being taught by an even stupider teacher(she teaches aphuman geo too, im gonna take it because it wil be sop easy):P</p>
this year in ap world i will have an A once my teacher puts in my extra credit, i would have had a way higher grade if i did 1/2 of the assigments too!lol</p>
im not in ape but im gonna take it next year & ill have the same teacher so it wont be too diffrent,ive seen the schedule for that class, its practically the same except they have projects(like writing a paragraph on a emperor or on a city)
there are some kids in my class taking world & euro, they say that each of those classes help each other :)</p>
I’ve taken AP Euro and APUSH and have made 5’s on both. They require a large amount of factual based, specific information to effectively write on the AP exam. AP World on the other hand studies the trends in World History, it is more general and not as specific, because of this it is easier. I would self study AP Euro and AP World.</p>