<p>~10-15 pages of reading per night = 3-5 pages of notes (front and back). Time spent on Euro homework per night: ~3hrs. Everyone in class spends over 3 hours per night on Euro, not just me. We've already had a bunch of people drop out of the class. The daily quizzes are stupidly difficult: I'd say class avg. is 50%-75% on the quizzes. No AP curve.</p>
<p>Is it just my class or is this how all Euro classes are? (I'm going to assume the former...)</p>
<p>Umm, since our grade is composed of 90 percent essays/tests and ten percent participation, we have no homework other than nightly reading.</p>
<p>We don’t have assigned reading. But if you don’t read, you fail the test.</p>
<p>We have regular hw two nights a week. They take me about 2 hours each. And some random stuff here and there.</p>
<p>But what you’re doing is ridiculous. Taking 3-5 pages of notes??</p>
<p>I just got done with today’s assignment. 13 pages of reading. Took notes: 3 pages front & back and 1 page front. It’s funny because we get to use the notes we take on the quizzes, and everybody takes AT LEAST 2 pages front and back notes, yet everybody seems to do like SH111T. This class is BS. After spending 3+ hours on notes today, if I don’t do well on the quiz tomorrow I’m dropping the class. 'Nuff said.</p>
<p>The grading in my AP Euro class was insanely difficult - no AP curve given at all. Highest grade in the class was an 84. (But then, at my school it’s extremely rare that more than one student receives a final grade of over 90 in any AP class). On the other hand, we all got 4s and 5s on the AP exam.</p>
<p>The thing is, anything other than an A in any of my classes will screw up my GPA and rank. So stupid…</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s a concern, but every school looks at it different. No grade inflation at my school, which I think is kind of a blessing, because practically no one gets an A in an AP class, and if you don’t take the APs your transcript looks pretty lame. So it works out. If you have an UW 3.7, you’re probably the val.</p>
<p>You like it!</p>
<p>Reading was intense in my class. About 45 pages a week and you basically had to memorize it. I got around like 10 pages of notes per chapter, but it really prepares you for more AP’s. It’s an intense course based on your teacher.</p>
<p>?? Other than the absence of the AP curve, why are you surprised?..AP Euro is just a TON of work, information, memorization, etc. It’s hell if you don’t take well to these kinds of things…</p>
<p>My AP class was like that, but our teacher curved every test 20% (PLUS an AP weight on our grade). So basically I stopped doing all of the reading. I got an A in the class (remember, this was really a C, since I had +20%). I went in to the AP exam thinking I’d bomb it. If it wasn’t required by the school, I wouldn’t have taken it at all. To my surprise, I got a four. You and the teacher are making the class much more difficult than necessary. Relax a little and you’ll be alright, unless a B would totally F up your GPA.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a lot of AP classes at my old school did that. For the first two weeks of school, the work is outrageous. The teachers are just trying to weed out the idiots (there’re no entry requirements for AP), and then it gets much easier.</p>
<p>^ This is what me and some of my friends were thinking: super-hard first couple weeks, then easier from there on out. </p>
<p>And I discovered that it was too late to drop the class :(.</p>
<p>I agree with applicannot in some respects. In many hard classes, the first few weeks are often very hard, so that teachers lose the bad students. Although, in AP Euro history, it may be different; the homework may be there simply because you have to learn so much for the test.</p>
<p>Yep, that’s about what I had when I took AP Euro. Same with AP US. To get through it I tried to make the reading enjoyable–like a story. It gets very difficult to do if the passage in question is about economics or just lists artists, books, and their dates, but overall, it helped.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I started laughing when I read the OP. You better get used to that workload or college will be a very rude awakening. Further, if it takes you 3 hours to complete that amount of work you need to refine your study habits.</p>
<p>When I took the class last year our teacher assigned 5 pages the first week and no one bothered to read so the rest of the year we had no homework. We took notes in class but they were optional, all I really did was read the chapter before the test and got great scores on the test. I got a 5 and my friend got a 4, but everyone else in the class failed the AP test. </p>
<p>But seriously your teacher is overworking you guys, I mean we barely got through WWII going at a leisurely pace. I would have hated your teachers so much.</p>
<p>We just had nightly reading, tests with AP curves, and an insane amount of extra credit the last marking period, like people getting average grade of A, to make up for the rest of the year and keep a high course grade. Yup, that’s our school for you.</p>
<p>Sucks for you. My AP Euro teacher is pretty chill…def easier than APUSH.</p>