Please thank you for taking the time to answer my question. Junior year is coming up and my GPA is well not the best and that’s all i’m going to leave it as :). PLEASE answer this question. How hard are the COURSES(not the test i think the review books will help me enough like everyone on here has said) of AP Psych and AP comparative government. . I know every school is different BUT i think if a majority opinion will give me more confidence. PLEASE answer and once again i am tlaking about the COURSE not the test, the COURSE.</p>
I haven’t done Comp Gov, but Psych is really easy. It requires next to no critical thinking and not too much memorization.</p>
At my school AP Comparative Politics is somewhat hard, but it has a teacher infamous for making classes difficult. When he taught AP US History, his classes all had averages of low Cs, very low by my school’s standards. However, the AP CoPo class was not as bad. I managed to get As on all his tests just by reading the book and cramming the night before. A lot of people did poorly, but a lot of that was their own laziness (so many people expect to do well while not reading the book . . . this was not the class to do that). If it is done in a semester, you will definitely feel a time crunch as it is a lot of material for that time frame. The class average ended up being a low B or a high C, so definitely not too terrible. I do remember that for our final exam he gave a practice AP test (released MC, and some 5 FR ?s) and then he went and graded it as a straight percentage. That means that people who got Cs and Ds, which on an AP test are good scores, were screwed.</p>
AP Psychology is ridiculously easy. The teacher knows it’s an easy AP test, and he doesn’t try to make the class difficult. You could do rather decently not reading, and well if you cheated (I think 90% of the class shared answers on quizzes and tests; I was not a part of that 90%). Of course, doing well on the AP test (i.e. a 5) meant you had to read, and a lot of people ended up with 4s where I would’ve thought they would get 5s (maybe it’s not as easy as we think?)</p>
Psych at my school is fairly hard, there is a lot of memorization and projects. The class is awesome though, it’s by far the most interesting class that I’ve ever taken and the teacher is great. Really it depends on your school, ask people who have taken it before (if you know who the teachers are then maybe you could look them up on ratemyteachers.com?)</p>
Well, I didn’t take AP Comp Gov as a course, but in terms of the test, make sure that you buy the Ethel Wood book. Also, there’s a thread for AP Comp Gov in here somewhere and be sure to find that because there is an online prep/study guide that’s super useful and absolutely indispensable. I have no clue how I got a five on this test, but it’s doable, especially if you actually take the course.</p>