<p>Is it just me or does every single AP teacher think that their class is by far the most important class that you will ever take, the AP test for their class is ten times harder than any other AP test, and that they are the best teacher in the entire school?</p>
<p>Not my teacher. :P He was pretty considerate in the amount of work, and realized many of us had other AP/honors courses and he rarely over-loaded us with stuff and was very fair.</p>
<p>However, I have other (non AP) teachers who believe their class is above all, so I know what you're talking about.</p>
<p>Not all teachers are like that, but yeah you'll probably find a lot of them like that. They like to give excuses for why their work should be your number one priority so that they can continue to give you a lot of homework so they can get ahead quicker. It gets a lot worse around April near AP Examination time.</p>
<p>A few of my AP teachers are like that but most aren't. In a way I am glad that they are like that because the exam will be easier hopefully. :)</p>
<p>My AP physics teacher has never taught AP before (the course is new) and he is teaching insanely to the test and is even going to take .25 of a point off for wrong answers and stuff on his tests...........well we are told him that our other teachers never taught to the test so much and that we had done pretty well and he thought that was an error for them. </p>
<p>Also, my government teacher, government is required for everyone, told us his class would be our hardest class this year. lol.</p>
<p>^ yeah that is pretty typical of upper-level/AP teachers. For the most part, they are probably directing those words at potential slacker-students. If you're a pretty high achiever and hard worker, I wouldn't take it personally. Mostly these AP teachers just want to weed out all the bad eggs and possibly encourage bad students to drop it. I'm sure it will simmer down in a few months.</p>
<p>I had my AP chem teacher last year for regular chem, and this year for AP... He definetely didn't try as hard with the prep classes (gave us movies, crosswords, etc), but I can tell that this year he is really really trying to got as many as possible to pass</p>
<p>Physics, english, and history, not nearly as much</p>
<p>and for those of you complaining about the 1/4 or 1/2 point off, tell your teacher that if he/she wants to make it liek the AP test, Curve it so that an A is 60 percent (ish)</p>
<p>Almost all of my teachers, including my chorus teacher, believe that their class is the Most Important Class Ever Taught. I've only had 1 teacher who has said, "Listen, I understand you guys have hours of work every night for others classes. I'd rather you go to bed at a normal time than stay up all night doing homework for my class." </p>
<p>It is especially frustrating in the two weeks before APs when I start to really stress out, and all the non-AP teachers aren't sympathetic and still pile on a huge workload.</p>
<p>My AP Language teacher last year didn't seem to care much, actually. I only got the score I got because I was taking AP Lit concurrently with a fantastic teacher. </p>
<p>However, he did assign us so much homework (make that busywork) that it seemed like he thought his class was the only class we were taking--or at least, the only one giving homework. I drove myself half crazy trying to get it all done, but really nobody took it seriously. By the end of the year I was writing some of my assignments in Spanish, some in French, some in scrambled words... got full credit for all of them. :( :p :D :rolleyes: What a waste of time.</p>
<p>The only time that happened junior year was in APUSH, where we got a ton of busywork every night, and I did extra work for studying because the homework she assigned us never helped. In both AP Bio and AP English, I rarely ever got homework. (I didn't take the AP English test, though, since it's two-year class at my school.)</p>
<p>This year, I think my AP Chem teacher is going to be the kind you described, just judging by the amount of summer homework she gave us. Twenty challenge problems (truly challenging, as I spent a 8 hours on them with a group of friends) and four full-blown projects. Not even useful projects but pointless ones like make a test for the stoichiometry chapters, or a menu for the matter & measurement chapter.</p>