<p>Hey everyone! I am going to be a senior next year and I am going to take about 7 or so AP's in addition to my IB HL exams. I need to arrange my AP exams to maximize my results (I need mad college credit)
Ok, can anyone rank these AP's in order of increasing difficulty please???</p>
<p>The first group is AP's I must take (online), the second is subjects I have taken before, and the third list is subjects I would self-study for.</p>
<p>Spanish= Hard if you haven't taken the class for 4 years. I was top of my class and only got a 4.
Calc = Easy
World Hist = Sophomore class so probably easy
Comp Sci AB = Harder than you would expect. Even geeks like me only got 3's.</p>
<p>The rest I dunno on. You can wiki the AP test name and see what percent of the takers got 5's, 4's, 3's etc.</p>
<p>Bio is hard, but it is good to self-study. a senior that was in my ap bio class got a 5, even though it was the first year my AP Bio was teaching. She used the barron's book. I don't think I passed it.</p>
<p>I am actually pretty good at Spanish (taken like 5 years of it).</p>
<p>I have looked at wikipedia extensively but some of the percentages are misleading. Can you guys please just provide me a ranking of the AP tests i listed?</p>
<p>Plus, according to wiki 50% of AP CS AB takers get a 4 or a 5 while I am sure that it is a very difficult test.</p>
<p>on a scale from 1-10 (the test itself, not necessarily the class)</p>
<p>AP Bio: 5
AP Calc BC: 7 the curve for this test imo is very very very nice
AP Physics B: 7 (i was incredibly ill prepared for this one, still pulled off a 5)
AP US History: 4 even though it isnt on your list, it really isnt too hard
AP Eng: 8-10 also not on your list, but it really depends on the prompt one gets on the dday of the test</p>
<p>do not self-study for stat. i want to discourage it, unless you are up to it. i tried to self-study with books and everything, but a teacher-classroom is soooo much better.</p>
<p>Yeah, there is really only a few "valuable" AP tests that you can self-study for and still pull a 5. The teachers are good (most of the time) because they know what to teach to get a 5.</p>
<p>I dunno. I have not taken bio, but in my school about 80% (I think its actually a little higher) of the kids who take the AP Bio exam get a 5. Prolly about 200 kids take it in my school. Most of the rest get 4's. Most of the kids who take Ap bio in my school are sophomores, many of whom are complete idiots. I took ap chem instead as a soph. it was pretty hard.</p>
<p>I only know AP Calc BC but it's 8/10. If you know all the basics + series + volumes (series and volume appear almost every year), you should be able to get good grade.</p>
<p>If next year's like this year's awesome MC, then everything shouldn't be too bad even though the FRQ part was kind of insane hehe.</p>
<p>I took AP Bio as a sophomore. We didn’t even get through all of the material and I still managed a 5. I read my entire AP review book the weekend before, haha. My teacher didn’t really prepare us much for the test. As for the rest on your list, I have not taken them, though I’ll take Calc BC next year. I’ve heard the test for Calc BC isn’t too bad, that AP Spanish is difficult, and Gov is easy (it’s a freshman class at my school)</p>
<p>Relatively (easy?, I tried to put them in order):
Calc BC
Stat
Psych
US Gov
Enviro
Bio
World
Euro</p>
<p>Harder (I believe this is the order, but I don’t want to curse myself with a 4 in comparative…):
Physics B
Comparative Government
Art History
Spanish</p>