<p>We have like 12 AP classes at my school and im planning to take 9 total at my school, Junior + Senior Year...</p>
<p>I was wondering, starting sophomore year, can i study, by myself, at home, and take the AP test of choice? And also, would colleges see that i did this? Would they care? </p>
<p>I wish our school had more AP classes or an IB program but they don't and i don't want that to affect my chances at a Top20 school like JHU or GIT.</p>
<p>Colleges understand when schools don’t offer a wide array of AP’s so it wouldn’t affect your chances. That said you can definitely self study and try to take them. When you send scores to colleges you can send those scores as well. You’ll have to work out taking the test with your school, where the test is offered and what you’ll need to do paperwork wise. However, it sounds like you’re a freshman and you may not understand quite how difficult AP tests are…</p>
<p>Lol, i didn’t mean to come off that way…ive actually been studying a AP Environmental Science Text Book and AP World History Text book because i plan to take those next year…i know it’s hard and its not like getting A’s on school assignments, you could miss like 1/3 of the questions and still get a 5…</p>
<p>No…you can’t miss 1/3 of the questions and get a 5…that’s not how they work.</p>
<p>of course u can 
there are my older acquaintance who made out straight 5 on 5 AP exams in just 1 month by studied himself… though he is kinda legend lol</p>
<p>Totalderiv is right, you really can’t miss that many. It depends on the test but essays often count for a HUGE portion of the grade. When I took the AP Euro test they counted for 65% of grade. The text books are not an indication of the actual test. It is much harder than the books make it seem and the questions are far more obscure than you’d think.</p>
<p>Hmm, well i didn’t imagine theyd be that hard…wat else would u say i can do to study other than study the books?</p>
<p>There was a kid at my school who besides for getting a perfect SAT score, took about 15 AP tests and got 5s on all of them just by self studying</p>
<p>You can miss 1/3 of the questions. The way it works is each question is worth plus one (each wrong =-1/4 and each ommited = +0). You will then get a score out of 150. In AP Enivironmental science for example you need a score in the mid to high 80s in order to get a 5. What a joke right? I don’t know if that’s how they all work, but I believe that is the case. Buy a review book (I’ve heard princeton review is good) and use that to help you. Usually they have good information and helpful strategies to use on the test.</p>
<p>I’ve only heard that as how SAT scoring works, but even if it’s true, so much of the tests are based on essays that you need to get more of the multiple choice correct. It’s doubtful that you can write a perfect essay.
Some kids are just smart enough to get all 5’s like that, but only an insurmountably tiny percentage of the population, chances are you won’t be one of them.
It’s really important to practice the actual exam. For example, on the AP Art History test you could have 3 minutes to answer 10-15 questions. It’s not just about knowledge, it’s about how quickly you can get that knowledge out.</p>
<p>Can i find practice tests anywhere?</p>
<p>Check book stores, some AP test prep books probably will have old tests for practice. Otherwise there might be some available online.</p>
<p>Ok cool, thanks a lot…and are the essays really that hard??</p>
<p>collegeboard.com releases old AP tests. Check there.</p>
<p>It depends on the test and how prepared you are. All the tests I took required a lot of writing in a short period of time so you have to be ready to write really quickly to finish. They also asked for very specific information. You can’t get by with a broad knowledge of the subject, you have to know small details, dates, etc. One example of how tough it can be was on the Art History exam, there were a number of essays where you only had 5 minutes to identify an obscure piece of art/ architecture, talk about what influenced it’s creators, and describe how it met current cultural values.
On the other hand, the AP English Language exam didn’t ask specific information, but the entire test felt like a super long SAT writing section where you only have 20/ 25 minutes to write an argumentative essay. If I remember right there were about 9 of those.</p>
<p>Oh my…are the different AP exams on Different days?</p>