AP Workload

<p>In response to:
"I taking the toughest AP at my school; Euro and I have dedicate 4 hours a day to it. On weekends I spend more. We have al of reading because the students have more than one book each. I have about 10 now."</p>

<p>This is RIDICULOUSLY UNNECESSARY. I took AP Euro sophomore year. In my class we didn't do anything all year (literally nothing...well, i did do my math homework, but notheing related to history...). A week before the exam all the kids in my class (also sophomores who had done absolutely nothing all year) bought the Barrons review book and read it straight through. I, like most kids in my class, got a 4. But we also had a few 5s and 3s. Only 2 people (in a class of 30) failed. AP Euro is probably the easiest class out there that can earn you college credits.</p>

<p>AP Calc AB requires work, but is still a lot easier than AP Calc BC or IB HL Math (or arguably IB SL Math Methods).</p>

<p>AP bio was easy for me (I didn't take the class, just the exam) because I took 3 years of IB bio...some of the students who had only had 1 year of AP bio found it difficult though.</p>

<p>AP Lit is also very easy...you can basically BS your way through it. </p>

<p>Basically, you shouldn't have very much difficulty at all taking 2 AP classes. People tend to overexaggerate their difficulty (this is true for all advanced classes...not just APs). don't worry, you'll be fine ;)</p>

<p>Ask about the teacher(s) from former students. In AP Human Geography, a class that our freshmen take, the teacher - from Day 1 - has only given them the amount of time for tests that they would have on the actual AP exam....it's something like 25 seconds per question. I can see working up to that and doing that maybe in March or April, but doing that from Day 1 with 9th graders is freaking them out (and causing these straight A students to be getting 50s and 60s on tests!)</p>