I will be a sophomore next year and our schedules are still in the making. Taking AP World is set in stone for me and I originally signed up for AP Psych, but it is the first year it being offered, and with only one class of it, there is very little chance there will be room for me. I signed up for AP Euro as an alternate before I realized that a good 30% of incoming juniors and seniors signed up for Psych, so now I’m debating.</p>
Is it possible?</p>
Along with that, I’ll be taking Honors Chem (I took AP Bio this year, chem honors is considered loads harder at my school) and a few other honors classes that I am not as concerned with as I am with chem and my AP’s. </p>
World teacher is /extremely/ hard, I don’t know much about Euro teacher though. I consider myself a good writer of essays, but my reading comprehension could be better. I’m not interested in any other electives being offered, so Euro I will most likely have to take. </p>
What do you think?</p>
Leave Euro for your senior year.</p>
You know, I have the exact same debate as you, but I wouldn’t take the class, I would take the AP test. </p>
Why Bio then Chem… and AP Bio to Honors Chem … if Honors chem is really thjat hard, why not just take AP</p>
Most people say that World History curriculum is hard. But the test is not that hard.</p>
In terms of curriculum there is a little crossover that could help a bit. I don’t see any reason not to take both unless the Euro teacher is hard also.</p>
Euro is really just a subset of World.</p>
I totally disagree with smarts1. That said, world tests absolutely no historic knowledge (just big picture b.s), whereas euro has a bunch of specific facts</p>
AP Euro is very specific. I would not recommend taking 2 AP history courses in 1 year. They tend to have a lot of information and reading, so lots of homework and things to memorize for the exam. I haven’t taken AP WH, but have heard it’s not too bad. I have taken AP Euro and APUSH though, which I spent a lot of time reading the textbook and studying. On average, I would say I spent more time reading things for AP Euro this year than for any other class (2 regular classes, plus AP Spanish, AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Psych self study).</p>
I wouldn’t recommend it. From what I’ve heard/seen, both courses are difficult and require a lot of time and effort.</p>