<p>I can't imagine paying the CB $1148 for AP tests.</p>
<p>none. Im in AP US, Euro and Statistics</p>
<p>At my high school, it's not uncommon for Juniors to be taking 3 APs, and seniors to be taking 5-6 (We're in New England, in the middle of all of the Ivy League schools...). Most of them (well, us) still manage to find free time and get all 5's and 4's, and extracuricullar activities to boot. It all depends on how you approach it. In all of our AP classes, homework is optional, so if you understand the subject matter then you get off of doing homework. Social-Studies passionate people take Euro, Psych, US, and PoliSci all in the same year, and call it a breeze, while science/math freaks (like me) take CompSci, Bio, Chem, Physics and Calc in one year. It's all a matter of time distribution and priorities.</p>
<p>it depends on the teacher..some classes are a lot of work, some arent</p>
<p>AP English Language and Composition: Probably an hour or two a day, but you can get away with doing it in other classes or hardly at all, if you're slick.</p>
<p>AP Biology: All you need to do, and all anybody ever does, is cram the night before for tests and do labs and projects the night before they're due.</p>
<p>AP US History: Probably about 5 hours of reading a week, which nobody does except for the really diligent kids...</p>
<p>I think the answer to this question really depends on you and how efficient you are with time and how fast you usually work. I'm a junior and I'm taking 5 AP classes this year, plus Precalc Honors, Spanish III (Honors), and Physics Honors. However, I'm also playing my 3rd year of Varsity Golf, and I was Secretary of my school's BETA Club (I'm going to be VP of NHS and Pres. of Science Honor Society next year :)). But anyways, I still have time to go on the computer almost every night and watch TV. I think it's really all about time management. If you can work effectively and efficiently, than it's really no big deal taking a bunch of AP classes even if they may have quite a bit of homework.</p>
<p>Yeah, this depends not only upon the school, but also the class and the student. Last year, my only AP was World. This year, I take Physics, Psychology, U.S. History, and English Language. I definitely had more work last year for World than I do this year, for all four of those classes combined. However, that's an average. Usually, there isn't that much work, but sometimes it all begins to accumulate and spiral out of control. But again, this also depends on the student. For example, I would agree with aignam in saying that U.S. History gives about 5-6 hours of reading a week (and that's if you're efficient), but you only NEED to do a minimal amount of it. I would say that in a two-week span, I'll cram in about 4.5 hours of reading, but I'm one of the few who actually finds it helpful to read the textbook. Here's one important distinction I want to make between Honors and AP classes in my school: the AP classes have next to no written work, but a hefty amount of reading. If I took Honors history however, I would be stuck doing half an hour to an hour of homework each night, most of it mindless drone work that counts for our grade. I hate being babied like that, so I take AP classes to get around it. They generally offer more freedom. </p>
<p>Also, how much work you do for a particular class really depends on how much you like the subject and how much time you feel like putting into it. For the most part, teachers will assign bounds upon bounds of an endless stream of homework, but they really only expect you to do some small part of it. In Physics, for example, our teacher assigns a huge amount of homework and reading, but nobody really notices because they don't feel obligated to do it, or at least, don't feel they have to complete it on time. If you have a huge history test the next day, that is a perfectly legitimate excuse for skirting the deadline if the teacher doesn't feel you're taking advantage of him. For this reason, I do about an hour of physics homework every 10-12 days, but someone who really wanted to do superwell in the class and ace the AP might put in nearly 4 hours every day.</p>
<p>I have great teachers/school I guess. 2 APs, calc and US, and barely ever do homework (A-A+ in both classes). College will probably be a wake up call but whatever, I'll deal with that then.</p>
<p>4 APs, 3 Honors...1.5 a night? Max? It's really not bad...I don't get day to day hw so much as week to week in my APs.</p>
<p>I had a real crappy AP chem teacher. I practically had to teach myself the class. USH is a b!+(H. Those outlines kill me.</p>
<p>Sympathize with me ppl. 4-5 hrs hw per night PLUS soccer practice for 2 hrs. I already lost 25 lbs. For some one starting at 155 LBS that is alot.</p>
<p>The IB Kids at my school (myself included) have it pretty badly homework wise as well as the crazy individuals who take AP classes on top of the IB core classes. </p>
<p>Usually, I have to seriously power-work for 50 minutes per class that I have homework in then take a 5-10 minute break in between each for homework per night. We don't have homework in every class every night, but we tend to have atleast 4 hours a night.</p>
<p>i'm taking US history and eng:lang & comp and i've found that it just depends on the teacher. in my history class, we did chapter reviews and had tests on each chapter every 2-3 days and rarely wrote essays (about 6 total up until the ap test). in english, we read a couple of books and short stories and those were really the only times that we had alot of work to do.</p>
<p>Homework is pretty light at my school, as far as APs go.</p>
<p>Sophomores generally take:[ul]
[<em>] Statistics: approx 1 hr of hw, if you do it (not checked regularly)
[</em>] European History: lots of long reading assignments and plenty of writing: 1-2 hrs a night
[/ul]</p>
<p>Juniors usually take [ul]
[<em>] English Language: lots of writing, but not too time-consuming. 45min - 1 hour a night.
[</em>] US History: lots of reading, but few actual assignments so okay to slack off
[<em>] Psychology: lots of reading, no actual hw assignments
[</em>] Chem: crappy teacher, nothing assigned at all. She made up our grades because she was too lazy to grade the tests. I had to learn everything myself... I'm hoping for a 4
[/ul]</p>
<p>Seniors
[ul]
[<em>] Calc AB/BC: lots of problems assigned. 1-1.5 hrs/night
[</em>] Literature: lots of reading, 1 hr a night
[<em>] Economics (Macro & Micro): not sure, but not a lot
[</em>] Government (Comp & US): lots of reading, few assignments
[li] Physics: like chem, crappy teacher. Basically self-study.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>As you can see, we don't have much actually assigned. In terms of actual assignments, tenth grade was the worst even though I took the fewest AP courses. Now I do a lot more reading, but very few assignments. That works good for me, but a lot of kids don't do well with so much independence. The pressure is all on you to learn the material and study if you want to do well on the AP exam, because the teacher isn't going to fight you.</p>
<p>i take 6 aps and i get roughly 2 hours hw a night.</p>
<p>the number fluctuates.</p>
<p>for physics i do my hw packets on weekends.
for calc, i dont do any hw cept when i need to study for a test.
for econ, i do packets on weekends.
i do nothing in english</p>
<p>for the most part, my work is all spread out.</p>
<p>my school doesnt even offer ap courses, although all of the courses are ap caliper. we are allowed to take the tests though because the courses are of equal level.</p>
<p>Taking multiple APs is all about time management - if you don't know how to manage your time, you'll be up till all hours of the night doing homework.</p>
<p>I had craploads for AP Bio-we learned a chapter ever other day or so, and for each were required to do a packet on that chapter and 3 short essays.
AP Euro, on the other hand, had almost no homework. We wrote two major papers the whole year (and one was the summer assignment.) Do all AP's at other people's schools (except for like math APs) have summer assignments?</p>
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my school doesnt even offer ap courses, although all of the courses are ap caliper. we are allowed to take the tests though because the courses are of equal level.
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<p>So why are they not then called AP classes?</p>
<p>I took APUSH and English Lang. this year.</p>
<p>In APUSH, we had from 1 to 4 hours of homework a night, and 2 to 3 essays (5-10 pages double spaced) every weekend, corresponding to a new chapter in the book. That was probably the most work-intensive class I've ever had, but I'm nearly guaranteed a 5 because of it.</p>
<p>In English, however, the only work we ever get is reading. We've read about 30 books this year. We don't get any other work besides that though, except for maybe an essay every 1 to 2 months. </p>
<p>And if you include my other classes, that's anywhere from 2 to 6 hours of homework a night (usually 3-4 hours).</p>