<p>This is mostly just idle curiosity. I'm a full IB diploma candidate at a school that only offers two APs (calc and stats) and I'm wondering what you think on this subject.</p>
<p>For those of you who don't know, many IB courses are two (or more) year courses and at least 4 out of the 6 tests required for the diploma are taken at the end of senior year. APs, from what I've heard, are year long courses. Also, AP is run by the collegeboard. IB is an international curriculum. </p>
<p>I've talked to my history, chemistry, and math teachers about subject tests, and all have told me that there is material on the respective tests that I will have to teach myself because it is not covered in the first year of these IB courses. Or in some cases, it isn't covered at all, for example, IB math doesn't expect us to know how to work with imaginary numbers.</p>
<p>I'm not really complaining. It's not that hard to pick up a Princeton Review book and study over the summer before I take the tests in October. I just thought it was something interesting to think about. Do you AP students feel like AP classes cover most of the material necessary for the SATIIs? Have any other IB students noticed this as well? Or is it a lot of self taught material no matter which classes you've taken? Thoughts?</p>
<p>I took APUSH - for two years, at my school. I also recently took the SAT II in US History and scored a 800. Honestly, the subject test felt super easy - like a little quiz to rev me up for the AP exam (which was a week later). AP goes A LOT more in depth about the subject material than actual SAT II requires - and as a result, I was super prepared. I didn’t study, I didn’t review… I just went in there and took the test, and it all came naturally back to me. APUSH helped a lot.</p>
<p>I’m also a full IB diploma candidate, junior, in a school that offers only one AP class (calc) and I’m taking the Chem, Math L2, and Lit SAT IIs in June. My chem teach has been giving short prep classes every weekend for a month now, basically covering the big topics that haven’t been discussed in my Chem HL course, which are: </p>
<p>I think he mentioned that AP chem encompasses a lot more calculation-type problems, whereas IB focuses more on concepts. I think that’s why the SAT II is non-calculator and has so many questions (!!) for just a one hour test - the AP kids have had a lot of practice, and it should come relatively naturally to them. I’ve got PR and Barron’s to study from, but I haven’t started yet due to school exams and am kinda freaking out!</p>
<p>D is a junior in full IB diploma program. She has taken 8 AP tests since freshmen year. I don’t understand why you cannot take AP tests while be in IB program.</p>