<p>As I read posts on the CC, I notice so many people have taken so many AP courses. But that's just not possible at my school.
My school only has 4 classes a semester, each last an hour and a half, and AP courses span the whole year as 1 class per semester. Do your schools function the same way?</p>
<p>Mine functions the same way.</p>
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<p>i had four classes a trimester, two 3 days a week, two 4 days a week.</p>
<p>you can always self-study for however many AP tests you want, provided you can find someplace to take them :).</p>
<p>My school functions very strangely. We used to have 7 classes a day, 50 minutes each, all year.</p>
<p>However, this past school year, we started having 4 90 minute classes a day. However, we have combined the A Day/B Day system and the Semester system. </p>
<p>So most classes you will have every day for a semester. However, in the case of AP and Arts classes, you will have that class every other day for the entire year.</p>
<p>It’s a bit confusing on paper, but adjusting wasn’t that difficult. And while I actually enjoyed being able to take 8 classes in a year, 90 minutes of a class like AP Chem can be a bit much.</p>
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<p>Mine is the same way, 8 classes total, 2 semesters, 4 classes each semester, 1 hour and 30 minutes each.</p>
<p>My school is sort of weird with schedules/course offerings…</p>
<p>So we have block schedules, with three classes a day for a total of six classes. Technically there are semester long courses, though only a few are offered each year and only seniors can take them. Also gym and/or health is required so it is like you have five classes.</p>
<p>You can take honors at any point but they are not offered for low level courses that not a lot of honors students take (such as Spanish 1 and Algebra 1). You can only take AP’s in 11th and 12th grade, unless you qualify for AP calc, which you could hypothetically take in 10th grade (though I only know one person who has). Then there is the fact that you can’t take science AP’s until 12th grade and there are AP’s such as Art History and Psych which also can’t be taken until 12th grade.</p>
<p>I go to a creative and performing arts magnet school, so in the afternoon we take classes for our major. These classes/how many you take is based on your major. For my major (visual art) you take two classes each day and they are same classes every day for a quarter, then you rotate classes for a total of eight classes each year.</p>
<p>So that is our crazy schedule! Hopefully it made sense…</p>
<p>we have block scheduling 4 (90 min.) classes daily. Some AP’s are semesterlong and some are yearlong (worth Ap and Honors credit).</p>
<p>My school has 8 classes for both semesters. 4 classes each day, 90 minutes each. And a few AP classes are double blocked.</p>
<p>Example of my school’s schedule:</p>
<p>one week</p>
<p>Monday - Periods 1,3,5,7
Tuesday- Periods 2,4,6,8
Wednesday- Periods 1,3,5,7
Thursday- Periods 2,4,6,8
Friday- Periods 1,3,5,7</p>
<p>second week
Monday- Periods 2,4,6,8
…and so forth</p>
<p>Whoo, block-scheduling! We have a 6 day rotation (but 1/4, 2/5, 3/6 are the same), 5 periods a day. </p>
<p>1/4: AB, B, C, CD, E
2/5: A, B, CD, D, X
3/6: A, AB, C, D, E</p>
<p>X = X-block (mandatory study hall)
Each block is either 1 major class or 2 minors. Last year I had my 2 minors (Piano/Aerospace I as a study hall) during A-block so I had Piano A3/6 and AS I A2/5.
Everyone has to take gym, so that’s 1 minor right there, leaving room for 6 majors and 1 minor, but most people take 3 minors (+gym)/5 majors. If you take JROTC you have 6 majors and room for 2 minors (exempt from gym).</p>
<p>I’m taking 7 majors next year though, which is the max and isn’t allowed if you’re not in JROTC. So people treat me as crazy, even crazier than the girl who took 3 AP’s last year. </p>
<p>We only have the following AP classes: The sciences (Physics B, Physics C, Chem, Bio, ES), Spanish, and French (on even-numbered years), and Calc BC.</p>
<p>Sophomore year: Physics B
Junior year: Chem, Spanish/French
Senior year: All</p>
<p>…but most people won’t take them. I only know 1 person who has ever taken Physics C, and almost all AP’s have <10 people in them (there are 2 bio classes though). No one has taken Calc BC because our math track is terrible.</p>
<p>However, every course except things like gym have levels, usually 3, 4, 5 (sciences are 2, 3, 4). Nobody actually knows what each level means, but some teachers say 5 is meant to be AP, 4 is honors, and 3 is ‘college prep’ (and my 3’s are listed as that). Kids who took level 5 Psych, English III, USH, and MWH were all well-prepared to take the AP exam and some of them did, and they did very well. All level 4’s with one or two level 5 (or an AP, because the AP sciences are level 5) is considered a challenging schedule, but almost everyone takes a schedule like that.</p>
<p>Man, our school is so damn confusing. I don’t even know if i’m taking honors classes or not (almost all level 4’s, some 3’s in the past and 5’s my senior year), but I get +1 to my weighted GPA, so whatever.</p>
<p>7 Classes a semester that are 55 minutes each</p>
<p>Mine school does the same 7 classes all year, every day for 50 something minutes.
We have about 15-18 APs, with AP’s being weighted at 1.0+ and Honors at .5+.</p>
<p>No… At my school there a four periods a day, and two semesters of different/same classes depending. Each period around an hour and a half.</p>
<p>Most AP classes are equal to that of any other class, you either take it every day for a semester, or every other day for the year. Some classes (AP Bio, and some other APs) are either two blocks/periods a day, or everyday all year. </p>
<p>No study hall, but we do have an ‘enrichment’ after first block on monday, tuesday, wenesday, thursday. Monday during ‘enrichment’, you go spend 45 minutes in your first block, tuesday is in your 2nd block, etc. During this time teachers mostly have you do extra review work (start labs for science, math problems for math, extra articles in English etc.)</p>
<p>We have 7 classes (plus lunch) for both semesters. 8:20-3:00 school day.</p>
<p>Ours is block schedule too, but AP’s are only a semester long. Some schools in the area are making some AP’s yearlong, but I don’t find it necessary.</p>
<p>7 periods a day, 845-330, classes are 47 min. We have about 20 plus APs…uh…yeah pretty normal schedule</p>
<p>My school has 4 classes a day which are 90 minutes each. We do not do the A/B or rotation style so it is almost impossible to get all the classes you want. Honors and normal classes are semester long while AP’s are yearlong. The face-to-face AP’s (Calc AB, Biology, Lit, Lang, and US History) are what really kill our schedules. Taking one face-to-face AP at my school means you are giving up 1/4 of your entire schedule. Luckily we have other options. These are the online AP classes (Calc BC, Physics B, Euro, World, Human Geo, US Gov’t, Psych and Stats) Calc BC and Physics B are in the process of being offered. The AP’s above are all yearlong but only take up 45 minutes a day, so we have to pair them with one another to make the whole 90 minute class period. </p>
<p>This all comes together to make a very hectic week when scheduling comes around. One time the guidance counselors actually went home because there was so many kids beating on their doors asking why there was all of these schedule conflicts.</p>
<p>Being a block schedule, it is very hard to make everything work. I originally planned on taking Spanish 1-5 but due to good old schedule conflicts with US History and Pre Calc, I won’t be able to continue Spanish past level three.</p>
<p>My school does 9 40-minute periods a day, 7 classes 1 lunch and 1 study hall…but I dropped my study hall for another class. Most are year long for 1 credit, but some of the electives are semester long for .5 credits. Oh and we have double labs for honors/ap science classes, so I get pulled out of lunch 2/6 days to do science since they can’t take me out of study hall.</p>
<p>Wow! Some of you get to have so many classes! I wish my school gave us the opportunity to have more than 4 classes a semester. It’s almost unheard of for people to take more than 2 APs a year. And APs aren’t even offered until 10th grade, and even then AP US History is the only possibility.</p>
<p>7:25 to 2:46.<br>
8 periods, 47 minutes each. 3 possible lunch periods, after 4th, after 5th, during 5th (you have half a study hall, lunch, half a study hall). Lunch is 27-28 minutes, 5 minute passing times. Most people take study hall, seniors can take 2 :P</p>
<p>About 10 APs offered, keeps going up (probably about 12 now)</p>
<p>Monday: Periods 1-6 (I think like 45 minutes each)
Tuesday & Thursday: Periods 1, 3, 5 (2 hours each)
Wednesday & Friday: Periods 2, 4, 6 (2 hours each)</p>