<p>is it because the classes arent offered in school's because i don't think most offer them but i haven't seen anyone take them</p>
<p>1) Art History
2) Environmental Science
3) Human Geography</p>
<p>Cant you study most of them on your own (this is mostly a question to those who took it), </p>
<p>Environmental Science is somthing you study in like middle school i don't think the ap exam is like that, since it's ap but this is something some people might have in there school, (my school only has physics, bio, and chem ap and honors) and like marine science and i guess Environmental Science in like average (not hard or dumb kid classes)</p>
<p>Art history i have never heard a class for.</p>
<p>Human Geography is that our planets geography or like history of us humans on it meaning is it more human or more geography.</p>
<p>Anyway thanks for your replies.
P.S. i checked some of the ap questions on collegeboard.com so i have some idea of what the actuall questions are like!</p>
<p>Environmental Science is actually a pretty popular AP class. I know many high schools that offer it, and it's probably one of the most popular classes at my school.</p>
<p>"Environmental Science is somthing you study in like middle school"</p>
<p>Not exactly. You learn the properties of protons, neutrons, and electrons in middle school too, but that certainly wouldn't guarantee you'd know your stuff in AP Chem. Environmental Science covers a LOT of topics, including population control, political legislation regarding the environment, the structure and functionality of various energy forms, etc. The study guide I bought to help me with the course was about 800 pages. I guess you theoretically could self-study it, but it's certainly not a cakewalk. It may not cover topics that are quite as advanced as those covered in other sciences, but there's such an abundance of information that you need to spend a lot of time absorbing it all.</p>
<p>And remember, even if Environmental Science is considered "easy" by AP test standards--the courses are graded by percentage. For example, the top 10% may get a 5, the next 20% may get a 4, etc. So regardless of how well you know the subject, you'd still need to be among the best to score highly on the test.</p>
<p>I don't know two much about Art History or Human Geography. I believe Human Geo is a pretty new course, so I don't think many schools are offering it just yet.</p>
<p>First, the tests are absolutely not graded by percentage. They determine what score someone who knows the material well enough to earn a 5 should get, and whoever gets that score gets a 5. The percentages change (sometimes drastically) every year because different people take the test.</p>
<p>Anyway, to answer your question, I took Environmental Science and Human Geography this year by self-study. Both of them are very easy if you're an intelligent person. I studied for two days for both and I earned 5s. Most of it is common sense anyway. As for human geography, it has absolutely nothing to do with geography. Nothing. No lakes, no rivers, no capital cities, no landmasses. It's sociology material. It's covers some different topics and has some different terminology, so don't study out of a sociology textbook, but that's essentially exactly what it is.</p>
<p>well actually in the geography bee, this "sociology" stuff is/was asked in the written test and the bees, and it's on the national geographic council's high school contest too so... :-/</p>
<p>Gooduniversity...im taking the same APs next year by self study. Many have said that using the Barron's book is all you need to get a 5 in Human Geo. As for Art history, there is no good AP Prep book out there for it so I recommend finding a textbook of art history on half.com or finding out a typical textbook used in AP Art History classes in your area. Like many others have stated, AP Environmental IS a very popular AP(including at my H.S) and you can learn that on your own but make sure you devote enough time to learning it. Good Luck~!!!!</p>
<p>Both AP Environmental and AP Art History are very popular at my school. Our AP Art History teacher wrote the main textbook that is used. But my school offers around 25 APs, so I don't know. However, I had never heard of Human Geography until I looked at the College Board website.</p>
<p>Human Geography - Can definitely be self-studied and it takes like a week before the AP Exam. As long as you have the proper book, then your good to go.</p>