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<p>No, you just need to be able to recognize intervals, which is much easier than it sounds. If you’re doing it by intervals it can be a little difficult to think it all out and get it down. But if you have perfect pitch (which doesn’t involve guessing) you can pretty much just transcribe it.</p>
<p>A lot of teachers majored in a lot of areas. The chem teacher w/ the doctorate degree also has a degree in physics o.o. And my current physics teacher has a degree in physics and history… from YALE. ***? and yet he’s a horrible teacher.
I’m taking AP bio in senior yr too, but i’m afraid it’ll be a lot of work :(</p>
<p>Perfect pitch sounds like such a cool thing to have ;_;
I’m sometimes really envious of musically inclined people.</p>
<p>This sucks, I wish I was born with perfect pitch…:(</p>
<p>The people on the other forums say that you must correctly identify alot of notes just by hearing them for the exam! UGH!</p>
<p>Mmm…I think collegeboard said that you have to write down the notes for one section. So there’s no multi choice, meaning no guessing.</p>
<p>On the first part(and I had a lot of AP Music Practice Exams), the choices are not too different. So you’d have to differentiate among those types: majors, minors, etc.</p>
<p>On the second part(and I hate this part), there’s a notation part where you have to listen and notate the rhythm + notes of a piece. I am perfect pitch and I can’t get this part. Notes are not hard to identify, but I can’t write music at the pace of the piece. Being perfect pitch doesn’t give you excellence in rhythm though :P.</p>
<p>Aw lol, that sucks. It’s this or that. Maybe I should just take the course to get an easy A and not take the exam. :x</p>
<p>AP Stats and AP Microeconomics are BY FAR the hardest AP’s. Repeating myself.</p>
<p>The class or exam? o.O</p>
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<p>Well there’s usually a finite number of options…</p>
<p>APUSH was awful. Ugh.</p>
<p>Psych is a cakewalk.</p>
<p>Easiest for me: Any language/literature AP, US History (basically just memorization of facts), Calculus (as long as you know the concepts well, you’re good to go… and this is coming from a non-math type haha. It did take me a while to get used to Calc at first though). Can’t speak for the following due to lack of personal experience, but I’ve also heard that Psychology, Art History, Environmental Science, and Human Geography are ridiculously easy. </p>
<p>Hardest: AP Physics, and potentially Statistics. I looked at some AP Stat material on a whim recently, and was left going “whaaaat?!”. Seriously, it looked even more confusing than Calculus. Maybe I’m just not a statistics type person lol; I remember back in Honors Pre-Calc sophomore year when I totally bombed our test on probability and binomial distributions. It was by far the only test that year that I did badly on.</p>
<p>Hmm… maybe I should just take a Calc II course at the University of Michigan for my senior year instead of AP Stats. =P (my school won’t let me take BC after AB)</p>
<p>Fledgling, you should probably take it at WCC unless you want to take an honors math class at Michigan. There’s nothing special about 116 at Michigan to make it worth the cost.</p>
<p>^ Oh… I actually didn’t know about that, lol. Now that you’ve suggested it, I’ll definitely look into it :)</p>
<p>AP language exams are generally considered pretty hard. Other than that, I’d say AP Physics and maybe AP Music, but I feel like AP Music is really self-selecting in most schools. Here, everyone who takes it is in choir/has played piano for forever.</p>
<p>I don’t know where the OP heard that Art History was hard, but I found it pretty easy. I also absolutely loved it though, so doing work for it never seemed hard. It’s not easy in the way Human Geography is where you don’t really have to know anything besides a few basic vocab words to get a 5 though. For Art History, you definitely have to go quite far beyond common knowledge.</p>
<p>Easy ones are like Psych and Human Geo, which is half common sense.</p>
<p>Anyway…
I wonder how many threads there are identical to this one.</p>
<p>Just curious, all those who said such and such was an easy 5, did you study your butts off?</p>
<p>For Stats I never studied. The thing with stats though was that at our school it was a whole year, where as in college it’s a 1 semester class (and not an especially difficult 1 semester class). I did study some for Chem but not much.</p>
<p>^^Depends on the class. In APUSH, I just read the book. I got 140/180 on the AP test scale for the final exam (a week or so before the actual AP test) so it didn’t seem necessary to study at all. Similarly for AP Euro. In AP Stat, I never really read the book or studied, but I did have to teach myself the chi-square stuff since the class hadn’t reached it.</p>
<p>My brother also got a 5 in AP Stat, and he never studied much for anything (usually resulting in less than ideal grades).</p>