For those of you who take 5+ AP classes in a year

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>School: <1.5k students, Private Roman Catholic All-Boys College Prep School, 10 AP classes offered (self-studying encouraged)</p>

<p>AP Computer Science - No homework at all (unless you want to finish a program at home)
AP Physics B - .5-1 hr/day
AP US History - 15-20 hrs/segment (there's no "homework," only essays and tests on entire periods of history, we start a new segment once every 2 weeks or so)
AP Calc AB - .5-1hr/day
AP English Lang - 5-10hrs/wk (all homework given at beginning of week)</p>

<p>For APUSH and Lang, I don't necessarily do homework on a day by day basis. Unfortunately no block scheduling.</p>

<p>Track practice Mon-Sat, CS and Calc contests after school (but I don't lose any more time over this, as it just goes into my training), and other ECs that meet during school / on weekends. </p>

<p>From Sun-Thurs, absolutely no time for going out. Instead, I spend hours on the phone and go out on either Friday night or Saturday. I still get at least 6 hours of sleep a night, since I almost never procrastinate to a dangerous level.</p>

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<p>School - 2100 students, public, maybe 20-25 APs? Idk.</p>

<p>This year I'm taking
AP Human Geography - 1-2 hours/week
AP Calculus BC - 0.5-1 hour/day
AP Spanish Language - 1-1.5 hours/day</p>

<p>(I'm also taking IB English, History, and Physics which have similar workloads to AP)
IB English - 1.5-2 hours/day
IB History - 2.5-3 hours/day
IB Physics - 0.5-1 hour/day.</p>

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<p>1.6k students, one of the top public schools in the nation, here is my workload each night:</p>

<p>AP Environmental: 20 minutes.
AP Latin Literature: 20 minutes.
AP Literature: 20 minutes.
AP US History: 15 minutes.
AP Stat: 10 minutes.</p>

<p>Yeah, we barely get any work, but grading is difficult.</p>

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Wow, I would not expect music theory to be one of only three APs offered, thats a bit obscure.

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<p>Heh, then my school's even more obscure. 1200 students, and one of our three APs is AP Art History.</p>

<p>(The other two are Calc and US History)</p>

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<p>You guys have really easy homework loads =/</p>

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<p>I'm in 5 AP's right now, and my school offers all of them. We have about 2100 kids.</p>

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<p>AP Calculus BC- This is like sooo easy for me, I don't have to study. I usually have 20-30 minutes of book assignment each night. Easiest class ever.
AP English- 50-60 minutes of novel reading a night.
AP Psychology- Our book is divided into modules, and we usually have to read each 15-20 page module in 2 nights. I take serious notes, so it takes a couple hours.
AP Latin-Vergil- I don't do **** in this class.
AP US-History- Usually 60-70 pages of reading a night with no notes. An hour?
AP Physics- We've never had homework and we've never had a test. We are graded on our attendance and the final exam.</p>

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<p>Student population: about 2000~, Offers about 20 AP classes.</p>

<p>I'm taking 6 APs: Bio, Envir. Sci., Eco, Psych, Eng. Lit, Calc BC.</p>

<p>Homework per night on average: No more than 1 hour total. This, however, does not include the studying for tests/quizzes, which can sometimes take up about 5 hours for one subject. In the AP classes I have taken, hw never takes long.</p>

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<p>~2000 students, something like 15 AP classes</p>

<p>taking:
chem: over two weeks, something like 8 hrs.
calc: 1-2 hrs. a day, unless you took AB the year before, so it's more like none =)
lit: averages 1-2 hrs. a day, but no one actually reads so it's probably less
ushistory: average 2 hrs. a day
spanish: at most it's half an hour, usually nothing</p>

<p>i have two other academic classes which add another hour on, so about 4-5 hrs. a night for homework.</p>

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<p>You couldn't pay me to take 5 AP courses. I prefer self-study. Much easier, no pressure, and I learn more. Anyway, I am currently self-studying AP Psych, which I love, and I am enrolled in AP World--I don't care much for it, and I could do more, but I basically put everything off until the night before the test. Works everrry time.</p>

<p>Next year, as a junior, I'm taking AP Calculus, AP English, and APUSH (most likely). I'll probably self-study AP Gov't (U.S. and Comp.) and/or Economics (Macro and Micro), depending on what combination of lazy and motivated I am. Oh, and AP Studio Art over the summer, which will just be fun.</p>

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<p>Dude this is unfair our teachers make AP classes hard. Even AP human Geography is hard.</p>

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<p>Five APs here. 2400ish students, about 10 APs offered.</p>

<p>AP Gov't - 0 minutes per day. The teacher gives current event quizzes every two weeks, which I always get 100s, so I can afford to f-ck up a test (Last test, 68 not curved, 83 curved, haha)</p>

<p>AP English - Basically all we do is read and write. Maybe two, three hours a week max?</p>

<p>AP Spanish Lang - I don't really try in this class, but it's easy to spend about an hour a week and pull a B+.</p>

<p>AP Biology - Probably about half an hour a day.</p>

<p>AP Studio Art - HAHAHA I have a C in here because I didn't write a paper. Otherwise, no hours per week. All work done in class.</p>

<p>I do a lot of ECs, but I usually only stay about an hour after school every day. </p>

<p>And I don't get six hours of sleep because I'm horrible at sleep.</p>

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<p>this year i'm taking 5 ibs and 1 ap and it's immensely easy. i have 5 As 1 B i think maybe 2 Bs.</p>

<p>ap enviromental- a test like once every two weeks that is most of the grade- wake up like 30 min early to read ch. day of test (A)</p>

<p>ib history hl- read ch. during silent reading. occassional project, don't rlly spend anytime studying for this class, once i read something i usually remember it. (A)</p>

<p>ib biology hl- no time at home. study for test during silent reading (A)</p>

<p>ib spanish 5- joke class... (A)</p>

<p>ib english hl- read sparknotes occassionally, easy class to get a B, hard to get an A..so i jus dont do anything and take the B</p>

<p>ib theory of knowledge- y is this a class?....no work outside of class...probably an A.</p>

<p>my school is fairly easy though in my opinion. i think since so many kids take a lot of aps/ibs the teachers put less pressure on the students. also, my school has block scheduling so it's only 3 classes a day so there's much less hw.</p>

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<p>k junior all APs ive taken/taking, actually my french class was harder than any of these classes except euro and us
1000 students, very competitive, had two harvard last year (ones on CC i think), a couple stanford, and like 10 more ivies, AP averages total are defiently 4.0+</p>

<p>AP physics B-for me 0 hours because i know this stuff, but its pretty hard on most people, they say they study like 1 hour a day average and the average grade is B- or so</p>

<p>AP chem-good thing i took honors, its almost exactly like it so only like 30 mins before tests</p>

<p>AP english lit-I really cant "study" for it, but for homework assignements up to 2 hours writing papers or 0 if i dont have homework</p>

<p>AP comp sci A and AB-joke of a class, we just do programs in class, pretty easy, also easy teacher, 0 homework</p>

<p>AP calc bc-umm our homework wasnt collected, and im pretty good at math so 0 hours for homework, but maybe 1 hour before tests studying, memorizing formulas</p>

<p>AP stats-0 hours, all you gotta do is listen</p>

<p>Ap macro-like 2 hours a night but we had good curves on tests to make up for insanely hard tests</p>

<p>Ap euro-1 hour reading, we had daily quizzes, tests were AP format, pretty hard class, cant study for the essays but they were easy part (formula writing)</p>

<p>APUSH- ahh like 5 hours before tests on weekends, like 30 mins before class during AP stats lol, we have like the hardest teacher in the hardest class in our state probably...honestly...but our average last year for our school was like 4.7</p>

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<p>For all the AP noobs out there:</p>

<p>Our school has about 3500 kids. Teachers are all very good, but can be very harsh with grading. I have taken the most APs in the school. I get 4 hours of sleep if I’m lucky.</p>

<p>This Year:
AP Statistics - too much writing, and not so much math; 45 mins per block (2 days)
AP Computer Science AB - 2 to 4 hours per block
AP Physics C - 1 to 2 hours per block
AP English Lit - 3 to 4 hours per block
AP Spanish Lit - 1 to 2 hours per block
Multivariable Calculus - 2 to 3 hours per block
Linear and Matrix Algebra - none so far :)</p>

<p>Junior Year:
AP Calculus BC - 2 to 4 hours per block (2 days)
AP Spanish Lang - 1 to 2 hours per block
AP English Lang - 1 to 2 hours per block
AP Psychology - 2 to 3 hours per block</p>

<p>Sophomore Year:
AP World History - at least 4 or 5 hours per block (we had to write pointless essays); made a book of all my essays (currently in basement=useless), and it is over 250 pages single spaced!! no joke, I promise!!
AP Computer Science A - 2 to 3 hours per block</p>

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<p>My school has around 2000+ students (only public high besides a charter in town of 20,000), has a stelite campus for freshman w/ about 800 of 2000 students. Lots of underahieving stoners but also lots of preppy over achievers(me).</p>

<p>I'm a sophomore so I only have 1 Ap but my school offers 14 APs</p>

<p>Next Year for me =
AP English Lang- Apparently a joke, philosophy of school is if you turn up for AP English class you will pass test, my teacher this year is harder.
APUSH - Brutal class, hardest of all, impossible tests, essays, and teacher hard on purpose to make kids suffer, h.w. includes immense amounts of reading w/ identifications (little notes taken on reading on certain topics) checked daily, most people's 4.0 destroyed in this class alone.
AP Physics B - Pretty hard, web assign hw, tests, much easier than AP Chem w/ high pass rate and unlike Chem people get A's and B's on tests instead of c's, d's, f's
Ap Psychology - Really easy, reading, lots of quizes/tests but easy
Pre-Calc Competition - Most likely easy, I'm a math person
Spanish 4 - Easy, rarely homework, fluent speaker (take Spanish b/c french teacher doesn't teach anything (literally, misses almost everyday of school, also no AP French))
AP Stats - Maybe not taking this, really tough at my school cause of bad teacher, mostly involves self teaching, easy hw but tough tests, if I take this it will only be because Stats usually required for a polisci major.</p>

<p>I already spend a lot of time on hw but b/c of my choice. I could do hw faster if I wanted to and next year I will have to. Plan on doing APUSH reading on Sunday (no church means more time, glad I'm agnostic) and other class homework throughout week. I see all classes each day so no putting off hw like block schedule.</p>

<p>I have math team (practice, 1hr/wk= optional), quiz bowl team (practice 1hr/wk; comp 2hr./week sometimes instead of practice, but juniors go to more out of schools competitions than sophomores so might take up more time), National Honors Society (pretty much nothing), Science Fair (lots of time, will drop if can't do project over summer), Student Government (2 meetings/wk = 2.5hr/wk, might not do b/c of meeting times), Debate team (trying to start one, would tell teacher, who is getting PhD, to not make too much time), Key Club (tutoring charity 1/wk, meetings 1/month, not too much time, only thinking of doing for community service hours),</p>

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<p>took 8 AP's at one point... most classes gave manageable workloads but AP Environmental was brutal (I guess he decided to make up for lack of difficulty with overload of work)</p>

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<p>School is 2250 students, about 23 APs I think.</p>

<p>This year
IB English - not much outside work except reading and papers. Essays are graded really hard, but quizzes usually balance things out
IB History of the Americas - hardest workload - 2-3 hours reading every night, plus quarterly term papers. Hard work but easy to do well if you work
AP Spanish - hell. hard work load and hard class.
AP/IB Geo - no really work except readings every once in a while, very discussion based
AP Calc BC - not much outside work, hell if you don't understand but easy if you get math
IB Physics - same as calc</p>

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<p>ugh AP classes don't really sound like fun, lol.</p>

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<p>Junior, public high school in New York, ranging from grades 7-12. ~200 students/class, so ~1200 in the school. </p>

<p>16 AP's are offered, but schedules are structured. You enter in 7th grade on either an accelerated or "regents" level. "Regents" students generally take "regents" courses their entire high school career, while accelerated students move on to take AP's. There are no honors classes... only accelerated. Accelerated students start off with the state math and science curriculums in eighth grade instead of ninth. </p>

<p>If you move up in the "accelerated" structure of things, you won't be able to take any AP's until sophomore year, when the only AP allowed is Euro. Junior year is more a little more lax, but there are still reccomended courses that are very heavily pushed upon the student.</p>

<p>My classes this year (junior) include:
APUSH (reccomended) - Hardly any homework ever. We have to read the text book on our own, but we get assigned a chapter/week. It's basically a joke.
AP Language (reccomended) - Maybe .5- 1 hr./night
AP Physics (reccomended - although I could have chosen to take a regular physics class or AP Biology) - 1 hr./night. Physics is brutal. I need to do much more studying than I do.
AP Psychology (purely elective) - Hardly anything. With the exception of the night before a test.
Pre-Calculus (required to move onto AP Calc or AP Stats) - About .5 hr/night
Italian 4 (to finish out the state curriculum in a foreign language) - Maybe 10 minutes, if anything.
+ Electives and PE</p>

<p>Senior year is very lax. In order to receive a NYS regents diploma, having been on an accelerated curriculum, you technically only need one more social studies credit, one more English credit, and 1/2 of a PE credit. So technically, a senior only needs to take three classes, although that's highly discouraged. Every other class is elective.</p>

<p>My senior schedule is:
AP Government
AP Literature
AP Italian
AP Calculus AB or Statistics... haven't decided yet.
AP Biology
+ Electives, PE. </p>

<p>So, by the time I graduate, I'll have taken 10 of my school's 16 AP's. </p>

<p>As for EC's... During the Fall and Spring I get home at about 5:00 every day because of tennis and badminton practice respectively. All year round, I have a half-hour Student Peer Organization meeting every Wednesday, and a half-hour student council meeting after that. Thursdays are hour-long literary magazine meetings. Tuesday brings 45 minute-long MUN meetings, and the occasional NHS meeting. Newspaper meets once a month on Fridays. Mondays are reserved for tutoring... and maybe getting home early? </p>

<p>Saturday mornings I have Drivers' ed, Saturday afternoons I usually volunteer at the hospital for a few hours. Sunday mornings I teach religious education and get ridiculously involved in church activities. Anddddddd, that's about it. </p>

<p>So... on average, I'm basically actively doing homework until about 8 or 9 PM. Sometimes I'll do some minimal homework at lunch the next day. I like to relax an hour or so after I get home, and I'm a huge procrastinator. And then I don't go to bed until about midnight, because... I'm a big believer in having a social life and watching television.</p>

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<p>I'll play, in case this is actually useful.</p>

<p>I'm a senior. I go to a pretty competitive public school of about 1400 students (~330 in my grade) that offers a variety of APs, although definitely not all of them. I'm in six APs and it's pretty manageable. </p>

<p>[ul][li] AP English Literature: Usually some reading, which I just do before bed (no more than thirty minutes; averages about fifteen-ish). Essays/large assignments (~2/month) take about two to three-hour blocks of time. Tests (~2/month) require (keeping in mind that I'm lazy and am fine with Bs on the tests since I get As on all of the essays) ~10 min of studying tops (skimming author/historical info).<br>[/li][li] AP Chemistry: Usually no homework; sometimes long problem sets that take up to three hours to complete. Tests (~4/month) probably require ~30 min to one hour of studying, although usually I don't study 'cause of the law of diminishing returns (either I'll fail or do well, depending on what kind of questions he throws at us, and studying probably wouldn't make a huge difference). [/li][li] AP Psychology: Usually no homework; sometimes assignments that take up to an hour to complete. Tests (~3/month) require ~20 min studying tops (although it'd be more like an hour if I read the chapters).<br>[/li][li] AP Biology: Usually no homework; occasional problem sets, but fairly frequent (~4/month) tests, which require studying. ~30 min of studying max yields good scores, but if I really wanted to excel, I'd actually read the chapters, which would require about two hours of studying per test.<br>[/li][li] AP French: Generally 10 min of homework. Tests (~4/month) require ~5 min of cursory review for me, but I think that others spend significantly more time.<br>[/li][li] AP Calc BC/Multivariable Calc: Eh, ~10 min homework assignments, but he doesn't check them, so we don't do them. Grades are based purely on tests/quizzes (~3/month), which require some studying but nothing that can't be done the class period before in ~10 min.<br>[/li][li] *GT Intern/Mentorship: * Spend 4-5 hours per week at my mentor's, and what averages out to ~30 min per week (usually concentrated in large blocks) on assignments for the class (including writing my research paper, making my display board for the science fair, etc.)[/ul][/li]EC-wise, I lead Art Club, which is ~1.5 hours per week on average, and I generally go to Math Team, which involves ~30 minute practices most weeks and ~2.5 hour meets monthly. I'm involved in various other clubs, but these are mostly event-oriented (computer programming competitions, science competitions, etc.), so there's no steady commitment per week. </p>

<p>As for how I manage -- as you can see, I don't really have a lot of work. Were I a rational, responsible student, I would be getting plenty of sleep every night. However, I have a serious procrastination problem (which, yes, I acknowledge and don't correct; AWESOME I'M A GREAT HUMAN BEING). I'm not exaggerating when I say that I start my homework at about 2:00 AM on average and get to sleep at 3:00 AM. Lol. There are better days and worse days, but I really just can't bring myself to work until it's late and I go into panic mode... but even then, I stay online and distracted. Hahaha it's quiteee pathetic. </p>

<p>Another note: Wow, reading through this, I realize that I really do "study" this year -- a habit that I used to make fun of. ("Uhh you should be able to learn it the first time.") So keep in mind that this might be necessary with a relatively rigorous schedule. Although the fact that I sleep/daydream through my classes may have to do with it... as well as the fact that we do literally nothing in two or three of them and are expected to learn the material on our own. </p>

<p>But I have a 4.0 and I've gotten all As this year too? Somehow? So I guess it doesn't really matter. I mean, I should get more sleep, but whatever. Some nights I'm miserable, but sometimes there's a week (like this one!) in which I'm able to manage my time well (probably 'cause I don't have a lot of work) and I feel very on top of things and capable. (:</p>