<p>Hours wise, what other activities did you participate in?</p>
<p>What grades are you getting?</p>
<p>I'm trying to contemplate whether I will/can do non competitive marching band or not (Friday football games, every so often monday rehearsals, 1 hour sectionals)</p>
<p>On top of that I want to:
volunteer at the hospital (3-4 hrs once a week)
work at the library (10 hrs a week)
Volunteer at the hospice (2 hours once a week)</p>
<p>-hours:</p>
<p>Let’s just say that I would start homework at 3:30 on the days I didn’t have lab or tutoring (me tutoring others), which was Thursday. Every other day I’d start at 4:30. Then for the rest of the evening until one or two o’clock I would be doing homework, and then wouldn’t finish.</p>
<p>Grades: One A, mostly Bs, one C/D in Math, and honors / IB HL course in addition to 4 AP classes.</p>
<p>For the fall part of the year I played field hockey from 6-8pm, Mon-Th. The rest of the year I volunteered all Friday night and a couple hours on the weekends. I had orchestra the whole year at 7:30 in the morning.</p>
<p>My advice? </p>
<p>Cut back.</p>
<p>I did like an hour of homework/studying per week and got mostly As.</p>
<p>I’m in 6 IB classes and 2 AP classes, and I spend anywhere from 1.5-4 hours a night on work (mostly studying, problem sets, or large assignments). Busywork is best done in the class where it’s assigned or in other classes, not at home. I usually begin work around 6 or 7, after extracurriculars and/or babysitting and a nap.</p>
<p>Edit: Change everything to past tense, I now do 0 hours of work a day and 7 hours of lit mag, lol.</p>
<p>Do you think its reasonable with friday night football games, 3 hrs hospital, 2 hrs hospice, 10 hrs library job,1 hour sectionals, and occasional 2 hr rehearsals? </p>
<p>I was planning on taking
AP Bio
AP Calc AB
AP Lit
and AP French</p>
<p>and maybe AP Euro, but now that I think of it, it may be too much to add AP Euro to that mix.</p>
<p>You can do it. I find I can spend five hours doing homework or an hour. If you have more free time you get distracted and you end up taking longer. I know people in band, varsity sports, jobs, everything and still can handle them. If you have the drive and want to give up your afternoon nap, you can do it. I was in four AP classes this year and got high bs and may even get one or two as.</p>
<p>I took 4 Ap classes for each the last two years and my homework load wasnt too bad at all. It really depends on the teacher I guess.</p>
<p>**** you guys</p>
<p>really</p>
<p>**** you</p>
<p>A good 4-6 hours a day minimum. 6 APs.</p>
<p>My schedule this year was: 1st semester: AP Calc AB, AP Lit and Comp, AP Euro, and Science Academy; 2nd semester: AP Calc BC, Anatomy and Physiology, AP Econ/AP Gov, and Science Academy; the whole year, I was involved in HOSA (officer), NHS (officer), Science Club/Olympiad, and Mu Alpha Theta. For Science Academy, I did research at a university and went there twice a week almost every week for both semesters. I did some volunteering outside of my school clubs, but that was during spring break.</p>
<p>1st semester, I probably spent about 3-4 total hours per night studying or doing homework for my classes. 2nd semester was a lot more relaxing… the first half of the semester, it took me about 30 min to an hour to do my homework; second half of the semester, I studied maybe 10 minutes the night before any tests, but other than that, it wasn’t really necessary to put in more effort to get high grades…</p>
<p>My grades last semester were: AP Calc BC: 108; AP Lit and Comp: 100; AP Euro: 101; Science Academy: 100; this semester, I have: AP Calc 108; Anat and Phys: 98; AP Econ:100; AP Gov: 97; Sci Acad:100.</p>
<p>Well, I took four AP classes this year, but my schedule was a LOT lighter than sophomore year where I took no AP classes and junior year where I took only two AP classes. So AP classes don’t determine your plate-fullness.</p>
<p>Sophomore year, I did seven academic classes (all Honors/highest available to me), and two band classes. I also did two sports that year. I basically had no breaks from 8-6 every day that year and so all of my homework/projects/papers had to be done when I got home… which most of the time I was too tired to do it by that point. I ended the year with one A-, one C+, and a whole bunch of B’s and B-'s.</p>
<p>Senior year, I have four AP classes… but two study halls and two band classes. My days range from 7-4:15 to 8-2:00. It’s a little bit random. I also only did one sport this year and that was pretty minimal on the amount of practice we had this year for some reason. My grades are like 4 A’s and 2 B’s.</p>
<p>So… Yeah. I say the more stuff you do, the harder it is to keep your grades up. AP classes don’t correspond to more stuff necessarily. My schedule was a LOT easier with an all-AP course load than it was with all-Honors classes.</p>
<p>You should ask current students in the specific classes you plan on taking at your HS…they can give you a more accurate answer. At one high school I’m familiar with, students who take APUSH with a certain teacher have double the workload that students in the same high school and same class (but different teacher) are experiencing.</p>
<p>5 APs
BC calc- 1.5 hr
Physics - 1 hr
Japanese - 2 hr
Gov- .5 hr
Literature - 1.5 hr</p>
<p>I had about 6.5 hrs a night. I got all strong As. </p>
<p>It’s not hard, for me at least. It’s all time management. I only need around 4.5-5 hrs of sleep. I can get everything in ( ecs, studying, and watching movies). You can do it but you must sacrifice one part of your life when you up your APs</p>
<p>Are you guys serious? </p>
<p>I’m in 4 APs, and if I DON’T procrastinate, then I have like 45 mins total a night TOPS unless I have an AP Bio test, in which case I’m up till like 2 or 3. I’m getting straight As, and I’m not one of those naturally smart kids either. </p>
<p>Obviously I can’t tell you how I’ve done on tests, but on all the practices I took, I got 5s.</p>
<p>As always, sacrifices must be made.</p>
<p>5 AP classes: Calc AB, English Lit, Euro, Spanish Lang, Psych (self-study)
Calc AB- 1 hour/day usually
English Lit- 2-4 hours once a week for a paper
Euro- read textbook 3-4 hours per week sometime
Spanish Lang- 1-3 hours a week
Psych- self study so it varied</p>
<p>Generally, I did 3-6 hours of homework a night and all day on weekends, in between practicing piano for college auditions.</p>
<p>Other activities: piano (1-3 hours a day), gone for competitions and auditions, music concerts </p>
<p>Grades: (class- semester 1 grade, semester 2)
Calc- A-, A
English Lit- A-, A
Euro- B-, B- (very difficult teacher, taught at more like a 3rd year college course and not a freshman college course, only 3 people took the class this year and no one has ever gotten an A in this at our school)
Spanish- A, A
Theology- A, A+
Physics- A+, A+</p>
<p>i took 5 AP classes this year and it was really like 2+ hours per day on average in total.</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. I’m taking Calc AB, AP Econ, AP GoPo, AP Lit, and I thought that was a lot but I know people who are taking more, so I’ll suck it up.</p>
<p>On average an half an hour of homework for AP US each day and none for the other classes (I did those at school or on the ride there/back). I don’t really study.</p>
<p>So 2 hours a week of hw. I got all A’s.</p>
<p>ECs: Robotics, Tennis, Piano. I spend most of my time on one or the other of these. The remaining hours are basketball or TV.</p>
<p>5 APs, 1 honors, 1 regular class, no free periods</p>
<p>that’s really interesting how some of you guys have more AP classes than your previous years, and you still had less homework. </p>
<p>I heard that AP lit was basically death, AP Bio is a lot of outlines and reading, AP french is pretty easy because it’s in the same class as 3rd year which gets the most attention. </p>
<p>I’m planning on dropping band, because I think I simply just don’t have time for the 3 hour rehearsals, and if I do get a job, that would mean time conflicts.</p>