<p>How nasty is the APUSH curve in comparison?</p>
<p>^I don’t know in comparison, but it’s not too rough. Actually, I would say it’s on the generous side (meaning easy to get a 5).</p>
<p>I don’t see how apush and ap euro are the most difficult exams either. The only difficult part is the memorization of the information. Moreover, the curves for both are as generous as most of the other exams.</p>
<p>I think Latin Virgil is quite difficult.</p>
<p>AP Chem is the most torturous, but the curve isn’t bad, but then again, I have a horrible teacher, so my view is skewed.</p>
<p>I second AP Latin Vergil…so much translating <em>shudder</em>.</p>
<p>Depends on the person. My son took Physics C (both) and Calc BC in 10th grade, because we knew they would be the easiest for him.</p>
<p>didn’t college board have a ranking for hardest ap tests?
according to my chem teacher/what i’ve heard from friends:
AP Music Theory
AP German IV (or some other number i forget)
AP Chem</p>
<p>I was thinking Music Theory or Studio Art.</p>
<p>I’m not taking the AP German test until next year, but my teacher has started preparing us for it. I have taken a full practice test except for the essay portion (but I write essays in German all the time so I know what it’s like). I can honestly say that the test would not be hard at all if it weren’t for the speaking portion.</p>
<p>Both sections of the speaking portion, the interpersonal response and the story-telling (for two whole minutes!), really make that test hard, in my opinion.</p>
<p>it completely depends on your strengths and teachers… for me calculus bc was by far the hardest, while american government was no trouble. i dont think scoring-wise any exam is supposted to be harder than the rest</p>
<p>Foreign language is hardest by far. I’ve heard awful things about Latin, and half the people that take Spanish are native speakers…</p>
<p>Including this year I’ve taken 17 APs, and they’ve all been fairly easy 5’s without the greatest of teachers. But I was too scared too touch any foreign language.</p>
<p>Music theory is easy if youre a musician
AP euro is not hard
EngLit is indeed hard</p>
<p>sry just replying to the first reply
i personally think french language (for non native speakers obviously)</p>
<p>The hardest AP test is most definitely AP Spanish HAHA
although I don’t have any other languages at our school…it’s insane
if you’re good at spanish…it’s still tough
mainly because there are SO MANY PARTS!
for instance biology…there’s multiple choice…and some essays haha
chem…the same
english lit…the same hahaha
but for Spanish…there are a million parts:</p>
<p>-listening activities without a visible question - multiple choice and I mean there is no question written on the paper…you have to listen to the question on the tape and pick an answer on the paper
listening questions with visibile questions - multiple choice (these are longer narratives and dialogues)
-reading comprehension multiple choice (basically it’s similar to the english language multiple choice section except that it’s obviously in spanish and only asks questions about what’s going on in the passage…not really any analyzing lol)</p>
<p>then there’s “free response”</p>
<p>you have to write an “impersonal” essay which is basically a letter to a friend and follow guidelines given…this is probably the easiest part of the test</p>
<p>then you have to write an essay similar to Document-Based Questions on other AP exams where you write about a 2-page paper and you have to cite three sources given, where one is a listening source…meaning you have to be able to read more passages (usually some type of news article) and listen to a recording (usually like a radio “news” type thing or commentary on a person) and cite all three in the essay and make it coherent and all that jazz</p>
<p>Then there’s the hard part (for nonnative speakers hahaha)-the speaking
you have to participate in conversations and give oral presentation to a computer basically haha</p>
<p>the first is just a conversation with someone like a teacher, friend, or parent…and you have to talk for 20 seconds each time after the recording and hold a “simulated” conversation with the computer haha</p>
<p>then you have to do an oral presentation…where you usually have to compare two artists or two things basically
you have to cite two sources…one a listening again and the other a written article…you only have 2 minutes to prepare your speech…and you have to talk for 2 minutes, in spanish of course, about the topic making sure you reference the sources!!!</p>
<p>so all in all…I think this one takes the cake HAHA but that’s just me LOL</p>
<p>what do you have to do on the French ap exam??? I wondered that hahaha
ok in the grand scheme of things…the english lit isn’t hard LOL
especially compared to the spanish
I’m speaking as a nonnative spanish speaker so I only learned english hahaha
Having said all that about the spanish test…I love spanish and think I did well haha
but I’ve taken 3 exams this week…spanish was the hardest because it’s by far the longest and has so many skills you have to develop lol</p>
<p>or more generally…what do any of the other foreign language exams consist of???</p>
<p>Ap French is by far the hardest…79% for a five and 52% just to pass… it had a 50.1% failure rate last year…the reading is waay to hard for any non native speaker who has less than 6 years of French (and most people have around 4 years).</p>
<p>Breakdown:
Out of 160
Reading: 25% (Killer, hard to get even 20/40)
Listening: 25% (Not as bad, but still very hard to get 25+/40)
Speaking: 25% (This one is not so bad…you can get 20+/25 which would be 32/40)
Grammer Blanks and Essay 25% (this one also you can get 30+/40) …
So even if you try a lot, you might end up with a 3… (82/160)</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard of the foreign language exams, and from my experience taking the Spanish Language exam, they mostly consist of multiple choice, then informal essay/writing piece, then formal writing piece, then conversation where you speak into the tape recorder, then a more formal discourse/speech/description that you say for like 2 minutes or something (they give you all the information and knowledge in the prompt and you have time to prepare, you just gotta put together what you’re gonna say yourself.)</p>
<p>That’s my guess.</p>