<p>I’ve never taken a course that really, really challenged me…though I think that this is my school’s doing (consistently mediocre teaching coupled with grade inflation kind of seals the deal) rather than my intelligence.
I don’t know if the material was difficult, but Algebra II Hon was rough for me. Must have also been my family situation. Eh. :/</p>
<p>Alg. II
Phy Sci Hon</p>
<p>probably IB history of the americas</p>
<p>but I really don’t like history and that teacher was an ass so it just dragged on forever</p>
<p>Worst grade I ever got in a class was in 5th grade Science. I got an 80 average one quarter… </p>
<p>That’s worse than my 87 average overall in Chem this year, my actual hardest class I’ve ever taken.</p>
<p>I dunno what was wrong with me in 5th grade.</p>
<p>AP Chem. I take it this year and it is the one of the few classes that mess up straight A students. The chemistry teacher is the hardest teacher at my school and she gives out a lot of work. People are warned not to sign up for it.</p>
<p>The hardest class for me was Algebra in 8th grade. 
I hated it and got 2 B’s by studying my butt off lol. I loved geometry though. It was like drawing 50% of the time.</p>
<p>AP Art History, by a long shot, if it’s only the courses I’ve taken at school.</p>
<p>If you include classes outside of school, I’d say the math program I’m in right now at UCLA (Math Institute for Young Scholars). I had never imagined that a math class would trump me; but alas, the moment has come. The program is meant for higher school students. The teacher is a passionate Ph.D professor who writes lots of books and teaches like he normally does and give us questions that he gives to his undergraduate and GRADUATE students. For example, a few days ago, during one of the torturous problem sessions, he gave us questions that will be on the next test of his Combinatorics class. Topics taught include, but is not limited to: Axiom of induction* (and proof by induction), logic (truth tables, tons of symbols), topology, advanced geometry (a “bent” circle, which has a different pi), combinatorics (including a combinatorial proof of the binomial theorem), modular arithmetic, types of math the Greeks had to do, number theory, Baes Theorem, countable infinites, and graph theory.
*He introduced the Axiom of induction as “P(0) ^ (P(k) => (P(S(k))) => P(n) -/n E Natural Numbers”</p>
<p>BTW, he claims there’s a “hole” in the proof of the limit of sin x / x = 1 as x approaches 0, if anyone’s interested. Apparently the two "pi"s used in the proof may not be the same.</p>
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<p>^ Omg was one apple and the other cherry? This could cause problems if you aren’t careful.</p>
<p>^^ Sudakov?</p>
<p>8th grade Geometry. I really struggled through that class for some reason. I’m just glad I don’t have it on my transcript!</p>
<p>IB HL Counting II</p>
<p>7th grad Algebra I. Teacher spent 15 minutes teaching everyday and that was it. We had the rest of the period to work on our homework. We started with 40 or so kids and by the end of the year there were 18.</p>
<p>AP Chemistry. It’s hard enough as is, but the teacher taught through internet podcasts instead of lecturing…</p>
<p>And I never had Honors Chem.</p>
<p>International AP Eurasian Micro-organicbiology Engineering Honors</p>
<p>Trigonometry. Hard leap from the structured curriculum of Algebra and Geometry to a completely bamboozling topic.</p>
<p>A summer dance course at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.</p>
<p>Of my academic courses the hardest was IB precalculus but that largely had to do with the teacher</p>
<p>8th grade geometry.</p>
<p>The teacher was great in challenging the class with his tests. I wish he would teach Algebra 2 to Calculus in high school. I just missed that sort of rigor when I got into Honors Algebra 2 in 9th grade.</p>
<p>9th grade English.</p>
<p>The most insane lit analysis ever conceived. We’d be quizzed over short stories every week and be asked to identify the most obscure symbolism – stuff so convoluted there’s no way the author could have intended it to have some hidden meaning.</p>
<p>One time we had a quiz over The Necklace and one question was “What is the significance of Mathilde’s name?” ***?? I routinely got 50s on these quizzes :(</p>
<p>Pre-calc. Because the teacher was a #$%^ who didn’t explain anything well and never gave us enough time to finish our tests.</p>
<p>Physics H because the teacher taught AP Physics too. So only really smart kids know what he’s talking about. Sometimes the really smart kids don’t get the stuff either because the way he explains everything is so…unconnected. He gives no examples and just tries to flatly tell us the concepts.</p>
<p>Frigging physics. </p>
<p>1st grade was “hard” but only because my teacher hated me.</p>