<p>How are some of you guys taking 12-15+ AP's?</p>
<p>Doesn't your school require you to take the prerequisite to whatever you are planning to take the AP subject of? For example, you would need to take Biology before you took AP Biology or English 9 and English 10 before you took AP Lang. In other words, the earliest you could even take AP Biology was 10th grade or APLang. was 11th grade.</p>
<p>I don't understand how you guys managed to take like 4-5 AP's each year and end up with like 15 total at the end of your senior year (unless you won't take them outside of school).</p>
<p>Some are self-studies. Others we take because there are no prerequisites, or the school is nice enough to let us skip lower-level classes. For me, I could take AP French and Calculus BC this (my sophomore) year because my school let me skip French 2 and Algebra II during freshman year.</p>
<p>15 APs taken.
I go to a college prep magnet school in NE Florida.
They do req us to take Eng Honors 1 (9) & 2 (10) before AP Eng Lang (11) & Eng Lit (12), Bio 1 Honors (9) before AP Bio (10-12), Latin I-III before AP Latin, etc. etc. </p>
<p>It’s more possible for the classes of 2011 and later at my school because they started to allow freshmen to take APs when I was a sophomore so i missed out. But they’re easy APs like World hist & HUG. </p>
<p>Most of my APs didn’t have pre-reqs which is how I got so many.</p>
<p>(the ones w/* are the ones with no pre-reqs)</p>
<p>so i took:
Sophomore: Euro Hist, Music Theory<em>, HUG</em>
Junior: APUSH, Macro<em>, Micro</em>, Eng Lang, Psych*
Senior: Eng Lit, Stat, Art Hist<em>, World Hist</em>, US Gov, APES<em>, & Comp Gov</em></p>
<p>^Comp Gov was an independent study since my school only offers 29 APs :(</p>
<p>Summer courses can override prereqs.
e.g. Many skip precalc here (because it’s difficult at our school, heh) and go onto IB/AP Calculus, etc.</p>
<p>There are self-studied tests but they’re not as common as you simply taking 12-15 AP courses. Several courses like bio, envi, psych, and others, are rather easy (relatively, I suppose) and can be taken at a lower level w/o prereqs. </p>
<p>Different schools require different prereqs. There’s the prereq of chemistry for Ap/ib Biology here, but not at the neighboring school.</p>
<p>Some schools are on a “block schedule”, which is 4 classes each semester. This means you can take a prereq in the fall semester and then the class in the spring semester. At my school we end up taking 32 classes total, and with a block schedule, it’s not that difficult to do. This is especially true for the language classes (I have taken the equivalent of 7 years of Spanish classes, which you couldn’t do on a traditional schedule). Also, you can take more math classes (I took the equivalent of 2 years worth of math my senior year - Calc AB the fall semester and Calc BC the spring semester). I’m certain this isn’t the case for everyone, but on a block schedule 12 AP’s isn’t particularly difficult to achieve. So I love the block schedule - the only downside is for people in elective classes like Band, Orchestra, and Yearbook because they have to use up 1/4 of their classes on that elective, instead of maybe 1/6 on a traditional schedule.</p>
<p>At my school, I’ll have taken 13 physical AP classes. I’ll have self-studied for 4 exams, and I’ll have taken 7 AP classes on Florida Virtual School. That’s 24 exams altogether.</p>
<p>My school does not offer APs but they are a test centre. This means that it’s up to the students to decide how many APs they want to take.</p>
<p>That said, my school does have a curriculum that’s tougher than most AP subjects, with the exception of European languages and Physics C, which gives most students an advantage when taking the exams.</p>
<p>Without the self-study, I can take up to 12 at my school, and I’m glad that the prerequisites for the AP Chemistry and AP Physics B aren’t Chemistry and Physics, respectively.</p>
<p>most of the competitive people in my grade take 3 during 10th grade, 5 during 11th grade, and 5 during 12th grade.
ah but we were all sleep-deprived and depressed.
it was hell maintaining good grades this year >.<;;;;</p>
<p>And even pre-reqs vary by school. Pi, does your school go by the following system: French I, II, III, AP? At mine, you have to have taken four years of French prior to taking the AP exam, thus adding an extra course later on. Although skipping Alegbra II is impressive.</p>
<p>My school has pre-reqs for every single AP class and my regular school and governor’s school combined only offer 13 courses (including AP languages which you should only be able to take one of). I’m crazy so I took 5 APs junior year and am scheduled to take 6 senior year (maximum number possible, normally people take 4 and 4).</p>
<p>Yes, our school (district, rather) goes by French I, II, III, and IV/AP. I did French I in 8th grade and the French II teacher found that I was proficient enough to to French III in 9th grade (they needed to cut down the class sizes, so they moved some kids from II to III). And so I took III in 9th and AP in 10th.</p>