<p>Next year, I'll be a senior, and I'm not sure what to do about my math class. This year I have pre-calculus, and there's no way that I'd ever think of taking Calc AB. The only other option I really have is statistics. Whatever math class I take, I'll be taking it online on FLVS. They don't offer a statistics class that isn't AP (if you want the honors version, you just take the full AP course and then don't take the exam in May.)</p>
<p>So here's my question. With four other APs next year (Lit, Comparative, Enviro, and Psych), will I be able to handle it, if I start it this June and do an hour or two a day? How difficult is the material in the class if I jump straight into it without taking honors first?</p>
<p>I’m a senior taking AP Stat this year without ever having taken a stat class before. The material is a lot different than anything in algebra/Pre-calc/geometry, but it’s not excessively difficult. I have the unfortunate combination of a bad teacher and senioritis, so I’m not doing as well as I probably could. Some of the other APs you’ve listed, like Psych, are also not as demanding as some others, so I think you should be fine if you can manage the work.</p>
<p>It completely depends on the student and the teacher and the class. Talk to the AP Stats teacher and past Stats students before asking a community of people that know nothing of your school.</p>
<p>At our school, AP Stats is for the juniors who couldn’t handle taking PRE-calc or the seniors who wanted a blowoff year and instead of taking Calc AB/BC, they take AP Stats. AP Stats does not require anything beyond Algebra 2 to enter.</p>
<p>At my school, I heard it was a joke. However, I think they just changed the curriculum this year (I don’t know if that is just my school or everywhere) and I hear a lot of kids complaining. So I’ve heard both sides. I haven’t taken it yet though, but I plan to next year as a senior.
I took calc AB this year, and my guidance counselor is treating me taking AP stat as a piece of cake, but I don’t know if it is the class itself or because she thinks I have great math skills (she is the one who signed me up for AB and I hated it… I did decently though)</p>
<p>It’s nice to know, but it’s gross! The redundancy and lots of calculator keystrokes and graphs yourself to death by boredom. Then you have to write the same darn explanation over for every single problem and its roughly a paragraph for each.</p>
<p>Sure, its easy, if you don’t have senoritis and don’t want to do the darn problems anymore. Calculus is different and you get to see something new in every problem and do stuff instead of basic formula chugging over and over and over (and showing the work for what you plug in where in Stats)</p>
<p>Okay, well. As one of 4 underclassman among 100 actually taking stats, let me tell you you that you need pre-calc. And, it’s a completely different type of thinking, which I did pretty well. My teacher was horrible, but I know the material well, so I just am really curious about my AP score…</p>