<p>Something I've been very curious about regarding Honors & Accelerated Science courses offered in different high schools across the nation. </p>
<p>Freshman year - H. Environmental Science & H. Physics
Sophomore year - H. Biology
Junior Year - H. Chem and AP Bio or AP Chem
Senior Year - AP Bio or AP chem or AP physics B</p>
<p>So, how does it go at your school, and did you do it?</p>
<p>We don’t have ‘honors’ science classes for some reason, only advanced.</p>
<p>Freshman - Advanced Earth System Science
Sophomore - Advanced Biology
Junior - Advanced Chemistry
Senior - AP Physics B (or something else)</p>
<p>Lots of people skip Earth Science and take Bio in the Freshman year. That way I can takes something else Senior year (Physics C, molecular bio/genetics, astronomy, etc)</p>
<p>All of our school’s default science courses are honors. Before high school we take Physics in 6th grade (lol extremely watered down version), Biology in 7th grade, and Chemistryi n 8th. Freshman year is Honors Biology, Sophomore year is Honors Chemistry, Junior year you have the option of taking one or two of the following: AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Physics, AP Enviro, Organic Chemistry. Senior year you can take one of those if you don’t have enough science credits or want to take more, and added on to the list is AP Physics II or something like that.</p>
<p>Freshman: Living Environment Honors
Sophomore: AP Bio and/or Chemistry Honors
Junior: AP Physics B/AP Chemistry/AP Bio/Physics Honors
Senior: AP Physics B/AP Bio/AP Chemistry</p>
<p>the smartest sophomores, after taking Chemistry honors, go to AP Chemistry as a Junior. The majority of the rest go to physics honors. I took AP Physics B as a junior and now im in AP chemistry</p>
<p>Freshman: Biology
Sophomore: Chemistry, Honors Chem, AP chem
Junior: Physics, honors physics, AP physics, AP Bio, AP chem
Senior: Honors physics, AP physics, AP bio, AP chem</p>
<p>My school offers Bio, Chem, Physics (and APs of all of those), Environ. Sci. AP, Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC), Anatomy and Physiology, Aquatic Science, Forensic Science, Medical Microbiology, and…I think that’s it.</p>
<p>Freshman year, you can take Bio I or IPC. I took Bio I pre-AP honors.
Sophomore year, you can take Bio II AP, Chem I, or Bio I (if you took IPC freshman year). I took Chem I pre-AP honors.
Junior year, you can take Chem II AP, Bio II AP, Physics I (regular, pre-AP, AP), Environ. Science AP (if you took physics over the summer), Aquatic, Forensic, Anatomy, and Med Micro. I took Chem II AP and Physics I AP.
Senior year, you can take all the stuff listed under Junior year. I’m taking Environ. Science AP.</p>
<p>Our accelerated track starts in 7th grade.
7th - General biology/chemistry/physics course
8th - Honors Earth Science
9th - Honors Biology
10th - Regents Chemistry (no honors, so extremely easy)
11th - Regents Physics/AP Physics B/AP Chem/AP Bio (people are either severely discouraged from taking anything besides Regents Physics/Physics B (only one person in our school has done it) or they didn’t know they could even do that (me last year -__-))
12th - AP Physics C (if you’ve taken Physics B)/AP Chem/AP Bio</p>
<p>Freshman: Honors Biology
Sophomore: Honors Chemistry
Junior (pick one or more): AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, AP Physics B
Senior: same as junior
I think we’ve had one or two students self study AP Physics C.</p>
<p>There are also standards versions of these classes (except for Environmental Science), Earth Science, Marine Biology, and Anatomy and Physiology (I think that’s all the science classes at my school); these classes are not honors.</p>
<p>7th Grade: Pre-AP Life Science or Life Science
8th Grade: Pre-AP Intro to Chem/Physics or Earth Science
9th Grade: Pre-AP Biology or Biology I</p>
<p>10th Grade: Pre-AP Chem or Pre-AP Physics or AP Bio or Biology II or Intro to Chem/Physics or Zoology</p>
<p>11th Grade: AP Chem or AP Bio or AP Physics or Anatomy or Pre-AP Physics or Pre-AP Chem</p>
<p>12th Grade: AP Chem or AP Bio or AP Physics or Anatomy or Pre-AP Physics or Pre-AP Chem</p>
<p>8th grade- Earth Science H
9th grade- Living Environment (Biology) H
10th grade- Chemistry H
11th grade - AP Physics B
12th grade - AP Physics C/AP Chem/AP Bio/AP Enviro (though that doesn’t usually run due to low enrollment)</p>
<p>Ours goes:</p>
<p>Freshman: Biology, Honors Biology
Sophomore: Chemistry, Honors Chemistry
Junior: Physics, Honors Physics, AP Physics B, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Environmental Science, Honors Organic Chemistry
Senior: Basically everything above plus AP Physics C</p>
<p>There are also some electives like Anatomy and such, but those are the lab sciences.</p>
<p>At my school, all sciences are considered “lab sciences”… I guess becasue we do labs & lab reports for every class?</p>
<p>Anyway…
Freshman: Biology, Honors Biology (AP Bio is offered senior year)
Sophomore: CHemistry, Honors Chemistry (AP Chemistry is offered senior year)
Junior: Most people take either Physics (honors or regular), Anatomy & Physiology (honors or regular), but there are easier options such as Marine Science, Forensic Science, and Environmental science (but those are like joke classes)
Senior Year: Mostly AP options (AP Bio, Chem, Physics) but you could also take any of the regular/honors classes that you didn’t take during junior year</p>
<p>We don’t have honors classes…</p>
<p>We have that your middle school teachers recommend whether you take Bio or Earth science your freshman year…</p>
<p>The order is usually:
E.S
Bio
Chem
Physics</p>
<p>If you skipped E.S your fresh year, you decide whether you want to continue on to Chemistry or go back to E.S. We occasionally have kids who go to physics before chemistry. (mainly because everyone says our Chem teachers suck)
They have to have high grades in math and the previous science to skip chem and do physics…</p>
<p>If you skipped E.S altogether, you can take AP Bio your senior year or you can just take nothing…</p>
<p>However, I’m a junior and I’m taking AP Bio. (along with Physics though)
I decided to not wait til senior year so that I could be really prepared for the SAT Bio test. :P</p>
<p>Oh, another thing: Some juniors who took E.S and bio already and don’t want to do chem decide to take forensics, oceanography, human body, etc. (“joke classes”)</p>
<p>I personally think chemistry should be a requirement, but whatever.</p>
<p>Freshmen: Biology/Honors Biology
Placement depends on your middle school grades in math and science.</p>
<p>Sophomore: Honors Chemistry/Physics
Algebra-based placement test is given during the end of freshman year. If you pass, you get placed in Honors Chemistry; if you fail, you get placed in Physics.</p>
<p>Junior: Honors Physics/Chemistry
If you took Physics, now you take Chemistry. If you took Honors Chemistry, now you take Physics</p>
<p>Senior: no science required, but many seniors take Environmental Science (AP, Honors, and regular are all available)</p>
<p>AP Bio, AP Chem, and AP Physics (only B) are available as well. You need to have taken the regular or honors level of a course to be able to take the AP version, as well as receive approval from your teacher and the science department. You MUST take Honors Physics, not regular physics, as a prerequisite for AP Physics. You can’t take any AP Sciences freshman or sophomore year.</p>
<p>Freshman: Biology (no honors option)
Sophomore: Chemistry or Honors Chemistry
Junior: Physics Mechanics or Physics Waves/Circuts or Honors Physics Mecahnics (each 1 semester…weird i know)
Those are the required courses. The honors science courses you are allowed to take Junior or Senior Year but they will not let you double up on AP sciences (such as AP Bio and AP Chem(
Other Courses you can take as Junior/Senior: AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics C (must take with Calc BC-- hardest classes in whole school)
then there’s honors anatomy and some other honors courses that are only a semester long. You can take junior or senior year.</p>
<p>Freshman: They changed it around now, but whenever I was a freshman you had Adv. Earth/Space Science one semester then the next semester you had Adv. Ecology. You also had the choice if you wanted to take Adv. Biology or not.
Sophomore: If you didn’t have Adv. Biology your freshman year, then you take it along with Adv. Chemistry.
Junior and Senior: You can pick any AP science class you want. The school I go to offers AP Environmental Science, AP Physics B, AP Biology, and AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>Freshmen-Molecular Bio
Sophmore-AP Chemistry
Junior-AP Physics B
Senior-AP Biology</p>
<p>freshman: biology
sophomore: chemistry
junior: physics or AP Chem or AP Bio
senior: AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Physics C, Enviro, and a lot of other electives.</p>
<p>there’s a good deal of deviancy though.</p>
<p>Frosh: Earth Science and Biology</p>
<p>Soph: AP Bio and Chem</p>
<p>Junior: AP Chem and AP Physics B</p>
<p>Senior: AP Physics C and Genetics</p>
<p>This is usually the way it goes. There might be some interchanging courses like AP Chem and Genetics or AP Bio and AP Physics B.</p>
<p>Our school is weird. There are regular courses, regents courses (I live in NY so that’s what we call them) , honors courses, then AP courses. The classes offered are: regents earth science, regents/ honors/ ap bio, regular/ regents/ honors/ ap chem, regular/ regents/ ap physics (no honors), regents/ ap environmental science. For our state, you need to pass two regents courses/ tests (one being biology) and take another science course. On my school website, I found out the “average” high school track. 9th: regents earth science 10th: regents bio 11th: regents chem 12th: regents physics. Most people will probably do better than this track. I’m a freshman, and in my case, I took regents earth science in 8th. For 9th: Honors Bio 10th: ap environmental, ap bio, honors chem 11th: regent physics (summer before school year), ap chem, ap physics B 12th: nothing. I probably am going to take the maximum the school has to offer.</p>