<p>Well this upcoming year, I'm taking four AP classes. Upon getting a 3 in AP world I'm pretty nervous about the AP tests. Well I'm gonna take AP Chem, AP US, AP English Language, AP Human Geography. Well I'm not that much of a history/English person but can still manage to do the work. I enjoy math much more. And those of you that get 5's how do you do it? Is it a matter of paying attention in class or cram review before the test?</p>
<p>AP Chem is known as one of the tougher APs. Though it does have a ridiculous curve…</p>
<p>APUSH isn’t bad at all and neither is AP English. I’ve heard Human Geo isn’t bad, but I’ve never taken it.</p>
<p>A lot of APUSH is just general knowledge and understanding of concepts. Honestly the test MC gives you answers to like half of the other questions. I didn’t study at all and the test went fine.</p>
<p>“Hard” is relative. Some students study hard and fail them; others don’t study and ace them.</p>
<p>Chem is a fairly hard AP test, obviously depending if you’re good at chem or not. You cannot cram the night before. Keep up in class, then get princeton review books after january and see how much you need to do/learn to be on track for 5s (or whatever score you want). If you are serious about improving your score & know you need to study a lot for it, start studying seriously in march. </p>
<p>Half of taking AP tests is knowing the material; the other half is knowing how to take tests, esp. for writing frqs and such. Sometimes what you learn in class does not apply to the ap test very much (esp for english, and somewhat for history); review books have what you need to know, so study using them, and PRACTICE FRQs! For quantitative ap tests >65% is a 5 (standards aren’t much higher for eng/hist), so if you do ok on mc and ok on frq you’re set.</p>
<p>If you’re good at writing in-class essays and answering questions based on the text, Language is easy. Chem may be a challenge, but as Lagging said, there’s a huge curve – I didn’t know a good amount of the material and still pulled off a 5.</p>
<p>As for how I managed 5’s, for English, there’s no cramming. You can practice writing at home, perfect your take-home essays, then try to carry over the editing skills you’ve practiced to your in-class essays. For Chem, do all the practice questions, clarify any concepts you don’t understand as they come up, and study the material thoroughly so you know it, rather than so you can regurgitate it for the test then forget about it. It all builds on itself, much like math, so stay on top of everything!</p>
<p>…I mostly did that, then stayed up 'til ridiculous hours of the morning playing Freecell the nights before the tests. I was a seasoned veteran at that, though, so don’t try that at home! :p</p>
<p>I got a 3 on AP World also, but then got 2 5s (chem and english) and a 4 (us history) on the tests I took this year. I think that the world test was still the hardest one I’ve taken! Just pay attention in class and start reviewing a few weeks in advance, and you’ll be fine :).</p>
<p>I was wondering but wh mat makes AP Chem such a challenging subject? Does it have so much material that you can’t memorize it all or like is the concept hard to understand or what? Chem honors was a breeze but they tell me Chem honors is nothing compared to AP Chem.</p>
<p>^You’re right, Chemistry Honors is nothing compared to AP Chemistry. You learn bigger and better things.</p>
<p>Too much to memorize, in terms of values and such (you don’t get all of the charts you wish you did), plus you need to be able to combine all of the different concepts you’ve learned (and there’s a LOT). The concepts can be quite tricky at times, too. That said, I found the class reasonably easy, but the test blew everyone out of the water, so watch out!</p>
<p>I got a 3 in AP World too, but I did better on my other tests. A lot of it depends on how interested you are in the subject.</p>
<p>I pay some attention throughout the year, do all the homework etc, understand the material relatively well. Crammed a few days before AP tests for calc bc/physics/lang using just textbook…worked well.</p>
<p>ap chem doesn’t need cram, you either know the material or don’t… it’s not too bad, just patterns and it’s pretty logical imo</p>
<p>I think most people are saying that this year’s APWH exam was really rough. Don’t be discouraged from taking other AP exams just because you got a 3.</p>
<p>I took AP Human Geography last year as a freshman. I got an A in the class and a 5 on the AP test. Like someone said before, just buy a princton review book and start studying 2 months before the test.</p>
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<p>I took AP Lang and got a 4, thought it was pretty easy, though I felt my essays were terrible. USH varies–the MC is up to you for how hard it will be, just memorize everything and you should be gold. The essays are what makes or breaks it. We were lucky this year to get a really easy DBQ, but it might be really hard next year.
I never took Chem, but my friends who did said it was a killer.
Human Geo I’ve heard is the easiest test.</p>
<p>For classes like APUSH, AP Human Geo, and AP English III, you’re at the mercy of whatever FRQ/essay prompts they give you to get a high score. I mean you could still ace the MC and bomb the FRQ and get a 3 probably (Not English), but that shouldn’t be the goal.</p>
<p>AP Chem was my favorite class throughout high school. Pay attention and you will do great.</p>
<p>AP Chem - I wouldn’t know since I’ve taken neither the class nor the AP, but I’ve heard it’s a difficult one.
AP US - Considered by a lot to be one of the harder APs… I don’t think so. If you do well in the class and read the textbook + review, a 5 shouldn’t be hard. I got a 5. Getting down chronological order is important.
AP English Language - Easy AP, definitely the easiest I’ve taken. My teacher made some effort to ensure that we knew some of the vocab and knew how to do a rhetorical analysis, but aside from that, we didn’t really have an AP-focused class. I got a 5; the essays are pretty dependent on how well you answer the prompt/how effectively you analyze to answer the prompt, the MC is straightforward and doesn’t require practice.
AP Human Geography - Some consider this very easy, one of the easiest APs. I took it and got a 4. It’s a lot of knowing vocab. I didn’t read the textbook and the class was a joke, so I’m content with that.</p>