<p>I'm taking AP Chem next year as a JUNIOR, and I just took AP Bio as a sophomore (it was my first AP class). I'm wondering how much homework I should be expecting each day and how much self studying it would be?</p>
<p>Together with APUSH and APLAC, how much will I have?</p>
<p>It depends on your school. Ask former students; they should be able to give you a good estimate of the workload.</p>
<p>My friend took ap chem this yr (as a sophomore) and i tried helping her on her hw assignments (i was in honors chem). The work isnt that bad if you know how to do it, the bad thing is that theres so muchhh of it! if you pay attention in class, there shouldnt be too uch self studying to do…</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Bio this yr (: hopefully that wont be too bad…</p>
<p>But I took apush last yr, and it rly depends on you teacher for your workload. we had an awful time of it since all of us procrastinated, but its kinda interesting too (: but theres no shortcuts for apush, you really do just have to know everything. :</p>
<p>and im taking ap lang too! haha we have alot of summer work, so im thinking that the yr will be like that too, but i think everything just depends on the kinds of teachers that you end up with.</p>
<p>Oh I have a question for one of you guys. I’m taking AP Bio next year and want to know what to expect. How’s the workload and stuff? Also taking APUSH.</p>
<p>It really depends on the school and the teacher. At my school AP Bio had no homework or outside work, except for the occasional lab report, but the tests were insane and the subject material covered was extremely in-depth.</p>
<p>On the other hand AP Chem was an insane amount of outside work, but the test were pretty easy, and the material covered wasn’t as hard or in-depth (everyone passed the AP exam in both classes)</p>
<p>Again, it all depends on your school though.</p>
<p>Bio is purely route memorization. If you’re good at that, you’ll be fine
Chem requires a bit more math skills is all…you use what you know to solve problems.</p>
<p>It really depends on who you are.</p>
<p>Some students grasp concepts easily while others have an easier time memorizing stuff.</p>
<p>If you happen to understand the concepts in chemistry quickly, then it shouldn’t be a problem. </p>
<p>AP Chemistry together with AP USH shouldn’t be too bad. It would be worse if it was AP Biology with AP USH.</p>
<p>As 082349 said, it really depends on the student. AP Chem is a lot more conceptual and requires a solid grasp of the material. You will encounter questions that you have never been explicitly told the answer to, and will be expected to solve these questions using deduction skills and the information you have learned. As for AP Bio, however, it is purely rote memorization.</p>
<p>Bio is pure memorization. It’s remember and repeat. Chem is also mostly memorization. It’s true that you have to apply concepts to situations you may not have seen, but most of the situations are very similar and not at all challenging if you understand the material.</p>
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<p>This is true. There still is a lot of memorization in chem, and the application is easy. It’ll just be something along the lines of - you know how to discern whether a compound is nonpolar. Then, with that knowledge, you will know hexane dissolves in gasoline.</p>
<p>oh and i forgot to mention i’m taking one running start class at our local community college, math.</p>
<p>In terms of preparing for the AP exam, Chem is harder. That being said, AP Bio is considered harder just because we are given A LOT more homework than in Chem.</p>
<p>^Again, that depends on the school. If the Bio teacher teaches from and tests from the textbook, the class will be much harder than the AP exam. If the teacher tests from released exam questions or review book questions, the course will be easier than the exam. </p>
<p>Like I said, my AP Bio class had no homework at all, but was considered much harder than AP Chem at my school because the material covered went so in-depth. </p>
<p>Also, the notion that Bio is simply rote memorization is a bit of a fallacy. Yes, there is some of that, but you also have to be able to apply the material learned in essays in a manner that isn’t pure rote memorization. Plus when you get to genetics, H-W equilibrium, and to an extent ecology, it is much more application than memorization.</p>
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Yes, I agree with that. The ecology essay ripped my score to shreds this year because it required a lot of “if this happened, then what would happen next” sort of thinking. Not to mention the genetics lab on flies (something my teacher did not cover) which employed a similar mode of interpretation in an apt response to it.</p>
<p>Personally, I found AP Chem to be more difficult, mostly because of my teacher. He did win some teacher award for the state of arizona though. Which I don’t get at all. I did decent on the test, only because of my previous teacher the year before in Honors Chem. AP Chem was also known as the death class at my High School. Even for people who have an aptitude for math, such as myself. In AP Bio I had an amazing teacher, and I feel like I did much better on the test. I also put in a lot more effort in AP Bio, because I liked the subject more.</p>
<p>Yeah,correction, I meant AP Bio is considered harder in my school because of the amount of work.</p>
<p>Really depends from school to school and how much of an aptitude you have for science probably. For me I could grasp the concepts for chemistry; they made sense, so it was not a difficult class for me.</p>