<p>I am a freshman and I was wondering how hard APES is. My teacher registered me in the class next year as a sophomore, and it will be my first AP class (I also have APUSH and AP Lang). What is the typical workload each night (reading, homework, studying)? How hard is the material?</p>
<p>Not hard. If you aren’t interested in the subject or have a bad teacher, then it’s a waste of time.</p>
<p>It depends on your school. Some schools have VERY easy AP Environmental classes while other school might have a difficult APES class. At my school, AP Environmental Science is really hard from the rigor of the work and how much of it. The AP Environmental Science teacher always says </p>
<p>“That if you got an A in a physics class, you’ll get an A in my class.” This usually scares most students lol.</p>
<p>Depends from school to school. At my school it’s pretty easy. Ask people who have already taken it at your school.</p>
<p>APES was my first AP/Honors class as well (even though i’m a junior). At my school it’s only slightly harder than a regular class. It’s not so much the workload either but it’s all the material that you have to learn, and it feels like quite a bit. If you’re a good memorizer and studier, you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>Depends on your school. The exam is not extremely difficult but how your teacher handles their classroom is highly variable. My teachers class is hard. She throws labs and worksheets at us left and right but she definitely prepared us for that exam.</p>
<p>The class, from what I heard at my school, is not too hard. </p>
<p>But if you want to just take the AP exam, it’s basically a joke. If you’ve had a year or so of biology and some own knowledge of geology you can get a 5 without much studying at all</p>
<p>I don’t really see how the exam had to do with biology but then again I haven’t taken biology since freshman year. In my class the average workload could be an hour a night IF you stay on top of the assignments. If you don’t you could be having a great week until you remember you have a worksheet that will take 4+ hours to complete…</p>
<p>I’m not the brightest bulb on the marquee Harvey, but I don’t really think that was much of an easy 5. Most of it wasn’t biology or geology, 10 out of the 100 tops.</p>