<p>I am a freshman entering my sophomore year. My English teacher entered me in this course because I've taken Foundations of Literature Honors, Composition Honors, and College Writing. How hard is this class's material? How much homework do you have a night (homework, reading, studying)?</p>
<p>Are you talking about High School AP Lang? My son took the AP for that yesterday. Out of all the classes he ever took, it definitely was the hardest. His prior honors english classes may have been too easy. He works into the wee hours for that class at the same time balancing AP Bio and AP US Hist. Both were hard but not as much work as Lang.</p>
<p>AP Language and Composition is usually taken by Juniors and some Sophomores. Its generally believed to be slightly easier than AP Literature but that’s subjective. If you’re a strong English student then you probably shouldn’t have difficulty.</p>
<p>It depends on your school completely. Since AP English Language has so little required content, it’s really up to your teacher how much work you have and how difficult it is. Including summer reading, my class had to read six books, which is on the low side considering one of them wasn’t literature and two were novellas.</p>
<p>The material on the exam isn’t hard if you’re strong in English.</p>
<p>As others have said, if you’re strong in English and are a good writer, you can probably do well on the exam. It’s more of a skills test rather than a what-did-you-learn test in so much as you can’t really study for it like you can a math exam.</p>
<p>At least at my school, it’s really easy. So is the exam, which I just took, although I’m also a pretty good writer. I found the writing and workload pretty light for my class though. The only part that sucks is that you have to write three essays in a row for the test, and it is extremely boring and tiring.</p>
<p>At my school, it’s considered harder than Lit. However, I didn’t find it to be terribly difficult. I’m a junior and I took Honors English 9 and Honors English 10. It was quite a bit of work, but mostly busy-work. It depends on your teacher, but if you’re good at writing, analyzing the author’s purpose, and critical reading, you should be set for the AP exam. We did TONS of essays in class all year and enough MC practice, I think, about 1 MC, 1 essay, and 1 vocab test each week. So I felt pretty well prepared. :)</p>
<p>If you’re talking about the class itself, APs just vary so much depending on the school and teacher.</p>
<p>Agreed with other posters in that it’s totally dependent on the teacher. The exam wasn’t particularly difficult in my opinion. It doesn’t require much knowledge other than some literary terms and having some book details to reference. My AP Lang class required quite a bit of reading but I essentially sparknoted almost everything-- if you love to read it won’t be an issue. That’s the only homework we ever had.</p>