<p>homework for AP classes?
I sometimes feel that mine is too easy. AP Calculus AB, for example, is an extremely easy class in terms of homework. Is this normal? Maybe it's just that the class is easy in general.
But I feel that my AP classes really aren't as hard as they're cracked up to be.</p>
<p>AP Statistics and AP Calculus AB aren’t hard. We don’t get homework points for those classes anyways:P AP Psych isn’t hard it just has a lot of busy work, notecards especially but that will help for the AP test. But AP Spanish…it’s hard. It isn’t too bad if you keep up but sometimes it goes right over my head.</p>
<p>For my AP Euro class I feel it is WAY to hard! like no joke I want to kill my self every time I do it!</p>
<p>I’m in 3 AP classes and rarely get homework :)</p>
<p>It’s different depending on your teacher. Some teachers like to make their classes ridiculously tough, so much that it’s uncommon to get an A but if you work hard you will be guaranteed a 5 on the exam.</p>
<p>AP Euro was SO much hw. It sucked. I loved the class though.</p>
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Hehe our notecards are EC on tests, if we choose to do them. Best. Teacher. Ever.</p>
<p>My hw isn’t that much, and when it is it’s tedious but not overly difficult. I mostly spend a lot of time studying for tests and writing essays/papers for English.</p>
<p>^^lucky!!! yea we get like 40 to do within a couple days or sometimes one night.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t think any of my APs are truly hard, its just that I’m too lazy to study and pay attention. </p>
<p>AP Env is wayyyy too much work. The message of the class is pretty much the same in every chapter: humans suck. Our workload is not proportional to the material amount. Shoulda taken Anatomy.
AP French has no graded hwk, woooooo. We all do it anyway for the exam.
AP US is just reading the chapters and doing the reading guide, so three hours a week. Ain’t bad.
AP Lang is soooooo easy, little effort req.</p>
<p>I have to get help for Physics B hw pretty much every day that it’s assigned/due. -__-</p>
<p>Most of my AP classes do not give a large volume of work. They tend to be more focused.</p>
<p>In my English class I’m assigned one essay about every three weeks. They’re generally six pages long, and are expected to be based primarily on the most recent philosophical readings, but analyzed in the context of all the philosophy we’ve read so far this year. For support we use at least one “major” text we’ve been reading, in addition to many short stories and news articles.</p>
<p>The class is much less about work, more about learning to think. We have a massive reading load; on a typical day we go home with a twenty page excerpt of some philosophical work, two newspaper articles, a short story/narrative essay, and whatever major novel or play we’re reading in class. </p>
<p>Rather than having tests or quizzes, we have unstructured discussions every class.
Not a hard class in the conventional sense though. Best teacher I’ve ever had, honestly.</p>
<p>I have heard that AB calc is hard, but I was never sure if it was just in my school or everywhere. I’m in BC calc and it’s pretty killer, though not all the time. I feel like I click with some units and not with others, and that usually affects how hard the homework is.</p>
<p>Last year I took AP Physics C: Mechanics. That class was hard. Our homework was mostly webassigns (not sure if everyone does those…they’re basically online homework assignments) and some of those problems were like impossible. </p>
<p>Last year I took AP Language & Composition and this year I’m in AP Literature & Composition. With the AP English classes, it’s less about the homework, and more about the reading and the essays. In Language it was those annoying argument essays (hated those) and some of the rhetorical analysis passages were dense. In Lit I find that it’s the reading itself that’s tough. We just finished Invisible Man, and while it was a good book, it was tough to get through. </p>
<p>APUSH (US History for anyone who doesn’t use that acronym) was tough in that it was grueling. A lot of textbook reading and note taking. My teacher never checked our notes (although we did have the occasional reading quiz) but it was worth the effort most of the time. The class was lecture, lecture, lecture, but even then we didn’t always get to all of the material, and things in the book that we didn’t discuss in class did sometimes show up on the tests. </p>
<p>AP US Gov & Politics. Similar to APUSH in that the homework is kind of grueling—it’s pretty much all textbook reading and notes, and some articles—but the class isn’t lecture-style. Much more laid back. Sometimes it feels like it isn’t even worth it to go to class, because all you really need to do well on the tests is do your homework. </p>
<p>AP Latin…I’ve heard a lot of my classmates complain because of the 30-ish lines we have to translate pretty much every night, and it recently came to my attention that people have been copying online translations (counterproductive? I think so…). For me, though, translating is fun and kind of meditative, so it’s not hard for me to get it done. </p>
<p>Hope that helped. Sorry it was wrong…I’ve taken a lot of APs :P</p>
<p>AP English- SO easy. Almost all essays are in-class and I don’t prep for them… and we’ve only read short stories so far with no quizzes or anything. Easy A. We have vocab journals due every two weeks so I guess I have about an hour-2 hours of homework every two weeks… but that’s it.
AP Stats- SO easy. Only 3-4 problems a night if that. The subject material is easy anyways.
AP French- HARD. Not because it’s a lot… but because it’s grammar only and that stuff is difficult to wrap your head around when even the slightest misspelling makes it wrong.
AP Euro- We don’t have homework… this perhaps is why this is my hardest class. First quarter only one person had an A… but yeah. The tests are hard.</p>
<p>^Bah, AP French was a joke 
Je blague; chuis fort aux langues.</p>
<p>AP hw is eh</p>
<p>AP Calc BC… content wise I smashed the most recent unit. Like it was easy.</p>
<p>AP US Gov’t. Sleep class.</p>
<p>"The class is much less about work, more about learning to think. We have a massive reading load; on a typical day we go home with a twenty page excerpt of some philosophical work, two newspaper articles, a short story/narrative essay, and whatever major novel or play we’re reading in class. </p>
<p>Rather than having tests or quizzes, we have unstructured discussions every class.
Not a hard class in the conventional sense though. Best teacher I’ve ever had, honestly."</p>
<p>THAT, is how classes should be. Give out required readings, not too many, then discuss it in depth in class. Minimal lectures, no pointless busy homework or homework grades. I wish i had a class like this.</p>
<p>In terms of my AP/Dual credit classes, my work load this year is a joke. With the exception of AP Calc, I feel like I’m wasting time in all my classes. I have calc homework every night, and i can finish my other homework in study hall.</p>
<p>After a year of studying at college, AP hw sounds heavenly…</p>
<p>Of course, this is not to say all colleges have courses more demanding than AP courses…</p>
<p>well my “AP HW” tends to be pretty hard. i mean yeah, its sorta rock hard.</p>
<p>AP Eng Lang is the biggest joke of a class I have.</p>
<p>APUSH has the reading and the study guide. Evidently some other people find it hard, but the questions are very straightforward and it only averages to about 15 pgs./night, or 60 pgs./night when your me and never do anything before the night before the test.</p>
<p>AP Chem and AP Bio both require a solid chunk of studying time per night, but neither has much graded homework.</p>
<p>AP Enviro has a lot of BS assignments and projects because my teacher sucks, but it doesn’t require any studying and a completed homework, right or wrong, will always earn a 100.</p>
<p>AP Calc BC: My teacher is really detail oriented and gives out tons of homework and rarely gives partial credit on tests. Decently hard. Really depends on teacher, though the material is sometimes confusing in the beginning.</p>
<p>AP Physics C? (My school calls in EM, but it’s the one that covers Mechanics, Electrical and Magnetism?): Incredibly hard, especially since it’s calculus based and most students haven’t taken calculus the year before taking this class. The AP sets and tests are also incredibly hard. Grades are composed of AP Sets and Tests (which are around 6 questions long, but each question has multiple parts). </p>
<p>AP Psychology: EASY! My teacher goes at a pretty fast pace compared to most schools, but I’ve been ace-ing all the tests. I read the text book a bit before the test and just pay attention in class. Then again, I actually like the subject, and that might help.
xD</p>
<p>AP Physics: Sometimes we’ll get a couple of tough problems, but it’s all pretty manageable. My teacher tries to not give us too much homework so that we’ll actually do all of the homework and give it 100% effort.</p>
<p>AP Calc AB: That class is a joke. The normal pre-calc and AP calc teachers at my school decided to switch topics for the year, so my teacher doesn’t actually seem to know calculus. Homework is also generally ungraded. I’ve done almost no homework in that class, but I’m still maintaining a solid A.</p>
<p>AP Lit: It varies. It’s mostly time consuming. There’s a lot of stuff to read and I’m a slow reader. My teacher is also a pretty tough grader for essays, so that can be challenging sometimes.</p>