<p>AP English Language and Comp
Spanish 3 Honors
AP United States History
Pre Calculus Honors/Analysis of Functions
AP Psychology
AP Biology
Physics Honors
How is it? To hard, to easy, manageable?
Also, I'm planning on being a Pre Med Major in College so I thought I definately should do AP Bio, last year I discovered I was really good in Chemistry Honors so I was thinking about doing AP Chemistry, but I thought I needed to show colleges my interest in going into Pre Med so I signed up for AP Bio Junior year, seeing if I took it Senior Year they colleges wouldn't see how I did in the course. Now my mind is all mixed up.. Should I take AP Biology or AP Chemistry Junior Year. I enjoy both courses, not sure what to do. I hear AP Chem is harder to get an A than AP BIo and has work but then I hear opposing opinions.
<em>Also, I'm on an IPhone so excuse my Grammar and Spelling</em></p>
<p>How is it? To hard, to easy, manageable?
-Depends on you, personally. What are you doing outside of the classroom (sports, work…). If you start adding a lot of the “outside of the classroom” stuff, then it gets harder to pull of something like this. Also, how are you at time management? All people are different.</p>
<p>As for AP Bio vs. AP Chem…I understand that you want to show colleges you are capable of a variety of sciences (chemistry, biology & physics) and that’s a great plan. I don’t really think that colleges would look at Bio & Chem that differently though. AP Chem would probably be easier considering you just took honors, but it would probably remember more for college if you took a year off and then returned to it senior year.</p>
<p>As for which is harder, bio or chem, it really depends on what you are good at. Chemistry is more math while Biology is more memorization. I personally found chemistry a lot easier…</p>
<p>AP United States History - Since it’s a history class, you would expect a lot of note taking. </p>
<p>Precalculus Honors - it is suppose to be easy if you’re good at math.</p>
<p>AP Psychology - the difficulty of the class depends on the teacher, but the exam, many people says it’s easy.</p>
<p>AP Biology - if your textbook is campbell, a lot of reading and note-taking.</p>
<p>bump…
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<p>You’ve already got one physical science in there (physics honors), so I recommend that you stay with AP Biology. You’ve got a solid, well-rounded schedule. How does it compare to others in your school?</p>
<p>[Would</a> you mind taking a look at my schedule?](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/756343-how-balanced-junior-year-schedule.html]Would”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/756343-how-balanced-junior-year-schedule.html)</p>
<p>Thanks, The most I heard of so far is 3 AP’s, but even those people have ACTUAL electives unlike me… I won’t know for sure until Thursday or Friday there might be someone taking 4, I doubt there is anyone taking 5 or 6 because that would mean a lot of sacrificing like a World Language such as Spanish, Latin, French and a Science Course like Chemistry or Physics reg or honors.
This lack of AP’s between people is probably because of a new school and my school is not offering the full amount until next year.
Also, I took Biology Honors and did great in the class, but I took it Freshman Year and obviously I forgot a TON from the course. Will this result in any problems? I mean I bet if I looked over a SparkNotes Book it would come back, but it’s not the same if they allowed students in my school to take it in 10th… Since I forgot a lot.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine having forgotten a lot of bio honors stuff. Don’t worry.</p>
<p>Ok that’s good thanks.</p>
<p>In terms of workload reduction, I’d highly recommend AP chem. Not only will it be much fresher in your mind, but it generally has a lot less reading and memorization (depending on the teacher). The only homework I ever really did at home for chem was labs, whereas bio not only did I have labs but reading and studying from Campbell. In bio, you’ll pretty much be forced to read; from my experience in AP bio, you will not recall much of that freshman year material with enough confidence to not read/study from the book.</p>
<p>Will you be fine having forgetten most of the bio honors stuff? Yeah, if you read the text regularly. But if you also have 20 pages of APUSH to take notes on and an essay for english due in the next couple days, along with math and physics problem sets (too common for me junior year), you will not be fine. You have to either read and do a crapload of homework in a night, or skip reading and be unprepared for the class.</p>
<p>Id have to say taking APUSH, its a paper mill and by far the hardest AP class. But the class is completely do-able. Just study, do well on in class test. AND LEARN TO WRITE THE FRQ</p>
<p>AP English Language and Comp
Spanish 3 Honors
AP United States History
Pre Calculus Honors/Analysis of Functions
AP Psychology
AP Biology
Physics Honors</p>
<p>Hmm, an interesting schedule. Let me tell you, if you haven’t taken AP’s before, you might be in for a very unpleasant suprise at the beginning of the year. My schedule is quite similar, exept, I am only taking 2 or your AP’s (US and Bio). I am taking honors english instead of the AP, because I know that I personally wouldn’t be able to handle it (tri-season athlete, lots of other EC’s). If you were to make one change to this schedule, which would be switching to honors english, I think you would be good, honors is almost as good as AP, and in my school you write 35 essays, in addition to a massive amount of reading for AP English Comp. Picture that on top of all you honors work; US notes, studying, reading, essays, and DBQ’s; and all of your Biology notes, reading, studying, and labs. It adds up pretty quickly. If you switch out of AP Eng, I think you should be good though, as long as the AP Psych program isn’t a massive workload (I suspect it probably isn’t). If you are a very gifted writer, then you might be able to handle this, and still achieve top grades. In the end, its completely your decision, just think about the consequences.</p>
<p>I’ve taken AP before.
Yeah, but the teacher who does AP English wanted me to do it in 9th because I did so good in her required honors reading course. She was an awesome teacher, and I hear her AP English isn’t that bad and completely manageable from other students who had her, and she’s a really great teacher for the subject (Teaching for so long) but she’s not to hard.
Probably my main problem is AP Chem or AP Bio 
I always get mixed reaction when asking the question. I’ve been debating it for months… I had a dream yesterday about it since it’s drilled in my mind. In the dream I chose AP Chem, but ended up in the AP Bio classroom lol. My dreams can’t even make decisions.
*This was my first ever dream about school… ever ha *</p>
<p>Btw out of curiosity for the people who took AP Chem do they do a review what you learned in Chem Honors or do they shoot right into new material?
Honors Bio in 9th. Honors Chem in 19th. Did amazing in both subjects. Previous info in first post.
Advice AP Biology or AP Chemistry?</p>
<p>Bio honors has more in common with AP Bio than chem honors does with AP Chem, and again, it’s really fine if you forgot stuff. If you’re going for a well-rounded schedule, take AP Bio, and if you’re going for a physical science emphasis, take AP Chem.</p>
<p>For chem, the main difference that I recall is in AP chem you have to have significantly better problem solving skills. I remember a few problems that each took a page front and back of work to solve.</p>
<p>Your schedule is solid. As for your Chem/Bio debate, if possible, you may just want to self-study AP Chem if you’re really good at it</p>
<p>but colleges still accept AP credit if you take it as a senior</p>