I was just lookin at people’s “chances” threads on this board, and a lot of people only have 6-8 classes every year(I take 10, no honors/ap, because my school doesn offer them; but i live in Canada and AP isn’t standard here)
I know that some APs take up to a year to finish, whereas normal classes only take a semester .
What I would like to know is
What is difference between honors and university prep courses(just more work)?
How many classes do YOU take per year
<p>Honors is supposed to be more diffucult than the normal prep classes. I only take 6 classes at my school; each period is 50 min of instruction except for lunch period. During lunch period, my class is about 1 hr 5 min of instruction; every student has the same subject group(i.e. math, science)every year during lunch unless you don't take a class in that subject. I have sciences for my lunch period.</p>
<p>I have five and a half classes MAX; that's all that's allowed, but the classes you do take are pretty intense. It's SO FRUSTRATING though because there are all these things I want to take and I can't, 'cause I don't have time...at my old school we got eight.</p>
<p>Honors is supposed to be more difficult, but at least where I am it really depends on the course...some honors are less difficult than other foundations courses. The teacher and the curriculum vary a lot (each teacher has a lot of freedom over what he covers) and so it depends more on the instruction than the level.</p>
<p>Also, we take more APs than AP courses. No English or history offers honors designations, so while certain courses are offered as APs (government, economics) in other things everyone is just jumbled together and the kids who are "ready" take the AP on their own...</p>
<p>I take 9 courses. Adding lunch to it would make it a full 8:00am-3:20pm school day. :)</p>
<p>hmm, I see, so you really don't have to take AP classes to do well on an AP exam? Interesting</p>
<p>munkeegirl, do you take 9 courses everyday or do you get it separated into semesters(like 5 classes per semester)?</p>
<p>my classes usually are 1hr10min long</p>
<p>I take 9 classes everyday. I've never taken less than 8 classes during my high school career.</p>
<p>my school only lets me take 6 courses at max, 5 is the regular load</p>
<p>some kids only take 4, and they chose with courses they take so it ends up that they only have 3 classes a day!</p>
<p>6 IB courses + creative elective + Theory of Knowledge = 8</p>
<p>We have a rotating schedule with 5 or 6 one-hour classes a day.</p>
<p>NJ requires students to take gym, and my elective is band, which is a full year course, so I take a total of 7 classes. If you took a half year class as your elective, they you would have 8 classes. </p>
<p>There also is an early gym option, when you take gym as an AM class and then take another class (either 1 full year class or 2 half year classes). I would take the AM class, but it starts and 7ish and I hate waking up early. Also, taking AM Gym conflicts with any AP science course because all of our AP science classes start ar 7:40, which overlaps w/ AM gym.</p>
<p>my school has 4 classes/day and 8 classes in the year. we have 90 minute classes and halfway through the year we get new classes. i love the block scheduling. it allows students to take two parts of an AP course in one year. in my junior year, i took bio i & bio ii, and calc ab & calc bc.</p>
<p>Only seven are possible.</p>