<p>my classmates take one look at my schedule this year and it's all "oooh dude you are sooo screwed". is bio that much harder than say, chem or USH ap? i'm a junior btw</p>
<p>Biology is actually much easier than Chemistry. </p>
<p>Maybe your classmate was refering to the teacher you'll have (maybe he grades tough or something like that). However, biology is pretty easy, it's mostly memorization.</p>
<p>If you're good at memorization, it's definitely easy.</p>
<p>If I had to rank the science APs from hardest to easiest, it'd probably be:
AP Physics
AP Chem
AP Bio
AP Environmental</p>
<p>But again, it depends on your personal strengths/weaknesses.</p>
<p>I took AP Bio as a junior, and I thought it was fine. I think I did well on the MC and probably bombed 2/4 of the FRQs... still got a 4.</p>
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<p>i did the exact same. i ended up studying a lot more for ush, since i heard that it was the harder ap test. and i got a five on that. if i could go back, i would have studied the two subjects more evenly.</p>
<p>my ap bio class was actually pretty hard. it was his first year teaching and he overestimated the difficulty of the test. he told us you could only miss one point on the essays to get a five, and other stuff like that. after every couple campbells chapters we had a huge 300 question 50 page take home test. we ended up wasting time by studying unimportant stuff in great detail, and we didnt even make it through the plant chapters in campbells. so hopefully your class isnt like that.</p>
<p>so overall, the test isnt really that hard. hopefully you end up with better essay questions than we had last year.</p>
<p>At my school, AP Bio is called the easiest science AP. I had a easy teacher and didn't have to do much work, but we still covered a lot of material. Along with about 5 weeks pre-exam studying (with Barron's AP Bio), I easily pulled a 5. And I completely bombed one essay (out of 4).</p>
<p>Oh, in addition-</p>
<p>theoretically, you could do none of the essays, get a perfect score on the multiple choice, and still get a 5.</p>
<p>if you're into percentages (which people usually discourage you from using when talking about standardized tests, but w.e.), a 60% or above is a 5 on the AP bio test.</p>
<p>I was wrong about AP Bio being the easiest science AP. It's enviro. but bio is still very easy! roxxy's list is very accurate.</p>
<p>I just realized I'm taking the 2 hardest science AP's this year! sucks for me!</p>
<p>i think it depends more on the class itself. the ap test might be easy but it depends on how your teacher is. at my school, ap bio is probably one of the hardest classes you'll take simply because of the way it is taught and because the teacher is a very hard grader.</p>
<p>i'm taking it this year and it is proving to be very tough. a LOT of work, at least from the teacher i have.</p>
<p>I had an awful teacher for AP Bio -- awful in that he only taught from the book, and offered no assistance when it came to explaining concepts that the class had difficulty with. He curved almost every tests, because a large portion of the class usually failed -- undoubtedly, without the curve, the class average would have sat around a C.</p>
<p>With that in mind, however, that class, along with APUSH, taught me how to actually study for exams. I still took the AP Exam, and though I feel great about the MC, the FRQs were... weak, to say the least. Regardless, I received a 5 on it. 6 of the 30 kids who were in my class took the exam when it was offered, and 5 of them received 5s, the other received a 4.</p>
<p>Hang in there, and you'll do great on the exam.</p>
<p>super hard....</p>
<p>at my school, its definitely harder than ap chem, ap stats, ap gov, and ap euro...</p>
<p>a lot of it depends on your school and your teacher. find out the format of the class, mostly tests? labs? hw? as long as you have had a year of biology as a foundation i think anyone who works hard can do well. i got consistent Bs in honors bio in 9th grade, but had consistent As in ap bio in 10th grade.</p>
<p>I signed up for ap bio this year, but I got out of it. I don't think it would've been overly hard, but the teacher I had was crazy and forced us to even be in her class during lunch and seminar periods. She grades as hard as you could imagine. I'm going to take AP Art History instead :)</p>
<p>It depends on what your strengths and weaknesses are. I found Chem to be very easy. I simply learned a concept and could apply it over and over. There's almost no memorization involved... Once you get used to answering a certain type of question (acid-base equilibrium questions, for example), it's very easy to answer the AP FRQs. If you know your stuff, there will be very little on the AP test that you don't know.
Bio, on the other hand, is a LOT of memorization. You can't just learn a concept and apply it the way you do in Chem. There's certainly analysis in biology, but it is really based in memorization. Unlike chemistry, you will definitely see things that you have never learned about on the AP test. the FRQs might ask you to explain a process that you never covered, or the MCs might touch upon certain specific examples that sound completely foreign. But, biology, to most people, is easier to comprehend than Chem.
I don't think that you can really say that one is harder than the other.</p>
<p>In my opinion, AP Physics > Chem = Bio > Envi Sci in difficulty.</p>
<p>AP Biology is not extremely easy, but I did self-study it for a 5. I took a previous Honors Biology course, though.</p>
<p>No. But I luv Bio. If you hate it, it's hard.</p>
<p>i guess its just me who are taking ap bio without bio...</p>
<p>I found AP Bio to be pretty easy. I never got lower than a 90 for the quarter and I pretty much only studied the night before a test(don't try this though). My teacher was pretty calm and easy about the class though. As for the test, I got a 3 without studying a minute for the exam, so it's not that hard.</p>