I am currently a junior taking AP Physics 1 and 2 alongside BC. Currently in BC I am breezing through with an A, but Iam struggling to get an A in 1 and 2 because I guess they made it conceptual heavy as compared to its predecessor in B. All the seniors in physics c are telling me that it’s a blowoff class and that they literally play Halo during the class with the teachers on some days. Do you guys think it is easy because through the free response questions I’ve seen, the only calc i see is integrals for like spring systems and we did that earlier this year in BC for work problems and what not and they were pretty simple.
I had the same problem as you and also found AP C “easier” than AP 1 (though our AP 1 class was easier than yours imo since it was the first year of the test but now they changed the class and it seemed harder to me). The AP 1 test was difficult for me–a bit more so than the AP C test. It really depends how you think. If you’re more of a math person then yes AP C will be more math and hence easier since you’re not having to explain physics in written responses. But AP C shouldn’t be a “blow-off” class. At least in my experience you have to work hard and really understand the material, but yes there were a few days when we goofed off and didn’t do much. The conceptual stuff in 1 confused me and I really prefer numbers over words (I got mad when my teacher wouldn’t let me take a derivative even though I had already done it in calc).