<p>Hi, my counselor brought me in to arrange courses for next year (yes, already, my school is quick).
I signed up for these five APs: Statistics (85%), English Lang. (94%), Environ. Sci. (77%), Psychology (85%), and USH (96%).
My school has pretty high AP test passing rates except in Enviro... I mentioned the rates in parentheses.
Can someone please comment how hard each class AND test is relative to the others? I might drop one and I do not know which one to drop. I am taking AP Euro and Spanish this year and I find them both pretty easy (although Euro is a LOT of work).</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Honestly the difficulty of each class just depends on the teacher always. </p>
<p>You should ask around in your school about said classes and teachers. If you can even get more specific without being weird I suppose, ask from someone who got a 3 or 4 because thats the average person. Someone with a 5 is gonna say it was easy, someone with a 1 or 2 is gonna say it was impossible.</p>
<p>AP Stat: Some of the stuff is kinda dull, but it isnt TOO bad. It gets a little harder the more you get into the material, but as long as you pay attention in class (which, by the 85% must mean you’re school’s class is pretty good) you should be fine.</p>
<p>English Lang: This one is really easy IF you are already a decent writer. Taking the class will actually be pretty beneficial because you really do learn how to write differently and appropriately. The test is pretty straightforward with enough practice too, also reflected by your schools scores.</p>
<p>Environmental Science: This is supposed to be the “easiest” AP test out there. If you have taken some advanced science courses, it cant be any harder than that. That being said, the 77% may be from the teacher/class/whatever. Plenty of people study this one on their own, so it’s up to you. Most of the content isnt that bad.</p>
<p>Psychology: Lots of memorization. Since you found Euro easy, you’ll find this easy. It’s essentially memorization all over the place with some pretty interesting stuff. The test is kinda easy too, everyone seems to do extremely well on the multiple choice but rather poorly on the short answer. Regardless, itll seem like a break compared to Euro.</p>
<p>US History: Again, since you’re taking Euro and you say its easy, US History is basically the same time commitment, maybe even less. You’re just learning/memorizing everything about US History. If you can do Euro easily, you can do this easily.</p>
<p>AP Stats and APES are known to be easy tests. APUSH and AP Lang have a reputation of being the harder tests. I’m not sure about AP Psychology. Ultimately, class difficult depends on instructor.</p>