<p>okay, Im a sophomore in high school and right now my only AP class is AP World History. I am just studying a lot to hopefully get a 5.
[ b]Junior Year Schedule:[ /b][ list]
[ *] AP Calc - Should be okay for AP test, it has good teachers, I'm also good at math.
[ *] AP Stats - Not sure, is AP test hard? I heard the class is a joke and its basically 1 hour<br>
a day to self study.
[ *] AP Chem - Should get a 4 of 5, 80% of the classes do.
[ *] AP Spanish - How hard is AP test? I'm okay at Spanish.
[ *] Honors US History - Pshh my easy class
[ *] Honors Econ/ Film Study - For Econ I want to self study for Macro and Micro, do you think I will have enough time? How hard is the AP test? I need to do good on it too for AEM.</p>
<p>AP Spanish is meant to be taken after three or four years of study of spanish. In addition, because of the number of native speakers who take the test, its harder to get a 5.
I would take Calc Junior year and stats senior, just cause doubling up on math isn’t that awesome.
Economics is difficult to understand, but self-studying is posisble, but you just need to be dedicated</p>
<p>Avoid AP Spanish unless you speak it fluently for some reason. This is what I have been told by several people. Try some other language, like Latin for example. Though you could probably only do that if your school offered it, it would be hard to self-study.</p>
<p>You are only a sophomore. Why are you even self-studying? I was only able to take 1 AP class at my school as a sophomore. I think that you are trying to do more than is really needed. Why exactly do you want to take all of these AP tests? Is it just so you can tell people, so you can get an AP Scholar whatever (which doesn’t even mean much), or is it so that you can get out of classes in college? Settle down a little bit before you force yourself to take so many AP tests.</p>
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<p>AP Calc is not really that hard of a course, but to truly understand the subject is difficult. The AP just makes you do the little shortcuts without requiring you to know the proof behind it. Luckily my AP teacher always showed us the proof even though he said it would not be part of the AP test. So the class is probably fine for the AP test (as you said), but not so great to replace the college class depending on the depth of your course.</p>
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<p>Easy: yes, a joke: I wouldn’t say that. Yes, you could just pick up a prep book and possibly get a 5, but it doesn’t necessarily mean you really know stats. Also, the test makes you do a lot of little things (in the FRQs mainly) that actually add up to whether you get a 5 or not that an AP class usually will cover. A prep book might miss a few of these little details. People on here just take the idea of being able to skip a class in college for granted.</p>
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<p>I don’t mean that you don’t know it, but just because 80% of the classes get 4s or 5s doesn’t automatically mean you will. You still have to study, and study hard for this test! It is not meant to be easy and certainly is not easy. This is even coming from a future ChemE major. I love the class and think that the FRQs are easy, but that is just because Chemistry is one of those things that comes naturally to me.</p>
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<p>I like the first part, not the second. Yes, most people who take AP Spanish are going to be fluent or have many years behind them as bernier93 mentioned, so the test is designed to be hard. To tell someone to self-study for AP Latin when they are only exposed to Spanish is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. I can tell you from input from both Spanish AP test takers and Latin AP test takers that the Latin AP test is considerably harder. I am myself a Latin kid. I have taken it for four years, but I STILL am not very good at translating. It is not something where you can just pick up a book and learn fully in a matter of 4 months. If I told my Latin peers or teacher for that matter the recommendation to self-study Latin in a matter of 4 months or even become AP quality in a matter of 2 years, they would burst out laughing and call it crazy. I do not mean to belittle, but that is the most horrible advice I could have ever read…</p>
<p>As for econ. It is not a hard test and it is actually a subject that is manageable to self-study and at the same time understand.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK with your AP endeavors!</p>