<p>Hello fellow CC members! I have seen the need for us to accurately gage the amount of work/difficulty of certain AP classes that we are considering for our schedules. Therefore I recommend that we post our past experiences in certain classes, so that others get a better understanding of it. A possible format could be...</p>
<p>[Amount of HW each night]
[Difficulty of class 1-easy, 10-very difficult]
[Difficulty of AP exam 1-easy, 10-very difficult]</p>
<p>*gauge.</p>
<p>Also, what’s the point of this if one can just attach the difficulty to their schedules? If we have this thread, we’d have to search the entire thread and then use that information and apply it to another thread.</p>
<p>AP Chemistry
My teacher didn’t give a lot of homework but I studied at least 4 hours for every test
Difficulty - 7
AP Exam - 9</p>
<p>AP Physics B
Little homework
Difficulty - 5
AP Exam - 7</p>
<p>AP Psychology
<p>AP World History
-Lots of reading/studying for tests…(Just budget 1 hour per day)
-Class: 6
<p>Aren’t the difficulties for this a little subjective? For example, AP World History, IMO is far easier than AP Physics B, but the rankings don’t show that.</p>
<p>@Apollo11: They are indeed subjective. I would take AP Physics B over AP World History in a heartbeat.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>AP Psychology
Self-studied. Read Barron’s for ~20 hours in total.
Class Difficulty: 2
Exam Difficulty: 3
Projected Score: 5</p></li>
<li><p>AP Computer Science
Self-studied. Read Barron’s for ~30 hours in total.
Class Difficulty: 3
Exam Difficulty: 4
Projected Score: 5</p></li>
<li><p>AP Calculus BC
Took online (AoPS). About 8 hours of homework/week.
Class Difficulty: 9
Exam Difficulty: Not yet taken.
Projected Score: ?</p></li>
<li><p>AP English Literature and Composition
Self-taught. About 8 hours of homework/week.
Class Difficulty: 7
Exam Difficulty: 8
Projected Score: 4</p></li>
<li><p>AP Latin
Online tutor. About 4 hours of homework/week.
Class Difficulty: 5
Exam Difficulty: 10
Projected Score: 2-3</p></li>
<li><p>AP Biology
Self-taught. About 10 hours of homework/week.
Class Difficulty: 9
Exam Difficulty: 8
Projected Score: 4</p></li>
<li><p>AP Microeconomics
Self-taught with online resources. About 4 hours of homework/week.
Class Difficulty: 5
Exam Difficulty: 2
Projected Score: 5</p></li>
</ol>
<p>AP Calculus A/B
Traditional class. About 2 hours of homework per week
Class Difficulty: 3
Exam Difficulty: 2
Projected Score: 5</p>
<p>AP Government
Traditional class. Maybe 1 hour or so of homework per week (our teacher was really easy on us homework wise, and although the tests were tough… I didn’t spend much time studying)
Class Difficulty: 1
Exam Difficulty: 4 (because of the scale)
Projected score: 5 (was expecting a 4 until my AP gov teacher worked out all the FR questions that were released)</p>
<p>AP Macroeconomics
One semester class. 1 hour of homework a week (same teacher)
Class Difficulty: 2
Exam Difficulty: 4 (again, tough scale)
Projected score: 4… I should have studied/reviewed</p>
<p>AP Macroeconomics
One semester class. 1 hour of homework (same teacher)
Class Difficulty: 2
Exam Difficulty: 3.5
Projected score: 5… possibly a 4</p>
<p>AP English Literature
Traditional class. 1.5 or 2 hours of homework per week
Class Difficulty: 4 (she gave alot of bonus points at the end of the year though to keep the other seniors from not graduating, which caused me to get a 100. The first semester was rough however)
Exam Difficulty: 8.5
Projected score: 3… hopefully a 4…</p>
<p>AP Physics
Traditional class. 2 or 2.5 hours of homework per week.
Class Difficulty: 7 (not the best teacher; she taught calculus great, but physics isn’t her best)
Exam Difficulty: Didn’t take it because we didn’t finish the material, and there was no point in taking the exam… If I passed, I still wouldn’t get the credit for the physics classes I need to take in college
Projected score: N/A</p>
<p>AP English Langauge
Self study. I didn’t do much other than an essay here or there that an english teacher would grade.
Class Difficulty: if I was in the class (I was a teachers aid for the class, so I know what they did) 7.5
Exam Difficulty: 6.5
Projected score: 4/5</p>
<p>AP U.S. History:
Traditional classroom. 2 hours of homework per week.
Class Difficulty: 5.5
Exam Difficulty: 6
Score on test: 4 </p>
<p>AP Environmental Science:
Self study. I learned everything I knew about the test the night before… lol
Class Difficulty: 0
Exam Difficulty: 1 (considering I passed it only preping for 2 hours haha)
Score on test: 4</p>
<p>AP Biology:
Self study. Spent 2 weeks on the material
Class Difficulty: 3
Exam Difficulty: 5
Score on test: 3 (I failed the first two free response questions…) </p>
<p>AP bio:
Class 4/10
Test 7/10
Score: 3(died on frq’s, but multiple choice was simple)
AP Chem
class:12/10 (my teacher was insane)
test 4/10(most likely because of how well prepared I was)
projected score 5</p>
<p>Oh well.
I just hope this doesn’t become like the chances threads, wherein people just post to increase anxiety, not to do any tangible benefit to the community.</p>
<p>AP US Gov
HW a night: 10 cause i procrastinate
Difficulty: 10 cause i suck
Difficulty of AP Exam: 10 cause i dont care about AP exams.</p>
<p>have fun next years freshman</p>
<p>@Yakisoba </p>
<p>I thought most freshman don’t take AP US Gov</p>
<p>@Apollo11
I did and it was pretty easy
Difficulty of class I would probably give 8
Difficult of exam I would give 6</p>
<p>AP US history </p>
<p>HW. Read a couple pages a night and take notes. I BS through the notes and then read the chapter the night before the test (bad idea)</p>
<p>Difficulty 7</p>
<p>Ap test 5 </p>
<p>AP language and comp</p>
<p>1 essay to write a week and then some other random stuff every once in a while. </p>
<p>Class. 5</p>
<p>Test 6 </p>
<p>[Class]: AP World
HW: 1
Difficulty: 3
AP Exam: 4</p>
<p>AP Chemistry:
HW: 6/7
Difficulty: 9
AP Exam: 8</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB
HW: 9
Difficulty: Depends on teacher
AP Exam: 3/4</p>
<p>[Class]: AP USH
[Amount of HW each night] It varied. It was usually a large assignment given in 2 week increments. 6?
[Difficulty of class 1-easy, 10-very difficult] Just do your work, do decent on the tests. But still very rigorous. 7.
[Difficulty of AP exam 1-easy, 10-very difficult] 6</p>
<p>[Class]: AP English Language
[Amount of HW each night] 9. Constant reading and essays.
[Difficulty of class 1-easy, 10-very difficult] 5. Easy weekly vocab quizzes, pay attention and you’ll do fine on tests.
[Difficulty of AP exam 1-easy, 10-very difficult] 7</p>
<p>Class]: AP Chemistry
[Amount of HW each night]: Depends. Some nights reading half a chapter in the book, but my teacher was insane about our lab books! They took me hours on end to finish (and I rarely procrastinated on those)</p>
<p>Class]: AP Calc AB
[Amount of HW each night]: Less than an hour, usually just practice problems</p>
<p>AP Human Geography
Little to no homework
Class difficulty: 2
Exam difficulty: 8 but only because of the terrible teacher</p>
<p>AP Physics B
About an hour of homework every night
3
9 once again, terrible teacher</p>
<p>AP Calc AB
Half an hour of homework each week
1
1</p>
<p>AP Music Theory
Little to no homework
1
2</p>
<p>AP US History</p>
<p>Around 10 hours of homework a week, sometimes more
Class Difficulty: 8
Exam Difficulty: 5
Projected Score: 5</p>
<p>Calc AB
Homework: 90 min / day
Class Difficulty: 8
Exam Difficulty: 10 (the multiple choice wasn’t bad. Free response had NO resemblence to questions we did in class)
Score: 4</p>
<p>Psychology
Homework: 1 Chapter / Week (not that I ever read it)
Class Difficulty: 2 (would have been a 1 if I actually participated)
Exam Difficulty: 1 (if possible, my ridiculously easy class over prepared me)
Score: 5</p>
<p>Language & Composition
Homework: 30 min / day on most days. When we had a paper it was more like 2 hrs / day
Class Difficulty: 6.5
Exam Difficulty: 5
Score: 5</p>
<p>Statistics
Homework: 45 min / day
Class Difficulty: 7 (my teacher wasn’t the greatest)
Exam Difficulty: 6
Score: TBD, but probably a 5</p>
<p>Physics B
Homework: 40 min / day
Class Difficulty: 9 (Homework problems were always more difficult than test questions/ap questions)
Exam Difficulty: 8 (Thankfully I had a great teacher though!)
Score: TBD, hopefully a 5. </p>
<p>US Government
Homework: 15 min / day
Class Difficulty: 4 (my teacher was always really vague/confusing with instructions and often rambled about stuff we didn’t need to know)
Exam Difficulty: 6 (free response was kind of rough)
Score: TBD, fairly confident in a 4 or 5 though</p>
<p>Literature & Composition
Homework: 30 min / night
Class Difficulty: 2
Exam Difficulty: 8 (we didn’t do a single ap-style essay all year, we learned poetry from an incompetent student teacher)
Score: TBD, honestly I’d be shocked to get a 3. A 2 is more likely. </p>
<p>Macroeconomics
Homework: N/A, it was an independent study
Class Difficulty: N/A
Exam Difficulty: 7 (If I had an actual class, it’d probably be closer to a 4 or 5)
Score: TBD, I’m pretty sure it’ll be a 4 though. </p>