<p>Hello everyone :D,
It's finally that "pick your classes" time of the year in my school again and I was wondering if you guys who have taken these classes before think it is a reasonable schedule? I know difficulty varies from school to school but I was wondering about the difficulty of the AP exams and the preparation necessary to pass them.</p>
<p>AP English Lit
AP Macroeconomics (extremely easy class in my school)
AP US Government
AP Calculus BC (basically selfstudy, they stick you in a calc AB class with a BC textbook)
AP Chemistry
AP Studio Art: 2D (joke of a class in my school)
Office-Aid (counselor allowing me to take this time to self-study anything I want so I might do AP Physics C during this period or any homework that I have for my other classes)</p>
<p>Thanks again and I appreciate any feedback you guys can give me :)</p>
<p>AP English Lit- I’m currently taking this class as a senior. The AP lit test is similar to the AP lang test (I took that last year) and the critical reading portions of the SAT. You may want to visit a bookstore, grab an AP Lit prep book and read through what essays are on the test and how to approach them as it gets closer to exam time, but other than that, I don’t think much preparation is needed for this AP test. Since English is so broad, English teachers have more freedom and liberty to teach a class however they want (as opposed to a calculus class in which a teacher MUST cover certain concepts). Therefore, the AP test is not difficult if you’re pretty good at English classes, but the level of difficulty of this class as a class differs the most from school to school. If you and I went to the same school, I would strongly recommend you take AP lit, as it is not overly difficult at my school.</p>
<p>AP Macro- if it’s easy at your school, then go for it. I got a 4 on the AP test and I had a pretty good teacher last year. Pretty interesting class, for me personally, but that depends on whether or not you’re interested in econ to begin with. </p>
<p>Gov- pretty easy class at my school, although the majority of seniors at my school failed the AP test last year. My friend, who got a 4 on the AP test, said that the test is fairly easy. She spent the night before reading through the McGraw-Hill AP prep book.</p>
<p>Calc- sure, take it; I’ve heard that the majority of the BC exam is AB calc, anyways. People at my school used to have to self-study BC essentially, and I think most of them did fine on the AP test, anyways. </p>
<p>I’ve never taken chem or art or physics, so I can’t advise you there.</p>