Schedule Planning...Help Please?

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<p>Hi, Everyone! :)
I'll be a High School Junior next year taking:
AP Calculus AB
AP Biology
AP Psychology
AP English Language & Composition
Physics Honors</p>

<p>My school has 6 periods, and I'm planning to drop one period to be Teacher Assistant in order for me to shorten my work load from unnecessary electives that I don't wish to take and to further focus on my studies and school activities. My school has a VERY limited amount of AP classes. I think that I'm capable of self-studying a few APs.</p>

<p>If you were to ask, "What kind of a student are you?" I guess...I'm a student who really enjoys learning. (People think I'm strange for being so enthusiastic for school.) I'm very passionate for gaining knowledge. My greatest strengths in academics are math and science.</p>

<p>One I definitely want to self study is AP Physics. However, I'm unsure of which AP Physics I want to take... My first thought was AP Physics B because I'm only in Physics Honors (My school only offers AP Physics C, but the class isn't open because not enough people sign up for it.), but am I capable of AP Physics C: Mechanics? Should I take AP Physics B or AP Physics C: Mechanics?</p>

<p>Another one I want to self study is AP Chinese. I'm not a native-speaker of Mandarin (I speak Cantonese fluently), but I have been learning how to speak Mandarin and write Chinese characters (I was forced to by my Chinese parents, LOL.) My sister took AP Chinese and she told me it was very easy if you study well.</p>

<p>The last one I want to self study is AP Environmental Science. I find it really interesting and I want to study it for fun, hahaha.</p>

<p>So I was thinking...
1) Self-study Physics and Environmental Science
2) Self-study Physics and Chinese
3) Self-study all 3 APs</p>

<p>I think I can do 6 APs in total, I'm unsure if 7 APs is beyond my capability...what do you think?</p>

<p>Please give me your opinions! Thank you very much! :D</p>

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<p>I hope at least one person who reads this will give me any suggestions… :frowning:
Even if it’s something different from what I planned, I’ll be glad to hear it.
I need to decide before the start of summer break so I can start studying, and I want to make sure I don’t make a foolish mistake and regret it.</p>

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<p>All AP courseload = being well rounded </p>

<p>^^ </p>

<p>If you can justify that then by all means. Do not take hard courses for the sake of taking hard courses. There’s a fine line between a challenge… and that. </p>

<p>My Junior course load (max 2 AP’s)</p>

<p>AP English Lang
Honors Chem
Honors Modern US History (requirement)
Honors Pre-Calc
Gym III <— wanted to take, who wouldn’t want an hour to play ball everyday lmao
Choir III <— I love to sing and i love my choir i’m not putting AP world in just for the hell of it.
Art I (requirment)</p>

<p>Online course (FLVS) ← for the sake of name recognition
AP US Gov (1 semester) </p>

<p>Learning the Chinese language is great… but if you’re doing it only to do the AP exam…</p>

<p>There’s a reason… the pass rate on AP Chinese is like 85%… </p>

<p>Imagine we gave to test to all CC’ers. </p>

<p>Count to 10. </p>

<p>We graded, then curved it. </p>

<p>What do you need to pass? For most AP’s, you need a 55% for a 5?</p>