<p>Next year, I will be picking two out of the three classes: AP Bio, AP Chem, and HN Physics. Now, my original thought is to take AP Bio and HN Physics. I was going to take Bio and Chem, but lots of people said it would be pretty hard to do so (keep in mind i have 3 more AP classes in other subjects). What do you guys think based on your expierence? Is taking AP Bio and Chem at the same time pretty hard? Or should I just stick with Bio and Physics? </p>
<p>BTW i will be a junior next year</p>
<p>I think Bio and Chem would be easier than Bio and Physics, but I don't really understand what you mean by HN Physics. You mean Honors Physics?</p>
<p>Ask other students who've taken those classes and find out which ones are the best for you. Not many people like chem, bio, and physics. Usually it's divided between those who like bio, or those who like physics and chem. Chem and physics are very math-involved courses.</p>
<p>I'm taking AP Bio, AP Chem, honors physics, and anatomy this year (junior) - with everything else AP - and it's certainly do-able if you like science. If you want to take AP physics senior year, go with bio/physics or chem/physics (but keep in mind that at some points chem and physics overlap)...if not, I would still suggest taking physics at SOME point in high school.</p>
<p>There's another girl at my school doing just AP chem/AP bio and she's fine too, btw.</p>
<p>I took AP Bio and honors physics junior year. While physics gave me a lot of pain, it had nothing to do with the fact that I was simultaneously taking AP Bio. (In fact, occasionally I got more annoyed that I was talking pre-calc and physics at the same time since we briefly covered some physics topics in math.) I got zero homework in AP Bio almost all year long, so it didn't interfere with anything.</p>
<p>I'm also taking two sciences this year, but again, one's memorization (anatomy) and another's more math-involved (AP Chem). I find that a pretty good balance when taking multiple science classes.</p>
<p>My brother is taking IB Biology 2 and IB chemistry 2 (and from my understanding are very similar) and I'm in physics honors so I'd so for the easier track would be AP Bio and Physics Honors but i don't recommend the AP physics.....However, if your a good math student, try chem and physics.... if you want to challenge yourself for more AP credit go bio (which i hear is easy) and chem (easy IF you understand material + good at math)</p>
<p>Weird...we don't have an honors physics...only a direct AP physics, no prerequisite. </p>
<p>Good thing Im not taking it because everyone I know taking it says its reaaaallly hard. Whew...escaped that one.</p>
<p>I heard the same. I was working on homework with one of my friends, and he was doing AP Physics homework. He spent about an hour to get 4 problems done.</p>
<p>AP Bio and AP Chem</p>
<p>Honors Physics over the summer</p>
<p>AP Physics next year</p>
<p>Well, ill be a junior so I don't really have to take HN Physics over the summer, i can just take it senior year. My school only has HN Phsyics and no AP physics. we dont have a teacher for ap physics.</p>
<p>Self study!</p>
<p>Eh, I'm a sophomore and I'm thinking about taking physics over the summer and then self studying for AP next year. Anybody have anything to say about this? Good idea or bad?</p>
<p>OMG BAD IDEA!!!!!! i would never recommend anyone to even take the class unless you REALLY understand physics or you want to do something that involeves physics and still i would advise you to remain cautious about the difficulty of the class.</p>
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Next year, I will be picking two out of the three classes: AP Bio, AP Chem, and HN Physics. Now, my original thought is to take AP Bio and HN Physics. I was going to take Bio and Chem, but lots of people said it would be pretty hard to do so (keep in mind i have 3 more AP classes in other subjects). What do you guys think based on your expierence? Is taking AP Bio and Chem at the same time pretty hard? Or should I just stick with Bio and Physics?
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<p>In my experience, Bio's harder than both those subjects. But you're the only one who really can know how easy these courses would be for you.</p>
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Eh, I'm a sophomore and I'm thinking about taking physics over the summer and then self studying for AP next year. Anybody have anything to say about this? Good idea or bad?
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<p>See if you can take it at one of those programs that don't give grades, like CTY summer program.
When I took physics there half the class was doing awfully, as in getting "Ds" and "Cs" on midterms, but thankfully the teacher just wrote recommendations and didn't give grades.
Physics can be a hard course -- if you're taking it over the summer, make sure you won't fail it and screw up your GPA. That being said, it's probably smart to take some course that'll act as a segue into AP Physics before taking AP Physics itself.</p>