Self-Study APs?

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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>So my school doesn't offer many AP's at all, most of which you can't take until senior year. APUSH is a junior course, but other than that, there's AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Physics B and AP Enviro Sci.</p>

<p>What upsets me most is that you can only select about two of these senior year due to scheduling.</p>

<p>Thus, I'm interested in self-studying. I am a sophomore this year and this is my course schedule:</p>

<p>English 10 Honors/Humanities
World History Honors/Humanities
Art III Honors/Humanities</p>

<p>Biology I Honors</p>

<p>Geometry Honors (Algebra II Honors last year)</p>

<p>German II
(The rest are minor electives)</p>

<p>Last Year:</p>

<p>English 9 Honors
Intro to Historical Studies Honors (We really did nothing at all!)
Algebra II Honors
Earth Science Honors
Art II
Music Through the Ages
(and a few minor electives)</p>

<p>Do you recommend self-studying for any AP's this year? Next year? Senior Year?
Which do you recommend and why?
Is it really possible to grasp the concepts without actually having a class or formal tests and assignments?</p>

<p>If you do recommend self-studying anything, which textbooks/prep books do you recommend?</p>

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<p>You could self-study Enviro, Psych, and HumGeo. Those are the three easy ones. Use Smartypants, Barrons, Barrons, respectively.</p>

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<p>Okay thanks for your response! I’ll take psych in school as a class, so i won’t self-study that. </p>

<p>Enviro, i don’t think i’ll have the motivation to self-study b/c i really don’t care for science.</p>

<p>Human Geography: Do you think it would look bad if this was one of the 2-3 self-studies i do over the course of the next two years, considering it’s reputed as the very easiest?</p>