This is what I’ve heard, but I’d love to hear your thoughts and how hard you would rank self-studying these!
Easy:
AP Human Geography
AP Psychology
AP Environmental Science
AP Macroeconomics
AP Microeconomics
AP Comparative Government and Politics
AP English Language and Composition
Medium:
AP English Literature and Composition
AP World History
AP Art History
AP European History
AP US History
AP US Government and Politics
AP Biology
AP Statistics
Hard:
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Chemistry
AP Computer Science A
AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based
AP Physics 2: Algebra Based
AP Physics C: Mechanics
AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism
Depends (Requires Long-Term Study/Experience):
AP Chinese Language and Culture
AP French Language and Culture
AP German Language and Culture
AP Italian Language and Culture
AP Japanese Language and Culture
AP Spanish Language and Culture
AP Spanish Literature and Culture
AP Latin
AP Music Theory
AP Studio Art (Drawing)
AP Studio Art (2-D Design)
AP Studio Art (3-D Design)
AP Seminar
AP Research
AP Math (Calc and stats), Computer science, and US government are relatively easy to self-study.
With the change in AP Physics, it would certainly be harder to self-study (I took AP P1 and it was a lot harder than AP Physics B)
I think both AP English classes depend how good a writer you are. If you aren’t, then it would be hard to self study because you don’t have a teacher to help you.
With AP studio art, there isn’t much to the class since you spend most of the time creating your portfolio, so self-studying shouldn’t be that bad if you know what you are doing.
Finally, the AP history classes are kind of hard to self-study just because of the large amount of material to know for the exam.
Otherwise, everything else seems to be in the right place.
AP us government and politics should be on the easy side. AP English language and Composition is Medium not easy
You can’t self-study AP Seminar and Research because the exam has in-class components.
Calc AB is medium, rather than hard. Language is definitely not easy…probably medium.
While I agree, the level of difficulty for any individual exam is quite subjective; what is easy for one student may be difficult for another.