<p>@Caedis How many spaces do you have? Definitely self-study Stats, but depending on your own skill level, the others may be harder. Try US Gov, if you must. I’m also self-studying Stat next year :)</p>
<p>Has anyone ever self studied for the new Latin exam? I’m thinking about doing this junior year (I’m currently a freshman) so if anyone is doing this or did it last year I’d like to know what you studied with/what book you used. Thanks!</p>
<p>How did you guys even approach anyone about taking self-studying exam. I am prospective double major, so I NEED AP’s! Help!</p>
<p>“broadwaybum”: I would talk to your parents/guardians first to get their approval (they will be the ones paying for it probably after all), and then talk to a teacher or a school counselor. Make sure you have a list of reasons prepared and your studying strategy because they will probably ask why and how you plan on doing well.</p>
<p>I wonder, if I take Bio at a local college and then continue to self-study for it, would I be able to do well on the AP Bio test? Also, if I wanted to self study AP Euro, what is the best book to use?</p>
<p>@Skygirl9 I got a 5 (self study) this year by using the Princeton Review book and Crash Course!</p>
<p>Self-studied for Psych and Stats this year and I got a 4 on both. It’s not that hard to self-study for them. </p>
<p>I plan on self-studying AP Physics 1, but I’m not sure how to go about doing that. Any suggestions? I found this website, but it seems that it’s meant to supplement an actual class. <a href=“APlusPhysics”>http://aplusphysics.com/courses.html</a></p>
<p>Hey, I just signed up to reply to this thread. I’m an upcoming sophomore and I plan on self-studying Computer Science A, Psychology, Chinese, and Music Theory. (These are all on top of AP Euro class)
My question is if I should actually stress
Some background:
I have experience with Computer Science A (got the basic gist and I think I’m kind of decent with the logical aspect) and Music Theory (I took an after-school session [it wasn’t official] freshmen year, but I didn’t learn a whole lot; I learned some stuff though ||||| I have musical background so I got my scales down :p), but probably not enough to walk in the room without preparing and get a 5. Is just reading the Baron’s book enough?</p>
<p>I’ve heard Psychology to be one of the easiest AP exams (as OP stated) and some people said it was interesting too. Does it take too much time/dedication (IE will it get in the way of school/other exams)?</p>
<p>I’m American-Chinese and can somewhat speak Cantonese (enough to get by), but other than that, I don’t have a lot of experience with writing/listening/reading Mandarin. I don’t plan on taking the Chinese exam until Junior/Senior year because I know it’s a very difficult subject.</p>
<p>I didn’t really want to talk to my counselor about this because they aren’t very encouraging. When information about summer school was released, I got a form for Algebra 2, and he told me about how I didn’t really need it and I should just enjoy my summer. </p>
<p>I realize that this is kind of an old forum. I am attending a pretty academic boarding school this coming year, so the natural course load is already very intense, around 4 hours of homework per night. I really would like to self study a couple SAT subject tests (such as chem) as well as a few AP tests (I’m thinking Psychology, because I have an interest in that). I’m not sure if this is suitable for me as I am unsure how much time people are actually dedicating to self study. Please advise?</p>
<p>@xoxo123 If you go to a boarding school, I’m guessing there are already a ton of APs offered, so it’s probably unnecessary. But some boarding schools don’t offer them since they’re too good to conform to the likes of the “Advanced Placement” program… <em>cough</em> Phillips Exeter <em>cough</em> so I guess in that case it would be good to start self-studying a few now if you want college credit 
If you’re planning on attending a very prestigious school, look on their websites and see which AP exams they give credit for. AP Psychology will probably only be elective credit, but something like AP Calculus would most likely give credit.</p>
<p>Even if the boarding school does not label the class as “AP,” many kids still take the AP exams. How much the class will prepare you for the exam will depend on the class. The probability of self-studying an AP during the academic year for a class that you are not taking is close to 0, as the academics, sports requirements, plus whatever other EC’s you will be doing will leave precious little time for anything more. You could self-study over the summer, and review during the year.</p>
<p>Could anyone tell me their experience with self-studying for Environmental Science? I’ve been hearing mixed things about this course and, although my primary self-study course this year is AP Art History, I’d like to know what people think about trying to take on two self-studies at the same time…in the first year of self-study.</p>
<p>(This is on top of six more AP courses during the school year, so be gentle and honest with me.)</p>
<p>@asianJose: I’m not sure about other APs, but I’ve been self-studying AP Psychology and it was not that hard. It took me around 3-4 months to cover all the material, and that was at a languid pace. I think if you work hard, you can finish it faster. </p>
<p>@PhazonFire: I have not personally taken AP environmental science, but my brother did. Seriously, he said it was very easy - not much background require or much logic - just a bunch of memorization on earth science, ocean levels… and geographical stuff. I ask him to rate on a scale of 1-10 difficulty, he rate it 5. I suggest you try to self-study it earlier in the summer, see its difficulty…etc. I believe you can cover the topic within 3 months [but anyway, it really depends on the rate of your study and time… Try to balance it with 7 of your AP classes on a first few weeks of school year, see if you’re exhausted. Hope you succeed! </p>
<p>Can anyone tell me about their experience self studying Comparative Government and Art History? I know they’re changing the Art History exam but I’m still curious if anyone has ever done it. </p>
<p>Piggybacking off of @TheSandMitch, does anyone know exactly what’s being changed about the Art History exam this year? Are we still memorizing 500 works of art, or just 250?</p>
<p>@PhazonFire There is no change to AP Art History this year; the changes go into affect for the May 2016 exam. So if you’re taking the exam in May 2015, you’ll need to know 500 works.</p>
<p>Key changes for the following year:</p>
<p><a href=“About AP – AP Central | College Board”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/2013advances/key-changes-to-ap-art-history.pdf</a></p>
<p>@LosingCrayon Thank you so much! </p>
<p>I read somewhere though, that most of the really highly ranked colleges don’t give course credit for AP anymore though. Has anyone heard similar things?</p>
<p>Yeah, I was thinking about self-studying one of those in addition to my AP Computer Science this year (sophomore). But, we’ll see.</p>
<p>The APUSH test is changing this year-what exactly are the changes? Is it completely different from the old test?</p>