<p>My counselor didn't know what I was talking about when I used the term "self-study" when referring to AP exams, so I thought I'd consult another source. :)</p>
<p>Has anyone here self-studied for a certain AP subject (not taken an actual class but taken the exam) and had positive results?</p>
<p>I'm planning to self study AP psychology. Self studying is pretty common and it is very possible to get a good score.</p>
<p>Yeah... I self studied for Physics C:EM and got a 4. Not what I wanted, but it's not difficult to do (self-study I mean). Just get an AP study book and skim through it, take a practice test, see what you miss and go for those. Should only take a few weeks or so for a 5 if you really put yourself to it. I slacked on it a lot, but I guess that's why I got a 4 =p.</p>
<p>Oh yeah I took stats without studying at all and got a 3, chem without anything except my summer chem normal (freshman summer) class and got a 3 also (I took it junior year) (didn't report either of these ;[), and a 4 on Bio freshman year (I took bio honors, so I just studied a little extra and decided to take the AP test). So if anything, stats should be the easiest to study for and bio or chem if you already took like an introductory honors course or something. Good luck to you! Start early if you can, and if possible I'm sure a tutor would help.</p>
<p>Most of my teachers really suck so being in an AP class at my school is almost like self-studying anyway.</p>
<p>Self studied calculus AB and got a 5. Self studied English lang/comp and got a 2.
I basically only used PR and something else for Calc, and Barrons and cliff's notes for english lang.</p>
<p>physics B and environmental science, with 5's on both. </p>
<p>it's all about the review books, and try to get a hold of past year free response questions to study.</p>
<p>just make sure to sign up for the particular test when that time comes around. it was funny when i signed up for environmental science, because the class isn't offered at my school, and so the secretary who handled all the payment stuff got confused when I chose to take it.</p>
<p>I partially self-studied AP World History last year, and made a 5. It wasn't real self-studying though, because I was taking pre-AP world history(which is only My-school-ese for the wider-known Honors classes, and has nothing to do with AP whatsoever) at the time. PR is a really good study guide, but be sure to use the released free response questions for practice, instead of the ones PR gives you. Using PR's free response instead of the released ones from past years nearly cost me my DBQ. To this day, I still don't know how I managed a five with an unfinished DBQ.</p>
<p>I recommend anyone self study AP HG. I took the class, but I felt like the material was so similar to basic social studies from your entire educational career that anyone could get a three without studying; if you used any self study guide (the Barron's had some of the exact same questions) you could get a four or five.</p>
<p>thanks for that guys =) i was thinking about doing that just today and asked my friend, who is in the actual class (for environmental) who basically told me it was a terrible idea and i shouldnt, so i wasnt going to. but now i think i might go for it. has anyone self studied for physics C while being in physics B?</p>
<p>I took World History AP last year. Borrowed a textbook and a prep book. I got a 5 easily.</p>
<p>Edit: As for Environmental Science, go for it. It's not supposed to be as hard as something like Physics. I'm studying Environmental by myself this year. It's mainly has something to do with my poor public school where the counselors are too busy monitoring the lunch tables, and the educational focus is getting kids to graduate high school.</p>
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<p>I haven't, but once you take Physics B, Physics C is practically a blow-off course. So it's probably very possible.</p>
<p>Sure, I self-studied four exams in my Junior year and one exam in my Sophomre year. I had very positive results.</p>
<p>World History - 5 (soph)
Euro History - 5
Calc BC - 5/5
Psychology - 5
Stats - 4</p>
<p>If you want, you can pm me.</p>