<p>Since I absolutely love torturing myself I'm taking 6 APs (self studying 3) this year.
Honestly I haven't even started studying. Shoot me now.</p>
<p>How are you guys faring with your APs/self studying?
And who's had experience with</p>
<p>AP Microecon
AP US Gov
AP Stats</p>
<p>Are they study-able in like 1-2 weeks?(Studyable as in getting a 5 after reading a review book.)</p>
<p>6 APs is not that bad. This year, I’m taking 8 at school, and self-studying another one. Personally, my only experience with self-studying has been with AP Physics C, but I was already relatively good at math and enrolled in Physics B (got 5’s both with not much intensive studying).</p>
<p>AP Micro is definitely studyable in two weeks. I took Gov last year, and it was perhaps the easiest AP test I’ve ever encountered, although I had taken a fairly rigorous course in it at school. I’m also currently in AP Stats, and it’s honestly not that bad - although quite annoying.</p>
<p>The bottom line is, yes, it’s possible to get a 5 on all three exams with relatively little preparation. Will you have a solid understanding of the subjects afterwards? Almost definitely not, even though that those are perhaps three of the easiest AP exams. I’ll stop rambling now, since you probably don’t care at all about actually understanding the material.</p>
<p>I self-studied AP Gov last year and got a 5 with around three or four weeks of studying (I mainly just studied for a couple of hours on the weekends). Granted, I was in the IB Government course at the time (so it might have been a little easier for me), but the AP Gov and IB Gov course materials are almost completely different, so I don’t think it really helped that much. I spent around three weeks studying the Crash Course book and then spent one week skimming over the Barron’s book and practicing writing some FRQs (although if you’re a good essay writer already, you probably don’t need to do the latter). I found that 95% of the material on the test could be found in the Crash Course book while the other 5% could be learned by skimming through the Barron’s book. I’m doubt if that last 5% made a difference between a 4 and a 5, but I would do it just to be safe. </p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, AP Microecon and AP Stats are also relatively easy to self-study. AP Psych is probably the easiest to self-study, so I would definitely recommend taking that.</p>
<p>Don’t knock yourself out with the self-studying, though. It plays a relatively unimportant role in your college applications. Spending time working on ECs would be much more productive.</p>