<p>My school does not offer any of the AP Chem, Bio, or Physics courses. On the AP website, these courses need "lab time", and I don't have access to labs. Am I still allowed to self-study any of them and take the AP exam (for next year, of course)?</p>
<p>Of course. I’m self-studying for the AP Physics C exams right now for this year. But know that the AP science exams are generally among the most difficult AP exams (except for environmental science), so you should be prepared to put in a lot of studying to score high on the chem, phys, or bio by selfstudying. For me, it’s not that hard because I took AP Physics B last year, where I learned almost everything in AP Physics C mechanics, and a fair portion of AP PHysics C: electricity and magnetism, so it’s not that bad for me.</p>
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Of course you are! Lab times are honestly not really that helpful in bio because you can just learn the main points of the lab from review books (all of the review books cover the labs). Chemistry, maybe labs will help you but I didn’t find any benefit from them. They were just entertaining. Physics, you definitely do not need labs. You can learn straight from lectures and a whole boatload of problem solving. </p>
<p>With that being said, I would say AP Bio is the easiest to self-study for if you like memorizing a bunch of facts. AP Bio really has no concepts and you just have to rote memorize everything.
Chemistry, you need to understand the concepts in order to do the problems and you have to apply what you know to a variety of different problems. You also need to memorize the solubility rules for the balancing equations part so chem does have some memorization, but it’s not that much.
Physics would be the hardest to study for if you haven’t taken an AP level physics course like cortana431. Understanding the concepts from the beginning and having a firm foundation is key to this class. For example, if you don’t understand linear momentum, it will be much harder to understand angular momentum because parts of those two topics are related. For physics, you need to do an immense amount of problem solving and tearing out your hair at times to understand it.</p>
<p>Some colleges require that you submit a record of lab activity (usually a lab notebook) before they give credit for an AP science course. But you just need to sign up and pay to take the actual test.</p>
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How about AP Physics? There’s not really a lab component of that course is there? And this is the first time hearing about this… I imagine that my AP teacher (who has been teaching AP Chem since 1980s) would have told us this. What colleges require this?(just out of curiosity)</p>