<p>Hello.</p>
<p>I am currently a junior in 4 AP classes right now. My AP Environmental Science teacher is helplessly hopeless in teaching. All we do in that class in throw parties, watch documentaries (such as Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth) and copy the teacher's notes verbatim.</p>
<p>It is almost February and my teacher has only covered about 10% of the whole APES curriculum. I am already loaded with sat's, self-studying AP Physics (because that teacher goes at a very slow pace too) and other AP's.</p>
<p>Should I not take the APES test and focus my energy on the other subjects, or should I waste the $87 on the APES test in which I would probably get a 3. I aspire to get into an Ivy League college.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Would that 3 get you credit at the college your looking at? It sounds like you don’t even want to take that test or have confidence when you say “waste”. Although I can’t make that decision for you, perhaps you can find some condensed notes online or prep books and study of them during your “parties” or movies (if they don’t have any work assigned with it). If it matters, I’m a fairly average student who got a 4 by not even taking the class and skimming textbooks and prep books. But I think a more accurate way in determining if you should take the test is spend some time and take a practice test and see how well you’ll do, if your good or close enough, I say go for it.</p>
<p>Hmm, thats an interesting point about how I could study during class. But at the same time, I could use that time to study SAT’s or my other AP’s such as US or physics.</p>
<p>I am aiming for Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and UCLA. I wouldn’t use the AP test scores to get credit at these schools. As you can see from my first post, I don’t really want to take the AP test.</p>
<p>So I guess my real question is, would skipping the APES test negatively affect my chances of getting into the aforementioned colleges?</p>
<p>I also say consider self study with a prep book, it is not that bad a test. Also consider if it will help you get AP Scholar with Distinction or National AP Scholar. Some colleges are requiring an environmental course in the general requirements. She didn’t know it when she took AP Environmental but it met the environmental and a lab science requirement for my daughter.</p>
<p>take it self study. its easy if youve taken biology.</p>