<p>AP chem and Bio were cake, But i had great motivation to study them (since i am planning to major in bio or chem or biochem, then go to med school) and i got a 5 on both of them. However French was just terrible, even though i had practiced writing essays in french all year long, and did the spoken parts all year long. I ended up with a 2 on it and i was extremely dissapointed. Ap language really is hopeless to take unless you are a native.</p>
<p>I have never studied outside of school for an AP Exam, am not scientifically inclined (business major), yet I still got a 5 on Chem and thought it was cake. </p>
<p>US was pretty easy too, but we had an awesome teacher with years of experience.</p>
<p>I thought Lit was cake too, mostly same thing as Lang w/ a little poetry thrown in (essentially you have 2 years of classes to prepare you for lit if you take lang in 11th).</p>
<p>AB was simple.</p>
<p>US Pol was a joke.</p>
<p>The hardest exam imho is by far any foreign language exam. My personal experience was in german, and it is grueling, you are so mentally drained by the end of it, listening, multiple choice, essay writing, and the worst part… SPEAKING. Oh and the essay is usually on a random topic (ours was on heros… who studies vocab to talk about heros?!?), so you do not know which vocab to concentrate on learning and can find yourself handcuffed in what you can write about. For anyone who isn’t a native speaker, foreign langs are by far the hardest. I mean think about it, you have 4-5 years of preparation put into that exam, WAY more than almost any other subject, and still well over 50% of the non natives get a 1 or 2, and like 5% get 5s.</p>
<p>Comparative Politics is a distant second as far as difficulty… alot of tedious facts that you need to know and a wide breadth of possible questions, basically any aspect of any of the 7 or however many countries can be covered. And then FRQs ask you to compare the countries and if you know one but not the other, its basically a 0 on that FRQ.</p>
<p>Those are my personal beliefs though. There is no single “hardest” exam in truth, as the difficulty of a test to an individual depends on the quality of their teacher(s), how much effort they have put into studying outside of school, whether they are particularly talented in a given subject, etc. That being said, with everyone having the same teachers and same outside preparation, AP Foreign Lang by a landslide.</p>
<p>I think when looking at the hardest exam, you cannot look at the stats or the curve, as some people are doing, because, although tests like physics C and Calc BC, have the easiest curves, if you are not a math/science person, they will be hard for you. I personally found BC and Physics C, two of the easiest tests that I took. </p>
<p>Micro, which has the highest raw score percentage, is also one of the easiest tests ever. the test itself is not hard, and the material is really easy. </p>
<p>I found European History to be the hardest test that I took that I actually felt prepared for. The Breadth of the material covered was huge compared to any other test that I took.</p>
<p>I don’t know, yet. They seem very easy to me. Of course, other than languages, since I’ve never taken a class in either nor do I plan on doing so. :p</p>
<p>AP Chemistry is ridiculously hard…</p>
<p>I have only taken three tests Calc BC, Physics C Mechanics, and E&M, I got a 5 on all of them. I would say that it definitely depends on the person. For me, I thought they were going to be 10 times harder than they actually were.</p>
<p>If I took a history or language AP, I would probably declare whichever one I would take to be the hardest for me.</p>
<p>AP European was really hard for me. I just felt kind of lost at a considerable amount of questions, and I was the top student. I had a great teacher and I felt extremely prepared for the test. I wasn’t nervous or anything. The information required is just too much to cover in one year. I was missing 50 years. I’m obviously praying for a 5 but I think I got a 3. It was a test that covered so much information, as does every history test. I found it very challenging.</p>
<p>ya know what? change my mind =]
according to my scores,
most difficult exam= world history</p>
<p>i remember allll the reading =[ more painful than the reading for us history</p>
<p>i just couldn’t process the information, it was just too boring for me, like…what type of crop did the incans cultivate…</p>
<p>phys C are a joke TO PASS for math kids b.c the curve is over 50%… which means they’re obviously not a joke, it’s just that the curve compensates the top kids for the utter awfulness of how bad you did on a straight % grade basis of the test.</p>
<p>COMPSCI IS NOW OFFICIALLY THE HARDEST AP TEST EVER (I got a 4 sob sob)…</p>
<p>Haven’t gotten my grades yet but for me it would be (from Hardest to easiest):</p>
<ol>
<li>Biology</li>
<li>U.S. History</li>
<li>Psychology</li>
<li>World History</li>
<li>English Lang</li>
</ol>
<p>Honestly, the only one I really had trouble with at all was Biology. Overall the other 4 were pretty easy.</p>
<p>Overall, I would say that the AP French Literature is the hardest AP exam, having taken many of them. I’m fluent in French (have been since birth) and went to a French-immersion school and I thought the exam was still pretty difficult, although I was able to guess the essay topic which helped :)</p>
<p>Anyone else take the AP French Lit? Opinions?</p>
<p>AP Chinese. This is how my practice test went after the teacher handed out the exam:</p>
<p>Me: <em>bursts out laughing, along with class</em> Wait, is this the AP Chinese exam or the Chinese equivalent of the SAT or something?
Teacher: <em>in Chinese</em> No, this is the exam. It’s from a few years ago.
Me: …really?
Teacher: <em>nods</em>
Me: …f***. </p>
<p>I agree with everyone that foreign languages are the hardest. You can teach yourself mostly anything on the other tests (like APUSH, et al) but accents? Nope. And on Chinese…wow. My teacher quite literally told me she WANTED to grade my speaking part, but couldn’t because she couldn’t understand a word I said except the random English words I’d dispersed throughout it. One year at my school there were forty kids in AP Chinese, and after taking a practice test only one went on to take the AP, and got a 2. (Not counting native speakers)</p>
<p>I’ve heard AP Spanish is deathly, though, too.</p>
<p>I have heard that statistically, Environmental Science covers the most amount of information out of any AP class. That being said, the exam was not very difficult. It would/could be an insanely difficult test if they didn’t reuse the same questions every year, especially in hindsight and considering how much more information they could have tested.</p>
<p>slatewater, I also took AP French Lit. I’m in French IV (normally kids at my school take AP French Lang and AP French Lit at the same time as a senior, but my French teacher invited some of the French IV kids to self-study and take the exam because it was being eliminated). I thought it was incredibly hard—my teacher practically guaranteed us that there wouldn’t be anything on Une Temp</p>
<p>AP Bio was hard only because of the large number of things that you had to know. I mean, we had to get through 55 chapters in about 8 months with killer tests on about four or five chapters at once. At the end of the year, after hours of studying, I think the class was quite easy and I got an A in the acutal class. No word on the actual score.</p>
<p>When it comes to pure difficulty, I think it has to be languages for non-natives. You write essays and do speaking and listening, which is tough if you haven’t been immersed in a language your whole life and stuff. For native speakers the toughest is prolly Physics C E/M - I say this because it has pretty much the biggest curve of all the tests, so it’s probably the hardest test, too.</p>
<p>However, there is another question - which exam is it hardest to get a 5? That’s an easy one to answer - you just go online and look up the percentage of people getting 5s in each test? I think APUSH is pretty low, and so is AP English Lit, but I don’t know exact numbers off the top of my head.</p>
<p>Really, it all depends on the teacher. I’ll make 2 lists of the tests I have taken, the first column is how difficult I thought each test was when I took it, based on what my teachers had taught me. The second is how hard I think each test would be if all my teachers had been equally good. </p>
<p>hardest
Physics B------------Euro
Euro-----------------Calc BC
Calc BC--------------Spanish
Bio------------------Chem
USH-----------------Physics B
Spanish Lang---------Bio
Stats----------------USH
Chem----------------Stats
easiest</p>
<p>Basically, I took Physics and USH after taking the IB equivalent classes with subpar teachers, so I was not well prepared, but I got the impression the tests would have been easy if I had a better background. I had really good Chem and Spanish teachers, so I was well prepared and these tests seemed very easy for me, even though many people think they are among the hardest.</p>
<p>What are you guys talking about? Chem? Physics? CALCULUS!?! Seriously, noooo…</p>
<p>Are you forgetting LATIN?</p>
<p>Passing rates on AP exams a couple of years ago indicate these to be the hardest tests:</p>
<p>AP Biology (50% pass rate)
AP World History (50%)
AP Human Geography (50%)
AP US History (52%)
AP Latin (53%)</p>
<p>The entire list is in this link: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1305980-national-percentage-passing-grades-2010-ap-exams.html#post14045799[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1305980-national-percentage-passing-grades-2010-ap-exams.html#post14045799</a></p>
<p>I’m not sure how to interpret the pass rate on AP Chinese Language, at 97%. Probably a lot of native speakers taking the test. It couldn’t be that easy, could it?</p>