<p>Kay, so I am taking AP Chemistry, AP English Language and Composition and AP Psychology next year. I did Honors Chem and Honors Bio and scored SUPER HIGH. Chemistry is GREAT and I have the same teacher next year. Also, I heard Psychology is SUPER easy???? Also, is AP Lang THAT hard? I mean I know there are essays on the AP exam but I'm still very scared. IDK but my Junior year is as follows</p>
<p>AP Chemistry
AP English Lang
AP Psychology
Spanish 2 Honors
Pre Calc Honors
<em>EXTRA science class</em>
<em>EXTRA science class</em> </p>
<p>I’m going to be a junior as well but I’ll tell you what I’ve heard about those classes…
AP Chemistry: It’s supposed to be one of the hardest APs at my school, but if you feel like you’re good at chemistry and really enjoy it you should be fine
AP English lang: At my school it’s supposed to be mildly hard. If you don’t like writing essays it probably won’t be that fun…
AP Psyhology: Itr’s supposed to be one of the easier aps
Spanish 2: I was in this last year and It’s not too bad.
Pre-calc: I was in pre- calc last year as well and what I found was that if you paid attention and did everything you were supposed to do it wasn’t too bad.
What are the extra science classes you’re planning on taking?</p>
<p>I took AP Chemistry, AP Lang, and Pre Calc last year as a junior and it wasn’t too bad. 
AP Chem was horrible for me, but if you have a good teacher you should be fine.
AP Lang can be easy or hard depending on your teacher, but the exam was extremely easy so I wouldn’t stress about that one too much.
My friends took AP Psych last year and loved it! They said it was easy to understand and the exam wasn’t too difficult either. I’m taking that this year too.
Pre Calc was okay. I was in basic Pre Calc because my school doesn’t offer Honors and I didn’t find anything too difficult other than some things toward the end. Pay attention and do your homework and you should be fine for that too.
I took Chinese 2 instead of Spanish 2 my sophomore year, but I’d assume it’s around the same difficulty. Some of my friends took Spanish 2 and they liked it. If you were good at Spanish before, it should be easy.
And I don’t know which other science classes you’re taking, but I’ve taken a majority of them and they were always pretty easy except for AP Chem. Good luck!</p>
<p>Various students at my son’s HS took harder schedules than that. Even if you could take more - for a bright student 3 APs can be “good enough” if you have great other activities that you are passionate about that you are involved in. But you should check with the counselor at your school for advice, to see if the rigor of your schedule matches what would be expected and what is available at your school. For some students taking the most rigorous schedule that is reasonably possible is important. Also remember to focus on which teachers too - you might want to adjust your AP course selection to make sure you have some great teachers.</p>
<p>20% of AP test takers take 3 or more exams, 8.1% take 4 or more exams. See <a href=“http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/ap/data/participation/2013”>http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/ap/data/participation/2013</a></p>
<p>There are quite a few “AP Scholars” (who have passed 3 or more exams) by their junior year - see <a href=“http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/ap/data/participation/2013”>http://research.collegeboard.org/programs/ap/data/participation/2013</a></p>
<p>Be ready for rigours course work. Only AP class I had as a junior was 1/2 a year of AP stats (got an A) </p>
<p>There’ll be a moderate workload, but it should be manageable…for difficulty:</p>
<p>chem- see my post in your other thread
lang- In my experience, you either walk into the class with the skills to do well on the exam or you don’t. Read often and develop a sophisticated writing style (this is the one test where using SAT words everywhere isn’t pretentious…look at the released 9 essays for an idea of what I mean)
psych- never took it but heard it’s pretty easy</p>
<p>@Matt846 Yeah, I think I should be fin in Chem (read the post I wrote on the other thread). It’s just Lang is kinda sketchy. I have some extra curric stuff to take care of so IDK about Lang. I heard the work is a lot which I don’t mind personally, but are the essays really that hard?? I mean, I’m sure they give you a rubric that you should follow right?? (I hope). And I think if you follow the rubric then you should be fine I mean I know lots of friends that scored As on essays (English 2 Honors) throughout the year and just followed the rubric. So, I sure hope I can handle AP English Lang. I also heard a lot of it depends on your teacher?? Isn’t the class good for help on the SATs?!</p>
<p>@xxBeastxx The essays for AP Lang aren’t very difficult at all. On the exam, one of the essays is just analyzing a short passage and writing about the literary devices used by the author, another is a persuasive essay on a given topic, and on the last essay you are given a few documents (6 to 8, I think) and have to develop an argument that answers the question they give you using 3 of the documents to support your thesis. The rubrics are pretty easy to follow and you’ll probably do a lot of practice in class. I’m not the best essay writer and I still did well, so don’t worry.
And it is good for help on the SAT. I didn’t take the SAT but I did take the ACT right before I took the AP Lang exam, and the Lang exam was basically just a slightly harder version of the English/Reading portion of the ACT. The SAT will probably seem much easier because you’ll already know the literary terms and have better reading/writing skills from Lang.</p>