<p>If you had the option to expand an AP course to two years instead of one, would you do it? Say you are taking AP U.S. History and it is offered as a two-year course. Your junior year you study up to the civil war and then your senior year you study up to the present as opposed to studying everything in one year. Which option do you think would be better?</p>
<p>the second option. apush only needs 1 year of studying. unless u work better when the class moves at a slower pace and u really wanna take time to grasp and absorb the material then take the 2 year course. i'd take the 1 year option tho, i'd like to get it over with in 1 year instead of dragging it on cuz it is a LOT of work.</p>
<p>I'd say 1 year option is better.</p>
<p>It is a LOT of work and if you move at a slower pace, you just get more work on the sections you do.</p>
<p>What would be the point of doing it over 2 years?
Unless it would be to study higher level like in IB.</p>
<p>Might as well make the school put in IB if you want 2 year courses.</p>
<p>If it's too hard you take a lower level class, and there shouldn't be shame in that. If your course didn't have enough depth you read outside of class.</p>
<p>Plus, while you take APUSH (just for example) for two years...another kid took APUSH and AP Euro in the same time period, and is now a full year ahead of you course-wise. </p>
<p>But of course, if it's a class that you really like, there's absolutely nothing wrong with taking as many years of it as you want.</p>
<p>I think that many of you do not realize that this is actually very common practice. My old school, for example, splits the former half of AP US into sophomore year and the latter half into junior year. What's surprising is that my current school offers the course in one year and gets better results.</p>
<p>Thanks for your advice. My school is actually considering doing this next year. Currently AP U.S. History is only offered to juniors, but they are considering making it a two-year course. They asked me and a few other students who took the AP U.S. history course their junior year to write an essay of what they thought would be the best way to go. I am not sure though because the scores on the exam from students at my school are all pretty varied. Most students scored in the 2-3 range while others scored a 4 or 5. I did well on the exam with only one year of study, but the students who scored a 2 or even 3 thought it would be better to make the course two years. I just wanted other opinions before I wrote the essay. Anyone else have some opinions on this?</p>
<p>From my experience in my junior year (in new jersey Apush is split into 2 years 10 + 11) 60 people took the test 9 got 5's 20 got 4's and well you know...
Yea, Apush for two years is just to exhausting - keep the one year program!!1</p>
<p>for us we split it into two years...but euro is taught simutaneously. well it's a course everyone has to take (called Core I and Core II) but they offer AP second year (and starting '07 honors first year) so it's 2 years and 2 aps simutaneously, and i actually really like it (although i haven't gotten to the exam yet....but we'll see how i hold up then) but everyone gets a 5 on at least one, and if they don't get a 5 on both they get a 4 on the other.</p>
<p>Weird, my school does AP American in 2 years.</p>
<p>my school splits it into 2 years too</p>
<p>i'd prefer one year, you might forget a lot of stuff from the early chapters over the summer :\ .</p>
<p>Since my school is on block scheduling, a two-year class is actually only one full year of 90 minute classes per day. I would prefer to have the two-year class which is how I took AP Euro. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, I will be finished with AP US History in exactly a week; we went through everything so fast I don't remember anything before the Civil War.</p>
<p>hahahah my school should split it into two years.. i took the whole thing but we only got to 1900 basically... lol pretty pathetic eh?</p>