<p>AP Music Theory
AP Languages
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>It depends on what one is good at. Some people say physics B or calculus, but I find them easy because I am naturally better at math/science than, say, languages. APUSH is memorization and a joke in my school, while AP Euro was so irrationally hard to pass they got rid of it (brilliant solution, huh?). Anyhow, my picks would be:
AP Languages (especially Latin ><)
AP Euro
Perhaps AP Physics C E&M (it involves a lot of calculus and for many is very difficult concenptually.</p>
<p>The hardest one at my school is, believe it or not, AP Human Geography. A combination of a terrible teacher, lots of busy assignments that contribute nothing to the AP test, and the fact that it is the only course freshmen can take (Don’t be offended, I didn’t take it seriously in 9th grade either) leads to the highest failure rate at our school. If I had time, I would love to go back and retake it online…but I don’t.</p>
<p>I’d really hate busy work that is not related to AP test. teachers who do that should be fired.</p>
<p>^especially tests that arent related.</p>
<p>Calculus is a joke. I’ve known elementary schoolers that took it. Plus, the curve is huge. Even if you needed 90% right for a 5 it’d be a total joke. That’s just my opinion, but I’d rank AB as the #1 easiest AP, with BC at #2 and AP Stat at #3. AP Math unfortunately doesn’t go high enough because not enough people are advanced in math, which I think is the biggest failure of our education system.
Bio and Chem are also easy. I’d say the languages are the hardest, because the curve is so unforgiving. I believe French is the hardest, with Latin at the easier end because there’s no speaking portion. This is for non-native speakers, of course.
Besides languages, it’s probably AP Art History, followed by Studio Art, then US Gov. All histories and english have difficult FRQ’s because the grading is somewhat harsh, but both english tests and US and World, and I believe European History have easy MC. Macroeconomics is tricky because the curve is so high. Studio art is really unpredictable.</p>
<p>…how the hell is gov hard? every student takes 2 years of ush which talk about a good portion of the legal system and most students work with it in elementary school. </p>
<p>but grade school kids taking calc AB? LOL</p>
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<p>Yup I met a 5th grader and a 6th grader who took it. Doesn’t High school only teach one year of US History? My grade school didn’t, it was kind of different though.
And I’m basing it off of the experiences of a few people I know, who have unanimously said that it was one of the hardest classes they had taken. I’ve never taken it myself.</p>
<p>^im not sure if its a national requirement, but most students take two years of us history because its impossible to cover it in one academic school year. i remember learning about separation of powers and their duties in like 5th grade.</p>
<p>Guys, I think its really subjective. Like for World History AP, my teacher left after like 2 months because she was on bed rest due to her pregnancy and we had substitutes for the entire school year. I received a 1 on that exam. Thus, I really have no say in how hard the class or the exam is. If I knew nothing on the exam, that doesn’t mean it was necessarily hard…I just never learned the material…bcuz I had no teacher.</p>
<p>On the other hand, at my school, no one has the nerve to sign up for AP Chemistry. This year (or should I say last year?) we only had 5 students in our class. You can’t say a class is hard if 90% of the people in your class are failing the exam by the way. How well your class performs generally depends on how your teacher prepares you. </p>
<p>For AP Chem, the class was intense and I probably cried a few times in the school year (our valedictorian who got accepted to Harvard also cried several times), but everyone in my class scored solid 5’s on their practice exams. Every student my AP Chemistry teacher has ever had received a 5 on the exam. So if you ask me which class was the most difficult, I’d probably say AP Chemistry. But if I had any other teacher for that class, I probably wouldn’t feel the same way. </p>
<p>Pretty much what I’m saying is the rigor of the class isn’t really based on the subject (more or less) but the teacher. Think about it. If you had an EXCELLENT teacher for AP Physics C and an EXCELLENT teacher for AP Spanish, you’d probably think equally of them. Usually (I had this conversation with my counselor during the school year) if students perform poorly in a class, it’s most likely due to past teachers. Like if you had a bad teacher for Algebra 1, your screwed all the way through calculus. If you had a bad teacher for Spanish 1, your screwed all the way through Spanish 4 AP.</p>