<p>Would a British AS level in a subject be equal to one year of that subject in high school (without doing any APs?)</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Maybe honors classes? I don’t know though, just speculating.</p>
<p>AS level = 12th grade subject in high school</p>
<p>AS levels cover about the same material as an AP course in the US.</p>
<p>But that’s just FYI. Do not be tempted to explain A-levels on your application or convert anything to an American equivalent. Colleges read dozens of applications from A-level students every year, they know what they mean.</p>
<p>An AP is more advanced than an AS Level but some way behind a full A Level subject.</p>
<p>c’mmon guys. Have you even gone through AP books. they are well advanced than the AS and even A level course…</p>
<p>Let’s see. A-level math is AP Calculus BC and AP Statistics and Elementary Number Theory and 3-dimensional vector geometry. A-level chemistry covers some organic chemistry in addition to the inorganic stuff that AP chemistry covers. </p>
<p>In which subject is the AP course more advanced than the A-Level course?</p>
<p>. i am talking about GCE a-levels . r u? if yes, thene c’mmon . lets go topic wise. In chemistry you never have to study colligative properties, 1st 2nd 3rd laws of hermodynamics.
molality, normality stuff in A-levels while you do in AP. In biology, they have more vast ecology sections. In physics, also modern physics especially and much more…</p>
<p>that’s about it barium sulfide!</p>
<p>i just came online after giving an A Level Chemistry practical.
Dude, what world do you live in. Do you even know what you are talking about.
I just calculated the molality for a practical. Don’t even get me started on the theory.</p>
<p>“In physics, also modern physics especially and much more”
what profound words</p>
<p>“In chemistry you never have to study colligative properties, 1st 2nd 3rd laws of hermodynamics. molality, normality stuff in A-levels while you do in AP.”
We do. Quiz me.</p>
<p>“In biology, they have more vast ecology sections”
Are we still talking about curriculum or some dream you had.</p>
<p>Okay, let’s not start an argument, please. I now have a rough idea of what the American equivalent is, and that’s all I wanted. Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>AP economics is a BIT difficult than A-level Economics… The questions are tougher</p>
<p>yeah. sorry about that.got carried away.</p>
<p>karpov, i just dont understand where on earth did you do it. If you go through the GCE A levels syllabus, you find a single thng mentioned about spontaineity, boiling pont elevation, gibbs free energy. If you do have a proof of this send me an attachment @ <a href="mailto:abhushan_14@hotrmail.com">abhushan_14@hotrmail.com</a> to substantiate that.</p>
<p>By the way, there are many a-levels, are you talking about the cambridge GCE course?</p>
<p>maybe after i am done with the papers.
i am doing CIE GCE A-level
not all things are mentioned in the syllabus. the syllabus is a broad guideline. if its really important , ill locate the past papers where these topics are covered for you. also if you look up the index of the CIE endorsed official GCE a level chemistry book the one written by six people you will probably get ur answers</p>
<p>Yeah, you have to remember there’s more than one A-level.</p>
<p>British A-level? Singapore A-level? Hong Kong A-level? etc.</p>
<p>Even the British A-levels have different syllabii depending on the body that writes them. Edexcel, AQA, CIE, OCR, AEA and a few others. An Edexcel Chemistry A-level, for example, is going to differ from the OCR Chemistry A-level.</p>
<p>I think though the moral of the story is that both APs and A-levels are very difficult. I took the A-levels so obviously I’m going to say that the A-levels are harder, but I do not know. None of us do, unless you’ve taken the same subject as an AP and as an A-level.</p>
<p>What I would find difficult about the AP is that it is based on one exam (I believe). Your A-level grade is based on many exams. I had 8 exams in Biology, 6 in Business, 6 in Maths etc.</p>
<p>Not to mention coursework. My business coursework was more than 30 pages long and it was one of the shorter ones in the class.</p>
<p>In short, A Level wins hands down.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. And Cambridge Pre-U pwns both of them.</p>