<p>Calculus AB at my school also has a lot of complaints even though the class is known for its grade inflation.</p>
<p>Ap Bio and AP calc BC are pretty hard, I’ve heard.</p>
<p>AP US History</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB and AP Chemistry get the most complaints in terms of difficulty. I have both next year, so we’ll see.</p>
<p>APUSH always screws over the straight A students at my school. When 2-5/80+ kids have As…people get discouraged haha</p>
<p>AP Chemistry in terms of workload…5-6 assignments due per week, entered as test grades. It’s intense, but counterproductive. I personally spent so much time just trying to stick to deadlines that I never actually had time to fully absorb and wrap my head around the content.</p>
<p>Spanish IV in terms of actual content, mostly because there’s a big jump in expectations from Spanish III to IV. It’s considered to be on level with AP Spanish, with double the workload.</p>
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If that’s a real, college-level organic chemistry course (instead of something pathetically watered down for high-schoolers), then it would easily make everything else listed in this thread look like a junior high Physical Science class.</p>
<p>Everyone says it’s AP Chem at my school… I thought it was really easy though… I don’t know.</p>
<p>“If that’s a real, college-level organic chemistry course (instead of something pathetically watered down for high-schoolers), then it would easily make everything else listed in this thread look like a junior high Physical Science class.”</p>
<p>I took Orgo I and thought it was about the same level of difficulty as Calc BC (which I found to be hard).</p>
<p>IB Math HL 2. Apparently it’s hard as hell, but the people in that class are incredible. They somehow manage 6’s on the Exam.</p>
<p>IB Physics apparently is hard here. When it comes to Astrophysics, the teacher sucks.</p>
<p>AP Chem/AP Physics C are considered our worst. There will be only 7-10 kids be in the class and the teachers are horrible. Getting a 3 is considered amazing for ap chem and no one ever gets a 4 or 5. People with like 2200 SAT scores are happy for a 3 in ap chem at my school.</p>
<p>APUSH definitely. It’s not hard to understand. It’s just that there are 60 pages for one corresponding test. It’s crazy.
Content wise, AP Physics B would be the hardest.</p>
<p>To get an “A”: AP Chem, definitely, no one flunked, but there were 3 A’s at most per semester. Fortunately, I own Chem (at just the HS level so far, hah), but it sucked for everyone else.</p>
<p>In context of AP class (my school doesn’t do IBs, whatever they are): I think Calc, the teacher is super laid back so grades are easy, but doing well on the AP is tough because of that, at least that’s what I hear, I’m taking it next year.</p>
<p>AP Chemistry and AP World History</p>
<p>AP Chem is very difficult, especially for those with no prior Chem experience.</p>
<p>Advanced Chemistry: Supposed to be AP chemistry and more, I think.</p>
<p>Workload: IB english, we had a 600 word commentary plus usually 30-40 pages of reading every night</p>
<p>Content: I haven’t taken either yet, but IB Math HL and IB physics are supposed to be the hardest. Hardest I’ve taken has been IB chem, but it wasn’t really too bad.</p>
<p>I would say honors precalculus, AP Physics and AP Chem. </p>
<p>Maybe the level 5 french College in the Schools (CIS) (thru the UMN) class will be difficult as well from what I’ve heard. But I’m generally really good at French and find it easy so I’m not so sure since i’m taking it when school starts :/</p>
<p>I’m so happy that i ended up taking regular precalc this year. I’m not even considering taking AP Physics (my honors chem teacher probably wouldn’t even let me…lol).</p>
<p>Halogen, it is indeed an actual college course(300 level.) However, I thought Multi was harder than Organic.</p>
<p>@salve!
no one at our school found ap chem difficult.
it became kind of a joke, b/c the teacher kept trying to brainwash us into thinking how hard it really was.
all i recall doing in that class was pretending to take notes whilst daydreaming, making fun of the teacher
w/ the class (you would too if you had this guy), watching water boil and bs’ing the data when i had enough of watching H2O vaporize, and skimming thru the txtbook before the test.</p>
<p>i think my entire year of ap chem students got 5’s. there might have been a few 4’s, but nothing lower.</p>
<p>now ap physics on the other hand…
ahhh the memories.
i remember getting consecutive 30’s when we got to electrostatic forces.
and i occasionally drew a picture or two at some free responses just for laughs.
i needed it.</p>
<p>narrating the others i’ve taken:
bc calc was difficult- it was a huge step from pre- calc; in a way, it was physics all over again.
world history was just long due to the immense amount of info…
us history- i had a knack for ignoring the obvious answers but others breezed through it.
ap english& lit- hard, but at least i didn’t have to study for it.
us gov- i possess little talent for government, history related material but i didn’t have too much difficulty w/ it</p>
<p>if i were to rank them in terms of difficulty, i’d say:
physics>bc calc>english lit>world history>us history> chemistry>us gov& politics</p>
<p>but i can gather from the posts that it’s not really the subject but the teacher/ school that makes the difference…</p>