<p>Hi, the academic year of 2014-2015 I intend to take the SAT,ACT,SAT2 in Math Level 1,Math Level2,Chemistry,English,Physics. </p>
<p>And GCSE's in November and January.</p>
<p>And A Levels in May and June.</p>
<p>Are AP exams only offered in May or are they offered in Jan or have multiple test sitting dates like the SAT?</p>
<p>If it means anything I am international app. </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>They’re all offered over a two week period at the start of May. It’s difficult to register internationally for them (as you do with SATs and SAT IIs), unless if your school offers them. Ask school administration whether you can register first</p>
<p>The main testing days are in May, but if there is some special circumstance (for example, friend was at environmental convention out of the country), you can take it on the late day which is 2-3 weeks after the original test day.</p>
<p>@irikecookeh @206377 I don’t go to school. Do you register for AP’s in the same process as SAT and SAT 2’s then. Oh right, is there no January window or anything like that.</p>
<p>A Levels start 12th May usually <a href=“http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/134842-june-2014-final-examination-timetable-gce-fsmq-principal-learning-extended-project-and-level-3-certificate.pdf”>http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/134842-june-2014-final-examination-timetable-gce-fsmq-principal-learning-extended-project-and-level-3-certificate.pdf</a> </p>
<p>But since I would probably be doing more A2’s which would start usually beginning of June, I could do AP without too much strain on affecting the A Levels.</p>
<p>2-3 weeks later would probably be worse for me. If may is the only window i will have to work with that then.</p>
<p>May I ask you guys, after looking at the content for sat2’s it seems I would probably need 2-3 months to go through the guides and do the tests etc. How do AP’s differ from sat2’s? Would the same effort be needed for each subject to get a 5 or is one easier than the other?</p>
<p>SAT 2 Chemistry hardly covers organic chem whereas it is abundant in A2. </p>
<p>How many classes would you recommend taking. I was thinking of taking all of the Maths, Physics,Chem and maybe English. I think this would be around 6-9 exams. Would that be too much, provided that I am doing similar content in A Levels/SAT2/GCSE etc. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>To take an AP exam, you would need to register for the exam with a school offering the AP exams, most likely an international school.</p>
<p>However, I am not clear as to why you are looking to take all these tests. Unlike a US applicant to a UK university where successful AP exams are a condition for admission, US uni’s do not require AP tests for admissions. In many instances, AP will duplicate A levels.</p>
<p>Don’t take both Math I and Math II SAT II’s; just take Math II.</p>
<p>@skieurope Oh right so like a k12 school, or one of the highest achieving ones in the country. Most of the AP classes are less difficult than A Levels from what I have looked at, Physics C electricity and magnetism is one exception I think.</p>
<p>So doing AP exams in subjects where I am doing the A Levels in, would essentially be a waste of time - since getting a 5 on the AP and and A Star in A Level would be regarded the same, is that what you are saying?</p>
<p>I have covered the content of Math 2 and understand that most of the top colleges require it. I want to do the Math 1 for fun and for confidence too. </p>
<p>Thank you for the info though.</p>
<p>How would you regard the difficult of A Levels/SAT 2 and AP?</p>
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Exactly.</p>
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I don’t have personal experience taking A Levels, so I can’t compare the difficulty vs. AP’s.</p>
<p>SAT II tests on a much lower level than AP. e.g. Math II tests only through precalculus,</p>
<p>@skieurope Oh right thanks for that. I’ll re-evaluate what exams to do in that case. Thank you.</p>
<p>Oh really. The content on SAT 2 Chem seems huge. Right I see, precalc is only one of the modules in the regular maths A Level.</p>
<p>How big is the jump from SAT 2 to AP, like there is obviously a huge jump from the SAT/ACT to SAT 2, is there a similar kind of jump to SAT 2 to AP then.</p>
<p>What is the exam format of AP, are there still multi-choice questions?</p>
<p>May I also ask you, in your knowledge; what scores and what AP do the top 1% of applicants admitted to HPS get. Like would they get 5.0 GPA, perfect sat2’s,2400 SAT, 36 ACT, and how many AP classes would they be likely to take.</p>
<p>Sorry that I am asking so many questions, I haven’t got anyone else to help me about this.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how to quantify the jump from SAT 2 to AP. SAT 2 tests HS level material; AP tests first-level university material.</p>
<p>As for stats to HYP, this is for last year’s entering class at Harvard:
<a href=“The Harvard Crimson | Class of 2017”>http://features.thecrimson.com/2013/frosh-survey/admissions.html</a></p>
<p>That said, 4.0 applicants with 2400 SAT’s get rejected from there as well; 'there is no magic formula for Harvard (or any equally selective school) admissions.</p>
<p>As for AP’s, there is no standard number. Some people have 0 because their school doesn’t offer them, some have over 20. I have no idea what the average is.</p>
<p>@skieurope Thank you for your help again. Oh right I see, I do maths and further maths a level, and the FM A level is also comparable to first level uni material.</p>
<p>What does unweighted and weighted mean in terms of GPA, I don’t get what that means.</p>
<p>A person with a 3.0 should not walk into those colleges, unless said candidate was a really poor candidate from a third-world country etc. then perhaps it would be justified. However I doubt this is the case and rather a rich kid, or from one of the ethnic minority groups, obviously excluding Asians.</p>
<p>Interesting, I would have thought that all the 2400 students would mostly get in. </p>
<p>Wow 20 AP’s if I am right in thinking that it is in a 2 week window, that’s pretty impressive.</p>
<p>20 AP’s over 3-4 years, not all in one year.</p>
<p>A 3.0 admitted into Harvard would be the child of a major donor, a recruited athlete, world-famous in their own right, or some other huge hook.</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA’s are based on a 4 point scale. Different schools will have different scales and/or different policies of what makes an A. The below link is an example.</p>
<p><a href=“How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>Weighted GPA’s vary by school, and not all schools weight (mine does not). AP and/or honor classes receive a bump of a certain percentage. The most commons is a 4.0 becomes a 5.0, but again, it varies.</p>
<p>@skieurope </p>
<p>Oh right, still pretty good though.</p>
<p>Awesome, wouldn’t said student be likely to flunk at Harvard if they are unable to cope with high school.</p>
<p>Oh right I understand. That is the GCSE/iGCSE equivalent of what I have done/doing. Thanks for your help sir!</p>