<p>Hey CC! I am a rising Junior, and I am thinking about self-study the following courses to become a National AP Scholar. Which of these courses are appropriate to self-learn?
Psychology
Environmental Science
Human Geography
Comparative Government
Also, I will be taking AP Biology, APUSH, Computer Science, English Composition & Language, Chinese, and Music Theory.</p>
<p>Quick note: I have self-studied a bit of Economics during my sophomore year. Should I continue study it and take the Microeconomics test? And is it hard?
Thanks for all the help guys!!!</p>
<p>Those are on the easy side of ap exams. I’d say psych it’d pretty easy and 10 percent of it is in ap bio like neurons etc. But again it depends on how extens micro was for you I doubt you’ll remember much. Maybe you can take the curse senior year</p>
<p>The easiest APs are Human, Psych, and Environmental (in that order). Because of this colleges don’t really offer too much credit for them, but if all you’re looking for is National AP scholar then those should be good. Personally, I’d suggest going with Economics as you already know some of it and its a substantially more useful class.</p>
<p>Do you think having AP Scholar with Distinction will help me stand out since most kids at my school don’t take multiple APs? Even though most students at other schools have that award?</p>
<p>Human geography, I don’t think is much valued by uni’s as the other ap’s are. At my school they don’t give that class because they think it’s not worth it. I would either self-study ap enviro or ap psych.</p>
<p>I’d say do economics –*it seems like that would be the most beneficial option considering your past experience and interests. If you want to do a really easy AP, however, do either environmental or human geo.</p>
<p>Took me a few days to learn Micro/Macro to get 5’s. Just get 5 steps/PR and read thoroughly. And I heard ruffonomics was beast so I used for learning even more. </p>
<p>Idk about Human Geo. I took the class and read Barrons for 7 hours day before and got 5 though I thought I would get 4. But I had a good teacher.</p>
<p>Environmental. Get PR and some ES notes from googling. I took a class so idk but I didn’t listen and just did PR day before going 2/3 way through book before it became 10:30 and I had to go to bed. ES has a lot of easy Bio so Bio will help a lot. (just not for much energy, pollution, etc)</p>
<p>Idk comp gov, never took.</p>
<p>And you should be fine since you already did economics review.</p>
<p>Okay. I am just deciding between Environmental Science or Human Geography. Honestly, I am just striving for National AP Scholar, and not really caring much about the credits these subjects will provide me.
xD</p>
<p>I really think it would be worth while to self-study Environmental Science or Psychology. (In which case, of the two you narrowed down—take Environmental Science.) Although you only care about the National AP Scholar for now, if you end up going to a college that accepts AP credits, it will be more likely that they’ll accept EnvSci and Psych. (And you’ll be thankful then if the college has breadth requirements!) ^^</p>
<p>I’ve self-studied both in the same year (2010) and I can definitely tell you it’s relatively easy to get a 5. It really just took studying the weekend before the AP exams. (My books of choice were Barons.) </p>
<p>And I do think you can manage the Micro exam as well especially with prior knowledge of the subject.</p>