<p>So, this is my situation. I am enrolled in AP Chemistry and AP Calculus BC and have studied for all of my tests for 30 minutes the night prior to each test and have usually gotten a B with the occasional "A-." I am also self studying 6 other subjects which I have not yet started to even look over yet-AP Computer Science A, AP US History, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, AP World History, and AP English Language. Here is my study plan for the next 4 weeks.</p>
<p>EXAMS THAT I HAVE 2-2.5 WEEKS TO STUDY FOR:</p>
<p>AP Chemistry: Spend 4 hours/chapter reading 19 chapters from a textbook and take 4 practice AP exams.</p>
<p>AP Computer Science A: Spend 2 hours/chapter reading 13 chapters from a textbook and take 2 practice AP exams. </p>
<p>AP Calculus BC: Spend 1.5 hours/chapter reading 9 chapters from a textbook and take 2 practice AP exams.</p>
<p>AP US History: Spend 1 hour/chapter reading 30 chapters from a textbook and take 2 practice AP exams.</p>
<p>EXAMS THAT I HAVE 3-3.5 WEEKS TO STUDY FOR:</p>
<p>AP Physics C-Mechanics and AP Physics C-Electricity and Magnetism: Spend 4 hours/chapter reading 25 chapters from a textbook and take 2 practice AP exams for each section.</p>
<p>AP World History: Spend 45 minutes/chapter reading 34 chapters from the Barron's Review Book and take 2 practice AP exams.</p>
<p>AP English Language: Spend 3 hours/weekend for 3 weekends reading the Barron's Review Book and take 2 practice AP exams. </p>
<p>Knowing that I have and IQ of 122, remember most major details and some minor details after 1 reading, and that I will have the time to fit in all of these times into my schedule, is is possible for me to get a 5 on all 8 of these AP exams?</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s an unreasonable amount of cramming. Here’s what I would do:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>If you know you’re going to get a 4 or 5 on, say, AP Chem or Calculus BC (since you’re enrolled in them) you can pretty much forgo the AP preparation. I hardly prepared for the BC exam and got a 5. But for AP Literature (a weaker subject for me) I had to prepare more.</p></li>
<li><p>Unless you desperately need like 10 AP’s to graduate this year, skip the AP’s in classes you’re unfamiliar. I had to work my butt off to get a 5 on Physics. You need to be fluent in calculus to take either AP Physics test anyway.</p></li>
<li><p>Look over what you just typed. Do you have ~100 hours in 3-3.5 weeks to prepare for AP Physics alone?</p></li>
<li><p>Prepare only for the exams that will benefit you or get you college credit at the university you want to attend.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Unless you’re well-versed at all of these subjects, I wouldn’t study for six AP exams in three weeks, especially if I have little familiarity with them.</p>
<p>I am very lazy when I want to be and I can work for days when I want to and I sleep for one hour a day. So, again, I ask you not to consider the subjective factors. I work from 3:30 when I get home from school to 5 am in the morning and sleep for an hour in the weekdays. On the weekends, I work from 7 am to 4 am and sleep for 1 hour and have another 1 hour TV break. Of course I eat in the day. Do I have the ability with my intelligence and decent memory to study this amount and get the 8 5’s on all 8 of my AP tests this year. BTW, I mean to say that I got a B in chemistry, but I had an A- on all my AP Calculus BC tests. I am good at the latter if that helps make an evaluation on it and AP Physics.</p>
<p>Ok, let’s put it this way. I’m in Honors World History, Honors Physics, and Honors English II this year. The English class is all just learning vocab, reading books, and writing TONS of essays-similar to an AP English Language class. The physics class covers all the AP Physics C stuff with algebra and NOT calculus. The world history class uses an AP textbook and we’ll cover 80% of the material on the AP test this year. I’ve gotten about a B+ on all three of these with minimum work and just listening to what my teacher lectures. The only stuff I’m not at all familiar with is AP Computer Science A and AP US History. NOW, do I have a chance to get 5’s on all 8 of these AP exams considering I’m in AP Calculus BC and AP Chemistry, am taking classes that cover at least 70% of the material on AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism, AP World History, and AP English Language, and just have to learn AP US History and AP Computer Science A from scratch?</p>
<p>I added up all your estimated times, and it comes out to 280 hours
You have 13.5 hours every weekday and 20 hours every weekend; Thus, it’ll take 2.6 weeks to do that all, slightly less than the actual amount of time you have…</p>
<p>^ Totally agree with this. I ALWAYS do better on my AP Calc BC exams this year (i.e. the difference between Bs and As) when I simply stop stressing, close the textbook, and get my beauty rest. Really. Studies show that your brain is better off with no studying and total sleep in desperate situations (Read : Procrastination. And yes, I am SO guilty of it. ) </p>
<p>Anyhow, I digress – Enough with my sleep defense. I’ve got 6 APs to study for, OP, and only 1 of them is self-studied (AP US Govt/Politics) and is rather easy. Your self-studied APs like World History and Physics are doable but challenging. They require time and focus. If you truly want 5s on ALL of them … try to apply yourself. Your schedule looks decent, and MAKE SURE you get really good prep/review books for the self-studied exams. An additional suggestion? Try to sleep more than 1 hour per night … It’s not possible to do otherwise, and moreover, your brain won’t even think by the time you get to the exams. Just try. </p>
<p>Good luck! Eek…I thought MY workload this AP season was stressful…and I’m a senior! :)</p>
<p>Did I say I was smart? I just mentioned my IQ to give others an idea to estimate if I’m smart enough to do this. I said I had a decent (not superb) memory. The reason I’m in this mess is that I was not sure till a couple of days ago that I would be ALLOWED to take these AP’s. Also, is it better to go through very widely renowned textbooks and do all of the end-of-chapter problems and do about 3 practice exams of each subject or just go through a review book?</p>
<p>You should be getting anywhere from 6 to 10 hours of sleep per night. You don’t want AP preparation to hurt you in the long run, do you?</p>
<p>Also, you’ll need some calculus on both Physics C tests regardless. I took the C-Mechanics last year; it’s very hard to get a 5 if you don’t know enough calculus or how to apply it. Also, grades don’t always predict AP scores. I got A’s in Lang and Lit but got 2’s on the corresponding AP tests. </p>
<p>I’ve never taken the Computer Science or US History exams, but I can assure you both require a lot of study if you’re not familiar with the topics. I’m sure you can pull off a few 5’s; getting 5’s on all eight exams seems like a long shot right now.</p>
<p>You are either insane or trolling. And if you are as smart as you say you are, and have this planned out as well as you say you have, why do you even need to post this thread to get our input?</p>
<p>DoctorMagic’s probably not trolling, but not very smart when it comes to studying.</p>
<p>I added up your hours according to your “study plan.” You have 280 hours of studying to do in 3 or so weeks (including 18 practice AP exams?). In comparison, a week consisting of entirely studying (no breaks, no sleep) is 168 hours. Get to it!</p>
I’ve got 6 APs to study for, OP, and only 1 of them is self-studied (AP US Govt/Politics) and is rather easy. Your self-studied APs like World History and Physics are doable but challenging. They require time and focus. If you truly want 5s on ALL of them … try to apply yourself. Your schedule looks decent, and MAKE SURE you get really good prep/review books for the self-studied exams. An additional suggestion? Try to sleep more than 1 hour per night … It’s not possible to do otherwise, and moreover, your brain won’t even think by the time you get to the exams. Just try. </p>