<p>My school does not offer this course and I would love to take it. However, I know it's a lot of information and would therefore be difficult to teach myself. So Im wondering, would you reccomend self-studying for it throughout a school year while taking other AP classes? How does this course compare with AP US History?</p>
<p>yeah sure u could u can get a 5 easily</p>
<p>How do I feel about you self studying essentially what is the history of the human race in its entirety? Uh, I don’t feel great about the idea - lol, not to be mean or anything, but AP US History I think is a lot easier to self study (but is more difficult when taught with a teacher.)</p>
<p>Thats exactly what I was thinking! It’d probably be tough to study the history of the world by myself haha. TacoBurrito, how intense is the class itself? How much is it in comparison to APUSH?</p>
<p>I’m in an AP World class right now, (and it really is fascinating), but since its more about breadth than depth, there is an enormous amount of information and concepts that we cover in a very short time. If you are really motivated and willing to put many hours into it, I would highly recommend it.</p>
<p>It’s one of the easier AP’s in my opinion, you could definitely manage it with consistent self-studying, as long as you’re a responsible student. Good luck!! (:</p>
<p>I think I saw in another thread that you’re also taking AP US History and AP Psychology. Self-studying World History on top of that, to me, seems a bit too much as all those subjects require learning vast amounts of information. It seems more sensible to take or self-study another science/math class.</p>
<p>publicstaticvoid- Yeah thats true I’m planning on taking those classes. I completely agree that it would be a bit too much for one year, so I am debating on learning it for my senior year. As of right now, the only AP class I’m thinking of taking then is AP Statistics, so do you think it would be a good choice to self-study AP World History for my senior year?</p>
<p>^That sounds manageable.</p>
<p>You’d have to be extremely motivated. My AP World class was brutal last year and I pulled a 3.</p>
<p>Theres a huge workload or at least in my world history ap class.
It’s definitely possible. Watching the Crash Course history videos, lectures online, reading AP prep books etc should be good enough. It’ll just take a lot of work. </p>
<p>The question is, is it worth it?</p>
<p>Get busy studying or get busy going to community college.</p>
<p>OP- That sounds like a good plan. I had a question, though: how many AP classes does your school offer? If you’re taking two AP classes junior year, you’re oftentimes expected to challenge yourself more by taking more AP classes senior year. Have you thought about adding on more to your senior courseload?</p>
<p>No, I really haven’t. But would you consider taking two APs for my junior and 2 for my senior year as being okay? I’m not really worried about the courseload but I’m focusing on getting 5’s, or as high as I can possibly get, on all AP classes I take, so I figured taking 3 might not be worth it because it feels like it would be a lot of cramming for the AP tests. I would like to increase my courseload to 3 my senior year, but I’m thinking I’d rather just play it safe.</p>
<p>I’m also thinking of taking AP Biology along with Statistics my senior year because after looking into AP World History I figured that it just wouldn’t be worth it to self-study it. Also, my Biology teacher is probably the best teacher in my school, the majority of her classes gets 4s and 5s.</p>
<p>Unless those subjects are the only AP classes your school offers, I think that you should add more to your schedule (to show that you’re progressively challenging yourself more as opposed to playing it safe). Is junior year your first time taking an AP class? See how you can handle the workload; If you don’t find it terribly difficult, I’d advise you to take 3+ AP classes senior year. I don’t think you should worry too much about cramming, as I took 4 AP classes (while self studying another subject) my junior year, and I didn’t have issues. Also, I’d choose calculus over statistics since statistics is very qualitative and oftentimes isn’t considered mathy enough.</p>
<p>Yeah this upcoming year is my junior year and I haven’t taken an AP class yet. My school offers about 9 AP classes. However, I’d rather not take any of the 2 AP Physics courses, AP Calculus, or AP English Composition because I suck at math and those classes will be a real struggle, and in regards to english, I am not that good at application questions in which you read a passage and give the best answer for the opinion-ated (not a real word) questions, which is what the majority of the class is based off of. So that leaves Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, US History, and Psycology. I am not sure about Chemistry, because the teacher is not very great and AP Chemistry seems a lot harder than Honors Chemistry, so that class is kind of a wild card. The other 4 classes are ones I hope on taking, but I’m not sure when to take what. I know AP US History is only a Junior course, and AP Statistics is only a Senior course, so I’m not sure when to take the other classes. Biology and US History require the most work, so I’d rather not take them together my Junior year considering that I’ll also be taking accelerated Trigonometry, honors English, and honors Physics, so it may be a bit much, because my senior year I won’t have to worry about a science and math class (since I’m taking AP Statistics and I will have taken all 3 sciences my school offers).</p>
<p>Quality > quantity, just remember that when selecting classes.</p>
<p>Unless you’ve figured out how to do both. </p>
<p>In that case, please share your secrets.</p>