<p>On the list of people taking each exam that my school posts outside the testing room, it had a 6th grader taking the BC calc test. What's the youngest you've seen someone taking any AP test at all?</p>
<p>A 7th grader in my school took the Physics B test....- -;</p>
<p>wow.. really? My school won't even ALLOW freshmen to take the test... The actually TRY to restrict the amount of AP tests you take.. makes me so angry >.<</p>
<p>yeah, the first ap we get to take is world history as a sophomore.</p>
<p>yeah, same here.. AP world and human geo are the only ones available for sophomores... AP bio I self studied (haha, tried to beat the system) and it made the counselors/school administrators mad, since by law, they can prevent me from taking the class, but they can't prevent me from taking the test. =P</p>
<p>yeah, a 10-year old scored a 5 on the ap calc exam somewhere in the late 90's, i forget his name... but he was an absolute mathematical genius, he surely made USAMO but more notably, he was a putnam fellow all four years during his undergrad, he goes to harvard for graduate study...</p>
<p>younger kids taking ap's are where you find the true progidies</p>
<p>Oh my gosh, how old is that kid now? >.< I think I even remember watching the news about him. My school doesn't offer any electives (hence any AP classes) until 11th grade, and even then we're only restricted to 2 electives. That's why 95% of my grade takes the AP USH exam during junior year even though we don't have an AP USH class.</p>
<p>did you take human geo lucidity? that sounds like a fun class. i was thinking about self studying it next year.</p>
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yeah, a 10-year old scored a 5 on the ap calc exam somewhere in the late 90's, i forget his name... but he was an absolute mathematical genius, he surely made USAMO but more notably, he was a putnam fellow all four years during his undergrad, he goes to harvard for graduate study...
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That's either Reid Barton or Gabriel Carroll. They're both crazy smart.</p>
<p>There was another guy (Terence Tao I think) who got a gold medal at IMO when he was 12.</p>
<p>yeah its reid barton
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Barton%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid_Barton</a></p>
<p>Evidently this guy didn't have much of a social life outside of academia.</p>
<p>we can't even take an AP until junior year unless you self-study, and even then you can only take one AP class junior year (APUSH or Euro)</p>
<p>thats too bad, im taking 3 next year (junior), us, spanish, and biology, i had to have a meeting with the counselor before they would let me do it</p>
<p>@andreaaaaaa: no, human geo wouldn't fit into my schedule.. and since it was a .5 credit course, I didn't feel like self studying that one.. but I don't know, maybe I'll self study it next year. I heard it was pretty easy. But I don't know... I'm planning on taking alot of APs next year, 2 or 3 of which will be self studies (I think I do better when I learn the material on my own)</p>
<p>Yeah... don't you hate it when they try to limit what you can and cannot do? I never got along w/counselors.</p>
<p>First AP we get is (drum roll) AP EURO... that might be why we think its so damn hard in our school...</p>
<p>Proof that we should have gotten all 5's on AP exams ourselves. ;)</p>
<p>I think there is an 8th or 9th grader in Calc AB at my school this year.</p>
<p>I don't think there is a limit to what grade you need to be in for an AP at my school...but what upsets me a lot is the lack of humanity and social science AP courses. At my school, you can only take 2 AP courses in the humanities...any more is restricted. It's always really bugged me, since they have like a bajillion of other APs.</p>
<p>If you're a 6th/7th/8th grader taking the calc test, I guess that means you had to have taken trig/algebra in like 4th-6th grade. That's just ridiculous</p>