<p>I noticed someone in another thread say that they did better on their ap tests that were self-studies than the ones they took classes for.</p>
<p>Although my scores didn't vary much (I got 7 5's and 2 4's), I was a lot more confident on the two I self-studied. Knowing I had no one but myself to blame, I prepared a lot more comprehensively, and probably got no more than a couple multiple choice questions wrong on the tests. While I was taking my other tests, however, I was just thinking- "ok, I just have to get 60% of this right..."</p>
<p>depends on the class and the method of self-study, you might actually do very well self-studying for tests.
I self studied for quite a few of them myself. got 5’s on all of them (my only 4 came from AP art history test, which I had the class and studied hella for… the test was just hard, i’m not cut out to do art history lol)</p>
<p>Ap world history: read barrons, all you need to do is be able to bs 11 pages of essay by just rambling about facts and history and timelines and what not.</p>
<p>AP European history: Same as above</p>
<p>AP Environmental science: read the book 7 hours before the test, (slept 3 hours that day), the test was pretty… disappointing, elementary math + graph interpretation + common knowledge = easy 5</p>
<p>AP physics: spent the entire spring break watching all of physics 1 and 2 from MIT walter lewin, hes a boss, its one of the harder tests that i’ve took, do not recommend self studying any math and science tests other than enviornmental science.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s a correlation… Its really just how good your teachers are vs. how good you are at teaching yourself. My levels of confidence after taking both Bio (Self study) and World History (class taught) were very similar. In both cases I felt like I did weakly in at least one area, and that a 4 was the absolute max that I could get… but I got 5s on both.</p>
<p>On AP Literature, on the other hand, I took the class, felt incredibly confident that I’d get a 5, and then I got a 5.</p>
<p>If you can spot a correlation in this data, you need to retake AP stats :P</p>
<p>I think I felt more ready taking my self study tests (Enviro and Human Geo) than I did while taking APUSH, which I took a class for. It may have been because Env. and Human Geo are generally easier AP tests, but it also could have been for reasons stated on this thread.</p>
<p>You can gain credit for that AP course. The point of gaining credit is to gain credit for what you already learned/know and since you’ve learned material while studying for the AP exam, you’re just as qualified as any other student who took the course and the exam.</p>
<p>Yes, there are a few posters that took online AP courses at FLVS or similar websites. I think Keasbey Nights took a FLVS course.</p>
<p>Naturally self-studying is best for me. My preferred method of schooling would be learn the material by yourself with 1 or 2 one hour discussion blocks per week with classmates + teacher/professor if you need help with anything.</p>
<p>10x more efficient for me than going to class everyday from 8am - 3pm. (I get bored in class. :/)</p>
<p>I need the stress and pressure of classes to memorize the materials well, especially for the social science subjects. However, math and science are different cases.</p>
<p>Besides, self-study is more flexible than classes, allowing me to fit in many of my usual activities during the year. Moreover, I prefer self-study since I am a independent person who does not like his time to be wasted doing dawdling and tedious assignments in class.</p>
sorry read it wrongly</p>