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Here is a description of all ap courses I know how hard they are at my school(not necessarily take them yet)
School size: 4A? (maybe 3A) between 1200-1600, public best in the city of 200k, about 15 ap's offered.
Art history: don't know
Biology: hard, not much homework but you have to study a few hours for the tests and a few hours for the labs(about 15 evens total for year)
Chemistry: hard, but easy because teacher lets you grade everything yourself and lots of take home tests(and she even encourages working together).
Calculus: easy, a lot of h/w but you can just study old tests, but there are formula quizes which are *****
Composition(ap lang for 11th graders): very hyard, need 96% for an A, h/w everyday and most of it checked, and probably takes up more time than 3 average Ap's at my school combined.
Environmental Science: don't know, prolly easy.
Lit(ap lang for 12th graders): Twice as much writing as composition, but not as bad at checking h/w(hard as Lang, depends what you are better at though).
Physics(c, b is easy): Hard, even very hard, has quizzes and tests almost every week, h/w not checked but 90% of the clas can't do it so 90% of them cheat.
Psychology: first year offered
Us history: harder than world, but not as hard as language classes.
World History: easy and supposed to be easy, for sophmores.
There's also another history offered(don't know the name, and art, and spanish. (i don't know those)
French is offered as university class, it's a joke.
I would say about 2/3-3/4 of the Ap's would take more time in class than out of class, and 1/3 are very easy. Taking 3 Ap's would probably amount to about 1hour-1hour 30 mins of homework(4 hours two day of the five if you procrastinae). 4 Ap's is possible but schedule conflicts begin as there are only like 30 Ap classes.
classes that aren't offered: a few more language ones, computer science and maybe another history.
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