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Old 03-12-2009, 06:30 PM   #46
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I'm from a school with about 2000 kids. I'm currently taking 4 AP classes my Junior year, and I will be taking 6 AP classes my senior year.

AP Psychology-1 Hr of hw each night
AP English Language composition-1.5 hrs of hw each night
AP U.S History- 2 Hrs of hw each night. Insane teacher no one has an A :P
AP World History-30 mins of Hw each night
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Old 03-12-2009, 06:37 PM   #47
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I doubled in AP history this year:

AP Art History
AP European History

I absolutely love both classes because I have always enjoyed learning about history, it helps me when the art is from the same time period that I'm studying in AP Euro, but I get the information mixed up sometimes...does anyone else have this problem?
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Old 03-12-2009, 06:53 PM   #48
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Those of you taking 5 or more aps are pretty amazing. The amount of homeworks seems like it's a lot. I could never stay focused for more than 1-2 hours at a time. Rarely can I do 3 or more hours.
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Old 03-12-2009, 07:12 PM   #49
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APUSH- Don't often do my homework in there, but it would take about 45-90 minutes a night if I did do it.
AP Psych- about 30 minutes or so if I do it daily (all we have is a vocab list which she gives us to do as we read along with the book.) It takes about 3-4 hours if I procrastinate and do it all the night before (which is what usually happens).
AP Stats- nothing, he gives us about 5-7 homework assignments each nine weeks and I do about 3, ace the tests, and get an A in the class
AP Bio- nothing really, he tells us to read the chapters of the book, which we cover about 1 every week, but he doesn't enforce it so I've only read about 5-7 chapters of the book
AP English- we get assigned books which we have about a week or so to read, which I finish in a night, and other than that we just have one study guide question to answer every other night (about ten minutes to do). I usually just do my question when others are answering theres.

Most AP classes are a joke at my school. We offer about 12 supposedly (each year they only offer about 9 of those). My school has about 2000 students, but only about 400 have even taken a single AP.
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Old 03-12-2009, 07:19 PM   #50
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HW is usually pretty light in my AP classes (Im taking 6 this year):

AP World: Reading takes about 45 minutes
AP English: Reading takes about 30 min (if I decide to do it....haha)
AP Calc BC: No Hw (but a couple hours on the day before a test. Or now that its second semester, maybe just 15-20 minutes the day of the test haha)
AP Spanish Lit: 15 minutes of reading
AP Stat: ranging from 10-25 minutes a night
AP Biology: No hw, unless I'm writing up a lab (about once every couple weeks) or doing a major cram session before a test.

So basically, about 2 hours of hw a night on a normal night. On a night with a lab/paper/test the next day, I pretty much dont sleep. Fun times!
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Old 03-12-2009, 07:38 PM   #51
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My school has 30 APs and about 2000 students (but it's 7-12). Most of them don't seem to give a lot of homework to me, but we have high passage rates. I admit, I'm only taking 4 this year, but I'm taking 6 (one self studied, 5 at school) next year.

AP Art History: not nightly, but maybe once a week there's a 3+ hour assignment, usually done over 2-3 days. I don't study for tests, but I almost always get the highest score in all the classes.
AP English: Basically none. When essays are assigned, maybe an hour. Maybe 3 hours for a paper. I have the easy teacher who gives no work but has a higher passage rate. The other teacher gives a ton of work and has a slightly lower passage rate.
AP Human Geography: Basically none. Maybe once a week a 30 minute assignment (reading or worksheet). The night before tests, 3+ hours, but that's only vocab and essay prep, since I don't really read, I just skim.
AP Calculus BC: Maybe 1.5 hours a night. Tests are quire rare, but I usually study a lot for them.

Next Year:
AP English: If I get the teacher I don't want, there will be busy work, but either way, there's not that much work in English
AP Chem: It'll be about 1-1.5 hours 3-4 nights a week, and a lot of studying for tests and quizzes.
AP Physics: About 1-1.5 hours a night, *tons* of studying for tests, but because of the double bell system, the two classes won't have any tests or quizzes on the same day as Chem.
AP World Hist: Reading assignments about once a week that take 3+ hours, spread out over 2 days optimally
AP French: None, basically. If I ever have it, it'll take me less than 5 minutes. French is way too easy.
AP Psych: Self study. Just reading and the teacher will give me tests whenever they take them in class. About 1 hour a week, but I might decide to copy notes from my friends who take the class, so that'll add a bit of time, but will probably be done during school.

Division of outside of school time:
About 12 hours of ballet a week. It'll be 2.5 hours most nights Mon-Th and Saturdays.
During the winter I ski all day on Thursday (will have to skip ballet) and get home at about 10 PM.
I tutor on Saturday mornings all 2nd semester. Basically, I'm busy on Saturdays until 5.
I have about 3 hours of community service a week.
I have one piano lesson a week and I practice about 2-3 hours a week. I also practice viola about 1 hour a week.
Hopefully my parents will let me take glassblowing or oil painting next year (were too daunted by extra ballet costs this year), and that would be 2 hours a week.

I don't sleep much. It's not healthy.
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Old 03-13-2009, 03:29 PM   #52
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Yay. I have 6 APs this year. Really not a big deal though.
AP Macroeconomics - NOTHING this class is ridiculously easy so I didn't do any of the homework/reading/whatever.
AP US Government - ehh.. prolly 30 minutes of reading a night, but I don't ever do it soo.. idk.
AP Latin Literature - I do most of the translations and whatnot during other classes, but I can translate at least 10x faster than the guy who sits next to me (lol, just for reference ;]) so I dunno how long the work usually takes. I need maybe 10 minutes a day, I suppose.
AP Calculus BC - Ehh, 10 minutes homework a day? Maybe? At the most. I do this mostly during other classes, or in between classes, too.
AP Euro - OHHHHHHHHH EURO. Hmm. At least an hour of reading each night, and he piles on the reading right before tests so it's not really good to get behind, lol, maybe 2 hours a night around test time.
AP Lit/Comp - mm.. I don't include reading actual novels in "homework time" so none, but if you include that, maybe several hours a week, I read quickly though, I dunno.


YAY THAT POST WAS USELESS SINCE I DON'T DO ALL MY HOMEWORK! :]

And I wake up at <6am, and usually get 6 hours of sleep. ECs include going out to dinner and watching movies (damn, maybe THAT's why I don't get much sleep! lol), softball, tennis, volunteer tutoring, private tutor job thing, viola, piano, whatever else.
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Old 03-13-2009, 11:07 PM   #53
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I'm currently a junior. Our school has approximately 1600 students and offers most of the APs except for AP Environmental Science and AP Art I believe.

AP French - 1 to 2 hours
AP Physics - I probably spend about 3 hours every night trying to understand the physics curriculum. argh
AP Comp Sci - Hardly any homework. at most 5 hours a week
AP USH - A lot of essays, but I guess it depends on your teacher.
Multivar - 1 hour but math is not my best subject, so I guess it varies.

Wow I'm jealous of you guys who take AP Chem and not have much homework. Last year, I took AP Bio and AP Chem, and I spent a minimum of three hours studying every night just for those classes.
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Old 03-13-2009, 11:31 PM   #54
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AP US: haha, depends on if i ever go to class (zero period)
AP Stat: Maybe 10 minutes a day, never study for tests
AP Phys B/C: I never do any hw since its not in the grade. tests are relatively easy though
IB Lit 1: Maybe an hour or two normally. my most annoying class
IB Econ: nothing usually, since its just notes
IB Spanish: nothing ever

normal schedule, short tuesdays.
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