wombatsoup

I'm curious about this. Please describe your school (size, type, # of APs), the amount of HW each class gives, what your schedule type is, etc. And also, if you want, say something about yourself. How much time do you have after school that is non-structured? What do you do besides HW (ECs, etc.)? I'm wondering about what type of environment allows for that kind of schedule, as where I live it would be impossible to do in healthy way, for many reasons.

Ostonzi

"Healthy way"
Ahem. Yea......about that...

lilygraces

I'm at a school with ~1200 students grades 7-12, it's public, and offers 20 something APs.

Workload:
AP Gov't: 2 hours every night
AP Music Theory: ~45-1 hour every night
AP English: An hour every night
AP French: 30 minutes every night
AP Environment: 45 minutes every night
SUPA Psychology (not an AP course, but is a college course): 45 minutes every night

I have blocked scheduling so that helps with time management because I'll just do what's due the next day as opposed to both days.

ECs: Piano, Model UN, GSA, Stage Crew, Band (Pep, Marching, and Concert), Clarinet Ensemble, Chorus (concert, elite, women's), Newspaper, Environmental Club.

I typically come home around 4ish (sometimes 5:30 when I have my choruses), watch an hour or so of tv, and then get started on my hw. I also leave some homework for the morning (that can be done quickly).

Ostonzi

2 hours on AP gov?!

lilygraces

I'll admit that I'm usually distracted while doing my Govt work, but we also have 2 textbooks that we work out of and have a lot of articles to read all the time.

icooufoo69

school with about 3500 people, offers pretty much every AP
ap art history *online*-1 hour per week or two
ap psychology-0 total
ap environmetnal sciece-1-2 hours a week
ap physics b-0
ap macroeconomics-30 minutes night before tests
ap english lit-15-30 minutes per night
multivaraible calculus-8 hours day before test

spazattack

school with 1600 people, public, offers 19 AP classes

ap english lit sometimes none, when we do, about 20 minutes
ap chem an hour a day
ap french usually none, but when we do, 20 minutes
ap calc 2 hours a day the days we have hw
ap gov have this class next semester so idk
ap psych have this class next semester so idk.

i see the moon

2000 students at my school; offers twentysomething AP's.

AP Enviro: What work? Oh, well, projects may take some time, and that lab report we have to do on eco-columns might be a while. But usually, like not even five minutes.

AP Econ: 30 min.'s a night. I have no idea how US Gov will go though.

AP Chem: A good 2 hours.

AP Lit: Zero.

AP Calc BC: How I've been doing it (30 minutes a night, and 3 hours the night before a test) will probably no longer hold up, so I'll probably have to go to 1 hour a night....and start studying for tests well in advance.

Dave_Berry

lilygraces, you're spending about six hours per night on your homework. Don't you find that exhausting?

lilygraces

it's not ACTUALLY 6 hours a night. I have Govt, English, and Music Theory on one night and Psych, Environmental, and French on the other.

TcherryPie

I take 4;
School offers over 25-30 AP's and has about 2100 students, 700 approximately in each class

AP Stats: about 30 mins to 1 hour, mostly busy work. Pretty easy class
APUSH: A lot of reading! my teacher doesn't assign a lot of HW, but the tests are extremely difficult
AP English: Reading is done at a very fast pace. We finish books VERY quickly. but I love the class! We argue a lot about motives of characters, themes, etc. Depends a lot on the teacher though
AP Psych: Not exactly the hardest, but still quite a lot of homework given.

Next year I'm probably taking;
AP Government and Economics, AP Calculus BC , AP Environmental Science.......

quadonfait

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.

StercusAccidit

School with ~3000 students, offers most AP classes (though of languages, only AP French, Spanish and Latin), hybrid schedule (mostly blocked, but I have one class every day).

AP Environmental: Ridiculously easy AP... 30 min work per class.
AP Psychology: 1 hour per class... Also pretty easy.
AP Spanish Lang: 1 hour per class. Kind of hard for those of us who aren't already fluent...
AP Lit: Lots and lots of reading, really fast pace, usually 2-3 essays per book. Anywhere from 1-4 hours per class, depending on the assignment (I usually put in about 2 hours per essay if I want a good grade, and 45 min if it's just an essay for completion).
AP Stat: 30 min to an hour of busy work per class... Not too bad.

Outside of APs I have the newspaper, which is pretty time consuming what with scheduling interviews, writing articles, meeting deadlines, laying out the paper, editing stories written by juniors... My other ECs typically take from 30 min to 2 hours a week.

"Healthy way": I rarely get more than 6 hours of sleep a night, and have gotten as little as 15 minutes on nights in which am suddenly bombarded with unusually large amounts of work from all classes. Usually, though, I fluctuate between 4 and 6, which isn't too bad once you get used to it.

pyles_m

Sleeping for 15min is certainly not healthy. I feel like I'm no good. I have a couple AP's and I hardly have any HW.

AP Calc AB - half hour every other day
Environmental Sci - none, ever
AP Lit - none, ever, aside from reading but that's like 20-30min every few days.
AP Physics - web assign abt an hour, usually less
AP Psych - vocab once a week, 20 min
Anatomy - hardly any

I feel like I never have more than a half hour's worth of homework a night. I think the most that I have gotten all year was maybe about 1.5 hours worth. I have more days with no homework at all than days where I do have homework. Often times though, I'm able to get some of it done in school too.

I go to a few clubs after school on Tues and Wednes. I work on Mondays and weekends. Then there is Church every day (except Monday) at 7-9 (I have things like rehearsals, ministers meeting, bible class, fellowship night, and other things)

StercusAccidit

15 minutes is VEEEERY rare... Only about twice this year so far.