AP Ranking Game (Plus/Minus)

Test Preparation AP Test Preparation
401

<p>Okay, I’ll end it</p>

<p>-2 Spanish Lit
-1 Latin</p>

<p>HARDEST

  1. Latin: Vergil (Finishes with 9 points)
  2. Spanish Literature
  3. German Language
  4. Spanish Language
  5. French Language
  6. Chinese Language and Culture
  7. English Literature
  8. Microeconomics
  9. European History
  10. Chemistry
  11. Art History
  12. Calculus BC
  13. Physics C
  14. U.S. History
  15. Comparative Government and Politics
  16. Japanese Language and Culture
  17. Macroeconomics
  18. US Government and Politics
  19. Italian
  20. Music Theory
  21. Studio Art
  22. Physics B
  23. Computer Science
  24. English Language
  25. World History
  26. Human Geography
  27. Biology
  28. Statistics
  29. Environmental Science
  30. Psychology
  31. Calculus AB</p>
402

<p>What happened is that people began disregarding the rules and posting -3 three times per day (like Garfield), which is why the game is no longer worth playing since there is, apparently, no reason to adhere to any guidelines.</p>

403

<p>I wasn’t the first one to do that, and I waited until someone else posted before posting again.</p>

404

<p>I know Latin is pretty tough, but I really don’t think it is in the top 5. These rankings are awful. :p</p>

405

<p>Yeah, I know you weren’t. I’d like, however, for everyone to stick to the original rules, which entails a single play per day. Otherwise people with a vendetta against a particular class, like physics c, cannot knock it out in a single day.</p>

406

<p>Well, initially, people had a vendetta for raising Physics C up as high as possible. </p>

<p>However, the fight over European history was amusing.</p>

407

<p>Heh. I just think it might be a bit more representative of popular opinion if we were to limit posts. Regardless, this isn’t of any grand importance. I just want my scores. Grr.</p>

408

<p>Yeah, a lot of us posted more than once per day, me included! If we ever redo this, we should set firm rules and stick to them so that the rankings come out more fair, hopefully.</p>

409

<p>Very Interesting thread…LOL to Calculus AB as the easiest AP: 90%+ of the general AP student population would tend to disagree with that, but alas, a typical CC result.</p>

<p>The only definitive thing I think we can take out of this is that those who played this game had a strong adversity to foreign cultures…most of the foriegn “language and cultures” were deemed most difficult, and of course, European History…</p>

410

<p>^That’s probably because most foreign languages are not taken(German, Italian), so they remained around 10 until the end, when there weren’t any other exams left.</p>

411

<p>Yeah I was just joking lol…it would be interesting to compare this list against an “objective list” based on percentage of 5’s.</p>

412

<p>Well, I think that means that Chinese is the easiest test, since over 70% of testtakers get 5’s.</p>

413

<p>Chinese is wayyyy overrated in the list. It’s really easy. It’s like 5th grade stuff in Asia.</p>

414

<p>Yeah, it’s easy for NATIVE speakers…the test is designed for non-native speakers though, obviously, most testtakers are.</p>

415

<ol>
<li>Latin: Vergil (Finishes with 9 points)</li>
<li>Spanish Literature</li>
<li>German Language</li>
<li>Spanish Language</li>
<li>French Language</li>
<li>Chinese Language and Culture</li>
<li>English Literature</li>
<li>Microeconomics</li>
<li>European History</li>
<li>Chemistry</li>
<li>Art History</li>
<li>Calculus BC</li>
<li>Physics C</li>
<li>U.S. History</li>
<li>Comparative Government and Politics</li>
<li>Japanese Language and Culture</li>
<li>Macroeconomics</li>
<li>US Government and Politics</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Music Theory</li>
<li>Studio Art</li>
<li>Physics B</li>
<li>Computer Science</li>
<li>English Language</li>
<li>World History</li>
<li>Human Geography</li>
<li>Biology</li>
<li>Statistics</li>
<li>Environmental Science</li>
<li>Psychology</li>
<li>Calculus AB</li>
</ol>

<p>Personal Issues:
Calc AB the easiest . . . really? I wouldn;t call it a hard one, but a lot of people are not gifted at math and do horribly on this.
Bio among the easier ones? I never took it, but the shear amount of information required is rather intimidating.
US Gov’t not being after English Lang? I thought that it was an easy AP test, definitely easier than AP Physics B.
US History seems too low on the list, and was beat by AP Euro. This is a complete reversal in my school, Euro is held as one of the easiest and US as one of the hardest.
English Lit is way too high on this list. I mean, it may be difficult to get a 5, but it is definitely an easy AP test to pass, nearly the same as English Lang.</p>

<p>I approve of languages being high up there. It’s so hard to gain competency as a non-native. My AP Spanish teacher told me that the AP test is harder than the test to qualify to teach Spanish in Florida.</p>

416

<p>This should be interesting. I ranked each exam by mean AP score (1 being lowest average AP score, 30 being highest average AP score) based on 2010 results. Ranks are in parenthesis after each exam. </p>

<p>For languages, I used the standard group, as it doesn’t really make sense to compare difficulty while including native speakers who pull up the scores. </p>

<p>HARDEST

  1. Latin: Vergil (23)
  2. Spanish Literature (13)
  3. German Language (10)
  4. Spanish Language (9)
  5. French Language (1)
  6. Chinese Language and Culture (29)
  7. English Literature (14)
  8. Microeconomics (21)
  9. European History (16)
  10. Chemistry (8)
  11. Art History (18)
  12. Calculus BC (30)
  13. Physics C (28)
  14. U.S. History (7)
  15. Comparative Government and Politics (20)
  16. Japanese Language and Culture (22)
  17. Macroeconomics (12)
  18. US Government and Politics (6)
  19. Italian (2 - tied)
  20. Music Theory (24)
  21. Studio Art (27)
  22. Physics B (17)
  23. Computer Science (26)
  24. English Language (19)
  25. World History (3)
  26. Human Geography (2 - tied)
  27. Biology (5)
  28. Statistics (15)
  29. Environmental Science (4)
  30. Psychology (25)
  31. Calculus AB (11)</p>

<p>Interestingly enough, it appears some of the exams considered hardest have the highest scores, and some of the exams considered easiest have the lowest scores.</p>

417

<p>LOL, yeah, I was warned that Human Geo was the test with the 2nd worst scores.</p>

418

<p>These rankings are horrible lol. AP Biology near the bottom?</p>

419

<p>Biology is pretty easy…</p>

420

<p>Nice data!</p>

<p>Tests that CCers consider to be easy like Human Geo or Enviro have low scores because they’re either freshman or slacker classes. Lots of students take them, and don’t take them seriously because they have never taken APs or don’t care.</p>

<p>Of course, many hard tests have high average scores because higher percentages of smart/prepared people take them, boosting the average score. It’s sort of like with SAT II Bio E/M, where M is harder but has higher scores because people who prepare for M typically are better prepared overall.</p>