Are AP classes over-exaggerated?

wisconsin13
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:01:48 +0000

Like everybody is saying… it depends on your school, the teacher, and most importantly what AP class it is. For example at my school AP Human Geography is offered to freshman because it is probably the easiest AP out there. Also AP Psych is offered to sophomores and all the other APs are only upperclassman. Asking people who have taken the class or asking the teacher(s) that teach the specific class your considering is the most helpful because they have gone through it. For me I have taken AP Calc AB and Microeconomics this year (junior) and Human Geography freshman year (none sophomore year)…
Human Geo was probably like a 2 or 3, easier than my freshman honors english… Microeconomics probably like a 5 or 6 because you need to read the chapters to understand… Calc AB probably like a 5 or 6 also. Obviously this all depends your strengths also, as math and business are mine those classes are a lot easier for me than to others in my class. Also FYI I’m a Junior and next year I’m planning on taking 5 APs because I handled taking 2 APs and a CLEP Accounting class pretty well this year. Im taking Calc BC, Macroeconomics, Physics 1, Psychology, and Statistics.

Overall from what I’ve heard at my school in order of difficulty

AP Chemistry and Physics B (which is now split into 1 and 2 starting next year) are the hardest in the school


AP Calc AB, AP US History, AP Biology, Both AP English classes, and Statistics are all pretty hard
AP Calc BC is easy for the people in it because they did fine in AB anyway and are all good at math so its hard to gauge how hard it is.
AP Government and Politics, AP European History, and both economics (Micro and Macro) are average difficulty… but I only know 1 person whose taken Macro but its known as a little harder than Micro.
AP Human Geography and AP Psychology are both very easy! Take them if you can! Out of a little over 400 people in my school taking AP tests… 320ish are taking one of those two and I think AP psych has over 200 itself.


-Any others i don’t know anything about at all or aren’t at my school (Like AP Music Theory is at my school but I know nothing about it and I honestly don’t know how that is an AP class)

Hope this rant helps!