<p>I’m in a Canadian school, no APs/IB (IB is coming next year), and everyone takes 8 courses a year (4 per semester).</p>
<p>I’m grade 12, and my classes are Advanced Functions, Calculus and Vectors, Physics, Chemistry (we have grade 11 and 12 versions of science classes, these are the grade 12 versions), English, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Forensic Accounting.</p>
<p>Many people I talk to are quite impressed that I have something like a 99% average with this course load. However, I’m more impressed when I see someone taking courses like Writer’s Craft, World Issues, etc., and getting high marks. Basically, I’m wondering if you find this style of courseload harder, or one with more subjective style classes.</p>
<p>I’d say it really depends on what kind of person you are and what kind of teachers you get.
To me your courseload sounds really hard, but that’s because I almost failed physics and don’t do too well in my maths classes.
On the other hand if you have very good teachers that are able to explain everything in a logical way, I think every science class is doable.
The trouble with subjective style classes that you have to, at least to some extend, write what your teacher likes to hear. For example I am a straight A student in my English class, 'cause my teacher likes me and what I say, at the same time I get more or less mediocre grades in my German class for interpreting literature in pretty much the same way I do in English.
You don’t have that problem with science. There’s only a true or false.
And although I do a lot better at English, German and History, I’m sometimes really disappointed how subjective some teachers are, taking all the “fun” out of classes like that.</p>