<p>Life lesson: Never eat beef from a place that has a C for sanitation.</p>
<p>how’s the strength of my schedule? required courses have a *!</p>
<p>freshman:
Honors World history
Honors English
Honors Biology
Advanced Geometry
Spanish I
Advanced Hebrew I*
Judaics*
Photography/Handbells*</p>
<p>sophomore:
AP World history
Honors Chemistry
Honors English
Honors Algebra II
Advanced Hebrew*
Judaics*
Spanish II
SAT prep*</p>
<p>junior (current):
AP US History
AP Chemistry
AP Language & Comp
AP Enviro
AP Studio Art: Drawing
Honors Hebrew*
Honors Pre-Calc
Judaics*</p>
<p>senior:prospective
AP Calc AB/Calculus I at local university
AP Bio
AP Gov
AP Studio art 2D
AP Lit
Honors Hebrew*
Judaics*</p>
<p>thanks!! :)</p>
<p>Handbells is required lmao. Looks great though!</p>
<p>Wow how do you guys maintain a 4.0 GPA unweighted while taking 5 AP courses and other rigorous classes? Do you guys do sports as well?</p>
<p>My school has a lot of grade inflation. We also have block scheduling, which means you’re not taking all your classes at once. Self-studies are significantly easier (not intellectually, but they’re less time-consuming) than regular APs. I don’t do sports.</p>
<p>My school is really notorious for teaching the AP tests with very little outside work. It works; we have a ridiculous pass rate, but an AP heavy schedule is probably easier than a regular courseload because of the outrageously light homework load. If I didn’t do track/cross country/swimming, I’d have more free time than I’d know what to do with.</p>
<p>^ and you end up with 5’s on the real deal?!</p>
<p>My school offers NO AP’s at all… hell… I’m still in alg2…</p>
<p>TinnyT, high five woman… </p>
<p>we don’t even get to choose our classes and all that</p>
<p>my schedule since grade 9 :/</p>
<p>English
Math (gr9 and 10… alg1. 11alg2… go figure -_-)
Chem
Bio
Physics
Arabic
French (3rd lang sorta)
Religion… (yeah weird)
History
Economics (learn barely anything)</p>
<p>So yeah… but they teach us in those 4 years what your regular non-AP classes would teach you in the classes you’d choose.</p>
<p>It really sucks tho 
Classes got too easy by like 10th grade… all the kids with all their different “abilities” are in one class if you know what i mean… and we don’t move on until everyone gets it… which is very slow for others…</p>
<p>so yeah people. cherish your 5 AP’s or what’s not that your school offers</p>
<p>and yeah @redhuntinghat, i third that</p>
<p>@amissy,
typical cocky IG kid :PPPP</p>
<p>ap classes are easy if you’re good at taking tests…all of my tests are curved so i can get like a 110 and then just not turn in my homework and get an A in the class, leaving time for me to play sports year round</p>
<p>how similar are they to SAT 2? I heard they’re the same thing + essay… that true?</p>
<p>^
AP tests are harder, in my experience.</p>
<p>Really?!
Your experience with which subs?
How much harder then? Are they like TOTALLY different to start with, or can we compare them?</p>
<p>Biology, Chemistry, and Math II/Calculus BC.</p>
<p>For example:
AP math = statistics, calculus
SAT II math = algebra, pre-calculus</p>
<p>AP offers more subjects and you can typically get college credit for your test scores. The SAT II tests are not required by most colleges and they’re mostly supplements to your application to show colleges what you know.</p>
<p>But for AP Bio, there’s less rote memorization required than the SAT subject test hence it’s easier for most people. </p>
<p>For me, the AP AB Calculus test was easier than Math II since I had time remaining on the AP test but ran out of time for Math II. Stat is definitely easier. I had to wait forever until the proctor said time was up. </p>
<p>For Physics, just by taking practice tests, it is definitely easier than AP Physics. </p>
<p>Japanese I have no clue. The AP test is super long. The SAT is not. </p>
<p>These are my two cents.</p>
<p>Any recommendations for a SAT II Physics prep book?</p>
<p>my friends say the one (or ones) on xtremepapers helped a lot… I can PM u the link if you want.</p>
<p>Can you please?</p>
<p>Yeah sure… I’m looking for it now :D</p>
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<p>Yeah, the PR one. It didn’t really help me though because I bought it the day before the test…</p>
<p>@Quidditch Are you Japanese? Do you speak it fluently? I would love to learn Japanese.</p>