<p>@catchinginfinity awh I felt that way about geometry last year.
Now I’m getting 88s on calculus quizzes… oops</p>
<p>but when are you taking the SATs? I’m registered for october since I need the score to apply to a boarding school.</p>
<p>@Meander I’m always loaded with homework – I think I am going to die next year. AP World is a ridiculous amount of work. The worst part is, a homework assignment will take 4 hours and won’t be graded. </p>
<p>Happy birthday @Jawmess and @catchinginfinity! I just turned 16 as well. </p>
<p>@artstealer I love Europe! Where are you from? I plan to live in Germany for a few years. I’m ethnically very German, but my family unfortunately lost the language. Good luck in school!</p>
<p>@enotramsolleh Ahh, I just hate it when teachers give out homework and don’t even check. Sure, it’s nice if you don’t do the homework.</p>
<p>Is AP World a semester long or year round at your school?
I actually know someone who goes to school where AP World is 2 years long and that just sounds terrible…</p>
<p>@enotram - My birthday was a week or two ago, but thanks!</p>
<p>@loltired - AP World is 2 years long at my school, hahah! A bunch of schools here in NY are like that too. It’s terrible imo because history is my worst subject - I’d much rather have two years of calc or something.</p>
<p>I’m planning on taking the SAT spring of junior year, then either summer of senior or fall of senior year depending on how my scores are. Woah, you’re taking calc already?</p>
<p>Hahah, I’m bad at history as well. I think AP World is a semester at my school but we do block scheduling so everything’s a bit weird. </p>
<p>Awh, well you have time! I’ve been going to Barnes & Nobles 10 hours a week to work on SAT stuff since my test date is less than 3 weeks away.
Yeah, I doubled up on math freshman year and took algebra 2 in 8th grade. It’s actually not that bad, but my teacher gives out a ton of work… and it’s kind of awkward being the only sophomore.</p>
<p>Are you taking AP Stats or are your 15 stats problems part of algebra/trig?</p>
<p>happy birthday catchinginfinity and jawmess! 
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<p>I feel so left behind LOL everyone’s talking about AP world history and calc and stuff and I’m not even taking those yet… :/</p>
<p>Thanks for the birthday wishes!</p>
<p>@enotramsolleh AP World isn’t that bad for me. I read the whole chapter the day before the reading quiz and almost got 6/5 (getting the bonus wrong would have deducted from the overall score). But then again, the textbook is interesting to me. But I do admit I spend a lot of time on the homework, I had to 2 two chapters this weekend.</p>
<p>@imhkim don’t feel bad about not taking AP. I mean, not taking one AP class won’t really matter unless you keep not taking AP’s.</p>
<p>@loltired - I’m taking AP Stats!</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity awh fun! Is it hard? (so far?) I’m thinking about switching spanish 4 to AP Stats</p>
<p>@catchinginfinity Yes, I’m definitely pursuing my higher education in the states. I believe it offers great education and much more opportunities as well. And of course, the whole college experience sounds very attractive to me so it wasn’t a hard decision to make. I’ll have to work hard to prepare well enough though.
P.S.: Happy birthday, I guess.</p>
<p>@Jawmess- haha well with calc, I am going to take ap calc in senior year. I won’t ever take ap history; I dislike history 
I just don’t like how my school doesn’t allow sophomores to take AP’s, because I def would have taken stats or psych if I was allowed.</p>
<p>Whohoo~ class of 2016 from Northern Cali!!</p>
<p>Proud <em>thump thump</em></p>
<p>Imhkim, you could always self study AP Calc 
I’m self studying BC, since my school only offers AB and the teacher is pretty incompetent. It’s pretty fun, actually. </p>
<p>As for Stats, I hear that it’s one of the easiest AP’s to take.</p>
<p>@loltired - It’s alright, some stuff is really easy (mean, median, dotplots, etc.) but I haven’t taken trig yet so I’m still learning the ways of the calculator and also standard dev/variance (I think you learn that in trig, right?). It’s not really traditional math, and I’m a huge fan of that, so it’s just alright in my opinion.</p>
<p>@artstealer - Thanks!</p>
<p>@teamrocketgrunt - It probably is! I’ve also heard that macro/micro are pretty easy and also AP languages (I looked into the Chinese one and it was ridiculously easy…I’m a native speaker but I’m not that great at reading/writing but I still could get most of the questions right because of the pronunciation words).</p>
<p>I feel like math is something that would make more sense with a teacher, though… as long as the teacher is decent.</p>
<p>yeah I think I will take AP stats… but 3 AP math courses as a sophomore might be an overkill…</p>
<p>@Jawmess Your quizzes are only 5 points? Or are reading quizzes different? We have a 15 question quiz per chapter. </p>
<p>@imhkim I wish my school didn’t let sophomores take APs! I mean, if your school doesn’t let you, there is nothing you can do – and your year is easier. Unless, of course, you genuinely want to take the class. But then you can take it next year…</p>
<p>@enotram reading quizzes can be given everyday so it’s not worth as much. I room the unit 1 test today. It was only on the 1st 5 chapters and I studied the other chapters due.</p>
<p>Edit: I took a PSAT practice test in English today. I find it weird how I scored 14.3, but I was still above most of my class. I mean I’d expect more people to have the same score as me or higher, but a lot of people didn’t score over 12 and only like 3 other people got high scores.</p>
<p>Happy birthday everyone, lol.</p>
<p>I think I will start SAT prep in December…then take it sometime early during junior year.</p>
<p>I took the PSAT practice test out of the booklet and got 186. Urghhhh. I’ve actually never taken a practice test before though. I can never find the time.
Same here^. Probably seriously start around Christmas break or shortly after mid terms. Then probably December of junior year so hopefully I will have my PSAT score back and be able to do some last minute stuff in areas that were weak on the psat before I actually take the sat. Then take it again in march ish</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt- lol cool name I’m def going to take stats, so I guess it’s good but idk I think easiness really depends on the person. anyway, I’m not good at math enough to take calc soph year hahah thanks for the advice though! </p>
<p>@catchinginfinity- really? idk I think it’s because you’re native! can you speak it fluently though? I take Chinese 3 honors at school and half the time I have no idea what my teacher is saying… reading, I’m okay at. writing is really hard for me because it takes me a while to memorize how to write words lol I think I’m going to take ap Chinese in senior year though, but id prob struggle a lot…</p>
<p>@enotramsolleh- omg I just realized that your username is “hello smart one” backwards! haha but I think that junior yr would be super hard for me then, cuz id be taking AP classes and it’ll take me a while to adjust… oh well!</p>