@QuirkyClarkie Then yeah, it’s one exam per class. Since I’m taking 7 AP classes, I’ll take 7 AP exams (which each have 2 parts, free response and multiple choice).
@CCSenioritis I thought AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism and AP Physics C: Mechanics were two different courses.
I actually wish the math and physics offerings were more diverse. Since the highest math class available is calc BC, we don’t have calculus-based physics. I wish I could’ve taken calculus as a junior so I could’ve taken 4 physics courses and 5 math courses. Lol.
Wait… you’re not in Physics C? I thought you were. Trust me when I say Calc-based Physics sucks. Totally lost all interest in it after 1st semester and can’t leave it. It’s actually helped me decide to go into Finance as my major as opposed to Engineering.
@AMan236 We did AP Physics C: Mechanics material the last two weeks of school last year. It was a crash course on derivation and integration and then it was a cram session of all of the AP Physics C: Mechanics course followed by an old AP Physics C exam.
My Honors Physics teacher is teaching the class like it’s an AP class. The fact that I never took Pre-Calc makes me so confused in the class. I can’t switch teachers because he’s the only one teaching physics. @-)
I’m in AP Physics C Mech and our teacher told us there’s so little material to cover that we’ll be done by February. And we’ve already had a bunch of free days too. The only other AP Physics class we have is AP Physics 1 which most people go for, although there’s so much more material they cover. And the calc part in C is not all that bad. But then, different schools have different classes that are considered the hardest, so yeah.
Speaking of that, what do you guys consider the hardest AP classes at your school? Here, it’s AP Chem and AP Bio, for the difficult concepts, and AP U.S., for the workload.
My teacher has honors kids and will occasionally show them an AP problem then say “just to show you how smart my AP Physics kids are.” At the beginning of the year, he’ll tell everyone in both honors and AP Physics, “if you haven’t taken pre-calculus, you have no reason to be in my class. Go to your counselor and get out.” He also constantly reminds honors kids that they’re idiots.
The valedictorian was in honors physics and he told her class all of that, lol. She was pretty upset at him.
@nuimancel Here, there’s no class that’s difficult for its content, although some people do say AP Calculus BC and AP Physics 1 and 2 have the most difficult concepts (they’re really the easiest classes for me. It’s not that I’m trying to brag, but physics and math are my strengths–stick me in biology and I’ll understand nothing while everyone finds it easy…honestly don’t know how I pulled an A in AP Bio).
The hardest in terms of workload is AP English Literature. Holy…I run out of paper once a month and out of XL ink about that often as well. APUSH, under the instruction of the teacher that left last year, was pretty hard as well. I used to have to read 3 hours per night. But, last year when I had APUSH, I actually didn’t mind doing that.
Lucky! I wish I just had Mechanics, but I got both meaning we had to crunch everything together in such close proximity. Thank god we didn’t get tested over Universal Gravitation and Simple Harmonic Motion. I would have died.
Hardest AP is definitely Physics C, mainly because teacher glazes over topics on the basic level and then asks us the most abstract questions ever. And it’s so unpopular that it’s just one class period.
@ErenYeager I didn’t mean it was a bad thing that she was in there.
Just that my physics teacher connects anything below AP Physics with idiocy. He bumped her grade down to a 98 because he said an honors kid doesn’t deserve as high of a grade as an AP kid, so he won’t give them hundreds.
@newjerseygirl98 Samee, at my school there’s only AP English and AP Spanish, but, my school offers 2 years worth of college classes and they’re taken at the local community college.