Have any of you taken AP gov or ap world? How’s the workload?
My selected courses for next year, since I’m doing IB Diploma:
IB English A: Literature 1 HL
IB History of the Americas HL
IB Spanish B 1 HL
IB Anthropology SL
IB Physics 1 SL
IB Mathematics 1 SL
Creative Writing 1
Theory of Knowledge (Wednesdays afterschool)
Kind of scared since I’m taking Spanish at higher-level, but eh, I’m my teacher says I would be able to handle it. And I’m annoyed that I have to take Theory of Knowledge afterschool, since it’s 3 hours long. I’m just happy I have room to take Creative Writing, since it gives me time to relax from all my demanding classes and work on my writing portfolio. 
@1whatsmyname1 I’m in AP Gov now, it’s about 40 mins a night so far
@Spiral7 Thanks. Doesn’t seem too fun 
@1whatsmyname1 I’m taking AP World now. There are two teachers that teach it at my school and I got the one that is notorious for giving a lot of work, so the workload is a bit heavy but not too much. Maybe 2 hours a night on average. (But I’m kinda slow at doing homework.) Some days are more than that and some I don’t do any at all because the homework consists of assignment packets and essay packets, so technically you can choose when to do them as long as you get it done in time.
@Faultystart Ah. Our AP Physics C course is both Mechanics and E&M, although it apparently focuses more on Mechanics. You have to take AP Physics 1 to take AP Physics C, so I have to take physics both junior and senior year; I’m still deciding on my second science for senior year though.
@Cornbread1999 yeah I’m glad my school doesn’t have an AP cap; those who do decide to take two sciences + calc + APUSH in a year generally don’t have a very good GPA, so most people don’t do that, especially if they have major ECs. If anything, the AP cap for my school should be 3-4 in a year; we only have six periods, and for at least one course a year, no AP alternative is offered. I’ve never met anyone who’s taken 5 APs in a year at my school, and if they take 4, two are generally Stats and Psych, both of which are really easy. I am also glad my school doesn’t do weighted GPA/doesn’t rank, since anybody who took a schedule full of “easy” APs and a language that’s third level plus could have a fully weighted schedule, while someone who took 3 “hard” APs (and maybe an extra honors?) wouldn’t.
@dsi411 lol same situation for my world history teachers. if i i take it, im praying for the nicer one
@1whatsmyname1 Actually at my school the one that gives more homework is the nicer one. And he’s a better teacher too. More people get 5s with him as their teacher. So I guess it’s worth it.
@topaz1116 Our only requirement for AP Physics C is to take AP Calculus (I think, but am sure) BC while you take AP Physics C or before.
@Cornbread1999 Classical Mythology sounds fun! My school probably doesn’t offer enough APs to need an AP cap anyway… I wish could take AP Micro and Macro… They sound cool. I suppose senior years you could hypothetically take all APs…
@Faultystart I think there’s a concurrent Calc AB requirement for our Physics C course? I’d have to check, but I know several juniors who I know are taking Physics C next year and who are definitely not going to make it into Calc BC.
@topaz1116 I double checked the requirements for AP Physics C at my school and you have to be enrolled in or have taken AP Calculus and Chemistry.
I don’t think they even have AP Physics C at my school. They have Physics but they just call it AP Physics (or SL Physics if you’re in the IB program) so I’m guessing it’s 1 or A or whatever it’s called.
@topaz1116 lol the parents are screaming for an AP cap, while us students are protesting it.
@Cornbread1999 at our school, if there was an AP cap, everybody would protest it. Except maybe some of the lower-achieving students.
We got six new members for the club I run at the middle school today! Another person came to check it out, but I think he just came because his friend dragged him; he didn’t seem all that into the activity (and I really wish I had chosen a better one).
Got 2nd place in my school’s Science Fair for the Chemistry category! Pretty happy, wish I got first, but content that I placed at all. Now to move on to regionals…
So my school is letting juniors take BC calc next year!!! I got recommended so I’m going to a meeting thing about it next week. I still don’t know if I’ll take it because I wouldn’t have any math to take senior year besides AP stat…
@iamnotironman What would you have taken if BC Calc was not available?
@dsi411 AB calc, then BC senior year.
@iamnotironman that’s great 
If there’s any course my school’s picky about, it’s Calc BC–you have to have gotten at least a 90% in Honors Precalc both semesters (a difficult feat; all teachers had to curve the grades–my class’s was 85% is a 90%, while another’s was around 77% is a 90%). In addition, it’s the one course for which getting a teacher signature on your schedule forms is actually somewhat difficult. As most people at my school don’t take Calc AB then Calc BC, getting into BC is the life goal of many.
@1whatsmyname1 I’m in AP Gov. It is really fun. We get less than 30 min of homework a night