Is AP Biology for me? (please help)

itsintheprocess
Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:37:36 +0000

@alondraaa I feel like the best option for you may be to ask any upper classmates you know who took this course, and who had the same teacher you will have to see how the workload is. Your questions seem to be more focused on how much time this course takes and honestly that depends on the teacher. I took AP Bio my junior year and I felt the workload was very light (both homework wise and study wise) in comparison to the other APs that I took that year. However I have a friend who attended a different highschool and she had the exact opposite experience with her teacher. I noticed someone else on the page posted about doing a summer assignment for AP Bio…I personally never had a summer assignment for AP Bio. How much homework is given is really dependent on the teacher. I will say that the lab reports did take around 4-6 hours for me, but that is because she wanted them extremely detailed, hand written, and color coded a specific way (again every teacher is different your teacher may not want detailed lab reports).

As for the material I can say that it wasn’t too difficult in comparison to the other APs I took during highschool. I did take Biology Honors my freshman year and I felt AP Bio was basically a continuation of that course with more detail on certain subject areas. Personally I feel that if you are willing to put in the effort to do the homework, study, and ask your teacher questions you should do well in the course.