"Light" and "Heavy" AP courses

mathmom
Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:25:00 +0000

@toowonderful interesting.

In our school AP World is the first history AP mostly because it gets combined with the required Global History requirement of NY which is a two year course - so the AP kids cover both the leftovers of the GH curriculum and the AP curriculum as sophomores. My younger son took it the first year it was offered. He got a 5, but many of the better students in the class did not. I think he had the advantage of a lot of outside knowledge, and just being a good test taker. We offer APUSH junior year which is the standard year for regular US history - at least when my kids took it the English teachers were teaching American lit to go along with it. IRCC 70-80% got 4s and 5s. Seniors take AP Euro. It had one of the best teachers in the school and also had a very high pass rate. No one took it who wasn’t interested in the subject. AP Gov and AP Econ were combined with the NY Econ or Gov semester requirement. Generally taken as seniors - considered easy.