<p>the title says it all…what do you believe are the most uncommon AP tests to take?</p>
<p>Psych, human geo, and enviro science (mostly because it’s pretty pointless)</p>
<p>umm not really alot of people still take them…the most uncommon is probably Studio art only about 1300 ppl take em or someting not alot at all</p>
<p>Latin literature. </p>
<p>Do I need to say more?</p>
<p>And about 13,000 people take Studio Art, not 1300.</p>
<p>Not alot of people take studio art partly because it requires you to submit a portfolio that must be prepared beforehand.</p>
<p>Hmm, that’s strange, studio art is third most popular class in our school, hmmm, and we don’t even have a very strong art program, but oh well.</p>
<p>does anyone have the numbers for how many people take the tests overall?</p>
<p>Art History</p>
<p>probably any of the foreign languages</p>
<p>AP Computer Science, the second level, that test was pretty obscure!</p>
<p>In response to your question studentforever, the numbers from the previous year can be found on collegeboard.com. Look into AP tests, then select a specific test. In the right margin there should be a link that says distribution. If you click that a table will come up which incorporates that statistic.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can look at the test numbers on the website. Studio Art: 3D is the most uncommon, but Studio Art as a whole is not too uncommon. French Literature is first or second (depending on whether you count 3D art as a separate test), and after that is Latin Literature and then Latin Vergil, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Here’s the list with each subject listed separately [from least taken to most taken] along with the percent of students who get a 5 [based on 2005 results]:</p>
<p>French Lit <strong><em>1,835</em></strong><strong><em>25.8%
Stud. Art:</em></strong> 1,869______ 9.7%
Latin Lit __________ 3,530_____ 17.9%
Latin: Vergil_______ 4,362______ 18.7%
German Lang______ 4,621_____ 24.6%
Comp Sci. AB______ 5,097_____ 31.2%
Music Theory______ 9,887_____ 18.2%
Stud. Art: 2-D_____ 10,111_____ 9.3%
Physics C: E&M____ 11,177_____ 30.4%
Stud. Art: Drawing_ 12,274_____ 11.8%
Span Lit._________ 13,712_____ 11.8%
Comp Sci A_______ 13,924_____ 17.9%
Human Geo_______ 14,139_____ 14.7%
Comp. gov & Pol___ 14,447_____ 14.3%
Art History________ 16,785_____ 13.8%
French Language__ 20,239_____ 14.2%
Physics C: Mech___ 23,505_____ 23.8%
Microeconomics___ 32,359_____ 8.1%
Enviro Science____ 38,104_____ 9.3%
Physics B________ 46,971_____ 14%
Macroeconomics__ 48,319_____ 14.3%
Calculus BC______ 54,415_____ 43.9%
World History____ 64,207_____ 10.2%
Statistics_______ 76,786_____ 12.6%
Chemistry_______ 78,453_____ 15%
Euro History_____ 85,427_____ 11.8%
Psych__________ 87,207_____ 19.2%
Span Lang.______ 98,245_____ 20.4%
Biology_________ 121,446_____ 18.2%
US Gov_________ 129,323_____ 6.5%
Calculus AB______ 185,992____ 20.7%
Eng. Lang.______ 230,709____ 7.5%
English Lit.______ 260,958____ 8.1%
US History______ 285,368____ 9.2%</p>
<p>Interesting. By the time I graduate I will have taken both the most common and least common tests, and several in between. I’m surprised that Comp Sci AB is so rare, too- at least that it’s less common than Music Theory.</p>
<p>i am completely surprised that only 7-8 percent of those students who took the two english exams got 5s. I found to be fairly easy…</p>
<p>I definately think the English Language test are hard. For me, it was much more challenging than USH or Calc AB. At my school, only 2/58 kids got 5’s, and only 11 more got 4’s. Seems pretty tough to me.</p>
<p>see i hated the calc AB exam. i had to take the class online and when i got to the tests there were things that i had never seen before. haha</p>
<p>I didn’t think Lang was hard, either. All my friends and I got 5’s. Our teacher didn’t give us many essays or multiple choice practices either.</p>
<p>Most students don’t take both AP English exams, which makes English the most popular AP exam by far. Thus, you’re bound to have a lot of poor students in that pool.</p>