How much time do you spend on homework per AP class you take? For example, how much time would you spend on homework each day with 1 AP, 2 AP’s 3 AP’s, 4 AP’s, etc.
That will be dependent upon the AP class and the teacher - there is not standard. IME, assuming a yearlong course that meets daily for 45-50 minutes, the more time intensive APs, like Calc, Chem are about 45-60 minutes per night and the less intensive classes like psych or gov are 20-30 minutes per night.
I take 2 APs and the rest honors:
Chinese III Honors: 3 hrs/wk
Chemistry Honors: 3 hrs/wk (+ <8 hr/wk if there is a test)
AP Euro: 20-60 min/night (+3 hr/wk if there is a test)
World Lit Honors: <40min/wk if there are no essays or projects
AP Computer Science Principles: typically finish homework @ school, but occasionally I will have homework that will take <2 hr/wk
Algebra II Honors: 10-90 min/night (+3 hr/wk for quiz, +6 hr/wk for test)
Lifeguard Training (PE class): typically there is no hw, but if there is, <10 min/night
@skieurope is right in that the time will vary.
However, I am in one AP right now: World History, and for me, it depends on the day. On days when I have homework, it takes around forty to eighty minutes. However, around sixty percent of the class days have homework, so I don’t always have it.
Have a good day!
I’m currently taking AP Calculus BC and AP Psych. I typically have over an hour a night for AP Calc and about two hours a week for AP Psych, depending on the week.
This is/was for me, personally, on a typical weeknight:
APES: none
AP Psych: 30 mins
AP World: 30 mins
AP Physics 1: 20 mins
AP Computer Science Principles: none
AP Calc AB: 10 mins
AP US History: 40 mins
AP Spanish Lang: none
AP US Gov: none
AP Chem: none or 90 mins
AP Lit: 40 mins
This was just me, my teachers, and my school. I’m a fast worker, and I tend to finish things in class or at school. Additionally, if homework isn’t graded and I fully understand the concept, I don’t do it. Everyone is different, so do not assume your experience will be the same as mine.
A typical semester long college course nominally has a workload of about 12 hours per week, including in-class and out-of-class time.
So a high school AP course that covers a semester’s worth of college course material over a year (e.g. psychology, statistics) should have a workload of about 6 hours per week. If the in-class time is about 4 hours per week, it should have about 2 hours per week of reading, homework, and studying outside of class.
But a high school AP course that covers two semesters’ worth of college course material over a year (e.g. calculus BC) should have a workload of about 12 hours per week. If the in-class time is about 4 hours per week, it should have about 8 hours per week of reading, homework, and studying outside of class.
However, actual time spent on college courses is somewhat less than nominal for most (lab courses, computer science courses with programming, art studio, and music performance are commonly among the exceptions), so actual time spent on AP courses covering the same material may be somewhat less than nominal-equivalent as well.
There can also be variation in that some instructors can make the course more or less work than typical.