What are the 3 hardest AP classes and tests?

whs2012
Mon, 20 Jun 2011 18:50:55 +0000

Guys, I think its really subjective. Like for World History AP, my teacher left after like 2 months because she was on bed rest due to her pregnancy and we had substitutes for the entire school year. I received a 1 on that exam. Thus, I really have no say in how hard the class or the exam is. If I knew nothing on the exam, that doesn’t mean it was necessarily hard…I just never learned the material…bcuz I had no teacher.

On the other hand, at my school, no one has the nerve to sign up for AP Chemistry. This year (or should I say last year?) we only had 5 students in our class. You can’t say a class is hard if 90% of the people in your class are failing the exam by the way. How well your class performs generally depends on how your teacher prepares you.

For AP Chem, the class was intense and I probably cried a few times in the school year (our valedictorian who got accepted to Harvard also cried several times), but everyone in my class scored solid 5’s on their practice exams. Every student my AP Chemistry teacher has ever had received a 5 on the exam. So if you ask me which class was the most difficult, I’d probably say AP Chemistry. But if I had any other teacher for that class, I probably wouldn’t feel the same way.

Pretty much what I’m saying is the rigor of the class isn’t really based on the subject (more or less) but the teacher. Think about it. If you had an EXCELLENT teacher for AP Physics C and an EXCELLENT teacher for AP Spanish, you’d probably think equally of them. Usually (I had this conversation with my counselor during the school year) if students perform poorly in a class, it’s most likely due to past teachers. Like if you had a bad teacher for Algebra 1, your screwed all the way through calculus. If you had a bad teacher for Spanish 1, your screwed all the way through Spanish 4 AP.