<p>Lots of people say that taking AP courses causes them to do homework and study all day, but honestly, I took 5 APs last year and I did about 30 mins of homework each day. I think that if you use class time wisely, there shouldn’t be too mich left to do at home. So why do you all spend so much time on homework?</p>
<p>This past year, I screwed around in class a lot and spent way more time talking to friends/playing games on my phone than doing work. Then I came home and had a ****load of work to do… I’m gonna have to change junior year though.</p>
<p>I think a lot depends on the individual school. If a school routinely produces 5s on the exams, then I would say those kids study a lot, but if the school is apathetic towards the exam and just provides them to look good on transcripts, then studying wont have to be as in depth because they won’t need to extra knowledge for the exam.</p>
<p>It depends on the school, which I think is messed up! Like I have at least an hour if not more of homework in each subject and I know other AP classes in different schools where they barely have any homework.</p>
<p>LOL I don’t.
This year I slacked off BIG TIME. Seriously rofl. I learned about AP exams this year, and so I didn’t want to overwhelm myself with 5+ AP exams. I ended up taking 3. </p>
<p>Since I have really easy electives (my school has awful academics and offers barely any APs lol), I rarely ever had homework. I did have trig pre-calc, but the teacher was lax and only assigned ~20 problems each night. I finished them all in less than 10 minutes during lunch and so didn’t have to worry about that. For APWH and English, I did have to spend more time, but my English teacher hates grading and so we didn’t have assignments too often. When we did though, I procrastinated until 9PM the night before and stayed up until ~1 finishing my essays. WH same thing. Before 9PM, I basically watched anime/kdrama/etc and slacked off doing nothing proactive whatsoever. </p>
<p>I didn’t even spend an hour each night studying for my APs or SAT II. (Glad I didn’t though lol). I pretty much slacked off every weekend until two days before the AP psych exam. On Sat/Sun of May 5/6, I studied 16 hours straight per day, and then the same thing for bio. WH was on a Thursday and so I had to study on school nights, but yeah. I didn’t study for that prior to Monday either lol. I just crammed two nights before and still managed a 5.</p>
<p>I guess it all depends on the school. I know some people go to schools with rigorous curriculum and find themselves getting ~4 hours of sleep every night, but that’s not the case with me. If I do get 4 hours of sleep at night, it’s because I decided to stay up watching TV, not doing homework…</p>
<p>OP, either you worked a lot on the weekends or your AP courses were a lot more lax than mine. I admit that I didn’t use my time as wisely as I should have, but 30 minutes each day seems ridiculously easy</p>
<p>30 minutes a day? That sounds heavenly… I normally spend 3-4 hours on homework a day, sometimes more if I have a test the next day or something. Basically I go home, eat a snack, do whatever extracurricular I have for the day, have dinner, shower, do my homework, and go to bed. I live a thrilling life, I know.</p>
<p>4 hours is insane. I did have homework every day in APWH, but the homework usually took me no more than 10 minutes so I usually didn’t do it until morning of the class. 4 hours every night? I only study for 4 hours if I have an essay due. :x</p>
<p>And I am a crammer. I never study for tests early, especially for school tests. /SOLAZY
My day: Wake up late, get ready in 5 minutes, off to school, finish most homework during boring classes and lunch, go to practice, get home at around 7, watch kdramas and do random things to kill time until ~9 to 10PM, do any homework I haven’t done already, kill some more time, fall asleep listening to my iPod.</p>
<p>/brick’d</p>
<p>I finished everything in school for 5 AP courses and 1 AP-level engineering course in school. Everything but projects and essays and such, of course. Most of my time was spent doing ‘administrative’ crap that comes with coordinating 3-5 clubs as president or team captain and working on my space experiments/working at the National Institutes of Health. </p>
<p>Normal homework was always done in school, though.</p>
<p>I normally spent 1-3 Hours on my AP Stats homework, but I had the class every other day because of how the school is scheduled. The next day I would have practically none. But then my teachers are weird, 2 weeks before school ended, I had 3 projects due with 2 AP tests going on at the same time. I never had the time to do homework during school.</p>
<p>My AP classes gave a LOT of homework, especially apush! I would spend hours on homework at night, even though I would use free time during the school day to work on some of it. I did get good scores on my AP tests though ;D</p>
<p>I hope Senior year is better about the amount of homework! I feel like sometimes I waste my time in class doing boring busy work :l</p>
<p>Usually it was 3 hours and on a good day perhaps 2, but I doubled up in math and didn’t have any easy electives with little homework. So 4 hours was not out of the ordinary. If my homework took 30 minutes a day, maybe I wouldn’t mind going to school… Reading for AP English took up a lot of time, plus AP Stat had some lengthy problems with a lot of writing and calculator punching.
My AP Bio teacher wasted a lot of time in class due to know-it-all students who loved to pull random facts out of their butt just for the sake of showing up the teacher. I had tests nearly every week and studying took up a lot of time because class would leave me clueless to some topics. I didn’t do too hot on the AP exam but I’m glad I passed.</p>
<p>I usually spent between 0 and 15 minutes a day on homework (except for occasionally days where I spent 2-3 hrs).</p>
<p>For example, AP stats class was so easy that I basically BS’ed all the homework and paid half attention in class, and still got a 5 on the AP exam.</p>
<p>seems like people either spend lots of time or very little time =P
i took calc, chem, physics, econ and human geo. got a 5 on all except chem (which I’m unhappy about T_T)
well, we mostly just got textbook problems from books so i usually finish in class. and as for projects, we also get 1-2 classes to work on them. guess I’m lucky I have easygoing teachers ^^</p>
<p>Homework does not take me much time at all. AP Chem hw I got done in class. AP Euro homework was reading every night from the book and answering questions, which really gets annoying and tedious, but it’s not difficult by any stretch of the mind. Math was a joke. No work to do there. English had reading every night or so, which took a while when we were reading things like Crime and Punishment or Native Son (at least in the first few chapters). That took about 20 minutes.</p>
<p>All in all, I wouldn’t spend over an hour or so on my homework IF I focused. If I was distracted and going on Reddit, etc. while working, then it would take several hours. I had marching band during the fall for three hours a night on top of this, and I managed.</p>
<p>Took 4 AP classes junior year, and I had about 4-5 hrs a day. Some days where I had like literally a test in every class, I would stay up to 1 or 2 am the night before. But I guess its the type of person I am- I really want to make sure I know the material. But for me, apush and eng lang required the most effort. Eng lang at my school is crazy hard.</p>
<p>I had about 3 hours a night junior and senior year (senior year was a bit more). 5 to 10 hours most weekends. I rarely did homework in class, and don’t study much, but I am a perfectionist.</p>
<p>2 APs junior year but my hardest classes were Honors Comp (rough) and Honors Am. Lit (hard but not as bad). 45 mintues of study hall that I didn’t count in my homework time.</p>
<p>3 APs and 3 college classes my senior year. Hardest classes were AP English, AP Bio, and Critical Thinking (not honors/AP but hard and interesting). 90 minutes of study hall that I didn’t count in my homework time.</p>
<p>I have minimum two hours every night [if I’ve got light homework in every class and no imminent tests or papers], for which I’m just a little bit grateful for the mandatory two-hour study hall every night [an hour and a half on friday]. But normal homework is usually around three hours I’d guess, and often more. Through in mandatory sports and clubs/ECs and I have very little time.</p>
<p>Also…Saturday classes should not be legal.</p>
<p>I usually get all my homework out of the way at the beginning of the week. First semester with 2 harder AP’s and 2 honors I had 2 hours a night of reading and homework maybe 3 if i was slacking off. I could have probably gotten done in 90 minutes if i buckled down but i get off task easily. 2nd semester with 2 AP’s I found easy and 1 honor and 1 elective i only had 1 hour at most. I also had clubs and sports after school so i was pretty busy. I will be even more busy this year with 6 AP’s.</p>