I feel you guys, my grade in that class is really good and I understand the material easily, but there is soooo much work. My teacher just assigned a 50+ page ap test review test grade that is due whether you’re taking the test or not.
I have a friend who failed half the year and got a 4 on the test. I feel like AP human is hard due to the fact it’s a class that freshmen take and that smarter older students might find it easier, ig?
@@livispuzzled as someone taking ap chem apush ap lit and regular precalc before it becomes ap, ap chem especially is very tough but you will be fine i think
I think the actual teachers make or break AP classes. My AP Euro teacher got me so overwhelmed I dropped out of that class, but AP Bio with my teacher had me doing great and influenced my entire career path.
Funny, basically everyone agrees that my AP euro teacher is the best teacher in the school by a long shot, just so chill and makes it such a great experience.
@@masterball999gaming4 Exactly. People usually ask me about AP test or class difficulty and the only thing I can comment on really is class workload. In terms of exam difficulty, I don't think I'm very good at assessing its difficulty for others -- easy exams I sometimes think are relatively challenging and hard exams I consider mostly easy.
It depends. If u ask me if calc or physics was hard I would say no bc I’m good at math. But if u asked another person who was good academically but not the best at math they’d say it was difficult. U can’t judge the difficulty of a subject based on other ppls opinions, it all depends on the persons skill set
@@Dannalasapa that’s why you ask as many as you can for someone you can trust. The person you trust will try to give you a philosophical and helpful answer. Asking a bunch of people will lower the standard deviation of your sample mean in opinions
@Manga Realm that’s absolute bullshit, AP Chem has also a lot of calculation and if you don’t know at least pre calc then you’re fuck, as someone who got a 4 on the AP exam.
You just need to have a good foundation of chemistry, you definitely can do this!! Most my students are afraid of ap chem, but they did well at the end
God damn this comment section has let me know how lucky I am. AP Lit is literally just a normal English experience at my school. Very chill and not that much workload. Most of my classmates show up late everyday and barely read and everyone has above an 85. Even with all this our teacher is still making sure we're all set for the AP exam.
On the flip side, AP Human Geo is such an intensive and work heavy class that most people quit doing AP classes after it because they assume that every AP class is going to be like it. MINIMUM of 4 hours of homework every night. They literally warn Freshmen who take that they probably will 0 free time.
Didn't have Latin in our school, and our music department bragged about having $1M in their war chest. What posh place did you go to. Also what period of Latin did you study?
took latin since 5th grade but the AP Curriculum was still hard af for me. somehow got lucky with the analytical essay prompt (likely saved my score) 😭
The easiest AP is the one that you are good at, and the hardest one is the one that doesn't make sense to you. Honestly, there are way too many factors that go into if a class is easy or not. Past experience, natural understanding, quality of teacher, etc.
I agree with the factors part, but you could be really good at calc and still flunk the ap exams. The exams are nothing compared to what you are originally“good at”.
Yeah I found Spanish Lang to be super easy. I’m also taking Lit and Psych right now, and those aren’t too difficult, however Human and World I hated a lot:
I think the biggest factor to the difficulty of a course is the teacher you end up having. All of the AP’s listed in “drop out” were ones I took but was fortunate to have very good teachers for. The material isn’t easy per-say, but a good teacher will make it feel very doable!
That’s 100% true. People generally see APUSH as pretty hard but it was one of my easiest classes last year. Pretty much got all the info I needed in class and had barely any homework. Teacher made it ridiculously easy to do well on dbqs because he had a ridiculously formulaic approach to them. Like you knew the entire structure, sentence by sentence, before getting the prompt.
My current AP Calc AB teacher, according to my entire class (myself included,) doesn't explain the concepts any well. He also makes a LOT of mistakes despite having the answer sheet with him... but this isn't particularly what makes me upset. It's that whenever we ask anything about the steps or what did he did, we get hit with the "You learned this before so I won't explain."
On the flip side, some AP teachers are really good but unempathetic teachers. They are great at teaching but will ruthlessly throw unrealistic amount of assignments like you have no other classes to focus on. I had two of these ppl. I think they do this to make sure they get their students get good scores but some of it definitely should have been extra credit or something- wayyyy too much.
The only true AP class I took was Spanish language we have a way better program called college in the highschool but it gives guaranteed credit if you pass with a 70. But the point is yes it absolutely depends on the teacher, I dropped out halfway through the year not because of the material but because the teacher drove me crazy and did a terrible job in general.
I 100% agree. I got a 5 on APUSH last year while now, I feel like I’m BSing my way through Seminar. My APUSH teacher really helped me think historically while my Seminar teach is sometimes as clueless as us (which I don’t entirely blame on her since this is the first year we have Seminar in our school)
I took AP Bio, AP Lang, and APUSH my sophomore year with absolutely zero clue as to what AP was (transferred from a different country). So many tears were shed 💀
@@ezequielperez8535 well I’m not really a foreigner, I’d just been outside the US for middle school 😭 tbh I might as well had been a foreigner bc I came from a different school system too, so I had no idea how anything worked
I've taken both AP Lit and lang and they're honestly pretty easy exams to pass. The classes themselves can be a lot of work but conceptually they're not complicated
Just talk about Frankenstein and you are good for AP lit. For AP lang, just write with a similar structure and you are golden. I cannot read for shit, so I would get like a 40% on the MC, and then just write 7-9s on the essays. Passed both AP exams that way.
My AP Lang teacher is someone I’ll never forget. She was absolutely brutal and wouldn’t hesitate to tell you your writing sucked. That being said, she prepared us so well for the exam that I was almost worried about how suspiciously easy it was. Shoutout to you, Ms. Taylor.
I also had a somewhat tough AP English Language and Composition teacher in 12th grade. For starters, I had to read 25 to 30 pages at home on average a day (which took me 30 to 35 minutes a day[I try to read carefully]). In addition, I had to doing reading plus reading comprehension, writing or vocabulary homework (some of the esoteric 12th grade vocabulary words I learned in that class were: deleterious, esurient, surreptitious, colloquial, conflagration, sybarite, venerable, idiosyncrasy, panacea, penurious, etc.). In other words, I spent nearly an hour on AP Language and Composition class at home nearly everyday. Furthermore, for essays, he was strict on formatting (usually he wanted either MLA or APA or Chicago formatting), page count (first essay was 4-5 pages and the final essay/research paper was 7-8 pages), sources for research papers (he does not want us to use Wikipedia or any source similar to Wikipedia or use any kind of corporate news media as sources), and submission time (if you were late to class and handed your essay to the teacher, he is going to mark 10 percentage points off your essay and this was the first offense). Second offense, he will not accept the essay and you get a zero. Third offense, and you fail the class. Plus, for 4-6 page essays, he gave us 2-3 days to write. For 7-8 page essays, he gave us 4-5 days to write. I learned a lot from my English Language and Composition teacher's class and it did prepare me for college.
@hsAndDreams --- I got a B- the first semester and a C+ (second semester) in that class (both semesters) and got a 2 on the exam and I was not even slacking off. Also, at my high school and if you were in 12th grade for English you had three options for English: 1. the regular 12th grade English. 2. AP Language and Composition which I went with (11th graders can also take that class too). 3. AP Literature and Composition which was the hardest option (I would not recommend this option unless if you really are good at English and enjoy English. Also, the English Department strongly recommended students pass AP Language and Composition before taking this class.) That said, AP Language and Composition class did prepare me for college level English.
As someone who is taking AP Chemistry, Don’t even consider taking the class if you don’t have a well-above average memory and good math skills. If you lack either of those (like me), it will be a grueling uphill battle from day 1 to the last day until summer break.
Ap chemistry is the only ap class ive ever taken. I think it's definetly hard and this is coming from a kid with a gpa of 3.6 but I don't think it was that bad just stay focused but if you are looking into GETTING A LIFE then you will die :). Im passing the class with a high A and i think I did really good on the exam but yea. I also took honors chem though and got the same teacher so I knew what to expect. Most of my class never took honors chem so it really just comes down to if you have the time and dedication. personally i never really studied for the ap exam itself, because my ap chemistry class was harder than the actual exam.
@@Jacobkrukas3482 Yeah, I didn't agree to taking AP seminar. My school just didn't switch me out since they only had about 22 students total for the course. 😅
Music theory should really be in the “depends” category. I have perfect pitch and a big music background, so I took it as a freshman and easily aced everything, got a 5. Other people really struggled to get the concepts that were already hard-wired into me. It’s not fair but it is the definition of a “depends” class.
Same, I was the only guy in the class and we managed to finish in a semester when it’s designed for a whole year. It can be pretty easy to just know your stuff and blow through it all
@@shuatock8216 I feel like we could’ve gotten everything down in a semester, too, but the class was very chill and slow-paced. We spent much of our time practicing with the figured bass/roman numeral thing, then by the time we got to the actual AP multiple choice in March 2020, COVID happened and the exam was online, didn’t really learn anything else that year. The exam was just a figured bass question, a Roman numeral question, and 2 sight-singing questions. It was a weird year.
That sounds like you were just really advanced going into it. It’s like if you took AP Spanish when you already speak Spanish, these rankings aren’t for people like you they’re for the average student
@@swagger5455 Yes but what I’m saying is that AP Music Theory usually IS like AP Spanish for someone who speaks Spanish already. If you don’t already know a lot of theory, it’s very unlikely you’ll ever take it anyway. For the average person, AP Music Theory would potentially be the hardest one there is since it skips a lot of stuff that you’re assumed to already know. Like, A LOT
College student here: don't take AP lit, just wait until college and take English composition. Especially if you're going to a large university, professors usually have specialty classes that take care of the credit. I took an English composition class with the topic of: "Superheros and monsters, and the relation between the two." Really fun class, easy A. My final paper was an analyst between Raiden and Senator Armstrong, and their relations with collectivism and individualism respectfully.
As a lit student I’m feeling this hard with exam day approaching. I was expecting the class to be like 40% nonfiction and 60% fiction and mostly based around how to dissect and construct stories along with general improvements on your ability to write. Instead it’s mostly been some short stories with a lot of poems mixed in, almost all of which have been fiction, the only one which wasn’t being a poem I was allowed to choose for an essay. Don’t get me wrong, I like reading and I got a 5 on the language exam but the shear volume of anachronistic stories and specifically poems is ridiculous. The poems specifically tend to be very subjective in their meaning and tone and it can often lead to really conflicting opinions on a text, and if your option doesn’t align with a test maker’s you’re screwed. The best example of this I can think of is the poem I chose for one of my essays, “the Foggy Dew”, by Charles O’Neill. “The Foggy Dew” can and has been interpreted to have two VERY different meanings over its one hundred year existence, as either an incredibly solemn poem focusing on the loss of a failed rebellion, or as a hyped up nationalist call to arms to rebel against colonial rule. Both interpretations are correct but only one can effectively be put on a testing sheet and so if you choose one your wrong on the other. I’ve seen this for plenty of poems in the class thus far and I honestly view it as somewhat stupid especially since many of these poems are from a time before we had standardized writing and so the older forms of English and writing needlessly complicate things on top of the already difficult material. I spoke to one of my former AP teachers, who also happens to teach 12th grade English, and she wasn’t surprised at the volume of older works but openly voiced he discontent at it alongside mine. It’s not a good way to get kids interested in the subject and it actively turns them away and I can say from personal experience that I haven’t gained much as a writer from this class that I didn’t already learn through independent reading or through AP English language which did a much better job at what AP Lit fails to do. The class is far to archaic and that makes it needlessly difficult in what should be a relatively easy subject. Kids wouldn’t have a problem taking an AP course like this if they could analyze modern rap songs, movies, and TV shows. Writing has evolved since the days of Shakespeare and we don’t need to rely on stage plays and poems to teach kids when they’re already 400 years ahead of it.
@@motivationallizard6644you’re making it sound a lot more complicated than it is and honestly just sounds like you’re getting lost in the sauce. Ap lit was one of the easier aps for me because everything is so formulaic. The essays are the same thing over and over. The only time you have to think is when you expand on evidence
AP Lit and lang really depend on who’s teaching it. I basically was on autopilot AP lang all year and got a 4 with an A for the year as my class grade and lit is going about similar rn. They are annoying classes in the way that they both take massive amounts of linear repetition to improve and I imagine from what I hear many teachers are missing that element
It also depends on the student's reading and writing level. If anyone did well on the SAT and/or ACT reading and writing, then AP Language and maybe AP Literature is going to be a breeze for them. Also, at my high school, high school seniors can take AP Language as a substitute for AP Literature or regular 12th grade English. I know I got a C+ in AP Language and Composition but I got a 2 on the AP exam in my senior year. Books that I read in my senior year for my AP Language and Compositon class: "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe and "On writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King. While I did not pass the exam, it prepared me for Freshman Composition in college.
@@zKavv Fortunately it doesn't mean much where I live but yeah Browning will crush you. What's so weird is that I am now doing the same quality of work and now getting 100%, 98%, and 100% on the past 3 assignments respectively. Makes no damn sense. I honestly think she just likes to crush dreams.
I'm currently taking AP psychology. I'm dying trying to understand this shit. The amount of research papers I have to read. If you see this message, do you have any tips?
@@rorymax yeah, I took my school's stats course. The reason why I got a 1 was because I was never able to understand the material, so half way through the year I started doing the bare minimum to maintain an acceptable grade. When studying for the ap test, I realized I retained absolutely no information, so I just took the L.
AP Chem was living hell, but it made chemistry in undergrad so much easier. I also had a former college professor of biochemistry at my HS (long story). Anyways he taught both preAP and AP Chem and most people hated him, but after a while you could tell he really cared. He said if you can pass my class you’ll pass everything that comes your way. Hell even some of the people who failed his class went onto do better later. He said I want you all to focus on learning more than a grade. Albeit he had a policy of in the preAP chem class if you got below a 80% then he wanted a conference with your parents. He did that on every exam. A lot hated that of course cause it’s embarrassing, but he really wanted to help us. He even said I could care less if my students dislike me if I can get them to be successful then that makes it all worth it. I can’t thank him enough I still keep in touch with him due to grad school and he always asks how well I’m doing. Also his personality is kind of like a toned down Rick Sanchez so outside of school he was cool to talk to.
@@railx2005yeah. People still complain about him from time to time. Sometimes to annoy me cause I’m one of the few that like him. I always think well I’m in pharmacy school about to make $$$ while you’re working at McDonalds or Hardee’s but go on. When I decided to be a tutor to the preAP chem students my senior year of HS one of the kids I was tutoring didn’t feel safe at home with his abusive parents. This teacher of mine told him “I’ll get you to a safe place if you want me to I can’t take you in, but if things get bad I’ll get the authorities to help you get to a safe place.” This teacher was a marine and is a great man. I don’t care what anyone thinks. I wish more teachers cared like he does. The world would be a much better place. I was blessed to have him as my chemistry teacher.
i think you learn chem way better during undergrad than in hs. i remember taking chem honors in hs and saying nah I hate chem, didn't bother taking ap chem. during undergrad, i killed chem so easily and it became my fav subject right next to ochem/biochem. in med school, this translated to me liking pharm because a lot of the fundamentals of pharmacology rely on them. tldr i dont recommend any ap classes to prep u for college cuz college classes are just easier than ap tests
wow thats interesting to hear. the core concept of using 12 variables and assigning them values based off of their distance between one another in a list is super basic the problem may have been your teacher or you just didnt care about the class as much as other math classes
I’ve also heard music theory is incredibly difficult. The tests are apparently like… 6 hours long? And you have to have multiple music credits to get into the class.
it’s closer to the language classes than any other. there’s 75 MC, half are aural (listening) and the other are non aural. then there’s 9 FRQs, the first four being different types of dictation (you hear something then have to write it), then 3 composition ones, then 2 sight singing. done one. by. one. you have to have prior musical knowledge to even understand the basics of the class. and most colleges don’t even take the credit, even if you get a 5. that shit is crazy man
i just took it and it was extremely difficult it was around two hours for me because there were 3 other people in the class that being said if you have a 30 person class sight singing itself is around 10 mins per person so yeah it could be long (because you can’t leave and have to wait in a room) also most of the test is on CD so that can be a bit of a challenge for proctors etc
It’s definitely one of the “upper level” AP classes. It’s hard even for those with a music background because most high schoolers are not that conscious of their ear. (Which is a way of saying most people can’t really hear stuff they think of and then get that out into physical space) I took it senior year and got a 5 but only because I took college theory and jazz harmony at the same time and even before. That’s kinda the hard part, the average high school musician regardless of skill on their instrument will still probably fail The majority of non-musicians will fail. It’s an incredibly unfair course but it’s a great class for those who want to go into music as a major and have a better than most grasp.
I barely passed the AP music theory exam with a 3 which Im proud since it was during online classes...but the test took like 4-5 hours from what i Remmember...there was a written portion, a multiple choice portion, and a listening/singing portion
Currently taking AP Chem. Honestly been keeping the range from 85-95 in my class I feel like it honestly depends on the person but I do understand how it’s a hard class.
That class pisses me off becuase I know I would've loved it so much had it been in person but it sucked so much over zoom. Labs were atrocious since we were just watching thebteacher do it trhoughbterrible video qualith, and also we blitzed throughh the content at an insane pace since the school distric decided to change smesters to trimesters that year for no reaso, a decisio that made it so all AP Classes would only be taught during the first and second trimester; obviously, the decision worked against every AP student so bad, as so many classes didn’t even come close to finishing the content *cough cough apush only got to the Industrial Revolution cough cough* while others like AP Chem finishing way too quickly (we were done with equilibrium before winter break). Tl; DR: Zoom year sucked
@@greekyogurt5014 learn the theory of how music has sounded good in the past and how to write your own "music" using those same 8th century procedures. It's like a math and a history class built into one. These "procedures" can be thought of like math theorems, and there are a LOT of them. You need to be able to memorize them and apply them as you see fit. On top of these procedures, you need to make the music fit with the time signature, the key signature, follow proper chord progression guidelines, invert/change the standard arrangement of chords, etc. etc. These things are also taught in the class, but you're expected to have prior knowledge about some of them. The exam consists of general questions, music-writings, audio excerpts which you have to answer questions based on, like what kinds of procedures were used and whatnot, and there is even a "sight-singing" section where you are given a sheet of written music and you have to sing it right then and there, without an instrument. To say it was hard is an understatement.
I only took one AP class, and it was AP music theory. One thing that we had to do was to learn all the different intervals (ascending and descending) by ear, and we were tested on it. So, they’d play two notes, one after the other, and you’d have to know what the gap was between the two notes. I would spend so much time in the computer lap using the Aurelia program (this was in 2006-2007) just listening and practicing over and over that listening skill. We also had to write 4-part music with the correct chord progressions with NO PARALLEL FIFTHS. And we had to be able to sight read and sing for the AP exam, which wasn’t a big deal for me since I have a choir background, but people in my class who were in band or orchestra were less confident about it. It was hard, but I learned so much about music.
Damn my school made you take biology and chemistry before that class and get at least a B in both. It would be so hard to do that without those classes first, it’s such hard material I definitely believe that you cried. That’s the only AP exam I ever completely gave up on and stopped answering the questions on. I got a 1 😂
Recently took the exam, but I kind of dropped the course after unit 3 cause me and the teacher had a bit of falling out and I just couldn't endure her. I still wanted to take it though cause I thought it would be easy. I ended up having to cram seven units worth of information in just three weeks cause I didn't allocate my time well enouugh and didn't have enough time to solve as much practice problems as I wanted to. I don't know how well I did, I might have passed, since I did have a pretty good understanding of the content by the end of that three week cram session but it was absolute hell. I feel lucky that I was able to comprehend a good majority of the questions at all. If your college major has nothing to do with science or chem, just drop the course.
with the right teacher, ap chem can be a breeze. i think the biggest struggle is the sheer amount of coursework and topics to cover before the exam, but i had an amazing teacher who was absolutely on top of it the whole year and taught things very well. also helped that we had MOUTAINS of homework too.. like several 20-page problem sets per week …
@@leif909 lmao i guess it also depends on the person too. i had some really amazing history teachers at my school but nothing in those classes made sense to me either 😭 teacher said something and i was like alright whatever you say ✍️✍️ glad to hear you have a good teacher though lmao
Goddamn, I was super hyped to take AP lit, AP bio, AP calc BC, and AP Lang (over the span of multiple years obv) RIP my social life, sleep schedule, and whatever happiness levels may linger in me
@@rorymax exactly! I have a better sleep schedule than all my friends (and no, it's not also the worst sleep schedule from all my friends) and I've taken 13 AP's and 9 Dual-enrollment classes going into senior sem 2! the AP workload really depends on your professor but generally 15% more than a regular class. (i.e., 8 hours of total work/instruction on a school day becomes 9 hours and 12 minutes).
@@anselerol2956 I’ve taken 13 AP classes and I believe 3 dual. I would tend to agree that the increase in work load isn’t entirely as substantial as some people say
i just got my schedule and apparently im taking it (i didn’t remember if it was this or smth else) so do any of y’all know how hard it is and what the basics are that it covers? im good with history but idk how similar this is with that
@@xixi69same I’m taking it as well but I’m just expecting a lot of work and I already had a quiz the first day of school since I had homework during summer (90 questions) send help 💔😭
AP Human Geo is not hard, i recommend practicing Frqs over and over again because there is always a chance that you make a mistake in those. i got 4 on the test btw.
AP Seminar is the hardest AP class I ever took. And I’ve taken 15. It is an insane amount of work. I was made to write a full annotated bibliography in 2 days (10 very long paragraphs that needed a lot of research) and for our mock presentations, we were usually given like a week to work on our presentation and essay simultaneously. Seminar is absolutely in no way easy, it gave me an unbelievable amount of stress. I took bio and world the same year and they were nothing compared to seminar, especially bio was a piece of cake.
That's the complete opposite of my experience. I'm still in the class, but the first few months were spent researching for our first essay. We could choose the prompt, and we had a group of 2-4 people to work with. We had to find like 10 sources to use for it, and after we wrote the essay, we had to make a presentation for it using all of the information we gathered for the essay. Then we have another essay with sources given to us by College Board. Overall it feels very easy, but it might just be the teacher for my class.
Wow, my ap seminar class rn is great, we’ve got time to write papers and everyone gets 100 since they’re just completion scores. AP chem is pretty good for me too….. but AP lang…… DROP OUT DROP OUT DROP OUT
I think AP world history is a lot harder than you say it is especially if you have only taken AP HUG or no AP classes before. It also depends on the teacher. The reasons for this are that if your teacher doesn’t really teach you how to do SAQ’s, DBQ’s, and LEQ’s (like mine) then the test is gonna be terrible, plus it just depends on if you have a good teacher or not. I just took the final test for it today and let’s just say that LEQ was not looking too good lol
Yeah for sure it's definitely a lot of material to cover and just a very diverse range of topics that are covered, I also took the test a few days ago and man I thought I absolutely bombed my LEQ
I’m one of those people who never had a honor or ap class before and it was a very different experience.If I’m being honest the only information that’s stuck in my head was from hiemler but I watched his videos literally 3 days before the exam.If I had more practice and different teaching method I think I would’ve done better from what I did.Ngl I probably got like a 2 or 3 on that exam Atleast I get an A in the class👍🏾
My country follows the baccalaureate system Our math curriculum is a mix of calc ab, bc, and a little more, pluse AP statistics Our physics curriculum is AP physics 1, 2, 80% of C And there's other subjects (60% of AP chem, politics, AP biology, religion studies, English, French, and Arabic) all of this is in one year and the final results are the only determent for college admissions and majors here 😢
If APWH is “not bad”, I’m terrified for “send prayers” APUSH 😳 Update: y’all I just took my APUSH exam and I think I did well! Definitely harder for me, but that’s because I process big themes better than specific events
I’m a freshman and have little time to decide, should I take APWH? The only AP I’ve taken is AP human geography and I got a low A. I’m also taking AP Pre Calc and APES next year so idk if it’s worth adding APWH.
@@wispyspirits2158 Honestly the strategy I had that worked the best was starting every piece, getting to the outlining sketching stage and then working on each piece a little at a time, so that when I hit a wall with one I could switch to a different one
@@wispyspirits2158 I highly recommend sketching out thumbnails any time you think of an idea for a piece. Even if you just jot down random words to jog your memory for when it’s time to start another piece. Deciding on a topic for a piece can often be one of the hardest parts when you don’t know what to do for a piece you aren’t motivated to get it done, thus falling behind.
Ap art is defientnyl hard if you aren’t motivated or don’t feel skilled enough or don’t have an cohesive idea of what you like and want to explore. It was very easy for me because this is something k was very passionate about, I know it was hard for some because they thought it was gonna be easy class but they had no idea what their portfolio theme was at all. Basically plan and have an idea
Look guys ,it’s all about what u are already good at , for me , I have taken chem and calc bc . It’s becuz I already have a lot of insight into them as I also prepare for jee exam: (the worlds most toughest phy,chem,math exam) , if u are good at it , u will nail it . Don’t fall for such videos
Took German in high school all four years and AP in my senior year. I had a really great teacher and I had a pretty solid grasp of the language at that point so it was mostly easy for me. The most difficult part is sticking with it and applying yourself. Not everyone was able to pick it up as easily as I was however… In German 3 I knew students who always struggled. One dude I knew was a nice guy but for his sanity, I hoped that he wouldn’t try for another year. His lack of progress would have made German AP increasingly more difficult unless he studied twice as hard as everyone else *at least.* My best piece of advice for learning any language is, “Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.” -John Cleese. The students who were least afraid to make mistakes often did the best. And boy was my guy afraid to make mistakes.
as someone who took an AP art class, I thought it was very difficult. It doesn’t seem like it would be, but setting your own assignments, coming up with your own time limits, creating a premise and making 15 pieces based around it and working for an entire year to finish it, only to submit it and be graded on a scale of 1-5 was pretty hard. Im in art school now and I would say that the ap class was about the same level of difficulty.
I agree with everything except that it's 15 pieces, it's not necessarily 15 whole finished pieces you're able (and encouraged) to add process pictures, slides, and revision items which definitley takes a load off and makes sense with how the written questions are built.
The difficulty didn’t even come from your ability to do art, it was more from your ability to time manage yourself over an entire school year with all the other things you also need to do. Everyone in my class was competent at drawing but almost all of us had terrible time management and working habits which made the class painful for everyone
My best advice is to take the AP classes with content that you're actually interested in and want to learn. I chose AP Macro over AP World this year for my social studies class- partly because everyone in my school was freaking out about how hard World is, but also because I knew I needed some sort of economics course and I love geography (not history; there's a difference) and math. Turns out that MacroEcon is a hard class and my grades are lower for me (Gifted Kid™️) but it's rewarding at the end and I enjoy the content so far. As a side note- AP Stats is a breeze for me.
Bro my AP theory class was like literally impossible for everyone that didn’t have perfect pitch (which isn’t something you can learn) because my teacher didn’t teach us at all about ear training or sight singing, and just expected us to know how to practice (and actually practice) every single day. I got a 100% in the class because I’m good at learning what the teacher covers, but I got a 2 on the AP test. He literally didn’t even tell us there was an app they used for sight singing and wasn’t there the day we took the test because he had to “rake his grass” (direct quote)
I disagree cus I remember theory being mostly focused on the visual aspects of written music. And it really depends on your teacher. Only one kid in my theory class had perfect pitch, I have relative. You do have to have a good ear but since they give you a starting note for the sight reading it isn’t necessary. It comes down to being disciplined and actually practicing at home. Being a pianist or singer definitely helps.
@@bookwormd8627 I went in as a percussionist who learned keyboard by myself enough to write some stuff in Logic Pro. I could read treble clef easily and knew the middle line was D on bass clef. That’s about all I had going in.
I skipped AP lang into lít due to a scheduling issue, and it was breeze, even after coming into the course 6 weeks late, got a five. However, I had literally the best teacher one could ask for.
@@chloecarnes8408 Delete this comment right now, pretty sure people actually check through accounts to monitor activity of students and stuff, better stay safe than sorry. Wish you luck 🤞🏼
Don’t let the difficulty of AP Physics C scare you. If your school has a good teacher like mine did, I think you’ll be ok. Personally, AP Physics C was my favorite class in high school. Each question is like a little puzzle to solve, and it’s actually pretty fun.
couldn’t agree more. i’m in it right now. Yes it is hard, but i actually enjoy it a ton and have a lot of fun. can’t say the same for my other classes. my teacher is incredible so i’d highly recommend taking it if theirs is good
I self taught myself physics c mechanics it wasn’t too bad since I was taking AP physics 1 concurrently while teaching myself c(my school didn’t offer c)
even if you dont do well you will have a huge head start in college. physics 2 is essentially just e&m and mechanics helps with statics, physics 1, and dynamics. if you want to do any form of engineering i strongly advise you take it.
@@krinamite7329 i do not believe people who say this. You probably did do effort during the whole year and just few days before the exam reviewed everything. You will never get a 4 without understanding and memorizing, and , most importantly , practicing...
Lol. Since it’s relatively new they MASSIVELY changed the grading from year to year. The year before I took it, 75% of our class of 35 people got 5s. My year, only 3 people got a 5, and most were 3s. That being said, the Capstone Diploma is idiotic and neither class taught me a thing
I took both when they were brand new at my school and they gave me mental breakdowns….but I was also the first one with a capstone diploma so that’s pretty cool
I say AP Chemistry should be in the Send Prayers list or in the drop out list. If anyone have good math skills and did well on high school chemistry, it would be send prayers for those people. If not, then definitely drop out from this class and take General Chemistry in college. I would also put AP Biology in the Send Prayers or in the drop out list. If you did well in high school biology and high school chemistry, I would send prayers for you. If not, then drop out or do not take the equivalent of this class until college. I had a friend who said his first semester of college biology was the equivalent of AP Biology in one year.
@@123ucr so, does that mean i should take AP Bio? I got 2nd highest score in the state during bio state test, and I never studied for the class either.
@@Human-sanit depends. It might just be how my school teaches freshman bio, but it was essentially just 8th grade science again. It’s a lot of studying and a whole different ball game than freshman bio
@@urmom.69420 --- Agreed. Not only do you have to memorize stuff in AP Biology, but you have to also apply the material. In other words, you need strong critical thinking skills to do well in AP Biology.
I got a B in AP US History. I got a 1 on the test. Free response questions and my inability to write a short essay on the spot killed me. Also took Psych and Stats, a 2 and a 1, respectively.
@@ragecounterfit309 that's real im surprised how bro got a B in the class, cus getting a B doesn't reflect a 1. It reflects maybe a 2/3 if you didnt study for the AP exam
For some reason I found AP Bio to be a lot easier than AP Stats, bio was much more interesting and engaging for me which is probably why it absorbed easier or something
@@UniqueRaliefor me, who had a really easy time in the class due to the lack of teaching by my teacher all year, the exam was very tough. I’ve never been all that interested in biology either. However, I ended up getting a 4 on the exam, which was definitely not the score I thought I was going to get. The difficulty of the class is very dependent on the teacher (in my case, it was an easy class but it screwed most of us over), so it might be worth your while asking people who have already taken the course at your school specifically what the class is like. :)
I took AP LIT. You'll do fine. The hardest part is formatting your annotated bibliography. I did just graduate with honors with my BA in English and Literary Studies, but I think that a lot of you guys that think you "suck" at English underestimate yourselves. You're awesome. ❤ That being said, as far as AP Human Geography goes-*sighs*-May whatever gods you believe in grant you the strength!
AP statistics was probably the easiest math class I took. Super easy to understand it was just the homework that killed me. Everyday i would have to do 12 questions and each question had an a, b and c section. It would end up filling up like 4 notebook pages front and back. Also took both AP lit and AP Lang and gotta say it really wasn't too hard. I think our teachers really helped us out with it tho and made us understand everything. All of my essays for these classes would come out minimum at a 85%. But for our mock essays for the AP exam I would get like a 2 or 3😭. Would not recommend AP lang/lit but would definitely recommend AP statistics.
That must be really horrible! If your teacher are good, ap chem is not that hard. Unfortunately many students had to seek tutor because the teacher didn’t provide enough in the class. Contact me if you need any help
how does everyone say AP Psych is easy… i seriously NEVER struggled THAT much in a single class my whole life. I LOVED the material too, but just couldn’t do well on the tests…. that’s it. the exams in that class SCREWED me and i almost had to drop out at the end of first semester. I got a three on the exam, and I am personally proud of it. Please someone talk to me bc yall make me feel like a loser
I have a bunch of friends in Ap music theory And from what I’ve heard average test scores are like 15-25/ 100 I new someone who got a 9 on a test once But it’s also curved so much
Took Seminar, apparently my teacher was a former college professor who did things “a bit differently” I had to spend the whole year struggling due to the strict curriculum in that class. I slept an average of 3 hours while taking that class and I actually celebrated after the AP exam cause I never had to be bothered by it again.
AP History classes aren't that bad from what I've heard. Just a lot of writing essays. Also regular physics was hard af for me when I was in high school. Even worse than chemistry. So I can't imagine it being anywhere else besides drop out.
It’s a college level course made for people who plan on pursuing art as a career, it’s all about skill gained over years before enrolling in the class, we’re not lucky, just that a lot of overconfident people sign up and fail
@@LycheeCore true but, some teachers recommend students like myself into their AP class .. and when your teachers/family see that “No” isn’t an option. I dropped out a week before finals due to my teacher expecting so much from me.
I took AP CS Principles and didn’t take the test because it was during the year Covid started. The teacher was horrible and we only used scratch the whole time. NOTHING ELSE. We only learned how to code in scratch. Once it was all online for Covid the teacher didn’t assign one assignment or even message us. I never did anything for that class once we went online.
@@annaclaire8778 honestly AP Lit is just reading comprehension but cranked up to 11. If you’ve ever found hour long TH-cam videos ranting about the moral nuance presented in movies, it’s the class for you
@@RiskierGoose340 ok so to be honest I'm not that good at reading comprehension. I'm kind of hoping that this year I get really good at it, and in hoping it helps that I am supposed to have a really really good AP lit teacher.
@@annaclaire8778sorry for being late, but anyways, since AP Lit is about recognizing themes and messages in works, I’d suggest starting from books that you’ve read and likes, and essentially working your way up to more complicated topics. Everyone knows that Fahrenheit 451 was staunchly opposed to the burning of books. Not everyone recognizes the additional messages portrayed in the book. And of course, having a good teacher is super important. It means so much to your ability to learn.
Update guys: I've been doing SOO well surprisingly. We have an essay a week in my class and are finishing up our Dune Unit. I have gotten 100s basically every assignment or quiz this year so yay! I will say, it really really does help to have a good teacher. I wouldn't have taken the class if it wasn't the guy I have as my teacher
Guys, although some of the AP classes deemed hard are actually rigorous and do require quite a bit of work, they are definitely doable! Just believe in yourself!
Bro, I took AP English Lit my senior year.. I was a stereotypical pot head slacker and passed with either a C+ or B- (can’t remember). I hand wrote an entire essay on Heart of Darkness in one 1.5 hour class block and turned it in last second before the bell rang. I did not deserve the amount of second chances Mrs. Morgan gave me… God bless that woman.
Lmaooo legit over half my class including me chose to read heart of darkness for our summer reading assignment since it was the shortest book. The look of disappointment on my teacher was palpable. I’m in the class still right now- it’s pretty ez especially compared to classes like physics C
@@whydoyouask709 everything is easy until you procrastinate too far. I didn’t even read the book, I just wrote an essay based on what I heard people talk about in class lol so dumb
I was in AP Lit. As an English major, I can confirm that it was one of the hardest tests I’ve ever taken. College classes are a walk in the park compared to the AP Lit exam.
@@user-vh9fp6fv6o it was last year. I know that makes me sound a little stupid because most college freshman classes are generally pretty easy, but I’ve still heard college seniors talking about how ap classes are harder than their classes lol
Honestly though, if you have a community college that lets you take classes. Totally worth it! Senior year I took Calc I, Comp I, Intro Psych, Intro Lit, and Intro Soc. Way less stressful than APs and I didn’t have school everyday so lots of naps and good food for lunch. Perfect plan to go in with a semester of college done and a chill Senior year!
dude i was in the hospital the night before my ap lit exam and like i still had morphine in my system when i sat for the test so i was falling asleep through the essay portion and i still got a 5 somehow, like this was 13 years ago so maybe things are different now or maybe it was just the biggest gigachad moment of my life
You should’ve seen the second prompt for the exam last year, it was some stupid ass story about an octopus walking out of the sea into a town and they wanted us to write a whole essay about it, but there was literally nothing of note to write about.
@@subtopewdipie4159 isn’t there a thing where theyd find u and delete ur comment if u talk about anything on the test at all (ik this makes no logical sense but idc) I made a 4 on the one ur talking about before I took the class and I made a 3 on ap lang after taking the class, sounds almost ironic lol I think it’s bc I was more tired
I struggled through AP Physics C, but the exam ended up being easier than expected as the work we did in class was harder than the test's criteria. I realized I knew more than I thought when I took the exam and I got credit. Keeping things conceptual felt easier than actually having to do the math like in 1 or 2.
ap american studies should be at the top. i had a seminar, and 2 units tests this week. i have a timed writing. and a seminar and a presentation back to back next week, the week after that i have a presentation and another test. i’ve only been getting 3 hours of sleep. and our teachers also don’t tell us anything abt the tests or assignments, we don’t even learn half the content, we’re just expected to know it. they don’t teacher history, they just throw random info at us and we have to deal with it. not the teachers fault at all, it’s just a super duper duper hard class.
AP lit was so rough. My ass somehow got an A- over the year but i was very much the jokey, not serious type. To the point i thought the exam was ranked on a 1-10 scale. (Idk why i thought this, maybe because our in-class essays were graded that way?). Well exam results come out and my teacher knew i was a ditz who scraped by for that A- and asks what i got (no ill intent) and I'm like "I got a 5 :(" thinking I'd shamed her by barely getting college credit. She looked at me like ????!!!! And was like "you know i get the results right????" And I'm like "yeah? I got a 5 tho. I'm sure (random student) probably got a 10 tho." And shes like "IT IS OUT OF 5" and i was MINDBLOWN lmaooo Apparently she talked about my feat (and stupidity) for a few years after that lol
My human geography teacher literally makes us write 113 pages of notes in 1 semester including 3 short responses and a long response per unit to prep for AICE exam Edit: forgot to mention physical geography is part of the exam too, it’s 2 parts
Music theory depends on how much you already know. I know kids that learned the piano over the summer and had a really hard time with it, but also know a lot of people with experience in music who find it really easy. And just to put it out there, while perfect pitch definitely helps with apmt, it doesnt matter too much. It literally just means you know what notes sound like without needing a relative pitch to compare it to, which you almost always have. Very much a “hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard” scenario lol
@@steve4718 just because he/she enrolled in those classes, that doesn’t automatically mean that he/she will get straight As in that class because of them being objectively the hardest. If that was the case then every single AP student would get straight As and that’s completely unrealistic because of how significantly harder AP classes are compared to a normal honors class. But I hope that person’s grades were good nonetheless.
I'm in Spanish lang right now after 1227 days on Duolingo and two years of classes at school and oh goodness, send prayers Edit: I passed it :D I'm seriously soooo glad
Honestly APush isn’t that bad, as someone who just took the exam the class overall wasn’t that bad. My school is different and we take the class sophomore year and the teacher made it a way easier experience, shoutout Mr.Mize. The exam was a bit tough but I thank a 4 is a possibility. Btw it sucks that AP chem is so hard because as someone who’s aiming to go to Michigan for pharmacy it’s kinda a requirement.
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Forgot about Human Geo - put it in easy.
Guess I'm an idiot cause I will fail the test.
Edit: I failed, got a 1
idk why but everyone says ap human is easy but i find it quite difficult rn. i think its bc of the amount of work my teacher gives us.
@@sanvisadangi2104 yea true
I feel you guys, my grade in that class is really good and I understand the material easily, but there is soooo much work. My teacher just assigned a 50+ page ap test review test grade that is due whether you’re taking the test or not.
I have a friend who failed half the year and got a 4 on the test. I feel like AP human is hard due to the fact it’s a class that freshmen take and that smarter older students might find it easier, ig?
You just listed all the AP classes I want to take as drop out
God rest your soul... By the end of the year you'll be DEAD 😭
I’m literally taking ap chem, apush, ap lit, and ap pre calc next year. probably going to die
@@livispuzzled as someone taking ap chem apush ap lit and regular precalc before it becomes ap, ap chem especially is very tough but you will be fine i think
@@livispuzzledim taking AP chem, pre calc, and gov.
I did ap Chem and lit in the same year and was fine - would not take Apush though; what’s the point?
I think the actual teachers make or break AP classes. My AP Euro teacher got me so overwhelmed I dropped out of that class, but AP Bio with my teacher had me doing great and influenced my entire career path.
Me doing my 8 pages of notes on the enlightenment era so I can take my 6 question quiz on the content and write an LEQ the next day
Fr, my euro teacher was garbage too, I was interested in everything we were learning but I hated that class so much
@@narconyx I basically transcribed the textbook lol, fun times
Funny, basically everyone agrees that my AP euro teacher is the best teacher in the school by a long shot, just so chill and makes it such a great experience.
@@thebloatedwalrusman6415 SO TRUE
Remember guys, always check with a few smart upperclassmen whose input you can trust on each class and and check who teaches them
Then you’ll end up just asking the person who says every AP is easy or meh
@@masterball999gaming4 Exactly. People usually ask me about AP test or class difficulty and the only thing I can comment on really is class workload. In terms of exam difficulty, I don't think I'm very good at assessing its difficulty for others -- easy exams I sometimes think are relatively challenging and hard exams I consider mostly easy.
It depends. If u ask me if calc or physics was hard I would say no bc I’m good at math. But if u asked another person who was good academically but not the best at math they’d say it was difficult. U can’t judge the difficulty of a subject based on other ppls opinions, it all depends on the persons skill set
Also if u asked an avid reader if Ap lit was hard they’d say no it was a breeze. So just take Aps that are compatible w ur skill set
@@Dannalasapa that’s why you ask as many as you can for someone you can trust. The person you trust will try to give you a philosophical and helpful answer. Asking a bunch of people will lower the standard deviation of your sample mean in opinions
Bro did not just put music theory in hard 💀that defiantly should be in the dropout category
I took that shit in college. Literally dropped out a few classes in.
@professional.commentator I'm taking it right now as a junior in high school and it's the worst decision I've ever made
@@ilikecats6016 Good luck on it!
it depends if u have perfect pitch. my friend has insane hearing and playing piano since like 6. so he became teachers pet and got an A and a 5.
AP chem is absolutely insane, only class I’ve ever taken to genuinely make me feel dumb
For me physics was definitely a lot harder than Chem
@Manga Realm which year of high school do you take AP's?
@Manga Realm that’s absolute bullshit, AP Chem has also a lot of calculation and if you don’t know at least pre calc then you’re fuck, as someone who got a 4 on the AP exam.
@@brandonkhouli4972 is junior your second last year of high school?
You just need to have a good foundation of chemistry, you definitely can do this!! Most my students are afraid of ap chem, but they did well at the end
God damn this comment section has let me know how lucky I am. AP Lit is literally just a normal English experience at my school. Very chill and not that much workload. Most of my classmates show up late everyday and barely read and everyone has above an 85. Even with all this our teacher is still making sure we're all set for the AP exam.
On the flip side, AP Human Geo is such an intensive and work heavy class that most people quit doing AP classes after it because they assume that every AP class is going to be like it. MINIMUM of 4 hours of homework every night. They literally warn Freshmen who take that they probably will 0 free time.
it does feel weird, my AP lit class was very chill and i still made a 4 on the exam 💀
Same for my old school but I ended up being 1 out of 3 people to pass it out of my 25 person class 😂 got a 5 too.
Yeah AP Lit was easy af. I don't even remember the exam. Must be a bunch of people who are STEM oriented who struggle with arts
lmao same here. ap lit was easy af! i didnt take it serious & i got a b in it 😂
I dropped out of AP bio on the second day. She gave us a 300pg homework packet on the first day. Like nah, screw this.
wtf
What were the questions on? I want to know cause I’m thinking of taking it next year
@@foodisthebidtake classes that will further your career
Broooo lucky we weren’t allowed to drop out of AP classes 😭😭
@@carl3517 huh? As far as I know every school allows you to drop out of AP classes, you sure youre not talking about IB?
I took Latin all 4 years and was the only person in my class confident enough to take the AP test. Ya boi got a clean 2
Didn't have Latin in our school, and our music department bragged about having $1M in their war chest. What posh place did you go to. Also what period of Latin did you study?
took latin since 5th grade but the AP Curriculum was still hard af for me. somehow got lucky with the analytical essay prompt (likely saved my score) 😭
I took Latin for 5 years I think and I got a 3 that’s ok I guess
@@honeyydewVAwhy would you take Latin as an AP though? Like what major are you going to have that needs Latin.
@@SuperCoolZomb1e nothing, my school required everything up to AP Latin and I decided to take it for language credit
The easiest AP is the one that you are good at, and the hardest one is the one that doesn't make sense to you. Honestly, there are way too many factors that go into if a class is easy or not. Past experience, natural understanding, quality of teacher, etc.
I agree with the factors part, but you could be really good at calc and still flunk the ap exams. The exams are nothing compared to what you are originally“good at”.
i agree im psych
I think he probably kinda based it on workload and how other people in that class thought about it
Yeah I found Spanish Lang to be super easy. I’m also taking Lit and Psych right now, and those aren’t too difficult, however Human and World I hated a lot:
Real. The hardest ap class for me was CSA I ended up with like a 2 on that exam, while apush is a easy 5
I think the biggest factor to the difficulty of a course is the teacher you end up having. All of the AP’s listed in “drop out” were ones I took but was fortunate to have very good teachers for. The material isn’t easy per-say, but a good teacher will make it feel very doable!
That’s 100% true. People generally see APUSH as pretty hard but it was one of my easiest classes last year. Pretty much got all the info I needed in class and had barely any homework. Teacher made it ridiculously easy to do well on dbqs because he had a ridiculously formulaic approach to them. Like you knew the entire structure, sentence by sentence, before getting the prompt.
My current AP Calc AB teacher, according to my entire class (myself included,) doesn't explain the concepts any well. He also makes a LOT of mistakes despite having the answer sheet with him... but this isn't particularly what makes me upset. It's that whenever we ask anything about the steps or what did he did, we get hit with the "You learned this before so I won't explain."
On the flip side, some AP teachers are really good but unempathetic teachers. They are great at teaching but will ruthlessly throw unrealistic amount of assignments like you have no other classes to focus on. I had two of these ppl.
I think they do this to make sure they get their students get good scores but some of it definitely should have been extra credit or something- wayyyy too much.
The only true AP class I took was Spanish language we have a way better program called college in the highschool but it gives guaranteed credit if you pass with a 70. But the point is yes it absolutely depends on the teacher, I dropped out halfway through the year not because of the material but because the teacher drove me crazy and did a terrible job in general.
I 100% agree. I got a 5 on APUSH last year while now, I feel like I’m BSing my way through Seminar. My APUSH teacher really helped me think historically while my Seminar teach is sometimes as clueless as us (which I don’t entirely blame on her since this is the first year we have Seminar in our school)
I took AP Bio, AP Lang, and APUSH my sophomore year with absolutely zero clue as to what AP was (transferred from a different country). So many tears were shed 💀
Dma you just signed up for AP editions💀
AP lang as a foreigner💀 I hope you passed🙏
@@ezequielperez8535 well I’m not really a foreigner, I’d just been outside the US for middle school 😭 tbh I might as well had been a foreigner bc I came from a different school system too, so I had no idea how anything worked
@@ezequielperez8535bro said editions
are you good right now
I've taken both AP Lit and lang and they're honestly pretty easy exams to pass. The classes themselves can be a lot of work but conceptually they're not complicated
AP Lit was so easy imo
A lot of work yeah, but I found it pretty fun
Lang was so easy imo. Lit was just a lot of over analyzing of novels.
They're easy to pass but Lit is the only ap test I could not get a 5 on
Just talk about Frankenstein and you are good for AP lit. For AP lang, just write with a similar structure and you are golden.
I cannot read for shit, so I would get like a 40% on the MC, and then just write 7-9s on the essays. Passed both AP exams that way.
My AP Lang teacher is someone I’ll never forget. She was absolutely brutal and wouldn’t hesitate to tell you your writing sucked. That being said, she prepared us so well for the exam that I was almost worried about how suspiciously easy it was. Shoutout to you, Ms. Taylor.
I also had a somewhat tough AP English Language and Composition teacher in 12th grade. For starters, I had to read 25 to 30 pages at home on average a day (which took me 30 to 35 minutes a day[I try to read carefully]). In addition, I had to doing reading plus reading comprehension, writing or vocabulary homework (some of the esoteric 12th grade vocabulary words I learned in that class were: deleterious, esurient, surreptitious, colloquial, conflagration, sybarite, venerable, idiosyncrasy, panacea, penurious, etc.). In other words, I spent nearly an hour on AP Language and Composition class at home nearly everyday. Furthermore, for essays, he was strict on formatting (usually he wanted either MLA or APA or Chicago formatting), page count (first essay was 4-5 pages and the final essay/research paper was 7-8 pages), sources for research papers (he does not want us to use Wikipedia or any source similar to Wikipedia or use any kind of corporate news media as sources), and submission time (if you were late to class and handed your essay to the teacher, he is going to mark 10 percentage points off your essay and this was the first offense). Second offense, he will not accept the essay and you get a zero. Third offense, and you fail the class. Plus, for 4-6 page essays, he gave us 2-3 days to write. For 7-8 page essays, he gave us 4-5 days to write. I learned a lot from my English Language and Composition teacher's class and it did prepare me for college.
@@123ucr Wow, that sounds nuts-
@hsAndDreams --- I got a B- the first semester and a C+ (second semester) in that class (both semesters) and got a 2 on the exam and I was not even slacking off. Also, at my high school and if you were in 12th grade for English you had three options for English: 1. the regular 12th grade English. 2. AP Language and Composition which I went with (11th graders can also take that class too). 3. AP Literature and Composition which was the hardest option (I would not recommend this option unless if you really are good at English and enjoy English. Also, the English Department strongly recommended students pass AP Language and Composition before taking this class.) That said, AP Language and Composition class did prepare me for college level English.
I’m taking AP Lang next year, and that’s gonna be my teacher
As someone who is taking AP Chemistry,
Don’t even consider taking the class if you don’t have a well-above average memory and good math skills.
If you lack either of those (like me), it will be a grueling uphill battle from day 1 to the last day until summer break.
There is also zero math in AP Chem but okay
Ap chemistry is the only ap class ive ever taken. I think it's definetly hard and this is coming from a kid with a gpa of 3.6 but I don't think it was that bad just stay focused but if you are looking into GETTING A LIFE then you will die :). Im passing the class with a high A and i think I did really good on the exam but yea. I also took honors chem though and got the same teacher so I knew what to expect. Most of my class never took honors chem so it really just comes down to if you have the time and dedication. personally i never really studied for the ap exam itself, because my ap chemistry class was harder than the actual exam.
@@kyamb3890so you’ve never taken the class before
@@GatorBallLegends I took the class and got a 99% and got a 5 easiest exam I’ve ever taken and I guarantee I got above a 95% raw
@@kyamb3890 ideal gas law thermo and kinetics all mayh
I'm taking AP Chem, AP lang, and AP Seminar right now. The easiest for me is chem since I'm not the best at English and procrastinate a lot. 😅
if you procrastinate a lot, dont take ap research even though your taking seminar now
@@Jacobkrukas3482 Yeah, I didn't agree to taking AP seminar. My school just didn't switch me out since they only had about 22 students total for the course. 😅
@@Jacobkrukas3482 why not?
how bad is lang i'm thinking of taking it next year?
I HATE AP SEMINAR.
Music theory should really be in the “depends” category. I have perfect pitch and a big music background, so I took it as a freshman and easily aced everything, got a 5. Other people really struggled to get the concepts that were already hard-wired into me. It’s not fair but it is the definition of a “depends” class.
Same, I was the only guy in the class and we managed to finish in a semester when it’s designed for a whole year. It can be pretty easy to just know your stuff and blow through it all
@@shuatock8216 I feel like we could’ve gotten everything down in a semester, too, but the class was very chill and slow-paced. We spent much of our time practicing with the figured bass/roman numeral thing, then by the time we got to the actual AP multiple choice in March 2020, COVID happened and the exam was online, didn’t really learn anything else that year. The exam was just a figured bass question, a Roman numeral question, and 2 sight-singing questions. It was a weird year.
That sounds like you were just really advanced going into it. It’s like if you took AP Spanish when you already speak Spanish, these rankings aren’t for people like you they’re for the average student
@@swagger5455 Yes but what I’m saying is that AP Music Theory usually IS like AP Spanish for someone who speaks Spanish already. If you don’t already know a lot of theory, it’s very unlikely you’ll ever take it anyway. For the average person, AP Music Theory would potentially be the hardest one there is since it skips a lot of stuff that you’re assumed to already know. Like, A LOT
I was thinking of taking music theory this year or self-studying but didnt end up doing it. I have perfect pitch but don't know any theory per se.
College student here: don't take AP lit, just wait until college and take English composition. Especially if you're going to a large university, professors usually have specialty classes that take care of the credit. I took an English composition class with the topic of: "Superheros and monsters, and the relation between the two."
Really fun class, easy A. My final paper was an analyst between Raiden and Senator Armstrong, and their relations with collectivism and individualism respectfully.
Raiden and Senator Armstrong?? That's a huge W my boy
Or just take AP Lang instead. Either way, AP Lit is not worth the difficulty
As a lit student I’m feeling this hard with exam day approaching. I was expecting the class to be like 40% nonfiction and 60% fiction and mostly based around how to dissect and construct stories along with general improvements on your ability to write. Instead it’s mostly been some short stories with a lot of poems mixed in, almost all of which have been fiction, the only one which wasn’t being a poem I was allowed to choose for an essay. Don’t get me wrong, I like reading and I got a 5 on the language exam but the shear volume of anachronistic stories and specifically poems is ridiculous. The poems specifically tend to be very subjective in their meaning and tone and it can often lead to really conflicting opinions on a text, and if your option doesn’t align with a test maker’s you’re screwed.
The best example of this I can think of is the poem I chose for one of my essays, “the Foggy Dew”, by Charles O’Neill. “The Foggy Dew” can and has been interpreted to have two VERY different meanings over its one hundred year existence, as either an incredibly solemn poem focusing on the loss of a failed rebellion, or as a hyped up nationalist call to arms to rebel against colonial rule. Both interpretations are correct but only one can effectively be put on a testing sheet and so if you choose one your wrong on the other. I’ve seen this for plenty of poems in the class thus far and I honestly view it as somewhat stupid especially since many of these poems are from a time before we had standardized writing and so the older forms of English and writing needlessly complicate things on top of the already difficult material. I spoke to one of my former AP teachers, who also happens to teach 12th grade English, and she wasn’t surprised at the volume of older works but openly voiced he discontent at it alongside mine. It’s not a good way to get kids interested in the subject and it actively turns them away and I can say from personal experience that I haven’t gained much as a writer from this class that I didn’t already learn through independent reading or through AP English language which did a much better job at what AP Lit fails to do. The class is far to archaic and that makes it needlessly difficult in what should be a relatively easy subject. Kids wouldn’t have a problem taking an AP course like this if they could analyze modern rap songs, movies, and TV shows. Writing has evolved since the days of Shakespeare and we don’t need to rely on stage plays and poems to teach kids when they’re already 400 years ahead of it.
so fun, im assuming you're talking about mgr raiden and not mk raiden, both of whom are goated characters
@@motivationallizard6644you’re making it sound a lot more complicated than it is and honestly just sounds like you’re getting lost in the sauce. Ap lit was one of the easier aps for me because everything is so formulaic. The essays are the same thing over and over. The only time you have to think is when you expand on evidence
AP Lit and lang really depend on who’s teaching it. I basically was on autopilot AP lang all year and got a 4 with an A for the year as my class grade and lit is going about similar rn. They are annoying classes in the way that they both take massive amounts of linear repetition to improve and I imagine from what I hear many teachers are missing that element
It also depends on the student's reading and writing level. If anyone did well on the SAT and/or ACT reading and writing, then AP Language and maybe AP Literature is going to be a breeze for them. Also, at my high school, high school seniors can take AP Language as a substitute for AP Literature or regular 12th grade English. I know I got a C+ in AP Language and Composition but I got a 2 on the AP exam in my senior year. Books that I read in my senior year for my AP Language and Compositon class: "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe and "On writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King. While I did not pass the exam, it prepared me for Freshman Composition in college.
I don't know what kind of AP world you had, but that shit is a hellscape
no Fr
depends on the teacher, ap world is pretty easy tbh
bro i filled up 3 notebooks and cried like every night
It’s not much different from the workload from apush, this tier list is wrong
EXACTLYY
gotta give this guy credit for doing every single AP class and rankinf them js for a 60 second video
I was going to be valedictorian then I got a C+ in AP Lit. Yeah that thing will fuck you up!
It depends on your teacher, im sorry for your missed opportunity of valedictorian though, that’s gotta hurt
@@zKavv Fortunately it doesn't mean much where I live but yeah Browning will crush you. What's so weird is that I am now doing the same quality of work and now getting 100%, 98%, and 100% on the past 3 assignments respectively. Makes no damn sense. I honestly think she just likes to crush dreams.
It's a required course at my school
@@drsirwilliamthethirdjr an AP class as a required course?
@@tree8821 it's a charter school
AP biology was such a bird course for me. When I took the AP psych test there was a question even my teacher didn't know the answer to.
I'm currently taking AP psychology. I'm dying trying to understand this shit. The amount of research papers I have to read. If you see this message, do you have any tips?
My AP Lit class is so chill. Our teacher gives us coffee, tea, snacks, etc. and we play wordle at the beginning of class each day. 😂
I hope I have an AP Lit class like that next year
Actually same, our AP lit teacher gives us %70 just for writing our name and thesis on essays
That’s why she’s a LIT teacher 🔥 🔥
But the class didn't end well with you.
is ap lit same as ap lang whtas the difference
Just remember that it is all subjective. I got a 1 in ap stats, but did very well in ap bio.
woah
Bio isn't too hard if you stay on top of things. There's just a lot
If you don’t mind me asking how did you get a 1 in AP stats? Did you not take the course in school?
@@rorymax yeah, I took my school's stats course. The reason why I got a 1 was because I was never able to understand the material, so half way through the year I started doing the bare minimum to maintain an acceptable grade. When studying for the ap test, I realized I retained absolutely no information, so I just took the L.
@@tolemem sounds like you struggle asking for help
AP Chem was living hell, but it made chemistry in undergrad so much easier. I also had a former college professor of biochemistry at my HS (long story). Anyways he taught both preAP and AP Chem and most people hated him, but after a while you could tell he really cared. He said if you can pass my class you’ll pass everything that comes your way. Hell even some of the people who failed his class went onto do better later. He said I want you all to focus on learning more than a grade. Albeit he had a policy of in the preAP chem class if you got below a 80% then he wanted a conference with your parents. He did that on every exam. A lot hated that of course cause it’s embarrassing, but he really wanted to help us. He even said I could care less if my students dislike me if I can get them to be successful then that makes it all worth it. I can’t thank him enough I still keep in touch with him due to grad school and he always asks how well I’m doing. Also his personality is kind of like a toned down Rick Sanchez so outside of school he was cool to talk to.
That sounds like a teacher that actually give a damn. Who ever hates him needs to grow up bruh
@@railx2005yeah. People still complain about him from time to time. Sometimes to annoy me cause I’m one of the few that like him. I always think well I’m in pharmacy school about to make $$$ while you’re working at McDonalds or Hardee’s but go on. When I decided to be a tutor to the preAP chem students my senior year of HS one of the kids I was tutoring didn’t feel safe at home with his abusive parents. This teacher of mine told him “I’ll get you to a safe place if you want me to I can’t take you in, but if things get bad I’ll get the authorities to help you get to a safe place.” This teacher was a marine and is a great man. I don’t care what anyone thinks. I wish more teachers cared like he does. The world would be a much better place. I was blessed to have him as my chemistry teacher.
i think you learn chem way better during undergrad than in hs. i remember taking chem honors in hs and saying nah I hate chem, didn't bother taking ap chem. during undergrad, i killed chem so easily and it became my fav subject right next to ochem/biochem. in med school, this translated to me liking pharm because a lot of the fundamentals of pharmacology rely on them. tldr i dont recommend any ap classes to prep u for college cuz college classes are just easier than ap tests
@@rxanime535 they are hella lucky to have a teacher that gives a damn. trying to find a prof that give a single care in college is near impossible
Wish I had a teacher like that
As a civil engineer I will say music theory was harder to grasp then any math I've ever tried
idk dog Ap physics C: mechanics by far the hardest everything else easy
@@zacharynowroozi7116 AP physics 1 w a Russian teacher is like being sent to the gulag
wow thats interesting to hear. the core concept of using 12 variables and assigning them values based off of their distance between one another in a list is super basic the problem may have been your teacher or you just didnt care about the class as much as other math classes
@@BIGpony777Music is not math
@@zacharynowroozi7116 e&m is harder
I’m in AP Bio and Chem.
AP Bio: drop out
AP Chem: Hard
bio hardeder then chem? Im taking ap bio next year as a sophmore any advice is it hard ? is ur teachefr strict so thats why?
if you took a biology class prior then it should help you when taking ap bio. @@itsizrasroblox
@@itsizrasrobloxtook bio last year as freshman it was a light 5 but idk about ap chem maybe senior year i might do it
I mean AP bio is not bad in what it’s just a lot. I have As so far in junior year with that class and I’m planning on AP chem next year 😢
@@matthew9767bruh that's honors or high school duh it ain't even have math it's a goofy course
I’ve also heard music theory is incredibly difficult. The tests are apparently like… 6 hours long? And you have to have multiple music credits to get into the class.
it’s closer to the language classes than any other. there’s 75 MC, half are aural (listening) and the other are non aural. then there’s 9 FRQs, the first four being different types of dictation (you hear something then have to write it), then 3 composition ones, then 2 sight singing. done one. by. one. you have to have prior musical knowledge to even understand the basics of the class. and most colleges don’t even take the credit, even if you get a 5. that shit is crazy man
It depends on level right? I only know that from level 9 and up its a 3 hour long exam
i just took it and it was extremely difficult
it was around two hours for me because there were 3 other people in the class
that being said
if you have a 30 person class sight singing itself is around 10 mins per person so yeah it could be long (because you can’t leave and have to wait in a room)
also most of the test is on CD so that can be a bit of a challenge for proctors etc
It’s definitely one of the “upper level” AP classes. It’s hard even for those with a music background because most high schoolers are not that conscious of their ear. (Which is a way of saying most people can’t really hear stuff they think of and then get that out into physical space) I took it senior year and got a 5 but only because I took college theory and jazz harmony at the same time and even before. That’s kinda the hard part, the average high school musician regardless of skill on their instrument will still probably fail The majority of non-musicians will fail. It’s an incredibly unfair course but it’s a great class for those who want to go into music as a major and have a better than most grasp.
I barely passed the AP music theory exam with a 3 which Im proud since it was during online classes...but the test took like 4-5 hours from what i Remmember...there was a written portion, a multiple choice portion, and a listening/singing portion
Currently taking AP Chem. Honestly been keeping the range from 85-95 in my class I feel like it honestly depends on the person but I do understand how it’s a hard class.
That class pisses me off becuase I know I would've loved it so much had it been in person but it sucked so much over zoom. Labs were atrocious since we were just watching thebteacher do it trhoughbterrible video qualith, and also we blitzed throughh the content at an insane pace since the school distric decided to change smesters to trimesters that year for no reaso, a decisio that made it so all AP Classes would only be taught during the first and second trimester; obviously, the decision worked against every AP student so bad, as so many classes didn’t even come close to finishing the content *cough cough apush only got to the Industrial Revolution cough cough* while others like AP Chem finishing way too quickly (we were done with equilibrium before winter break).
Tl; DR: Zoom year sucked
I got a 4 last year, but I had an amazing teacher. How did your exam go?
i just graduated college and even to this day ap chem is still the only class i ever failed a test in 💀
No way bruh, SEND PRAYERS for music theory. When I took AP music theory that class was insane.
I had a teacher make it easy but yeah the class is some of the most material and skill intensive I’ve ever done. Definitely not easy
Send prayers my way cause the exam is on Friday 😭
@@braydenoneil2129 good luck for both of us🥲
@@Navpb6 we need it 😭
uh oh.. im taking it next year
I swear you put the APs that I find hard as easy, and the ones I find easy as hard 😭
The AP music theory exam was by far the hardest test I’ve ever taken and I even play an instrument
i’m so scared bc my scholarship at my hs is riding on that class and from what i’ve heard and seen, the AP music theory teacher can’t teach shit
@@natthecat3602damn well good luck
What do u do in ap music theory anyways
@@greekyogurt5014 learn the theory of how music has sounded good in the past and how to write your own "music" using those same 8th century procedures. It's like a math and a history class built into one. These "procedures" can be thought of like math theorems, and there are a LOT of them. You need to be able to memorize them and apply them as you see fit. On top of these procedures, you need to make the music fit with the time signature, the key signature, follow proper chord progression guidelines, invert/change the standard arrangement of chords, etc. etc. These things are also taught in the class, but you're expected to have prior knowledge about some of them. The exam consists of general questions, music-writings, audio excerpts which you have to answer questions based on, like what kinds of procedures were used and whatnot, and there is even a "sight-singing" section where you are given a sheet of written music and you have to sing it right then and there, without an instrument. To say it was hard is an understatement.
@@benjaminjackson83thank you for saying this I feel validated. I also play an instrument but this class is ROUGHHHH
I only took one AP class, and it was AP music theory. One thing that we had to do was to learn all the different intervals (ascending and descending) by ear, and we were tested on it. So, they’d play two notes, one after the other, and you’d have to know what the gap was between the two notes. I would spend so much time in the computer lap using the Aurelia program (this was in 2006-2007) just listening and practicing over and over that listening skill.
We also had to write 4-part music with the correct chord progressions with NO PARALLEL FIFTHS. And we had to be able to sight read and sing for the AP exam, which wasn’t a big deal for me since I have a choir background, but people in my class who were in band or orchestra were less confident about it.
It was hard, but I learned so much about music.
In my Sophomore year I was accidentally put into a AP chem class, and it's the only test I've cried in
i cried on all my tests in that class
Damn my school made you take biology and chemistry before that class and get at least a B in both. It would be so hard to do that without those classes first, it’s such hard material I definitely believe that you cried. That’s the only AP exam I ever completely gave up on and stopped answering the questions on. I got a 1 😂
WHY DIDNT YOU DROP OUT??😭 Im taking that class and its the biggest struggle ive ever had in my life
@@fruitful6139 I did
Recently took the exam, but I kind of dropped the course after unit 3 cause me and the teacher had a bit of falling out and I just couldn't endure her. I still wanted to take it though cause I thought it would be easy. I ended up having to cram seven units worth of information in just three weeks cause I didn't allocate my time well enouugh and didn't have enough time to solve as much practice problems as I wanted to. I don't know how well I did, I might have passed, since I did have a pretty good understanding of the content by the end of that three week cram session but it was absolute hell. I feel lucky that I was able to comprehend a good majority of the questions at all. If your college major has nothing to do with science or chem, just drop the course.
art history is so easy if you're good at memorizing things. basically all it is is describe the pretty picture and remember when it was made
with the right teacher, ap chem can be a breeze. i think the biggest struggle is the sheer amount of coursework and topics to cover before the exam, but i had an amazing teacher who was absolutely on top of it the whole year and taught things very well. also helped that we had MOUTAINS of homework too.. like several 20-page problem sets per week …
I have an awesome teacher, an 89 in AP chem, but it still makes no sense to me.
@@leif909 lmao i guess it also depends on the person too. i had some really amazing history teachers at my school but nothing in those classes made sense to me either 😭 teacher said something and i was like alright whatever you say ✍️✍️ glad to hear you have a good teacher though lmao
Goddamn, I was super hyped to take AP lit, AP bio, AP calc BC, and AP Lang (over the span of multiple years obv)
RIP my social life, sleep schedule, and whatever happiness levels may linger in me
nah ur fine
@@rorymax exactly! I have a better sleep schedule than all my friends (and no, it's not also the worst sleep schedule from all my friends) and I've taken 13 AP's and 9 Dual-enrollment classes going into senior sem 2! the AP workload really depends on your professor but generally 15% more than a regular class. (i.e., 8 hours of total work/instruction on a school day becomes 9 hours and 12 minutes).
@@anselerol2956 I’ve taken 13 AP classes and I believe 3 dual. I would tend to agree that the increase in work load isn’t entirely as substantial as some people say
@@anselerol2956 I’ve tended to notice that the work load increase is most substantial in history / SS classes
@@OnePieceFan4765 yeah that's valid. the threshold for bs is so much higher in non AP ss classes
AP Human Geography: baby I'm not even here. I'm a hallucination
This was the one I was looking for lol
hard to not bad.
i just got my schedule and apparently im taking it (i didn’t remember if it was this or smth else) so do any of y’all know how hard it is and what the basics are that it covers? im good with history but idk how similar this is with that
@@xixi69same I’m taking it as well but I’m just expecting a lot of work and I already had a quiz the first day of school since I had homework during summer (90 questions) send help 💔😭
AP Human Geo is not hard, i recommend practicing Frqs over and over again because there is always a chance that you make a mistake in those. i got 4 on the test btw.
Glad the 2 AP classes I took in high school turned out to be hardest ones they have. The 3 I got in Lit doesn’t feel so bad anymore.
thanks for putting this together! pretty cool!
AP Seminar is the hardest AP class I ever took. And I’ve taken 15. It is an insane amount of work. I was made to write a full annotated bibliography in 2 days (10 very long paragraphs that needed a lot of research) and for our mock presentations, we were usually given like a week to work on our presentation and essay simultaneously. Seminar is absolutely in no way easy, it gave me an unbelievable amount of stress. I took bio and world the same year and they were nothing compared to seminar, especially bio was a piece of cake.
That's the complete opposite of my experience. I'm still in the class, but the first few months were spent researching for our first essay. We could choose the prompt, and we had a group of 2-4 people to work with. We had to find like 10 sources to use for it, and after we wrote the essay, we had to make a presentation for it using all of the information we gathered for the essay. Then we have another essay with sources given to us by College Board. Overall it feels very easy, but it might just be the teacher for my class.
Wow, my ap seminar class rn is great, we’ve got time to write papers and everyone gets 100 since they’re just completion scores. AP chem is pretty good for me too….. but AP lang…… DROP OUT DROP OUT DROP OUT
I think AP world history is a lot harder than you say it is especially if you have only taken AP HUG or no AP classes before. It also depends on the teacher. The reasons for this are that if your teacher doesn’t really teach you how to do SAQ’s, DBQ’s, and LEQ’s (like mine) then the test is gonna be terrible, plus it just depends on if you have a good teacher or not. I just took the final test for it today and let’s just say that LEQ was not looking too good lol
Yeah for sure it's definitely a lot of material to cover and just a very diverse range of topics that are covered, I also took the test a few days ago and man I thought I absolutely bombed my LEQ
@@wilsonchan5711 yeah it's a lot of material and really hard to review for, crossing my fingers and hoping we both get at least 4s
@@thhndy thanks a lot, manifesting the 4+ for you too
I’m one of those people who never had a honor or ap class before and it was a very different experience.If I’m being honest the only information that’s stuck in my head was from hiemler but I watched his videos literally 3 days before the exam.If I had more practice and different teaching method I think I would’ve done better from what I did.Ngl I probably got like a 2 or 3 on that exam Atleast I get an A in the class👍🏾
did u choose 1 2 or 3 for leq
My country follows the baccalaureate system
Our math curriculum is a mix of calc ab, bc, and a little more, pluse AP statistics
Our physics curriculum is AP physics 1, 2, 80% of C
And there's other subjects (60% of AP chem, politics, AP biology, religion studies, English, French, and Arabic) all of this is in one year and the final results are the only determent for college admissions and majors here 😢
If APWH is “not bad”, I’m terrified for “send prayers” APUSH 😳
Update: y’all I just took my APUSH exam and I think I did well! Definitely harder for me, but that’s because I process big themes better than specific events
Eh, if you have an A in world, you'll get an a minus in APUSH. It's more focused on the details than overarching themes.
APWH was way harder than APUSH tbh since there’s so many different events and changes occuring
For me, Ap world was a lot harder. But I think teachers make a huge difference. I love my apush teacher
ApWh was so easy & i'm ass at history
I’m a freshman and have little time to decide, should I take APWH? The only AP I’ve taken is AP human geography and I got a low A. I’m also taking AP Pre Calc and APES next year so idk if it’s worth adding APWH.
AP Art was the hardest for me, mainly because you had to create 24 cohesive art pieces with high technical skill.
I’m taking it right now, alongside AP bio… I am so scared i wont finish enough pieces by the deadline 💀
@@wispyspirits2158 Honestly the strategy I had that worked the best was starting every piece, getting to the outlining sketching stage and then working on each piece a little at a time, so that when I hit a wall with one I could switch to a different one
Also, avoiding mediums that were time sinks without good technical skill
@@wispyspirits2158 I highly recommend sketching out thumbnails any time you think of an idea for a piece. Even if you just jot down random words to jog your memory for when it’s time to start another piece. Deciding on a topic for a piece can often be one of the hardest parts when you don’t know what to do for a piece you aren’t motivated to get it done, thus falling behind.
Ap art is defientnyl hard if you aren’t motivated or don’t feel skilled enough or don’t have an cohesive idea of what you like and want to explore. It was very easy for me because this is something k was very passionate about, I know it was hard for some because they thought it was gonna be easy class but they had no idea what their portfolio theme was at all. Basically plan and have an idea
Nahhh music theory is definitely a send prayers type of class 😭
THATS WHAT IM SAYING
its probably the hardest one
@@evann5900its hard but there are defiantly harder. I think APChem is ranked as one of, it not the hardest AP class out there.
I’m in music theory and the teacher literally said you shouldn’t take the class if your music background is less that 4 years
@@Emma-eq8pm the test for chem is probably the hardest but the content for physics c is probably harder, it’s just that they have an insane curve
Look guys ,it’s all about what u are already good at , for me , I have taken chem and calc bc . It’s becuz I already have a lot of insight into them as I also prepare for jee exam: (the worlds most toughest phy,chem,math exam) , if u are good at it , u will nail it . Don’t fall for such videos
Took German in high school all four years and AP in my senior year. I had a really great teacher and I had a pretty solid grasp of the language at that point so it was mostly easy for me. The most difficult part is sticking with it and applying yourself.
Not everyone was able to pick it up as easily as I was however… In German 3 I knew students who always struggled. One dude I knew was a nice guy but for his sanity, I hoped that he wouldn’t try for another year. His lack of progress would have made German AP increasingly more difficult unless he studied twice as hard as everyone else *at least.*
My best piece of advice for learning any language is, “Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.” -John Cleese. The students who were least afraid to make mistakes often did the best. And boy was my guy afraid to make mistakes.
i personally felt APUSH was one of the easier classes I had in highschool
I’m taking it right now and it’s pretty easy
@@Terminal_Apotos ap test is the worst part of it
8-9 years ago when I had that class I think national average for that test was 3.5 or something. It was one of the hardest ones.
yeah, i thought it was the easiest of the histories. stopped studying and still got a 5
In what universe? In my class, there was an insane amount of studying and stuff ti memorize
as someone who took an AP art class, I thought it was very difficult. It doesn’t seem like it would be, but setting your own assignments, coming up with your own time limits, creating a premise and making 15 pieces based around it and working for an entire year to finish it, only to submit it and be graded on a scale of 1-5 was pretty hard. Im in art school now and I would say that the ap class was about the same level of difficulty.
I agree with everything except that it's 15 pieces, it's not necessarily 15 whole finished pieces you're able (and encouraged) to add process pictures, slides, and revision items which definitley takes a load off and makes sense with how the written questions are built.
The difficulty didn’t even come from your ability to do art, it was more from your ability to time manage yourself over an entire school year with all the other things you also need to do. Everyone in my class was competent at drawing but almost all of us had terrible time management and working habits which made the class painful for everyone
My best advice is to take the AP classes with content that you're actually interested in and want to learn. I chose AP Macro over AP World this year for my social studies class- partly because everyone in my school was freaking out about how hard World is, but also because I knew I needed some sort of economics course and I love geography (not history; there's a difference) and math. Turns out that MacroEcon is a hard class and my grades are lower for me (Gifted Kid™️) but it's rewarding at the end and I enjoy the content so far.
As a side note- AP Stats is a breeze for me.
Bro my AP theory class was like literally impossible for everyone that didn’t have perfect pitch (which isn’t something you can learn) because my teacher didn’t teach us at all about ear training or sight singing, and just expected us to know how to practice (and actually practice) every single day. I got a 100% in the class because I’m good at learning what the teacher covers, but I got a 2 on the AP test. He literally didn’t even tell us there was an app they used for sight singing and wasn’t there the day we took the test because he had to “rake his grass” (direct quote)
Yep! If you had perfect pitch or were a singer you’d do fine, but all of the instrumentalists in my class (including me) hardcore struggled
you could also have really cracked relative pitch instead of perfect pitch but that takes a long time and a lot of training to learn
I disagree cus I remember theory being mostly focused on the visual aspects of written music. And it really depends on your teacher. Only one kid in my theory class had perfect pitch, I have relative. You do have to have a good ear but since they give you a starting note for the sight reading it isn’t necessary. It comes down to being disciplined and actually practicing at home. Being a pianist or singer definitely helps.
How did you approach the class? Did you have music theory background or did you go in with little to no knowledge?
@@bookwormd8627 I went in as a percussionist who learned keyboard by myself enough to write some stuff in Logic Pro. I could read treble clef easily and knew the middle line was D on bass clef. That’s about all I had going in.
This man really put Music Theory and Gov in the same tier
Me who passed the AP Chem exam: 😎😎😎 🎶Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.🎶
Nice same here bro. Except I just took the AP exam and didn't take the AP class so idk how that compares.
Congrats guys!!
@@jacoballan1153 that's even more impressive. Damn
@@jacoballan1153same
I skipped AP lang into lít due to a scheduling issue, and it was breeze, even after coming into the course 6 weeks late, got a five. However, I had literally the best teacher one could ask for.
MY AP LIT TEACHER JUST GAVE US A FIVE PAGE ESSAY DUE IN TWO DAYS 😭
@@henryleeCabin54 I used chatgpt and somehow passed it
That doesn’t sound that bad lol
@@chloecarnes8408 Delete this comment right now, pretty sure people actually check through accounts to monitor activity of students and stuff, better stay safe than sorry.
Wish you luck 🤞🏼
@@Gaeshiete lmfao pretty sure I’m fine since I just graduated last week
@@anondimwit didn’t have one surprisingly just a project
Don’t let the difficulty of AP Physics C scare you. If your school has a good teacher like mine did, I think you’ll be ok. Personally, AP Physics C was my favorite class in high school. Each question is like a little puzzle to solve, and it’s actually pretty fun.
couldn’t agree more. i’m in it right now. Yes it is hard, but i actually enjoy it a ton and have a lot of fun. can’t say the same for my other classes. my teacher is incredible so i’d highly recommend taking it if theirs is good
I self taught myself physics c mechanics it wasn’t too bad since I was taking AP physics 1 concurrently while teaching myself c(my school didn’t offer c)
@@OnePieceFan4765same lol, I’m taking mechanics and e&m this year without a teacher took phys 1 last year
You also only need 50% to get 4 onnexam
even if you dont do well you will have a huge head start in college. physics 2 is essentially just e&m and mechanics helps with statics, physics 1, and dynamics. if you want to do any form of engineering i strongly advise you take it.
bruh i studied for the ap bio exam only 3 days before and got a 4. shit was mad light
yo send me your notes or something that class makes 0 sense to me.
@@blyobin3855 i didnt take any notes i just watched all t he onlinevideos and that was it imao
@@krinamite7329 i do not believe people who say this. You probably did do effort during the whole year and just few days before the exam reviewed everything. You will never get a 4 without understanding and memorizing, and , most importantly , practicing...
Me taking AP lit tmr morning
Mahad: drop out
ok ap lit was not bad
Seminar is definitely not easy. Taking that as a sophomore was transformative.
Lol. Since it’s relatively new they MASSIVELY changed the grading from year to year. The year before I took it, 75% of our class of 35 people got 5s. My year, only 3 people got a 5, and most were 3s. That being said, the Capstone Diploma is idiotic and neither class taught me a thing
I took both when they were brand new at my school and they gave me mental breakdowns….but I was also the first one with a capstone diploma so that’s pretty cool
Me taking it as a freshmen is a constant slap on the face
Yeah its not easy AT ALL im taking it rn especially the group part I have 5 people in my group its hard to keep track of everyone
I’m taking it rn and I just want the class to be over already
AP Chem ain’t hard till you forget to pay attention
I say AP Chemistry should be in the Send Prayers list or in the drop out list. If anyone have good math skills and did well on high school chemistry, it would be send prayers for those people. If not, then definitely drop out from this class and take General Chemistry in college. I would also put AP Biology in the Send Prayers or in the drop out list. If you did well in high school biology and high school chemistry, I would send prayers for you. If not, then drop out or do not take the equivalent of this class until college. I had a friend who said his first semester of college biology was the equivalent of AP Biology in one year.
@@123ucr so, does that mean i should take AP Bio? I got 2nd highest score in the state during bio state test, and I never studied for the class either.
@@Human-san --- Did you do well in High school Chemistry? If yes, go for it then.
@@Human-sanit depends. It might just be how my school teaches freshman bio, but it was essentially just 8th grade science again. It’s a lot of studying and a whole different ball game than freshman bio
@@urmom.69420 --- Agreed. Not only do you have to memorize stuff in AP Biology, but you have to also apply the material. In other words, you need strong critical thinking skills to do well in AP Biology.
The fact that you listed all the AP's im taking this year as send prayers...
I got a B in AP US History. I got a 1 on the test. Free response questions and my inability to write a short essay on the spot killed me. Also took Psych and Stats, a 2 and a 1, respectively.
You gotta study a lot more. You didn’t pay attention for shit if you got a 1 on the test
@@ragecounterfit309 that's real im surprised how bro got a B in the class, cus getting a B doesn't reflect a 1. It reflects maybe a 2/3 if you didnt study for the AP exam
1's actually hella sad bro it means u didn't know shit for shit
@@timwunenraged901 I finished APUSH and didn’t study much. I had like an 80 average and got a 3 on the exam.
Congrats for Walter white for being able to do the dropout ap classes
For some reason I found AP Bio to be a lot easier than AP Stats, bio was much more interesting and engaging for me which is probably why it absorbed easier or something
How was the exam ?
@@UniqueRaliefor me, who had a really easy time in the class due to the lack of teaching by my teacher all year, the exam was very tough. I’ve never been all that interested in biology either. However, I ended up getting a 4 on the exam, which was definitely not the score I thought I was going to get. The difficulty of the class is very dependent on the teacher (in my case, it was an easy class but it screwed most of us over), so it might be worth your while asking people who have already taken the course at your school specifically what the class is like. :)
@@toot-tootmcbumbersnazzle8276 Wow, you’re amazing ! Thank you so much for the tips, I pray that you go very far in life by the grace of God🫶🏽!
@@UniqueRalieidk my tests in class felt harder than the bio exam tho lol. Stats was just plain easy tho
@@brendenlim2158 you’re sooo smart, love that for you!
I took AP LIT. You'll do fine. The hardest part is formatting your annotated bibliography. I did just graduate with honors with my BA in English and Literary Studies, but I think that a lot of you guys that think you "suck" at English underestimate yourselves. You're awesome. ❤ That being said, as far as AP Human Geography goes-*sighs*-May whatever gods you believe in grant you the strength!
AP art history was so easy but AP spanish OH HELL NO
AP statistics was probably the easiest math class I took. Super easy to understand it was just the homework that killed me. Everyday i would have to do 12 questions and each question had an a, b and c section. It would end up filling up like 4 notebook pages front and back. Also took both AP lit and AP Lang and gotta say it really wasn't too hard. I think our teachers really helped us out with it tho and made us understand everything. All of my essays for these classes would come out minimum at a 85%. But for our mock essays for the AP exam I would get like a 2 or 3😭. Would not recommend AP lang/lit but would definitely recommend AP statistics.
Yeah AP stats is more like AP Math Writing
AP world was the hardest AP at my high school. Definitely in the send prayers category
ap world is so much easier that apush 💀
I took the class this year, and it is my favorite class Ive ever taken. I did have a good teach and test wasn't even thag difficult.
AP Chem literally ruined my life for a few months dude, I was so lost and the teacher didn’t teach anything
Same
That must be really horrible! If your teacher are good, ap chem is not that hard. Unfortunately many students had to seek tutor because the teacher didn’t provide enough in the class. Contact me if you need any help
how does everyone say AP Psych is easy… i seriously NEVER struggled THAT much in a single class my whole life. I LOVED the material too, but just couldn’t do well on the tests…. that’s it. the exams in that class SCREWED me and i almost had to drop out at the end of first semester. I got a three on the exam, and I am personally proud of it. Please someone talk to me bc yall make me feel like a loser
Apparently I took almost every single send prayers and all of the drop outs lmao
I have a bunch of friends in Ap music theory
And from what I’ve heard average test scores are like 15-25/ 100 I new someone who got a 9 on a test once
But it’s also curved so much
Yeah my teacher told the class we could completely fail and still get a 5 because of how hard they make the test
Took Seminar, apparently my teacher was a former college professor who did things “a bit differently” I had to spend the whole year struggling due to the strict curriculum in that class. I slept an average of 3 hours while taking that class and I actually celebrated after the AP exam cause I never had to be bothered by it again.
MY TEACHER IS STRICT TOO I HATE IT SM!! she's such a harsh grader
@@babyvanillas That's tough but usually the strict and tough teachers are the ones that help you excel (usually).
AP History classes aren't that bad from what I've heard. Just a lot of writing essays. Also regular physics was hard af for me when I was in high school. Even worse than chemistry. So I can't imagine it being anywhere else besides drop out.
If AP Art isn’t on Drop Out.. you are lucky as fuck.
It’s a college level course made for people who plan on pursuing art as a career, it’s all about skill gained over years before enrolling in the class, we’re not lucky, just that a lot of overconfident people sign up and fail
@@LycheeCore true but, some teachers recommend students like myself into their AP class .. and when your teachers/family see that “No” isn’t an option. I dropped out a week before finals due to my teacher expecting so much from me.
@@LycheeCoreand by lucky I mean you didn’t have a hard ass teacher thinking this is “whiplash”
Ap physics is beating my ass rn💀
agreed, all these people saying physics is easier then Chem are straight cappin
I took AP CS Principles and didn’t take the test because it was during the year Covid started. The teacher was horrible and we only used scratch the whole time. NOTHING ELSE. We only learned how to code in scratch. Once it was all online for Covid the teacher didn’t assign one assignment or even message us. I never did anything for that class once we went online.
I love how he calls AP Lit a dropout when I found it easier than AP Calc AB
Ok all these AP lit comments are making me feel better. I start the class tmmrw
@@annaclaire8778 honestly AP Lit is just reading comprehension but cranked up to 11. If you’ve ever found hour long TH-cam videos ranting about the moral nuance presented in movies, it’s the class for you
@@RiskierGoose340 ok so to be honest I'm not that good at reading comprehension. I'm kind of hoping that this year I get really good at it, and in hoping it helps that I am supposed to have a really really good AP lit teacher.
@@annaclaire8778sorry for being late, but anyways, since AP Lit is about recognizing themes and messages in works, I’d suggest starting from books that you’ve read and likes, and essentially working your way up to more complicated topics. Everyone knows that Fahrenheit 451 was staunchly opposed to the burning of books. Not everyone recognizes the additional messages portrayed in the book.
And of course, having a good teacher is super important. It means so much to your ability to learn.
Update guys: I've been doing SOO well surprisingly. We have an essay a week in my class and are finishing up our Dune Unit. I have gotten 100s basically every assignment or quiz this year so yay!
I will say, it really really does help to have a good teacher. I wouldn't have taken the class if it wasn't the guy I have as my teacher
Guys, although some of the AP classes deemed hard are actually rigorous and do require quite a bit of work, they are definitely doable! Just believe in yourself!
I just realized how smart my brother is.
He's taking APUSH, APLang, and APChem.
HOLY SHIT
Same dude im just taking ap physics 1 instead of chem, I'd rather die than do AP chem lmao
thank god i chose ap physics instead of chem
Bro, I took AP English Lit my senior year.. I was a stereotypical pot head slacker and passed with either a C+ or B- (can’t remember).
I hand wrote an entire essay on Heart of Darkness in one 1.5 hour class block and turned it in last second before the bell rang. I did not deserve the amount of second chances Mrs. Morgan gave me… God bless that woman.
Lmaooo legit over half my class including me chose to read heart of darkness for our summer reading assignment since it was the shortest book. The look of disappointment on my teacher was palpable. I’m in the class still right now- it’s pretty ez especially compared to classes like physics C
@@whydoyouask709 everything is easy until you procrastinate too far. I didn’t even read the book, I just wrote an essay based on what I heard people talk about in class lol so dumb
@@OddHarvey damn bro u missed out. ChatGPT comes in clutch at moments I swear
I like how I went from AP Psych, easy; to AP Lang, send prayers 💀
I was in AP Lit. As an English major, I can confirm that it was one of the hardest tests I’ve ever taken. College classes are a walk in the park compared to the AP Lit exam.
oof
What year did u take it
@@user-vh9fp6fv6o it was last year. I know that makes me sound a little stupid because most college freshman classes are generally pretty easy, but I’ve still heard college seniors talking about how ap classes are harder than their classes lol
Honestly though, if you have a community college that lets you take classes. Totally worth it! Senior year I took Calc I, Comp I, Intro Psych, Intro Lit, and Intro Soc. Way less stressful than APs and I didn’t have school everyday so lots of naps and good food for lunch. Perfect plan to go in with a semester of college done and a chill Senior year!
dude i was in the hospital the night before my ap lit exam and like i still had morphine in my system when i sat for the test so i was falling asleep through the essay portion and i still got a 5 somehow, like this was 13 years ago so maybe things are different now or maybe it was just the biggest gigachad moment of my life
You should’ve seen the second prompt for the exam last year, it was some stupid ass story about an octopus walking out of the sea into a town and they wanted us to write a whole essay about it, but there was literally nothing of note to write about.
nah you gotta have plot armor or something what in the world
@@subtopewdipie4159 isn’t there a thing where theyd find u and delete ur comment if u talk about anything on the test at all (ik this makes no logical sense but idc) I made a 4 on the one ur talking about before I took the class and I made a 3 on ap lang after taking the class, sounds almost ironic lol I think it’s bc I was more tired
@@user-vh9fp6fv6o you can talk about it after scores come out
me taking three of the send prayers ones next year 😰
I struggled through AP Physics C, but the exam ended up being easier than expected as the work we did in class was harder than the test's criteria. I realized I knew more than I thought when I took the exam and I got credit. Keeping things conceptual felt easier than actually having to do the math like in 1 or 2.
all the classes i take are AP and my grades be like ariana grandes singing throughout the year, one day theyre low the next day they're high 💀
AP Lit was literally LIT 🔥
This is a good list. ( btw mahad nice buzz cut
ap american studies should be at the top. i had a seminar, and 2 units tests this week. i have a timed writing. and a seminar and a presentation back to back next week, the week after that i have a presentation and another test. i’ve only been getting 3 hours of sleep. and our teachers also don’t tell us anything abt the tests or assignments, we don’t even learn half the content, we’re just expected to know it. they don’t teacher history, they just throw random info at us and we have to deal with it. not the teachers fault at all, it’s just a super duper duper hard class.
Bro it sounds like your teachers sucked
AP lit was so rough. My ass somehow got an A- over the year but i was very much the jokey, not serious type. To the point i thought the exam was ranked on a 1-10 scale. (Idk why i thought this, maybe because our in-class essays were graded that way?). Well exam results come out and my teacher knew i was a ditz who scraped by for that A- and asks what i got (no ill intent) and I'm like "I got a 5 :(" thinking I'd shamed her by barely getting college credit. She looked at me like ????!!!! And was like "you know i get the results right????" And I'm like "yeah? I got a 5 tho. I'm sure (random student) probably got a 10 tho." And shes like "IT IS OUT OF 5" and i was MINDBLOWN lmaooo
Apparently she talked about my feat (and stupidity) for a few years after that lol
My human geography teacher literally makes us write 113 pages of notes in 1 semester including 3 short responses and a long response per unit to prep for AICE exam
Edit: forgot to mention physical geography is part of the exam too, it’s 2 parts
Don’t stress exam it is easy. Any smart person could likely get a 3 without taking the course.
your teacher is a mob fr. AICE human geography aint even that hard to pass, she doing to much.
bro dw that test is easy af, everyone ik barely studied a couple days before and got 5s the vast majority is just common sense
Love this, pretty accurate, although I'd argue AP Music is at least send prayers, if not drop out.
Music theory depends on how much you already know. I know kids that learned the piano over the summer and had a really hard time with it, but also know a lot of people with experience in music who find it really easy. And just to put it out there, while perfect pitch definitely helps with apmt, it doesnt matter too much. It literally just means you know what notes sound like without needing a relative pitch to compare it to, which you almost always have. Very much a “hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard” scenario lol
IVE TAKEN ALL OF THE DROP OUT CLASSES 😭😭😭
Rip
what did you get?
🙏
@@hopsmax2827 obviously, if he has taken all of them, he must be a high-achieving student. so he must have gotten As for all of them..?
@@steve4718 just because he/she enrolled in those classes, that doesn’t automatically mean that he/she will get straight As in that class because of them being objectively the hardest. If that was the case then every single AP student would get straight As and that’s completely unrealistic because of how significantly harder AP classes are compared to a normal honors class. But I hope that person’s grades were good nonetheless.
I'm in Spanish lang right now after 1227 days on Duolingo and two years of classes at school and oh goodness, send prayers
Edit: I passed it :D I'm seriously soooo glad
Oh god the test results are coming out tomorrow. Wish me luck lmao
@@fnibbithow did it go? I took the same exam
Honestly APush isn’t that bad, as someone who just took the exam the class overall wasn’t that bad. My school is different and we take the class sophomore year and the teacher made it a way easier experience, shoutout Mr.Mize. The exam was a bit tough but I thank a 4 is a possibility. Btw it sucks that AP chem is so hard because as someone who’s aiming to go to Michigan for pharmacy it’s kinda a requirement.