What AP classes/tests have you taken?

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

(You may select up to 32 options. Choices are listed in order of date tested in May 2014. If I have excluded any, please speak up.)


I took APUSH 2012-13, and got a 4 on the exam. It was by far one of the best classes I've ever taken (teacher was a great man and teacher, and I love history anyways).

I took Micro (3), Human Geo (5), and Enviro Science (4) this past year. Micro was a waste (teacher sucked and was a terrible person), Human Geo was a joke (too easy, and teacher was just meh), but Enviro was worth the work (great teacher, well-structured class).

What have y'all taken, Atlas Forum?

[memphis]

Many years ago, but I took
English Language 4
US History 5
English Literature 5
European History 4
French Language 3

I give a lot of credit to my teachers in US History and English Lit. Both were outstanding.

[bedstuy]

(You may select up to 32 options. Choices are listed in order of date tested in May 2014. If I have excluded any, please speak up.)


I took APUSH 2012-13, and got a 4 on the exam. It was by far one of the best classes I've ever taken (teacher was a great man and teacher, and I love history anyways).

I took Micro (3), Human Geo (5), and Enviro Science (4) this past year. Micro was a waste (teacher sucked and was a terrible person), Human Geo was a joke (too easy, and teacher was just meh), but Enviro was worth the work (great teacher, well-structured class).

What have y'all taken, Atlas Forum?

Why didn't you take the US government test?  I think paying attention to politics is enough to get a 5 on that thing. 

Myself, I took US History, US Government, English, European History, Spanish and Bio.  Straight 5s because I'm a good test taker.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

We didn't have AP options at our school. We really should have.

[Platypus]

I took VCE Psychology, English, English Language, International Studies, Politics, and Legal Studies.

[H. Ross Peron]

Freshman Year:
AP Human Geography-5

Sophomore:
AP European History-5

Junior:
APUSH-5
AP English Language-5
AP Psych-5

Senior:
AP Gov-5
AP Macroecon-4
AP English Lit-5
AP French-3
AP Stats-3
APES-4
AP Art History-5

[Miles]

Back in high school, I did IB instead.

Our school paid for the AP tests, so I sat for one of the AP English tests (which I did well on) and AP Econ (not so well).

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

I took several. But I can't vote for the discontinued Computer Science AB.

[dead0man]

We didn't have a lot of options, especially for those with kinda sh**tty grades like me, but I did manage to get into AP English my Sr year.  From talking to kids today it seems like every HS has several dozens of these classes in all types of subjects....kids can be nearly halfway done with college before they get into it.

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

(You may select up to 32 options. Choices are listed in order of date tested in May 2014. If I have excluded any, please speak up.)


I took APUSH 2012-13, and got a 4 on the exam. It was by far one of the best classes I've ever taken (teacher was a great man and teacher, and I love history anyways).

I took Micro (3), Human Geo (5), and Enviro Science (4) this past year. Micro was a waste (teacher sucked and was a terrible person), Human Geo was a joke (too easy, and teacher was just meh), but Enviro was worth the work (great teacher, well-structured class).

What have y'all taken, Atlas Forum?

Why didn't you take the US government test?  I think paying attention to politics is enough to get a 5 on that thing. 

I like politics and history. Not government. I took regular Government and got an 81% because I don't care about the courts or Constitution lolz

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Senior Year:
Intend to take, with the school, Calculus AB, English Literature, Environmental Science, Physics 1, Spanish Language. Intend to take, online, Macroeconomics & Microeconomics. Intend to self-study Comparative Government, Human Geography, and U.S. History. Not sure how I intend to survive taking 10 AP tests in a year.

Only voted for the ones I've taken, since the senior year itinerary is still kind of flexible.

This sounds extremely unhealthy

[MalaspinaGold]

Sophomore year-
AP English Language- 5
AP Chemistry- 5
AP Computer Science A- 5
AP European History- 4

Junior year-
AP Physics B- 5
AP Calculus BC- 5
AP US History- 5
AP French Language- 4

Senior year (results back last week)
AP Government- 5
AP Macroecon- 5
AP Biology- 5
AP Stats- 5
AP English Literature- 4

Pretty good overall; kind of disappointed with my Euro score, since I enjoyed the Euro class a lot, but I wasn't that good at DBQs at the time. French, that was brutal. Lit I didn't care about because I already got college credit for lang my sophomore year.

Good luck to anyone taking AP tests next year.

[Хahar 🤔]

Sophomore year:
European History 4 (self-studied)
World History 5 (self-studied)

Junior year:
United States History 5
English Language 5
Comparative Government and Politics 5 (self-studied)
Human Geography 5 (self-studied)

Senior year:
United States Government and Politics 5
English Literature 5
Spanish Language 5
Statistics 4
Physics C: Mechanics 4

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Have taken Physics B, Music Theory, and World History (5, 5, 4 respectively), will take APUSH, GovPol, Lang, and Chem junior year, will take Lit, Bio, Spanish, and presumably others senior year.

[President Tyrion]

Physics B (5)
Physics C - Mech (5)
Physics C - E&M (5)
Calculus BC (5)
Statistics (5)
Spanish Lang (5)
US Government (5)
US History (5)
Macroeconomics (4) <- dammit

[Simfan34]

Junior Year
English Language - 5
World History - 5 (Self studied)
US History - 5 (Took non AP class, so kinda self studied)
Comparative Government - 5 (Self studied)

Senior Year
Macroeconomics - 5
Microeconomics - 4
Calculus AB - 5
Statistics - 4
English Literature - 5
European History - 5
US Government - 5 (Self studied)

All this hard work and only 16 credits. I was planning to take Human Geography senior year but dropped it when I found out the school I was going to wouldn't take it.

[homelycooking]

Music theory
US government and politics
US history
Language and composition
Spanish
Comparative government and politics
Calculus AB

I very much regretted not taking AP Biology.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

AP Euro - 5
AP US - 5
AP World - 5
AP Psych - 5
AP Lang - 4
AP US Gov - 5
AP Comp Gov - 5
AP Enviro - 5
AP Lit - 4

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

US History - 5
US Government - 4

[MalaspinaGold]

What did everyone think of the tests this year.

The new Biology test is absolutely horrible.

[memphis]

We didn't have a lot of options, especially for those with kinda sh**tty grades like me, but I did manage to get into AP English my Sr year.  From talking to kids today it seems like every HS has several dozens of these classes in all types of subjects....kids can be nearly halfway done with college before they get into it.

It's a great program. No need for advanced students to get stuck in low gear, and they can save some serious money on college. There's been a big push here to get more AP classes into seriously ghetto schools. I havr mixed feelings about it. We already have magnet programs that draw most of the talented students into the better schools. The expected rigor of AP classes is so ridiculously mismatched with the students at the bad schools that it's a bit of a joke. Then, you get all the misleading headlines about how AP scores aren't what they used to be. Sigh...

[SPC]

Calculus BC 5
World History 5
Chemistry 5
English Language 4
Statistics 5
US History 5
US Government 5
Macroeconomics 5
English Literature 5
Physics C: Mechanics 5
Biology 5
French Language 3

[Vosem]

What did everyone think of the tests this year.

The new Biology test is absolutely horrible.

I took Biology last year (the first year after they changed it), and I didn't think the test was particularly difficult, though it seemed to emphasize weird things (there were multiple questions about famous biologists themselves) and of course it basically cut out taxonomy. I came out feeling quite confident, but I only got a 4; the new standard they set for getting a 5 being very high (prior to 2013, ~20% of test-takers got 5s; that declined to ~5%). The course I took (the teacher being one of my all-time favorites, and someone who I still regularly speak to more than a year later) was tailored to the old test, and I like to think I would've gotten a 5 under the old system.

Chemistry was just not a class I was good at. I took the class largely because all the other "nerds" did (peer pressure); it was consistently my worst grade all four quarters (low-to-mid 80s, iirc), and I thought the test was very difficult, but the 2 I got still took me by surprise; I expected a 3. The other tests I didn't find difficult, though I feel a bit self-conscious after reading this thread where people consider a 4 to be a bad result. AP Euro is taught by a well-meaning but awful teacher at our school, so my 4 (having not taken the class) was actually the best result of anyone taking it, even though I self-studied; all other scores were 3s or failures. When my testing room opened the DBQ on Euro, multiple people laughed because it was a topic (the rise of Solidarity in communist Poland) that was in a century they hadn't gotten to. The guy sitting to my right and behind me -- who got a 4 on Chemistry this year, so not an idiot -- had no clue to the extent that he didn't answer the question and just doodled. (He still pulled out a 3, I suppose from the multiple choice).

Senior Year:
Intend to take, with the school, Calculus AB, English Literature, Environmental Science, Physics 1, Spanish Language. Intend to take, online, Macroeconomics & Microeconomics. Intend to self-study Comparative Government, Human Geography, and U.S. History. Not sure how I intend to survive taking 10 AP tests in a year.

Only voted for the ones I've taken, since the senior year itinerary is still kind of flexible.

This sounds extremely unhealthy

Yeah, May 2015 isn't going to be a fun month.

[Hash]

IB master race.

[MalaspinaGold]

What did everyone think of the tests this year.

The new Biology test is absolutely horrible.

I took Biology last year (the first year after they changed it), and I didn't think the test was particularly difficult, though it seemed to emphasize weird things (there were multiple questions about famous biologists themselves) and of course it basically cut out taxonomy. I came out feeling quite confident, but I only got a 4; the new standard they set for getting a 5 being very high (prior to 2013, ~20% of test-takers got 5s; that declined to ~5%). The course I took (the teacher being one of my all-time favorites, and someone who I still regularly speak to more than a year later) was tailored to the old test, and I like to think I would've gotten a 5 under the old system.

Chemistry was just not a class I was good at. I took the class largely because all the other "nerds" did (peer pressure); it was consistently my worst grade all four quarters (low-to-mid 80s, iirc), and I thought the test was very difficult, but the 2 I got still took me by surprise; I expected a 3. The other tests I didn't find difficult, though I feel a bit self-conscious after reading this thread where people consider a 4 to be a bad result. AP Euro is taught by a well-meaning but awful teacher at our school, so my 4 (having not taken the class) was actually the best result of anyone taking it, even though I self-studied; all other scores were 3s or failures. When my testing room opened the DBQ on Euro, multiple people laughed because it was a topic (the rise of Solidarity in communist Poland) that was in a century they hadn't gotten to. The guy sitting to my right and behind me -- who got a 4 on Chemistry this year, so not an idiot -- had no clue to the extent that he didn't answer the question and just doodled. (He still pulled out a 3, I suppose from the multiple choice).

Senior Year:
Intend to take, with the school, Calculus AB, English Literature, Environmental Science, Physics 1, Spanish Language. Intend to take, online, Macroeconomics & Microeconomics. Intend to self-study Comparative Government, Human Geography, and U.S. History. Not sure how I intend to survive taking 10 AP tests in a year.

Only voted for the ones I've taken, since the senior year itinerary is still kind of flexible.

This sounds extremely unhealthy

Yeah, May 2015 isn't going to be a fun month.

What did everyone think of the tests this year.

The new Biology test is absolutely horrible.

I took Biology last year (the first year after they changed it), and I didn't think the test was particularly difficult, though it seemed to emphasize weird things (there were multiple questions about famous biologists themselves) and of course it basically cut out taxonomy. I came out feeling quite confident, but I only got a 4; the new standard they set for getting a 5 being very high (prior to 2013, ~20% of test-takers got 5s; that declined to ~5%). The course I took (the teacher being one of my all-time favorites, and someone who I still regularly speak to more than a year later) was tailored to the old test, and I like to think I would've gotten a 5 under the old system.

Chemistry was just not a class I was good at. I took the class largely because all the other "nerds" did (peer pressure); it was consistently my worst grade all four quarters (low-to-mid 80s, iirc), and I thought the test was very difficult, but the 2 I got still took me by surprise; I expected a 3. The other tests I didn't find difficult, though I feel a bit self-conscious after reading this thread where people consider a 4 to be a bad result. AP Euro is taught by a well-meaning but awful teacher at our school, so my 4 (having not taken the class) was actually the best result of anyone taking it, even though I self-studied; all other scores were 3s or failures. When my testing room opened the DBQ on Euro, multiple people laughed because it was a topic (the rise of Solidarity in communist Poland) that was in a century they hadn't gotten to. The guy sitting to my right and behind me -- who got a 4 on Chemistry this year, so not an idiot -- had no clue to the extent that he didn't answer the question and just doodled. (He still pulled out a 3, I suppose from the multiple choice).

Senior Year:
Intend to take, with the school, Calculus AB, English Literature, Environmental Science, Physics 1, Spanish Language. Intend to take, online, Macroeconomics & Microeconomics. Intend to self-study Comparative Government, Human Geography, and U.S. History. Not sure how I intend to survive taking 10 AP tests in a year.

Only voted for the ones I've taken, since the senior year itinerary is still kind of flexible.

This sounds extremely unhealthy

Yeah, May 2015 isn't going to be a fun month.

In my opinion, the main way the exam falls short is that there just isn't enough actual knowledge tested. Critical thinking and all is important, however if I remember correctly, there were no specific anatomy questions, virtually no respiration/photosynthesis questions, and so on. They would mostly just give a scenario, and do a simple analysis of it. The FRQs were a little better than the multiple choice, but honestly I would like to see some more flat out "what is the function of RuBisCo" or "Where along the Loop of Henle is the osmotic pressure greatest".

I personally thought AP Chemistry was one of the easiest tests I took- not that I'm good at chemistry or anything; I got B's both semesters. I just had a really good teacher and felt the test was extremely straightforward. I believe more than 90% of our AP chem class got 5's that year. Is the new AP test much different from the old one?

Oh and good luck with the 10 tests next year. About 50 people at my school take both IB and AP tests, so they generally have to take 5 of each, which means they'll be in a similar position to you. Though knowing senioritis, something tells me you (and they) won't be studying for any of them.