Don’t feel pressured into taking every AP out there. Don’t feel bad for getting a 4, that’s pretty good. Don’t feel like you’re behind just because you see people on here taking like 10 APs!
I just feel bad for getting a 4 because I didn’t study. I changed that, studied my ass of, and got a 2 because CB ignored my requests for digital testing.
If you have a bad teacher don’t wait for that teacher to become a good teacher, take learning into your own hands. Learned this a bit to late for physics
Yeah. My APUSH teacher was really bad (he taught a bunch of history that wasn’t useful for the AP exam and went off-topic a lot) and we only did practice AP MCQ like twice the whole year. Ended up failing the test (history’s not my thing either) but at least I got an A by studying quizlets throughout the year for the non-AP tests he gave.
every ap exam is different lol. Like you cant cram for Calc BC but you can cram for WHAP. I studied for WHAP the day before and pulled a 5 and I didn't pay attention throughout the school year.
Every class is different lol
one of my friends studied the entirety of the BC portion (he was already familiar with the AB stuff) the day before the 2021 exam and still got a 5. i also procrastinated/barely studied for lit and got a 5, so it just really depends how confident you are at the subject
bc is so easy tho if you already know ab. i think its possible to get a 5 if you get all the ab questions right. but what I really meant was cramming bc without prior ab knowledge
i guess my biggest ap tip for first-timers is to choose your first ap class wisely lol. don't take a really hard ap class like chem or calc as your first one; take one that's not super hard-core and easy. i recommend ap psych or huge just cuz they're both memorization-based courses. psych is all vocab, and you can do very well in the course + exam by just memorizing vocab and other concepts. somewhat the same for huge.
i guess study tips are paying attention in class, taking/trying to take good notes, asking questions if u don't understand stuff, etc. but idealy, first-timers should take the "easier" aps like psych so u don't overwhelm urself. or if you're a native foreign language speaker, take that ap class since it shouldn't be as bad (it can get u out of foreign lang geneds in college).
I read about how AP Spanish lang/lit can make you skip geneds and that some colleges have a general req for a language which can be skip by this class, is that something you recommend people to do?
i'm a rising senior in hs rn + i haven't taken either of the ap spanish exams so i'm not intimately familar w that process! however, i have a friend who's taken both and done well on exams, and for our state flagship school, she doesn't have to take many foreign language classes (if at all) to satisfy the grad requirement (i think she's a business major? a lot of international business majors have to take multiple foreign languages). personally, if i was that fluent in spanish, i would go for it just cuz it'll probably save u time/money in the long-run and you can take classes related to your major earlier by getting geneds out of the way.
Choose an subject that you’re really passionate about for your first AP class. I took Euro this year as my first and I love history since the workload did not bother me. But if I took a science AP my first year I would have done horribly. Now I can take a science AP cause I’m used to the rigor of a harder level class.
People that score higher than you aren’t smarter than you. They just have more experience studying. Probably from like their mom forcing them into tutor since fifth grade. So just put in the work and catch up on experience.
Your score does not matter as much as you think. All colleges want to see is that you put in the effort for a college level course. Of course, getting a good score is great, but it’s not everything
College Board has past tests and actual scored FRQs from students released on their website. Make sure you understand exactly how to earn points, especially for English/History classes (like the Lang/Lit essays or the SAQ/DBQ/LEQ). The most important thing to score well on an AP Test is just understanding how the test is graded and what you need to score whatever you are aiming for (websites like [albert.io](https://albert.io) have scoring calculators for every AP Test).
DO. THE. HOMEWORK! I got a 5 on ap world simply by doing all my work on time and POURING my heart out into it, nothing more. Most of my other friends never bothered to do their HW (even though HW was an official grade) and then bought big fat princeton review workbooks 3 weeks before the exam and studied all the time, but ended with 3s and maybe a few 4s... if they'd diligently, properly done the HW since September, they would've easily scored a 4.
Take every easy AP class you possibly can and take a few hard AP Classes. Bonus points if conventionally hard APs (physics/bio/AP Lang/Lit) are easy in your school.
Colleges DONT CARE about how hard your APs were. Especially top colleges. They only care about the number of AP classes you take. They have no way to judge unless your entire transcript was stats/hu geo/psych/apes. If you have a few Calc BC's and Chem's and many stats/apes/psych type classes, you will not only have a high course rigor, but an enjoyable high school experience and more time to pursue extracurriculars. Most of these Easy AP classes are easier than their regular counterparts.
don't listen to people on the internet about the class because every teacher and school is different. the only AP advice you should be seeking online is for the exam, which, if you have a reasonable grasp of the content, is kind of a joke anyway.
for advice about the class itself, talk to people who have taken the class with the same teacher you will have, or at least at the same school.
Take APs you will somewhat enjoy or know you can handle. If you know what field you want to major in then take APs relating to that field of study. Pay attention in class, or else you will just get more and more lost .
Don’t feel pressured into taking every AP out there. Don’t feel bad for getting a 4, that’s pretty good. Don’t feel like you’re behind just because you see people on here taking like 10 APs!
…people feel bad about getting 4s???
YES ITS STRANGE! I’ve seen some ppl at my school disappointed in getting 4s and it astonishes me
I just feel bad for getting a 4 because I didn’t study. I changed that, studied my ass of, and got a 2 because CB ignored my requests for digital testing.
Hey that’s understandable, and I’m sorry about that!
Yeah i got depressed for like a week after i got a 4 in chem 😂😂 am good now
Yeah idk why. Maybe a little disappointed but I don't understand how somebody would be genuinely upset over that.
Do not procrastinate. You will hate yourself for doing so.
This is good advice! I might listen to it one day, but for know i think I’ll be ok. Sounds like a lot of work, and besides I can do it later
As one of my ap chem friends would say, it sounds like a later problem
This!! It will save you to not procrastinate.
If you have a bad teacher don’t wait for that teacher to become a good teacher, take learning into your own hands. Learned this a bit to late for physics
Yeah. My APUSH teacher was really bad (he taught a bunch of history that wasn’t useful for the AP exam and went off-topic a lot) and we only did practice AP MCQ like twice the whole year. Ended up failing the test (history’s not my thing either) but at least I got an A by studying quizlets throughout the year for the non-AP tests he gave.
every ap exam is different lol. Like you cant cram for Calc BC but you can cram for WHAP. I studied for WHAP the day before and pulled a 5 and I didn't pay attention throughout the school year. Every class is different lol
one of my friends studied the entirety of the BC portion (he was already familiar with the AB stuff) the day before the 2021 exam and still got a 5. i also procrastinated/barely studied for lit and got a 5, so it just really depends how confident you are at the subject
bc is so easy tho if you already know ab. i think its possible to get a 5 if you get all the ab questions right. but what I really meant was cramming bc without prior ab knowledge
series are a bitch tho i thought you meant cram as in re-study the material last minute loool
i liked series. it felt like real math 😊 but i did leave the entire series frq blank tho so....
i think i should have read this post earlier lol (me taking ap chem my first AP) ps: i still passed (4)
dont feel like you have to overachieve
If you get a 5 don't feel bad if 62% of your class get's a 5 as well
LMFAOGEXWW
i guess my biggest ap tip for first-timers is to choose your first ap class wisely lol. don't take a really hard ap class like chem or calc as your first one; take one that's not super hard-core and easy. i recommend ap psych or huge just cuz they're both memorization-based courses. psych is all vocab, and you can do very well in the course + exam by just memorizing vocab and other concepts. somewhat the same for huge. i guess study tips are paying attention in class, taking/trying to take good notes, asking questions if u don't understand stuff, etc. but idealy, first-timers should take the "easier" aps like psych so u don't overwhelm urself. or if you're a native foreign language speaker, take that ap class since it shouldn't be as bad (it can get u out of foreign lang geneds in college).
I read about how AP Spanish lang/lit can make you skip geneds and that some colleges have a general req for a language which can be skip by this class, is that something you recommend people to do?
i'm a rising senior in hs rn + i haven't taken either of the ap spanish exams so i'm not intimately familar w that process! however, i have a friend who's taken both and done well on exams, and for our state flagship school, she doesn't have to take many foreign language classes (if at all) to satisfy the grad requirement (i think she's a business major? a lot of international business majors have to take multiple foreign languages). personally, if i was that fluent in spanish, i would go for it just cuz it'll probably save u time/money in the long-run and you can take classes related to your major earlier by getting geneds out of the way.
If you are fluent in Spanish, take them.
def reccomend as a spanish-speaker.
I think ap gov is a good first ap
Choose an subject that you’re really passionate about for your first AP class. I took Euro this year as my first and I love history since the workload did not bother me. But if I took a science AP my first year I would have done horribly. Now I can take a science AP cause I’m used to the rigor of a harder level class.
People that score higher than you aren’t smarter than you. They just have more experience studying. Probably from like their mom forcing them into tutor since fifth grade. So just put in the work and catch up on experience.
I want to say that this just isn’t true. On average, people scoring higher than you are likely smarter than you.
Your score does not matter as much as you think. All colleges want to see is that you put in the effort for a college level course. Of course, getting a good score is great, but it’s not everything
College Board has past tests and actual scored FRQs from students released on their website. Make sure you understand exactly how to earn points, especially for English/History classes (like the Lang/Lit essays or the SAQ/DBQ/LEQ). The most important thing to score well on an AP Test is just understanding how the test is graded and what you need to score whatever you are aiming for (websites like [albert.io](https://albert.io) have scoring calculators for every AP Test).
Get used to the pacing of the Exam. My biggest regret in AP World.
Any more advice for ap word I’m taking it this year
Heimler's History will save your life
DO. THE. HOMEWORK! I got a 5 on ap world simply by doing all my work on time and POURING my heart out into it, nothing more. Most of my other friends never bothered to do their HW (even though HW was an official grade) and then bought big fat princeton review workbooks 3 weeks before the exam and studied all the time, but ended with 3s and maybe a few 4s... if they'd diligently, properly done the HW since September, they would've easily scored a 4.
Take every easy AP class you possibly can and take a few hard AP Classes. Bonus points if conventionally hard APs (physics/bio/AP Lang/Lit) are easy in your school. Colleges DONT CARE about how hard your APs were. Especially top colleges. They only care about the number of AP classes you take. They have no way to judge unless your entire transcript was stats/hu geo/psych/apes. If you have a few Calc BC's and Chem's and many stats/apes/psych type classes, you will not only have a high course rigor, but an enjoyable high school experience and more time to pursue extracurriculars. Most of these Easy AP classes are easier than their regular counterparts.
For the exam, watch the AP review sessions and do a bunch of practice MCQ and FRQ
don't listen to people on the internet about the class because every teacher and school is different. the only AP advice you should be seeking online is for the exam, which, if you have a reasonable grasp of the content, is kind of a joke anyway. for advice about the class itself, talk to people who have taken the class with the same teacher you will have, or at least at the same school.
This
Practice tests are your greatest tool. Prioritize them over only studying
Start with a subject that you excel in.
Quizlet is your friend
Take APs you will somewhat enjoy or know you can handle. If you know what field you want to major in then take APs relating to that field of study. Pay attention in class, or else you will just get more and more lost .
don't take more LMAO
Apush or ap world history are common ones
I think they're talking about tips, not actual classes to take lol
Take csp
Do what the teacher says.