As much as this sub likes to say it’s all about having good study habits, most students cannot get good As in AP classes. Plenty of students who go to every class, answer questions every class, go to tutoring, do all the practice problems in the textbook, and so on still do poorly. It’s why the number of students with strong academic credentials to get into public flagships and other selective universities are so rare. Most just don’t have the intelligence for it

Hi all,

I'm currently a sophomore at a T10 high school in NYC. I'm enrolled in AP Seminar and AP World, but I decided to take the AP Comparative Government exam on my own. It would be helpful if anyone could comment on the test's difficulty, provide any resources, or share their experience. This is also my first year taking any AP exams, so it's fairly new to me, but I'm interested in law and politics. I took my US History Regents (an 11th-grade exam) in 8th grade and got a 90, so I was basing my ability to succeed in the exam on that.

I don’t know whether I’m in the minority, considering the poll was on YouTube, but less than 10% or so said that APUSH was the harder choice of the 4 options presented, and well over 50% said AP Chem was the hardest.

Perhaps it’s the way I think? I’ve always found that the chemistry conceptually made more sense than history. History is hard… it’s a massive story that you need to memorize, one event after the other.

Am I crazy here?
P.S.: why do people recommend Heimler so much? I know he’s a YouTuber who makes videos on the time periods, but is watching the videos really a great study habit? Seems mostly like an overview.

I'm currently a senior at HS and I asked my ap exam coordinator if I could self study AP Calc BC and AP physics E&M.

I know these classes are hard but I took honors physics the year before I basically self taught myself everything using just the homework and flippin physics dude so I think I could do it again.

My coordinator told me to ask for my counselor's approval and she said no because my math level is too low right now (I'm taking precalc H). They also asked why I didnt take the class last year...

Is there any way to convince them to let me take these exams? I feel like I'm just embarassing myself but I really want these credits to have a stronger foundation when I go into college for engineering

Recently our teacher for AP Calculus abandoned our class. Because of this, we should be expecting to have a teacher by February.

To me this is unacceptable.

As such I am taking it upon myself to study and teach the class. I understand this is insane, but as long as I have the classroom to myself, I believe I can unofficially teach my friends.

If anyone knows of any worksheets that I can use or study guides to break it down, please let me know!

We were left in unit 2, and I want to bring our class to unit 5 by December.

I was one of the best students in the class, so I hope I can understand the material quick enough to teach it and reinforce it to myself.

It's almost november, collegeboard!!

I need to learn how to write loops efficiently and tracing.
I have a quiz on Wednesday that’s mainly about writing loops and then Friday is my test which consists of both.
I have failed my past 2 tests and I know it’s on me because I haven’t been practicing but it gets so overwhelming for me. We code on CodeHs and CodingBat, where we have most quizzes on CodingBat. Any tips?

I have my first AP Euro test in a few days, and it covers the first three units. There is going to be an SAQ and an MCQ portion. I just don't know what to do, guys. How should I study? What should I focus on? Understanding the events or practicing the SAQ and MCQ? Help thx.

I'm not a huge reader and only taking the class for college credits. I'm just looking for a book that's relatively short and interesting, preferably not fantasy or sci-fi.

Do you guys advise APEX Computer Science for the exam since I want to do the class and the exam but I didn't skip cs over summer?

I am seeing a troubling trend where people change their minds about a major just based on a YouTube video they watch. I know a guy who wanted to be a meteorologist and was planning to take a Dual Enrollment Meteorology course, but after watching one cool video on chemicals or something and now wants to be a dual major in electrical engineering and chemistry.

While I applaud YouTube and STEM related youtubers for promoting interest in STEM, I will also acknowledge that YouTube videos can't exactly show you the Mathematics and complexity of the major/career path. YouTube is designed to get views if you show a board of equations you are of course going to get less views than if you show the end product instead, but you know what does and proves that you really can do the subject? The actual college courses and their equivalents.

This applies to the Humanities too, if you think being a lawyer is easy because you watch one law and order episode, you are in for a rude awakening. Take AP US Government or AP English Literature or some DE Intro to law course to get a sense of the major and the amount of work in it.

I know APs and DEs aren't going to exactly match the coursework of your intended major, but it is good to get a sense of it before making a full commitment. I will also warn against taking lower level courses that sound close to your major, but haven't been proven to be rigorous like a lower than Honors course such as Materials Science and Anatomy, take them if they sound fun but don't expect them to prepare you much for majors.

It is better to explore intended majors now in high school using these options when everything is still cheap and DE and AP will cost you at most $100, than switch in college where it will cost $1000 at least for each class.

Hi! Im a senior taking ap drawing (as my school has registered us) but my teacher told us to use whatever materials we want and more than half of my 14 people class is using oil paint but we're registered for ap drawing?????? I was reading that we should be in 2d if we're doing that.

Am I in the wrong course??

I thought they were usually released in September- Mid October, but it’s also November and still nothing😞

I got a test (mcq and frq) on 10/28, Thursday, I don’t really know anything about Unit 2 that much and half of unit 1. What Notes can I take write now to get all the concepts down and what questions can I do aswell so I can ace my test on Thursday? I’m doing 2-3 hours of physics work for today and next 2 days to prepare

I got a 20% on my first AP Physics 1 exam. How can I improve?

As the title suggests, I did poorly on my first exam, scoring just 4/21 (19%) on what is supposedly the easiest unit: kinematics. I got 2/14 on the multiple-choice section and 2/7 on the free-response question, and I'm extremely disappointed in my performance (to say the least).

What makes this especially frustrating is that I average around 70% on practice problem sets. While that isn't an outstanding score, it's significantly better than my exam result, and I don't understand where the disconnect is.

I don't want to drop the class, nor is dropping it an option, so I need to figure out how to improve before the next exam. For those who have taken AP Physics 1 or struggled with the course initially, what strategies helped you improve? How should I approach studying, practicing multiple-choice questions, and preparing for FRQs?

I keep trying to find schools here that allow external people outside of their school to take the ap exam but every time they just say “sorry we can’t allow you to take the ap exam at our school because you aren’t enrolled here” plz if anyone knows any schools that allow externals pls say thank u

Guys so I'm self studying for AP CSP, AP Micro and AP WH bc in my country there are no schools that offer AP classes except the American schools which aren't in my city. And after I called one of those schools to register for the exams they said that 3 AP classes are too much and it would be better to take only two(I'm a sophomore) but I want to take 3 so that by the end of highschool I would have at least taken 10 AP classes so that it looks good on my college applications . What do you guys advise me to do ?

Im new to AP Lang and recently got a 3/6 on my essay and I was wondering how I can improve my essay and it's sophistication.

"Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk who was a politician was the first gay man to be elected as a San Francisco Board Member of Supervisors. Harvey Milk gave a speech about gay rights and spoke about gay oppression and racism in California in 1978. The rhetorical choices Harvey Milk decides to use in his “Hope” Speech are logic, antithesis, and credibility to raise awareness for gay rights and oppression and to motivate the youth to fight back against oppression and racism.

Harvey Milk specifically uses logic and antithesis when comparing the lives of gay people and non gay people. Harvey Milk states, “You see there is a major difference – and it remains a vital difference – between a friend and a gay person, a friend in office and a gay person in office. Gay people have been slandered nationwide. We've been tarred and we've been brushed with the picture of pornography. In Dade County, we were accused of child molestation.” (P8) In this quote Harvey states the differences between on how a gay person in office is able to represent gay people more effectively than a non gay person. Harvey does this by referencing the slandering gay people have faced nationwide consisting of child molestation accusations, and being “brushed” with the picture of pornography. Harvey then contrasts this with how non gay people don’t face as many hardships or slandering as gay people proving a non gay man cannot represent the gay people of America.

Harvey Milk also uses his credibility and authority in his speech. Although it isn’t stated in the text it is stated in the summary of the text.. In this summary it explains how he is the first gay elected official for San Francisco giving him the authority to speak on certain topics non gay people can’t. He is extremely credible in this source since he is a gay person speaking about gay rights and trying to motivate the youth after all. He then uses his authority by stating his position as a US official making him credible and a trustworthy source as he then later states facts in his speech about racism etc. 

Harvey Milk combines these rhetorical choices to speak to the youth and to recruit the youth on his journey. Firstly, he talks about the differences between a gay individual and a straight individual explaining the differences. Secondly, he uses status as a US official to state facts about the topics he talks about. He then uses all of these rhetorical strategies in one speech to try to open a new life for gay people and to show light on gay rights to give them freedom. "

pls help

My current research question is: To what extent does the marketing of a small business producing dog treats influence consumers to choose a small business over a big-name brand?

I want to improve my question to be more specific

-I own a dog treat small business so I want to focus on that topic

-some key things to include with my question, which I havent figured out how to yet would be testing packaging design as well as the difference in advantages of small and big businesses. I also want to note if businesses can be successful when low cost marketing strageties occur(organically grown)

Our original AP Bio teacher has left. She was the best teacher, ngl, but she got a better opportunity. This new teacher is actually not the best; he doesn't teach well and skips over important parts of the unit. Can anyone give me an AP BIO review Google Doc or anything that would be beneficial? I would like to pass this test with a 4 or 5 if possible. We are already on unit 3.