Current Events > Are there people that actually took "AP" classes in high school?

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DevsBro posted...

knuxnole posted...

DevsBro posted...

knuxnole posted...

Tmaster148 posted...

I took basically every AP class option that was available. Started as a 2nd year student credit wise when I went to uni.

Honestly AP classes weren't even that hard.

They seem hard at my school. They make you read lots of books in English and have active discussion, in social studies you have to not just memorize names and rivers. In science you have to think. In math you have daily hw. In Spanish you have so much hw and cant take exam with a dictionary

Sounds right to me. Were the normal classes not this way?

Uh no

Math- you watch teacher do it and class work which kids goof on and teacher gets mad lol
Science- memorize vocab and thats it
English- round robin reading the whole time, no hw, only honors and AP get assigned novels
Social studies - memorize facts, do a coloring book on geography
Spanish- vocab, we get to use a dictionary on tests but not quizzes

Are you sure this was high school and not kindergarten?

Nope this was my classes 9th-12th grade

Did you guys go to like
Specializes schools?
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DuranOfForcena posted...

brestugo posted...

Schools didn't have AP classes when I was in high school (mid-1980s). You could test-out of certain classes in college though.

the Advanced Placement program was created in the 50s

Well for whatever reason we didn't have them.

EDIT: Didn't have the classes but did have the exams.
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I took AP US History, AP Economics, and AP Computer Science II. Knocked about a semester off of my college curriculum.
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I took a few AP classes: physics, English and psychology. Ended up not taking the psychology test for some reason and ended up wasting time and money on the same class in university.

The only one that really felt like a ton of work was English because all the damn books we had to read and essays we had to write.

Physics was fairly difficult because of more advanced materials but wasn't really that heavy of a workload.
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I didn't take any AP classes, but my school offered a lot of dual credit courses, so I had like 42 hours of college credit by the time i graduated high school without any significant extra effort.
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I took AP English, AP World History, and AP US History and I don't think they were that difficult. It's more that the teachers actually expect something from you, unlike non-honors which feel more like babysitting.

And I'd rather work slightly harder for a class environment where the teacher isn't having to constantly discipline students. Much more fun that way.
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I feel like I would need babysitting in high school I cant sit still and be quiet I always gotta talk and make jokes like constantly haha
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Yes, AP US History.
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I only took two: AP US History (which over half of any given class in my HS takes) and AP Computer Science.

I got a 4 on the US exam (this was 10 years ago) and I got a 2 on the CS exam. Lot of reasons why there. Ironically, I'm now a software developer.

My HS also offered some not-AP classes through the local community college that you also got college credit for.

My high school offered AP Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Calculus AB, Calculus BC (a harder version), US History, European History, French, Spanish, Computer Science, Studio Art, English Language, and English Literature. The calculus ones you could only take if you were on an advanced math track since 8th grade because you had to have a lot of pre-reqs. Studio Art and Computer Science were independent studies, and I think Physics was too.
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Most of my classes were honors classes but the only AP class I took was English. My history teacher in 10th grade told that I should take AP history in 11th grade because I did so well on tests, but I chose not to because Im lazy and didnt want the extra work
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knuxnole posted...

Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour

Having to read one book over the summer being work lmao.
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It was more work for me but I got credit for college for free. You can't beat free
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This whole topic is proof that the movie "Idiocracy" is coming true.
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I took AP Calculus as an elective.
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WrestlinFan posted...

knuxnole posted...

Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour

Having to read one book over the summer being work lmao.

Uh yea?

Its summer! You spend the whole time having fun, and have to read a STUPID fucking book! We had to do it in 7th and 8th grade, I didnt do it in 7th and got an F, in 8th I didnt do it and my mom wrote the book report

Thankfully in standars they dont give summer reading. Which is good cause thats bad. Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words. Plus they want you to think and I hate thinking
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knuxnole posted...

Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words

If that's your complaint about reading books, I'm impressed you are okay with reading Harry Potter.
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ZEROWOLF posted...

This whole topic is proof that the movie "Idiocracy" is coming true.

Never heard of it. Seems like a pro intellectual movement
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I took AP English in high school and failed. Hated that class.
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Tmaster148 posted...

knuxnole posted...

Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words

If that's your complaint about reading books, I'm impressed you are okay with reading Harry Potter.

Its a fun lighthearted story you never have to think about and can breeze they without thinking. I love the series SO much!!
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Again, it's literally impossible to read a book and not think. You need to think in order to comprehend the sentences to gather an idea of what is going on.
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Tmaster148 posted...

Again, it's literally impossible to read a book and not think. You need to think in order to comprehend the sentences to gather an idea of what is going on.

Give me an example then, cause I never think. I just read and move on
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I'm sorry the concept of your brain being required in order to understand what words mean and what they mean in context to each other is too hard for you understand.
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Here, I googled a sample of the book since I dont own them anymore, or I would screenshot

Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. The sun rose on the same tidy front gardens and lit up the brass number four on the Dursleys' front door; it crept into their living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the night when Mr. Dursley had seen that fateful news report about the owls. Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much time had passed. Ten years ago, there had been lots of pictures of what looked like a large pink beach ball wearing different-colored bonnets - but Dudley Dursley was no longer a baby, and now the photographs showed a large blond boy riding his first bicycle, on a carousel at the fair, playing a computer game with his father, being hugged and kissed by his mother. The room held no sign at all that another boy lived in the house, too.

Yet Harry Potter was still there, asleep at the moment, but not for long. His Aunt Petunia was awake and it was her shrill voice that made the first noise of the day.

"Up! Get up! Now!"

Harry woke with a start. His aunt rapped on the door again.

"Up!" she screeched. Harry heard her walking toward the kitchen and then the sound of the frying pan being put on the stove. He rolled onto his back and tried to remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one. There had been a flying motorcycle in it. He had a funny feeling he'd had the same dream before.

His aunt was back outside the door.

"Are you up yet?" she demanded.

"Nearly," said Harry.

"Well, get a move on, I want you to look after the bacon. And don't you dare let it burn, I want everything perfect on Duddy's birthday."

Harry groaned.

"What did you say?" his aunt snapped through the door.

"Nothing, nothing . . ."

Dudley's birthday - how could he have forgotten? Harry got slowly out of bed and started looking for socks. He found a pair under his bed and, after pulling a spider off one of them, put them on. Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.

When he was dressed he went down the hall into the kitchen. The table was almost hidden beneath all Dudley's birthday presents. It looked as though Dudley had gotten the new computer he wanted, not to mention the second television and the racing bike. Exactly why Dudley wanted a racing bike was a mystery to Harry, as Dudley was very fat and hated exercise - unless of course it involved punching somebody. Dudley's favorite punching bag was Harry, but he couldn't often catch him. Harry didn't look it, but he was very fast.

Perhaps it had something to do with living in a dark cupboard, but Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and skinnier than he really was because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of Scotch tape because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he had gotten it.

There.

Nothing to think or analyze or whatever English teachers like.

I just read, go oh sweet and move on
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knuxnole posted...

WrestlinFan posted...

knuxnole posted...

Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour

Having to read one book over the summer being work lmao.

Uh yea?

Its summer! You spend the whole time having fun, and have to read a STUPID fucking book! We had to do it in 7th and 8th grade, I didnt do it in 7th and got an F, in 8th I didnt do it and my mom wrote the book report

Thankfully in standars they dont give summer reading. Which is good cause thats bad. Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words. Plus they want you to think and I hate thinking

I had to do it for school every summer and everyone just looked up the cliff notes version of the books we had to read and just made up stuff for the essay. Even in the AP class everyone still did that lol
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I took AP Literature, got a 50 in it, which was a pass where we live.

This is a stupid topic.
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YookaLaylee posted...

knuxnole posted...

WrestlinFan posted...

knuxnole posted...

Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour

Having to read one book over the summer being work lmao.

Uh yea?

Its summer! You spend the whole time having fun, and have to read a STUPID fucking book! We had to do it in 7th and 8th grade, I didnt do it in 7th and got an F, in 8th I didnt do it and my mom wrote the book report

Thankfully in standars they dont give summer reading. Which is good cause thats bad. Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words. Plus they want you to think and I hate thinking

I had to do it for school every summer and everyone just looked up the cliff notes version of the books we had to read and just made up stuff for the essay. Even in the AP class everyone still did that lol

Yeah cliff notes are the best. I did that instead of reading and understanding Romeo and Juliet in senior year

Still barely got a D to graduate lol

Still dunno what the story is about
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I took AP Chemistry because I liked the first year of Chemistry even though I stopped trying in the second semester and got bad grades so I don't know why they let me take it. But my dad was a chemist so I wanted to do him proud :\

I also took AP Physics just because that was the only level of Physics offered at the school.
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My apologies if this has already been touched upon, but it saves you money. College is ungodly expensive, if you have a way to get out early by attaining credits from HS, you take em'.
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knuxnole posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

knuxnole posted...

WrestlinFan posted...

knuxnole posted...

Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour

Having to read one book over the summer being work lmao.

Uh yea?

Its summer! You spend the whole time having fun, and have to read a STUPID fucking book! We had to do it in 7th and 8th grade, I didnt do it in 7th and got an F, in 8th I didnt do it and my mom wrote the book report

Thankfully in standars they dont give summer reading. Which is good cause thats bad. Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words. Plus they want you to think and I hate thinking

I had to do it for school every summer and everyone just looked up the cliff notes version of the books we had to read and just made up stuff for the essay. Even in the AP class everyone still did that lol

Yeah cliff notes are the best. I did that instead of reading and understanding Romeo and Juliet in senior year

Still barely got a D to graduate lol

Still dunno what the story is about

2 kids from families that hate each other fall in love (really they just want to fuck each other). Everyone wants to keep them apart so one of them (I think it was Juliet) decides to fake her own death so that shell be free to run away with him. But she doesnt tell him about her plan and he ends up committing suicide when he sees her fake dead body. After she wakes up and sees that Romeo is dead she kills herself for real. Or at least thats how I remember it lol
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daftpunk_mk5 posted...

Maybe some people have career ambitions or actually want to learn?

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YookaLaylee posted...

knuxnole posted...

YookaLaylee posted...

knuxnole posted...

WrestlinFan posted...

knuxnole posted...

Wasnt it a LOT of work tho?

For math I heard you gets tons of hw, more
Than honors

And for English they make you read books, and have to read one over the summer

In my classes we just read short stories from textbook and one kids reads a paragraph and the next one, for the whole hour

Having to read one book over the summer being work lmao.

Uh yea?

Its summer! You spend the whole time having fun, and have to read a STUPID fucking book! We had to do it in 7th and 8th grade, I didnt do it in 7th and got an F, in 8th I didnt do it and my mom wrote the book report

Thankfully in standars they dont give summer reading. Which is good cause thats bad. Who wants to read plus the books are big and has hard words. Plus they want you to think and I hate thinking

I had to do it for school every summer and everyone just looked up the cliff notes version of the books we had to read and just made up stuff for the essay. Even in the AP class everyone still did that lol

Yeah cliff notes are the best. I did that instead of reading and understanding Romeo and Juliet in senior year

Still barely got a D to graduate lol

Still dunno what the story is about

2 kids from families that hate each other fall in love (really they just want to fuck each other). Everyone wants to keep them apart so one of them (I think it was Juliet) decides to fake her own death so that shell be free to run away with him. But she doesnt tell him about her plan and he ends up committing suicide when he sees her fake dead body. After she wakes up and sees that Romeo is dead she kills herself for real. Or at least thats how I remember it lol

Oh o didnt know Juliet died
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AP psychology in my final year because i wanted to learn the material
Flunked the exam though
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I was honestly just funneled straight into taking all possible AP classes in high school from the start. I went to a gifted/talented magnet middle school and excelled there. Was told that if I didn't do AP classes at the high school level, I'd just become bored in the coursework. And they were right, since I was exposed to a few 'regular'-level courses over time as random electives that I had to take and which weren't offered at all in AP...and yeah, it was kind of a joke in my opinion.

Only gripe is that AP classes can kind of be like college classes to an extent insofar as having a good teacher was very important. Like with AP Physics, I had a teacher who only spoke English as his second language and oh man, that class was kind of rough. Otherwise, I got pretty lucky on having a good selection of teachers.
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*raises hands*

I took them for the college credit and the fact they better prepped me for Uni.
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