AP CLASS TIER LIST - HARDEST & EASIEST AP CLASSES TO TAKE (VALEDICTORIAN EXPERIENCE)

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AP CLASS TIER LIST - HARDEST & EASIEST AP CLASSES TO TAKE (VALEDICTORIAN EXPERIENCE)
AP COURSES RANKED BY DIFFICULTY
Welcome Everyone!
Today I made a tier list ranking every single AP class that I took in high school. I will be judging these classes in terms of difficulty and overall enjoyment. Luckily for you, there are some AP classes that are much easier to get an A in than others, and by the end of this video you will know what the best AP classes to take are. In this video I will cover: AP Human Geography, AP US History, AP Physics 1 & 2 (Algebra Based), AP Government, AP Language, AP Psychology, AP Biology, AP Calculus AB, AP Statistics, AP Environmental Science, AP Art History, AP European History*, & AP Macroeconomics
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@YouTubeSchooling 2 жыл бұрын

Let me know what you thought of this style of video!

@zay2k539 Жыл бұрын

13 AP classes!? I'm hesitant about even trying 4- 5 (Human Geography, Physics 1 and 2, Calculus, Environmental Science, or Computer Science). You must be a smart, tough cookie ngl. I commend you for this.

@flexcuber3525 Жыл бұрын

I’m also a rising valedictorian this year and will have taken 13 ap classes too surprisingly. I agree with most of the list rankings other than the one for calc, that class I actually enjoyed, (nerd alert) however, it was challenging. The most difficult and absolute hellish class I’ve taken was AP Chem. Our teacher assigned entire packets of homework to be turned in on the following day and I could not go one night without getting less than 3 hours of sleep. My class had only 7 students by the end of the year because of the sheer number of students who dropped out in the beginning. To make matters worse, we only did around three labs throughout the course of the year because of how behind we were. It is also the only AP exam I have failed with a score of 2. My advice - DO NOT take AP Chem - It will ruin your health.

@sad_paper491 Жыл бұрын

Im very excited. Almost everybody I've talked to who took AP Chem told me to not take it. We will see how the rest of this year goes...

@neoshelioscaligula7417 Жыл бұрын

@@sad_paper491 how has it gone so far?

@sad_paper491 Жыл бұрын

@@neoshelioscaligula7417 the topics themselves are pretty difficult but understandable. Averaging around a 90 for each test. However I still have an 85 in that class because my teacher assigns 3 hours of homework each night and I'm too busy with other stuff so I just don't do it 💀

@neoshelioscaligula7417 Жыл бұрын

@@sad_paper491 💀 that’s good to know

@peenhoe5358 Жыл бұрын

lol no one cares

@babyecho-_-3610 Жыл бұрын

I feel like my APUSH teacher is super great. Teaches it well and keeps us engaged , I actually like it a lot

@mileskemph8391 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Valedictorian knows his shit 🙌

@YouTubeSchooling 2 жыл бұрын

Haha yessir 🤝

@dpjones5913 Жыл бұрын

My Apush teacher made the class absolutely amazing, I'm sorry to hear abt your experience, she made the learning experience fun while giving us very challenging exams, once I got to the AP exam I actually found that my teachers coursework was harder than the AP exam, so she prepared us very well, thank you Mrs Cooper

@samarthkasaraneni3527 Жыл бұрын

Great Vid!

@juan6richard175 Жыл бұрын

Have to disagree with APHG- Easy class, Hard test. Especially if this is the first AP class you've taken, the learning style is extremely different from other classes. The questions can definitely be easy, but the FRQ's require a significant understanding of the entire subject in general.

@localmilfchaser6938 Жыл бұрын

This is exactly how I felt about apwh 😭. I got hundreds on almost all assignments but got a 3 for the exam😐. For me it was dbqs that were confusing

@LordAbe679 10 ай бұрын

So my freshman year of high school, I took as many AP courses the counselor would let me which was 3. APHG, APES, & APCSP. In totality, APES was my most challenging AP course that I took. The teacher was great, I bonded with her and over the year, I could tell she enjoyed having my in her. But, the way she taught was with labs and a packet of material were supposed to complete as well as some projects done in groups or on our own. The exam was during covid though and I ended up getting a 4 thankfully. I took a total of 16 AP classes in high school.

@wilsonchan5711 Жыл бұрын

Apes is an honestly a super chill and fun class to take, you actually learn a bunch of random stuff that just is quite nice to know about the earth. It's also strangely applicable to any earth/environmental science topic like ever, especially when climate change is becoming a bigger and bigger topic every year

@damega621 Жыл бұрын

APUSH - Our class didn't get past the Industrial Revolution💀 Ap Chem - Most Intense Class + sucked so much on Zoom AP Physics - Hardest Test in contrast to the difficulty of the class AP Span Lang - I'm a native speaker 💀 AP Span Lit- I lived in Mexico till the age of 14 💀 AP Psych - Most applicable AP US Gov - Super Useful + my teacher guessed the 4th FRQ prompt months earlier AP Bio - Still pissed I couldn't take it bc of schedule conflict AP Human Geo - 😂😂😂 APES - 😢😢 AP Calc AB - A's, but didn't turn in a single HW lol AP Calc BC - Highest Valedictorian Kill Count + AP Exam was a joke this year (entire class was shocked at how easy it was) AP Lit - Best Test (the prose passages and poems were actually really good to read) AP Stats - dropped it before the first class (last period of the day as Senior, I was not gonna stay in school that long lol)

@kinggrass689 Жыл бұрын

This is gonna be controversial but AP calc is easily my favorite ap class I’ve ever taken. Calculus was so much fun

@keepmehomeplease Жыл бұрын

AB is so easy, wish I could’ve taken BC but I’m a senior so.. just self studying calc 2 and 3.

@kinggrass689 Жыл бұрын

@@keepmehomeplease low key that’s what I’ve been doing also. I love calculus and honestly just math in general

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

Props to you two!

@nathanjiang100 Жыл бұрын

yeah Calc BC is hands down the easiest AP class I've taken. I don't see the fuss everyone has around series, but granted I also enjoy math (otherwise I wouldn't be a 10th grader taking Calc 3). I wish my school allowed us to take AP Stats before senior year, but it's too popular.

@kinggrass689 Жыл бұрын

So as someone who’s taking calc and stats at the same time, here’s what I would have to say about them. Stats is less creative, and a lot of writing. For a lot of the questions you pretty much just have a script to write down. However if you can memorize stuff, it will probably come easy to you. Calc however is less memorization and more creativity and problem solving. Once you learn how to apply derivatives it gets super nuanced and in my opinion, fun. So In summary if you want a class that’s kinda just memorization and writing go stats, and if you want a class that’s difficult and nuanced problem solving, go calc.

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

I agree to a certain extent. For me personally I wasn't drawn to how abstract calc was and could wrap my head around stats problems better. Definitely had to write out long scripts to answer though which was just tedious

@kinggrass689 Жыл бұрын

@@KZfaqSchooling yeah I get that. And yes it’s so much writing! Two proportion z intervals absolutely sucked

@kinggrass689 Жыл бұрын

@@KZfaqSchooling and also I think we can all agree Ap Chem is literal mind torture. I took it during covid, and we did about 2 labs the entire year while not finishing the last three chapters. And guess what showed up the most that year :/. Pretty much no one in my school passed

@damega621 Жыл бұрын

@@kinggrass689 took Ap Chem on covid year too. Zoom labs were horrific. It was just watching the teacher do it over terrible camera quality and in some other labs we had to record ourselves attempting them at home (the ones we could) to no success lmaoo. Also we blitzed through the content. We were done with Equilibrium and ready to move on to Acids and Bases before winter break. Zoom year messed it up so badly. I would've loved that class had it been in person honestly. Also, I missed the first four weeks of school because I was out of the country and came back to take the Unit 4 Chemical Reactions Test 💀💀

@kinggrass689 Жыл бұрын

@@damega621 Jesus, missing the first 4 weeks has to suck😂. My school did something different, we did on and off days, where half the school was there one day, and the other half of the school was there the next. It sucked because we basically had half the time to do everything . We didn’t even finish 3 chapters which screwed us for the ap test. It sucked. I feel like if I was there full time I would’ve enjoyed the class too.

@JoniniTheChickenNugget Жыл бұрын

Imma just say, from my experience, AP Physics C is THE HARDEST (if you do both mechanics and e&m). If Calc BC was a 5 on a scale of 1-10, APPC would be a 10.

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

I don’t doubt that at all 😅 I bet it would be an insanely hard class/exam

@sluggaming4577 Жыл бұрын

It’s kind of crazy seeing this list, because it’s completely opposite from my experiences. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no valedictorian (3.5gpa), I didn’t start getting into school until sophomore year, and my Junior year (this year) is when I started getting into AP classes. I am taking AP physics 1, AP Government, AP Biology, AP US History, and AP Lang… I would have to say APUSH is the hardest out of the bunch.

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

APUSH is tough don't get me wrong... I got a gnarly concussion during the year I was taking it and really had to push to get through it. I didn't want that to skew my ranking however but I may have overestimated the impacts of my concussion in that instance

@matthewblanton2210 Жыл бұрын

How’s Ap lang I’m planning on taking it next year most of the kids I asked at my school said it’s pretty easy but after watching this video idk what to think

@sluggaming4577 Жыл бұрын

@@matthewblanton2210 It is like many other English classes, if the teacher is good, the class will be good; if the teacher assigns many things unrealistically, you will have a problem (and I would advise you not to take). My best advice for you would be to talk to that teacher and ask how she/he weights their assessments/classwork/whatever, what their test/quiz retake rules are, and if your previous classes will have you prepared to take that class. Based on the responses you get, there is your answer.

@Emmett989 Жыл бұрын

Uh oh☠️ next year (I’ll be a junior) I’m taking apush ap psych ap lang and ap studio art 2d, the only ap I did this year was ap gov and i found it mostly not bad, but now I’m stressed about apush if it’s that hard😭

@colindelabie9734 Жыл бұрын

I’m our APUSH class we just took copious amounts of notes for homework and just had discussions in class.

@Ninibunnz_ Жыл бұрын

AP Human should be EZ MONEY at most bro, the only part that I'd consider ridiculously easy is units 1 and 2, everything else is easy to mid (agriculture being the only hard unit)

@abhinavnikam3705 2 жыл бұрын

Random question: What song is played from 3:45 to 4:10 in the video?

@zanmar6764 2 жыл бұрын

If you have to take AP Chemistry,AP Physics 1 and AP Biology in junior and senior what combination should you take?AP Chemistry and AP Physics 1 or AP biology and AP Chemistry? or AP Bio and AP Physics 1?

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

AP physics and bio next year. Then AP chem. Or swap. Never took AP chem but heard it’s pretty difficult. So Is AP bio tbh. Lot of work but you can do it 💪 just know your future self will thank you and with enough work you can get through any class

@goot8065 Жыл бұрын

probably anything works except doing physics and chem together

@damega621 Жыл бұрын

Take Chem by itself, and then Bio and Phsycis. Don't take Chem and physics together tho unless you're a masochist

@Ominibolt 5 ай бұрын

Im a sophomore and my rival told me thay im cool, but this just helped me plan out a comeback

@thewuggle4262 Жыл бұрын

I got a ONE on Human Geography but literally 90% of my class did that year so idk what happened lol

@Emmett989 Жыл бұрын

A 1 is insane what was ur teacher teaching u guys 😭

@thewuggle4262 Жыл бұрын

@@Emmett989 IDK MAN LMAO He did not prepare us at alllll lmao No way I had like an A- in the course but a 1 on the ap exam

@huncho5905 Жыл бұрын

Taking ap comp sci and ap env sci this junior year without taking any prior ap's. U think its a good idea to take ap calc senior year having me taking precalc junior yr?

@diegodesigns3976 Жыл бұрын

YES. TRUST ME.

@mikoikho Жыл бұрын

Precalc is not that bad learn the unit circle and trig stuff and you can start learning calc topics yourself!!

@Floral_skies2727 2 ай бұрын

I took 4 ap classes, how do u take 13? I mean I’ve heard people take more lol. Anyways, I finished ap psych and it felt pretty easy but ap calc might be a little harder. I’d place ap calc in not bad tho

@magnatemagic7391 Жыл бұрын

I've taken 9 ap classes and would've took more but scheduling in my school was messed up especially due to covid (I would've only been able to do AP Physics and AP bio and maybe AP world in addition to what I have done due to what my school offers), but this is a pretty legit ranking. Only thing I'd disagree on is AP Calc, I took AB and BC and I really had no problem with it whatsoever, I didn't even pay attention in class (I got senioritis extremely early and got it in my junior year which is when I had 4 ap classes at once), but I still somehow passed but I don't remember anything😭. Also, I'm in the middle of AP macro and it doesn't seem that hard but it could be due to the teacher. Ap language is horrific, I passed but I'm never gonna remember anything, though to be fair I'm a terrible procrastinator and decided to not read a book that we had 2-3 weeks to do until the night before so I legit just made a comfortable den in my room and read the whole book overnight while watching out for my mom to not get in trouble. Then APUSH, I did absolutely nothing whatsoever, I copied all my notes for my chapter grades. The only work I did was DBQs which I got 5-6s on our practice ones, I learned probably nothing in that class and still passed the exam. (This looks like I'm bragging but I'm not trying to😭😭😭)

@magnatemagic7391 Жыл бұрын

Nevermind I mixed up Ap Language with AP lit (my school doesn't call them that they call it ap English 3 and 4) but AP language was about the same experience as apush, I didn't read a single book and got a 5 (not trying to brag again 😭😭) fr thinking about just deleting this comment, I sound so arrogant.

@loicb4880 Жыл бұрын

BC calculus is the bane of my existence, I don't know how you guys are doing it

@magnatemagic7391 Жыл бұрын

@@loicb4880 I don't know how I did it either, I stopped listening towards the 2nd half of the semester and somehow passed with a high B. I almost even passed the ap exam.😭

@Emmett989 Жыл бұрын

How in the world did u study for apush on ur own enough to pass it

@magnatemagic7391 Жыл бұрын

@@Emmett989 I didn't bruh, I passed from knowledge I had beforehand (for some reason I was pretty good at colonial America before apush) and some stuff I overheard in class

@paull2937 Жыл бұрын

My school doesn’t offer AP Physics C or AP calculus BC, only AB, and I want to take those. If I want to get into an ivy league will it still count if I self study an AP class and get a 5?

@anonnnnnnnnnnnn Жыл бұрын

You probably can self-study for BC and get as much credit as somebody who also took the class because colleges will know what your school offers and what it doesn't. In fact I would think an admissions officer at a school would be more impressed if you self-studied for a 5 rather than taking a class too, it shows a lot of rigor. Watch this vid about a guy who self-studied Calc BC in 5 days: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbyglLNnrt_dpo0.html

@katydid5088 Жыл бұрын

Ivy leagues also want to know you do more than study so please remember to actually do some interesting projects or join clubs between all your studies. (Easier said than done, I know) My grandkids are entering the admissions cycle and having talked to former students,recruiters, and graduates in the pond, they all recommend good academic skills but great interpersonal skills. Having met enough super nerds and whilst being a super nerd, they're looking for more than an academic history. (Although you don't and shouldn't rely on spinning a tale of woe. It's more offputting in the sense that you have to be able to spin it as some sort of navigable problem and for some people's issues, the elephant in the room is that they want struggle without any of the trauma that may be attached.) Their likely to offer counseling referrals in the area or vague sympathy but they're not there to provide you with some form of feedback for your trauma be it sympathy or otherwise. (Although the caveat is the right recruiter will give some a shot, but it's rare.) What things do you want to do in life? How do you want to help others? Will you be willing and able to balance the real world (if you're a strict academic) alongside a work study or project group/club? Any other college will ask these questions, even the good but obviously smaller Community ones. Most kids are expected to do more than be involved in cramming schools like they were in HS. (It's a thing for Asian students coming from abroad).

@cuomostan 2 ай бұрын

how did the valedictorian struggle with calc ab that class is a joke

@anotherrandom135 4 ай бұрын

10:55 How did bro know

@willparrish8474 Жыл бұрын

i don’t know what environmental science hall are taking, my teacher is a harsh grader and the tests are difficult

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

it likely varies greatly on the teacher of the class... for me the online assignments were fairly easy but I also wasn't preparing to take the AP exam for that class. Your teacher may know the exam well and is prepping you more than an online class would

@PoePoeYT Жыл бұрын

Im struggling on Ap Human...

@arafrahman1116 Жыл бұрын

I am taking AP lit next year, whats the difference between AP lit and AP lang

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

At my school AP lit was more media based (had to read more and watch movies)

@Emmett989 Жыл бұрын

Ap lang is typically taken junior year and ap lit senior year, so lit is generally considered harder

@damega621 Жыл бұрын

Lit is focused around literary analysis of poetry and fictional works of literature. Lang is focused around non fictional rhetorical analysis. So you are looking at writer intention and arguments in articles, letters, speeches, etc Lit is harder but neither is too bad. Lit imo is a lot more fun, and the test is better because the prose passages and poems are actually good and interesting to read.

@sennpowerhv6922 2 ай бұрын

English Language arts is just taught like bs and when I took the hs graduation exam for it which is easier than AP it was just torture a clusterf••• of a test and I got a 55 on my first try and 66 on second. And trust me you wouldn’t want to take AP Lit it’s way worse than AP Lang! ELA passage comprehension questions are way too hard like they have literally a million possible answers but only one correct answer because of inferences they expect you to make way too early in school! And some of the concepts learned are NC17 rated like the scary topics such as the holocaust chapter in humanities

@lean6968 2 жыл бұрын

howd u balance taking online ap classes?

@YouTubeSchooling 2 жыл бұрын

It was a lot but honestly the online classes that I took had a bunch of busywork assignments that weren’t necessarily very hard. I’d do a lot of this homework in school during other classes

@paull2937 Жыл бұрын

With calculus, I disagree. It’s so easy I can self study it.

@YouTubeSchooling Жыл бұрын

I have so many comments like this haha. I think there are some people who can grasp calc with extreme ease and others who really struggle. Depends on the person but all the better if it comes easy!

@billiejean4768 5 ай бұрын

barely passed with a 90%...☠☠☠

@themerpking8445 Жыл бұрын

Ap stat is killing me, its the worst thing ever

@nidnwjkxdnksm7239 Жыл бұрын

Na calculus belongs in the easy money teir

@kaileecreamer9841 2 жыл бұрын

You didn’t enjoy yourself in Calculus?😳

@YouTubeSchooling 2 жыл бұрын

Can’t say I did

@tired2993 28 күн бұрын

Have you ever lied? stolen? hated? been prideful? gossiped? swore? Or other bad things? I Can say without a doubt we’ve at least done something that was considered bad, consciously that we shouldn’t have done. this is called sin. It’s the act of doing something against what God wants in our lives. Think about this. You have just invited someone over to your house, and that means you can place rules on what they do - because it’s your home! Now lets say this said person directly disobeyed the rules you’ve placed while they were there. you would be offended right? This is exactly the situation with us and God. We are the person staying over in His creation, yet we consciously disobey- which is called Sin. We all have this problem and because of this God has to send us to hell because He is so just can’t just let these wrong doings pass. Think of it as a guilty criminal having to be sentenced to jail because the Judge knows it’s right. We are the guilty criminal. Hell is our punishment. And God is that Judge. Well, this would mean that everyone would go to hell because we’ve all committed sin-disobedience from God, consciously. But here’s the good news. Jesus came to die on the cross, taking our punishment upon Himself, for our sins so we don’t need to go to hell. Think of that same analogy with the criminal. Now there is a person that’s willing to bail that criminal out and if that criminal accept that gift of bail, then they will be able to legally be free. If we accept that, Jesus died on the cross for our sins and repent- turn away from sin-then we will be saved because we take His bail that He offers for free so we can go to heaven.