hardest AP courses ranked (top 5)

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yayray

just curious what you guys think is hardest

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kshah

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chem
physics (calc-based)
lit
calc
physics (algebra-based)

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eumph

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chem was pretty easy for me idk. calc fucked me up though but i had to miss like 3 weeks of it for health reasons so thats probably why

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vispri

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is ap comp sci a hard

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Heck nah

Literally the easiest AP ever

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Ballsamolee

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environmental science and apcsp is easier imo.

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Ngl its been so long that I forgot the difference between csp and csa

Never took environmental science but always heard it was easy

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Ballsamolee

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yeah i self studied environmental science and got a 5. It was really easy.

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Asuna_Yuuki

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I took 21 APs and I can say

Chem
Physics C
Calc BC
lit
US hist

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number1_cned_hater

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I can tell you are from India

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Asuna_Yuuki

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I can tell you are from Bangladesh

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Ballsamolee

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e&m or mechanics for you? for me it was e&m

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Asuna_Yuuki

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e&m

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FireII

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ngl for me I don't think chem is allat

also how did you take 21 aps wtf?

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Freshman - human geo
Sophomore - Calc BC, Cs principles, Bio, World, Chem, Physics 1
Junior - Cs A, Lang, APUSH, Physics 2, Art hist, mechanics,
Senior - Stat, Lit, e&m, EU hist, Psych, French, Gov, macro

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FireII

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Damn did you take those all in school or outside as well?
My school district has a ton of pretty strict course rules so kids don't destroy themselves with APs, so i cant take that many lol

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Asuna_Yuuki

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All in school

I had special permission to take a few APs early though

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FireII

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oh that makes sense. im a sophomore taking calc ab, chem, and euro history, so i think i will end up with like 13-15

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thatpower

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your old school has 8 periods?

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Yea

Don’t most schools still have 8?

Maybe its just a Texas thing

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FireII

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I live in California , we have 6 periods, students can take 5-7 classes cause of an "extra" period, and teachers teach 5 or 6 periods

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Jitu

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exactly the same for me as a californian

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Nah us history was easy af

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Ballsamolee

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maybe at your school, but at mine it is so damn hard

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Yea I think my teacher was just terrible

Exam was light but teacher made it way harder than it should’ve been

It was just hard at my school

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Xplodd

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Tbf my US history teacher is considered the best teacher in my entire high school and is probably the best teacher I've ever had

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Ullyr

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Ap art history 💀💀💀

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Asuna_Yuuki

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forgot about that class

Was lowkey way harder than it should have been

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Ballsamolee

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it was a shit ton of memorizing. i hated that class, but it wasnt the hardest tho.

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number1_cned_hater

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Nah if someone fails that class and goes into politics its over for us

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thatpower

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apush
calc bc
calc ab
bio
lang
i only took these 5

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Why did u only take those 5

Those were some of the harder ones imo so you could’ve definitely taken more

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thatpower

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in hindsight, i should've taken chem, physics, and some of the cs ones but i didn't want to destroy myself at the time

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Jitu

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stacking up on APs is useless. even if you want to go an Ivy, you only need like 10 max

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Nah bro it doesn’t look good if you don’t take the hardest classes available to you

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Jitu

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u can take the hardest classes available and not stack up APs. i know a girl going to cornell who only took 5 APs

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Well the hardest classes available are usually APs or at least at my school they were

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hxnW

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Chem
Lit
Physics 2 (never took c)
Calc bC
Lang
i took 12 courses total

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Uncleben

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Bc is free wtf
Ab is so much harder

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Ballsamolee

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that is just false. bc is just ab, but more stuff

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If you take AB as a junior then BC as a senior I can see how you would find it easier. Half the material you already know. The transition from pre-calc or trig to actual calculus may be harder than the transition from calculus to... slightly harder calculus. I only ever took BC and found it quite difficult but some of my friends who took AB first found it easy. Then again, they were just way smarter than me too 😹

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Uncleben

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Ye that’s what I did
Plus at my school ab is 8 units and bc is 2 units + ab review
Bc is literally the easiest math class I’ve taken since algebra 2

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Ballsamolee

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oh damn it is a lot different from my school. for us ab wasnt a prerequisite for bc, so our school just taught ab and also the extra stuff in bc.

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thatpower

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what are you smoking😹😹😹

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Asuna_Yuuki

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?????

Bro BC is double the material and like double the speed of AB

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Uncleben

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wtf
At my school ab is 8 units and bc is 2 units

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Asuna_Yuuki

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I get it

So the traditional path in your school is to take calc ab before bc?

In that case it would make sense that bc would be easier

In my school BC was 10 units and AB 8 units and people would take choose between them

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Uncleben

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Ah that makes sense
Yeah I’m my school u can’t take bc without passing ab first

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big_chungus69

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Literally any of the science and math ones, the social studies and English ones are a genuine joke. Never took any of the art or foreign language ones so I can't speak to their difficulty. Physics C (both exams) and Calc BC are definitely the hardest, heard that Chem is insanely hard but I took Bio (which is really easy). Not really sure how anyone found the history exams difficult, they're just rote memorization mainly so anyone can get a 5 if they study. I guess they can be hard if you find learning history a chore.

Fwiw CSP and CSA were by far the easiest ones, heard that APES is a meme too but I never took it

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Ballsamolee

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have you ever done ap lit?

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Bro, you really thought Lang and Lit were easy?

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big_chungus69

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Yeah, I've always naturally found reading and writing far easier than math. I barely studied for them while crushing them despite failing the BC exam even though it and Physics C were the only ones I genuinely grinded really hard on lol. I graduated in 2020 so I'm having some trouble accessing my collegeboard account but I'm pretty sure I got 5s on both, maybe a 4 on English III. I had incredible teachers for both too, especially my English IV teacher. She was definitely a top 3 teacher in my entire life, she bailed me out so hard after I just stopped turning in my work lol, 2020 COVID year fucked everything for me and I nearly failed all my classes that required HW/Zoom attendance as part of the grade 😬😹

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Asuna_Yuuki

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Did u make ur collegeboard account with ur school email by any chance?

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big_chungus69

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Yep, did it with my school district issued email and it's since been disabled in the 4 years since my graduation. Tried to see if I could change my login email but apparently the support line is only open until 6 pm lol

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Asuna_Yuuki

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RIP

I know multiple people who lost access to their collegeboard accounts due to logging in with their school emails

Schools usually terminate a student’s emails after they graduate

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Rodu

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Art History
Bio
Chem
AP World
Ap Physics C

BC and Physics 1 may be harder for some people, but I like math so they weren't personally bad for me. Rn in high school with a total of 7 ap tests, and im taking 5 ap courses rn in my senior year.

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Ballsamolee

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art history number 1 is wild bro

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Rodu

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Bro this class is so fucking useless, like the only reason im taking it is because i need a visual art to pass. and i cant take fun shit like ceramics or reg painting cuz no classes r open with my sch. Mf i swear to god if i ever have to anaylze a portrait of mao zedong walking to mines again in my life im ending it.

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Ballsamolee

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yeah i agree with everything you said cus i also had to take the class because we had to do at least one fine arts class so we can graduate.

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Asuna_Yuuki

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No way bro put Bio and world but not BC

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Rodu

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I like math, so BC was pretty fun and easy. I had a great teacher as well so it was pretty light.

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AP Physics C: E&M
AP Physics C: Newtonian Mechanics
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
AP Literature and Composition

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Rodu

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Bro my physics teacher is supposed teach both Mechanics and Em and she hasn't even finished mechanics. im so fucked

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Dreoxx

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it's wraps for you gg

just self-study is what I recommend. em >>> mech in terms of difficulty imo

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Uncleben

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Physics 2
Chem
Calc Ab
Physics 1 (just electrostatics or whatever that shit was called)
Microeconomics

Easiest gotta be

AP csp
AP environmental science
Ap lang
Ap calc bc
Ap world history

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Ballsamolee

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ap lang in easiest????????

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calicayuh

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tbh depends when/how many you take, don't overwork yourself just because your friends are, speaking as a student from a very competitive high school who suffered from extreme burnout both in high school and early college.
i only took three as a result of burnout (and the big C), but my rankings out of the three I took are (hardest to easiest)

AP US history
AP Stats
AP Environmental Science (class easy, not many people get 5s)
it does all depend on your willingness to self study and how you best learn, teachers, etc of course

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Lebronto

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Only 1 i struggled with was APCS, but thats because my teacher died

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pixh

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how does bro put 'hard' and 'ap' in the same sentence