A retrospective evaluation of AP subjects
This is a personal evaluation of all Advanced Placement tests that I have taken in high school. These evaluations are judged completely by my personal experience and standards so the sample size is one and the population size is one. The result should by no mean be generalised to everyone.
Note that this is just for fun.
H2 Difficulty
Difficulty refers to how much hair you have to loose in order to understand the content.
Ranking from most head-scratching to least head-scratching
- AP Statistics
- AP Macro Economics
- AP Chemistry
- AP Biology
- AP Micro Economics
- AP Research
- AP Language & Composition (the one that got me a 4)
- AP Physics 2
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Physics C Electromagnetism
- AP Seminar
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Physics C Mechanics
- AP Physics 1
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP Human Geography
H2 Workload
Workload refers to how much less time you will stay in bed if you want to score well.
Ranking from most time consuming to least time consuming:
- AP Seminar
- AP Research
- AP Language & Composition
- AP Chemistry
- AP Biology
- AP Physics 2
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Statistics
- AP Physics 1
- AP Micro Economics
- AP Macro Economics
- AP Physics C Electromagnetism
- AP Physics C Mechanics
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP Human Geo
H2 Enjoyability
Enjoyability refers to how fun the subject is. You can think of this as how spontaneous one can get started working on the subject.
Ranking from most enjoyable to least enjoyable:
- AP Research
- AP Physics C Electromagnetism
- AP Physics 2
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Chemistry
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Human Geo
- AP Physics C Mechanics
- AP Physics 1
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP Micro Economics
- AP Macro Economics
- AP Biology
- AP Statistics
- AP Seminar
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Language & Composition
H2 Usefulness
Usefulness refers to how frequent the subject can be applied elsewhere.
Ranking from most useful to most useless:
- AP Seminar
- AP Research
- AP Statistics
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Micro Economics
- AP Chemistry
- AP Physics 1
- AP Physics 2
- AP Biology
- AP Physics C Mechanics
- AP Language & Composition
- AP Calculus BC
- AP Computer Science A
- AP Macro Economics
- AP Computer Science Principles
- AP Physics C Electromagnetism
- AP Human Geo