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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

  1. AP Statistics
  2. AP Macro Economics
  3. AP Chemistry
  4. AP Biology
  5. AP Micro Economics
  6. AP Research
  7. AP Language & Composition (the one that got me a 4)
  8. AP Physics 2
  9. AP Calculus BC
  10. AP Physics C Electromagnetism
  11. AP Seminar
  12. AP Calculus AB
  13. AP Physics C Mechanics
  14. AP Physics 1
  15. AP Computer Science A
  16. AP Computer Science Principles
  17. 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:

  1. AP Seminar
  2. AP Research
  3. AP Language & Composition
  4. AP Chemistry
  5. AP Biology
  6. AP Physics 2
  7. AP Calculus AB
  8. AP Calculus BC
  9. AP Statistics
  10. AP Physics 1
  11. AP Micro Economics
  12. AP Macro Economics
  13. AP Physics C Electromagnetism
  14. AP Physics C Mechanics
  15. AP Computer Science A
  16. AP Computer Science Principles
  17. 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:

  1. AP Research
  2. AP Physics C Electromagnetism
  3. AP Physics 2
  4. AP Calculus AB
  5. AP Chemistry
  6. AP Calculus BC
  7. AP Human Geo
  8. AP Physics C Mechanics
  9. AP Physics 1
  10. AP Computer Science Principles
  11. AP Micro Economics
  12. AP Macro Economics
  13. AP Biology
  14. AP Statistics
  15. AP Seminar
  16. AP Computer Science A
  17. AP Language & Composition

H2 Usefulness

Usefulness refers to how frequent the subject can be applied elsewhere.

Ranking from most useful to most useless:

  1. AP Seminar
  2. AP Research
  3. AP Statistics
  4. AP Calculus AB
  5. AP Micro Economics
  6. AP Chemistry
  7. AP Physics 1
  8. AP Physics 2
  9. AP Biology
  10. AP Physics C Mechanics
  11. AP Language & Composition
  12. AP Calculus BC
  13. AP Computer Science A
  14. AP Macro Economics
  15. AP Computer Science Principles
  16. AP Physics C Electromagnetism
  17. AP Human Geo