Recently our teacher for AP Calculus abandoned our class. Because of this, we should be expecting to have a teacher by February.

To me this is unacceptable.

As such I am taking it upon myself to study and teach the class. I understand this is insane, but as long as I have the classroom to myself, I believe I can unofficially teach my friends.

If anyone knows of any worksheets that I can use or study guides to break it down, please let me know!

We were left in unit 2, and I want to bring our class to unit 5 by December.

I was one of the best students in the class, so I hope I can understand the material quick enough to teach it and reinforce it to myself.

As much as this sub likes to say it’s all about having good study habits, most students cannot get good As in AP classes. Plenty of students who go to every class, answer questions every class, go to tutoring, do all the practice problems in the textbook, and so on still do poorly. It’s why the number of students with strong academic credentials to get into public flagships and other selective universities are so rare. Most just don’t have the intelligence for it

I'm not a huge reader and only taking the class for college credits. I'm just looking for a book that's relatively short and interesting, preferably not fantasy or sci-fi.

I am seeing a troubling trend where people change their minds about a major just based on a YouTube video they watch. I know a guy who wanted to be a meteorologist and was planning to take a Dual Enrollment Meteorology course, but after watching one cool video on chemicals or something and now wants to be a dual major in electrical engineering and chemistry.

While I applaud YouTube and STEM related youtubers for promoting interest in STEM, I will also acknowledge that YouTube videos can't exactly show you the Mathematics and complexity of the major/career path. YouTube is designed to get views if you show a board of equations you are of course going to get less views than if you show the end product instead, but you know what does and proves that you really can do the subject? The actual college courses and their equivalents.

This applies to the Humanities too, if you think being a lawyer is easy because you watch one law and order episode, you are in for a rude awakening. Take AP US Government or AP English Literature or some DE Intro to law course to get a sense of the major and the amount of work in it.

I know APs and DEs aren't going to exactly match the coursework of your intended major, but it is good to get a sense of it before making a full commitment. I will also warn against taking lower level courses that sound close to your major, but haven't been proven to be rigorous like a lower than Honors course such as Materials Science and Anatomy, take them if they sound fun but don't expect them to prepare you much for majors.

It is better to explore intended majors now in high school using these options when everything is still cheap and DE and AP will cost you at most $100, than switch in college where it will cost $1000 at least for each class.

I thought they were usually released in September- Mid October, but it’s also November and still nothing😞

I got a 20% on my first AP Physics 1 exam. How can I improve?

As the title suggests, I did poorly on my first exam, scoring just 4/21 (19%) on what is supposedly the easiest unit: kinematics. I got 2/14 on the multiple-choice section and 2/7 on the free-response question, and I'm extremely disappointed in my performance (to say the least).

What makes this especially frustrating is that I average around 70% on practice problem sets. While that isn't an outstanding score, it's significantly better than my exam result, and I don't understand where the disconnect is.

I don't want to drop the class, nor is dropping it an option, so I need to figure out how to improve before the next exam. For those who have taken AP Physics 1 or struggled with the course initially, what strategies helped you improve? How should I approach studying, practicing multiple-choice questions, and preparing for FRQs?

I've got an online course i'm taking rn senior year, and well its basically due by mid janurary for colleges to see in the mid-year report. I basically only finished unit 8 so far. I don't have to understand everything by mid janurary, but I've gotta be done with this stupid online course. Sure I can probably rush through the assignments, but the quizzes may stump me. Overall, would you say its worth it, or even possible, to rush the studying like this, or should I just take my time, get a good grade on the course, and NOT submit it for colleges to see in my mid year report...

(Extra info: I've done AP Calc BC and mech last year so like its not like I'm a total beginner at solving physics problems..)

I’m a junior in highschool and I’m thinking of starting APs…(yes Ik im late)

I am to be an ap scholar with honors and I plan on doing that by self studying all my AP courses. (My school offers aps but u can only pick one to do during school hours and it’s as an “elective course” and well my elective is robotics.)

Which APs should I take this year and which APs should I take next year?

Im MOST likely going to stay in my country for college but if I go abroad i might go to the UK or somewhere with a reputable computer engineering program

My options are either AP CSP and AP stats this year but I’m scared the workload would be too much since I also have to start prepping for my GAT and my SAT as well.

And for next year I’m planning on doing AP Physics 1 and AP calculus

Sooo any thoughts?

I don’t know whether I’m in the minority, considering the poll was on YouTube, but less than 10% or so said that APUSH was the harder choice of the 4 options presented, and well over 50% said AP Chem was the hardest.

Perhaps it’s the way I think? I’ve always found that the chemistry conceptually made more sense than history. History is hard… it’s a massive story that you need to memorize, one event after the other.

Am I crazy here?
P.S.: why do people recommend Heimler so much? I know he’s a YouTuber who makes videos on the time periods, but is watching the videos really a great study habit? Seems mostly like an overview.

It's almost november, collegeboard!!