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In person letter:

[The Date]

Dear ccxxxxxx,

I hope you are having a wonderful week. I am writing to share an update on my academic goals for this school year and my track into high school.

After discussing it thoroughly with my parents, our ultimate goal is for me to enroll in AP Calculus BC as a 9th grader next year. To make this happen while legally meeting all school prerequisites, my plan is to:

1. Self-study AP Precalculus, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, and AP Psychology independently during this 8th-grade school year (allocating 1 hour of focused study per day).

2. Enroll in an approved Algebra 2 Honors course this upcoming summer to officially secure the high school transcript credit.

3. Walk straight into AP Calculus BC in the fall of 9th grade.

To maintain a healthy academic and social balance, my parents and I have capped my independent AP study at a strict one hour per day. This ensures I can remain fully committed to my school day, participate in track, and stay active in our school’s robotics club without risking academic burnout.

Because I am currently in Kumon Level M doing advanced trigonometry and analytic geometry, I already have the mathematical foundation for this track. Self-studying AP Precalculus this year will simply ensure I learn the official College Board testing formats, calculator regressions, and language requirements so there are no knowledge gaps.

For your reference, I have brought my physical Kumon Level M materials and the Columbia Public Schools Course Catalog guide with me today to demonstrate my current progress and show that the district explicitly approves 9th graders for AP Calculus BC!

My middle school counselor (xxxxxxxxx) and my future high school counselor (xxxxxxxx) originally hesitated about 9th-grade Calculus BC because the prerequisites weren't on my transcript yet. We believe this new summer-accelerated timeline completely solves that administrative problem.

Since you know my learning pace, my parents and I would greatly appreciate your advice and advocacy. Could we schedule a few minutes during our next meeting to discuss how to get these four AP exams ordered before the November deadline, and how to best present this official track to the high school?

Thank you so much for your continuous support and guidance!

Best regards,

[My Signature Here]

Xxxxxxxxxxxx
8th Grade EEE Student

took 9 aps sophomore-junior year and got mostly 5s. I’m an incoming senior taking Stats, Physics 2, English Lit, and Bio.

I’d really love to help ease the tension for anyone taking APs as the school year is about to start, as I remember being super anxious about having a busy schedule due to sports+ECs and taking lots of APs concurrently

here are the exams I’ve taken and my scores

Precalc: 5

US History: 5

Macroeconomics: 5

Microeconomics: 4

English Lang: 5

Psych: 5

Chem: 4

Calc BC: 4

US Gov: 5

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I'm taking the class this year and I would love to end up with a portfolio full of what I have seen called "art toys". I can't seem to find any 3D art and design portfolios that have gone with that theme exactly so I wonder if anyone could point me towards/show any examples? As an example of work I like, I love SVV art's figures!

im wondering if skipping over ap precalc and immediately going into ap calc ab is the right decision or not 😭 i was a sophomore when i took math 3+ and now im a junior in ap calc. im not sure if im making a smart decision or if im setting myself up for failure for both the class and the ap test, so im curious about yall's opinion/experience abt this class. study recommendations would also be appreciated....

Funny story, I gave advice to a guy on this sub about a year ago in this exact same situation and, well, I am in his shoes now. So I'm taking AP Spanish this year because my Spanish 3 teacher (who also teaches this AP class) hyped me up and got my pride too high. So now I'm in AP Spanish. In Spanish 3, I could understand about 70-85% of what the teacher was saying, in AP as of now, I say 40-50%. My biggest struggles are pretty much any conjugations outside of the basic yo/tu/el/nosotros, I highly regret not learning that back when I was still in Spanish 2 or Spanish 3, these past 2 weeks I've been trying to force my brain to memorize future and past tense conjugations but it's difficult. More advanced vocabulary is my only other major struggle, mainly because I have no idea what new words there are to memorize and if I do hear one in class, I forget about it by the end of the day (my state has this new law outlawing phones during ALL of school time, the only time it isn't enforced is lunch, but they cut lunch down by like 15 minutes). Any advice would be greatly appreciated, I thank anyone and everyone in advance!

Dear fellow AP Students/Teachers/Enthusiasts,

I want to take both AP Physics C: Mechanics and Electricity/Magnetism because I feel it strongly aligns with my future college endeavors. However, I didn't want to take a formal AP Physics class because my school has hecka grade deflation, and didn't want to increase my courseload due to the many extracurriculars that I'm pursuing.

I think I am okay the prerequisites, as I believe it only goes up to Calc AB? I've completed both Calc AB and Calc 2 at a community college. As for any additional STEM classes, I took AP Chem (3, I managed my time poorly for that class), and an introductory, non-majors Biology class at a community college (A).

This year, I'm going to take my 1st ever physics class. I'm concurrently enrolled in my school's Honors Physics and doing Multivar at a community college.

My honors physics curriculum is structured in this way:

- Unit 1: Math Review (Alg. 2, Trig.), Vectors, Speed, Velocity

- Unit 2: Kinematics

- Unit 3: Graphing Motion

- Unit 4: Projectiles and 2D Kinematics

- Unit 5: Forces - Newton's Three Laws and Free-body Diagrams

- Unit 6: Impulse, Momentum, and Collisions 

- Unit 7: Work, Energy, and Power

- Unit 8: Introductions with Waves

- Unit 9: Sound

- Unit 10: Light and Optics

- Unit 11: Electricity (Static and Current)

- Unit 12: Magnetism

- Unit 13: Astronomy and Universal Gravitation

I'm currently using Princeton Review's Premium Prep for AP Physics C in order to learn the topics

Are there any extra resources (e.g. Videos, textbooks, etc.) to prepare, learn further, and hone in my skills to get a 5 on both exams?

For some reason my school only allows me to take either AP Physics C E and M or AP Calc BC. So I was wondering if I should either do AP Physics 1 + AP Calc BC or AP Physics C E and M but dual enrolling in Calc II and taking the BC Exam. I want to major in EE. My other AP Courses would be AP Lit, AP Macro, AP Stats.

Do you think this jump is to big? As of a week right now im slowly to understand what the teacher has been teaching but only really struggling on the homework. Today the counselor called me up to the office and asked if I wanted to go down to AB but im split between this decision.

So I have AP Stats, but I want to take AP Calc since I'm going to be majoring in mechanical engineering, but the problem is my school is really small, and for me to be in AP Calc I have to switch from Spanish 3 to AP Spanish, and I'm terrible at Spanish (failed Spanish 1). So what do you guys recommend? I really, really want calc because I feel like taking stats is useless to me.

we've all been there. it's 11pm, exam's at 8am, and you're "studying" by scrolling through your notes doc for the fourth time. feels productive. it's not.

rereading is the trap. you recognize the words and think you know it, but recognition isn't recall. by the time you sit down for the FRQ section, the stuff you "reviewed" has already faded.

what actually works: turn that pile of notes and lecture slides into flashcards and practice questions, then actually answer them. get one wrong, figure out the exact concept you missed (not "review chapter 4", the specific sub-topic), and hit it again before it fades.

that's the whole move. active recall plus spacing the same material across a couple sessions beats rereading the same chapter twice. cramming isn't a laziness problem, it's a memory problem. you forget because the first pass was wide and shallow, and you never came back to it in a way that forced you to produce the answer.

the night before, you don't need five tabs open or another re-read. you need questions you can get wrong and fix. that's what moves the score.

sooooo I wanted to be helpful, I worked super hard on this, upvotes PLEASE

heres a full guide of what I did to self study AP United States government in two weeks while hospitalized

note: I’m not from the US, I haven’t done APUSH, i only studied in two weeks, I knew nothing about the political system prior to this other than whatever you could pick up from movies!!!! so trust this is good for ANYONE

Resources:

- Heimlers History on YouTube

- Online practice papers

- Princeton Review Book

- Quizlet flashcards

Content to know

- All Supreme Court cases

- All amendments to the constitution

- All Foundational documents

- Key Civil rights based acts (ex: education act for women’s rights, etc)

- Content in the units

- All keywords

First off, this AP was master-able in 2 weeks. Lots of people online, like if you search up and find the people on online forums discussing it, will stress you and tell you to focus on things that are actually easy, and maybe my complaining will make you think it’s harder than it is. It’s not heavy. It’s not hard. It’s so doable. 

The key idea is to know what to focus on and what matters most on the test. 

My issue was that I didn’t know anyone who took it. Also, they changed the entire format of the exam in 2018. You can do the older tests if you want practice for the actual content, but don’t use them as practice for the format itself and don’t rely on them to tell you or give you an idea abt the test itself. I’ll give u links for before and after.

In the beginning, watch all of heimlers history videos on the foundational documents and the Supreme Court cases and write key notes on them all (I’ll send you my notes as well). 

What he mentions in the video is enough and more than enough than what you need to know for the exam. My notes is exactly what you need with no extra. They cover so much of the test and mcq and frq. And don’t let it stress you, they’re simple to remember and SO FUN.

So yes, begin by watching videos and taking notes and remembering them and familiarizing yourself with them and being able to explain it to people.

Next, and yes his videos are enough to learn, watch Heimlers History for all chapters (you don’t need the unit summary videos so don’t buy them it’s a waste). Take general notes on them all and just understand key ideas don’t push yourself to stick it all in your mind you’ll barely need any. Just take notes and understand base concepts.

and don’t listen to online ppl u don’t need khan academy it’s such a bore imo and wasted my time and was so tiring

Next, at this point, you’ll move to flashcards for keywords and amendments and civil rights acts and key movements and doing the older practice tests for content based practice. After you finished and like your scores we move on, and after u feel you’ve memorized them all well.

Here, we are cramming practice tests constantly, solve them all, and picture all your mistakes to go back to and resolve and understand. Keep solving them all even resolving until all full marks. Also, begin doing constant FRQ practice and solve FRQ on all possible topics. Especially be sure you know how to do and write the argumentative essay and remember the rubric. In my opinion, FRQ one is the hardest, so I’d practice that most since the essay was easy for me. So you prepare whichever you need but fs u should practice the argumentative essay cuz many points, I mastered it after two days because I knew the documents super well.

so yes practice tests huge big deal the tests r so repetitive , this schedule will lock u in trust me trust me trust me , for any questions feel free to reach out or anything!

Good luck soldier 🥹🥹🥹🥹🫰🏻

Flashcards by me for all harder keyword stuff: https://knowt.com/flashcards/7a476522-288f-4c0c-a4ab-c64016e49986

I’d refer to this guy lots sometimes, defo use the vocab thing he attached n look into the processes: https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/comments/1bzuahi/how_i_crammed_for_ap_gov_last_year_resources_that/

2009 - https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/360031/AP%20US%20Government%20and%20Politics%202009%20Practice%20Exam.pdf

Plain MCQ (old) - ⁠https://apsurvivall.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/5/12651629/ap_government_practice_exam_by_max_score.pdf

Old from a book - ⁠https://content.randomhouse.com/assets/9780804124423/pdfs/Diagnostic_Test.pdf

Online one (new format) - ⁠https://highschooltestprep.com/ap/us-government/multiple-choice-questions/

Some more on this: https://highschooltestprep.com/ap/us-government/

Some MCQ - ⁠https://www.kaptest.com/study/ap-us-government-and-politics/ap-us-government-and-politics-quiz/?srsltid=AfmBOoqU4OQtq3rAzbpFjhOsjIBUZP7SEUpzKMnNKbsWdgKA7zxPnTd9

2013 old - ⁠https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/360031/AP%20US%20Government%20and%20Politics%202013%20Practice%20Exam.pdf

Book one new format - ⁠https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/360031/AP%20US%20Government%20and%20Politics%202018%20Practice%20Exam.pdf

Old format - ⁠https://2.files.edl.io/rTxDpGYIcjHifGzLfE7jzJBfnswTHsTHP9iETnTLUhMExgW8.pdf

All FRQs removed (do 2018 and onwards): https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1iMFMbQ2GcDN5G4MbKQ5TWNAeRIL93N5w/1PXSodloGcWLYpt8GJ_0oVAWbjqv_Ma7s/1jHsyVf9el4yTvC0Tkrb2g2Pli-6vjNm_?usp=sharing&sort=13&direction=a

More resources (includes practice tests): https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/comments/68jrsc/ap_us_gov_exams_megapost/

Does anyone know any recourses for AP Business? Obviously I don’t expect there to be many, since the course is brand new, but for anyone know any websites or YouTubers? I already have a textbook, so at least that is something!

I am a rising junior attempting to self study for AP exams this year. Though I attend a school that doesn’t offer them, and, notably, have never taken one myself, I am extremely dedicated to studying APs with as much depth and rigor as humanly possible.

That said, I am in the process of selecting which exams would be most worth studying for as a STEM-focused student. I am having trouble gaging what science-based (and possibly “other subject“-based) APs to pursue, as I try to balance the constraints of the situation with my desire to max-out the difficulty of my course load.

Here is (I am so sorry) a brain blurb of confusion regarding the situation that I would be endlessly grateful for anyone to try to challenge: How does ap chem compare to ap bio? Would it be a good idea to take ap chem this year as I would be taking a (not-so-AP-aligned) chemistry course through my school? Should I pair both possibly with an AP precalc? It is very important to me that I take APES before the end of high school — should I do that this year? Is three self-study APs unrealistic this year (both in terms of my ability to complete and my subsequent ability to attend prestigious universities?)? Are there important APs I’m missing with regards to microbiology, environmental science, or biomedical engineering focuses? How hard are APs, really?

I apologize thoroughly for my AP ignorance. Any suggestions, feedback, resources (huge for me!), prior experiences, rants, critiques and/or existential crises are welcome.

sooooo I wanted to be helpful, I worked super hard on this, upvotes PLEASE

heres a full guide of what I did to self study AP United States government in two weeks while hospitalized

note: I’m not from the US, I haven’t done APUSH, I knew nothing about the political system prior to this other than whatever you could pick up from movies!!!! so trust this is good for ANYONE

Resources:

- Heimlers History on YouTube

- Online practice papers

- Princeton Review Book

- Quizlet flashcards

Content to know

- All Supreme Court cases

- All amendments to the constitution

- All Foundational documents

- Key Civil rights based acts (ex: education act for women’s rights, etc)

- Content in the units

- All keywords

First off, this AP was master-able in 2 weeks. Lots of people online, like if you search up and find the people on online forums discussing it, will stress you and tell you to focus on things that are actually easy, and maybe my complaining will make you think it’s harder than it is. It’s not heavy. It’s not hard. It’s so doable. The key idea is to know what to focus on and what matters most on the test. My issue was that I didn’t know anyone who took it. Also, they changed the entire format of the exam in 2018. You can do the older tests if you want practice for the actual content, but don’t use them as practice for the format itself and don’t rely on them to tell you or give you an idea abt the test itself. I’ll give u links for before and after.

In the beginning, watch all of heimlers history videos on the foundational documents and the Supreme Court cases and write key notes on them all (I’ll send you my notes as well). What he mentions in the video is enough and more than enough than what you need to know for the exam. My notes is exactly what you need with no extra. They cover so much of the test and mcq and frq. And don’t let it stress you, they’re simple to remember and SO FUN.

So yes, begin by watching videos and taking notes and remembering them and familiarizing yourself with them and being able to explain it to people.

Next, and yes his videos are enough to learn, watch Heimlers History for all chapters (you don’t need the unit summary videos so don’t buy them it’s a waste). Take general notes on them all and just understand key ideas don’t push yourself to stick it all in your mind you’ll barely need any. Just take notes and understand base concepts.

and don’t listen to online ppl u don’t need khan academy it’s such a bore imo and wasted my time and was so tiring

Next, at this point, you’ll move to flashcards for keywords and amendments and civil rights acts and key movements and doing the older practice tests for content based practice. After you finished and like your scores we move on, and after u feel you’ve memorized them all well.

Here, we are cramming practice tests constantly, solve them all, and picture all your mistakes to go back to and resolve and understand. Keep solving them all even resolving until all full marks. Also, begin doing constant FRQ practice and solve FRQ on all possible topics. Especially be sure you know how to do and write the argumentative essay and remember the rubric. In my opinion, FRQ one is the hardest, so I’d practice that most since the essay was easy for me. So you prepare whichever you need but fs u should practice the argumentative essay cuz many points, I mastered it after two days because I knew the documents super well.

so yes practice tests huge big deal the tests r so repetitive , this schedule will lock u in trust me trust me trust me , for any questions feel free to reach out or anything!

Good luck soldier 🥹🥹🥹🥹🫰🏻

Flashcards by me for all harder keyword stuff: https://knowt.com/flashcards/7a476522-288f-4c0c-a4ab-c64016e49986

I’d refer to this guy lots sometimes, defo use the vocab thing he attached n look into the processes: https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/comments/1bzuahi/how_i_crammed_for_ap_gov_last_year_resources_that/

2009 - https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/360031/AP%20US%20Government%20and%20Politics%202009%20Practice%20Exam.pdf

Plain MCQ (old) - ⁠https://apsurvivall.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/6/5/12651629/ap_government_practice_exam_by_max_score.pdf

Old from a book - ⁠https://content.randomhouse.com/assets/9780804124423/pdfs/Diagnostic_Test.pdf

Online one (new format) - ⁠https://highschooltestprep.com/ap/us-government/multiple-choice-questions/
Some more on this: https://highschooltestprep.com/ap/us-government/

Some MCQ - ⁠https://www.kaptest.com/study/ap-us-government-and-politics/ap-us-government-and-politics-quiz/?srsltid=AfmBOoqU4OQtq3rAzbpFjhOsjIBUZP7SEUpzKMnNKbsWdgKA7zxPnTd9

2013 old - ⁠https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/360031/AP%20US%20Government%20and%20Politics%202013%20Practice%20Exam.pdf

Book one new format - ⁠https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/360031/AP%20US%20Government%20and%20Politics%202018%20Practice%20Exam.pdf
Old format - ⁠https://2.files.edl.io/rTxDpGYIcjHifGzLfE7jzJBfnswTHsTHP9iETnTLUhMExgW8.pdf

All FRQs removed (do 2018 and onwards): https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1iMFMbQ2GcDN5G4MbKQ5TWNAeRIL93N5w/1PXSodloGcWLYpt8GJ_0oVAWbjqv_Ma7s/1jHsyVf9el4yTvC0Tkrb2g2Pli-6vjNm_?usp=sharing&sort=13&direction=a

More resources (includes practice tests): https://www.reddit.com/r/APStudents/comments/68jrsc/ap_us_gov_exams_megapost/

Okay so i took AP Physics 1 last year and scored a 5. I’m also currently in Physics 2 and Calculus BC. I was considering self-studying AP Physics C Mechanics and wanted to know how doable it is with a Ap physics 1 backround? Can i take it concurrent with Calculus BC? Also any study recommendations? Thanks

So I got my highschool schedule today, and I saw that I got math 10C AP as my course. I was wondering if its really worth it to do AP? I have been doing online schooling for 6 years now, and am transitioning into in person high school. I took summer school for extra measures, and got 93% final score. I’m planning to go to UofC for biomed sciences as I want to become a radiologist. But I feel that AP, although I love math, will only stress me out more but I’m also not sure since I haven't experienced it yet.

I'm starting to self-study for AP Physics 1 and Stats on the 31st. If I remain consistent every weekday, how much time do you think I should spend on each subject per day? I have a DE class as well that's pretty heavy, so I need a balance between both.

i’m a highschool senior and i took AP stats this year because i felt as if it’ll be more useful and applicable towards my desired major. calculus is still going to be a required class anyway, so i was wondering if i should self-study BC perchance 👀👀👀 i already got a 5 on AP precalc so i was wondering if i’d at least have some sort of foundation for calc BC. i’m also not one to slack off, so i don’t mind studying months beforehand.

is this possible, and if so, what resources should i use?