Lower actually. Many types of students take physics 1, but physics 2 is calculus based and only required for engineering and physics majors, so even if it's harder; smarter people are taking it, so a bigger percent of those take it are already inclined to do well in physics, so it has a higher pass rate
physics 2 is still algebra based, but covers topics not covered in ap physics 1, like fluid dynamics and electrostatics. Physics C: E&M is the calculus based course, which is usually only taken by those who have a knack for physics
There was a 70% fail rate during the pandemic for my schools Ap computer science test due to an error preventing people from submitting their projects. College board being the greedy bastards they are didn’t do anything about it.
I’d just like to point out that this doesn’t necessary make these classes the most difficult. Often it’s just that these classes tend to be taken by people that aren’t prepared. That’s why calc AB has a higher fail rate than BC - you have to be a special kind of crazy to take BC.
BC is not that bad but you are right about unprepared people. A ton of people who I know aren't the greatest students and haven't taken APs before are now taking AP Gov because it's advertised as an easy semester AP class, and I am confident that those same people will contribute to that fail percentage because they are just not used to AP tests.
@@vanderengland5775 AP English with the proper teacher. I am a junior and currently taking both of these classes, AP Calc BC is the hardest math I've done, but it's still not bad compared to my English teacher.
@@vanderengland5775 Honestly hard to say because it definitely depends on the person. Math was always pretty easy to me so BC is not an issue even though I can see how some parts can absolutely destroy some people. AP Chemistry for me is a way harder exam just because I can't grasp the concepts easily, even though others have said it's simple. Pretty much any AP History test is painful for me because I hate memorizing all the vocab, events, and essay formats, but again people who are good at that might have no issues. So if you want my answer then I'll probably say AP Chemistry because even though some parts made sense to me, others I just couldn't understand. Also I feel like many other classes including BC build up concepts over time, while all 9 Chemistry units are drastically different and many of them have zero correlation with the other units, so you're having to remember a lot of information without being able to tie it all together nicely.
Makes sense. Alot of students probably flunked out on free response. AP Gov and APUSH also got some crazy af questions too but maybe it's changed. Last time I took it was 5 years ago :(. Hot rip tho
it was pretty easy last year, the Taylor Swift written response was fun lol. But the free response questions were *mostly* just either you know it or not. (I made a 4)
Only have had Apush for this first quarter this year, and I'm planning on switching out and going on independent study. Its way to hard for me, I don't know why I was put into it.
My class has everyone pass the APUSH exam. My teachers name is Adam Norris and he is on youtube. He has over 100k subscribers because of his APUSH review videos. Man is literally the goat, had an 100 all year and the course is waited so it is such a grade booster
Studying for a APUSH is crazy. It is all about memory and reasoning, but to a ridiculous extent because of the "best answer" as opposed to a right answer and the SAQ's and DBQ's being possibly nothing that you have covered. Either way I still got a 5, but goddamn.
@@pandaborg2466 it’s honestly not too hard. I got a 5 on APUSH and Gov. All of the essay type questions can be written using a structured format that works every time. I forgot how I structured my answers but there are a bunch of templates online to help. Good luck!
@@seaborg9946 I think I have an idea what you’re talking about. My apush teacher teached us this format (X. but, A and b. Therefore Y. X being counter argument. A, B being evidence for argument, then y as your argument. I think I’m missing something but it’s a pretty useful format for SAQ’s I’ll quite say.
@@TMC3Official Yup. The good thing about APUSH and Gov is that they don’t care about how well it’s written. All that matters is the content in your responses and that it answers all parts of the question. I think a lot of people try to add flowery diction that really doesn’t help with answering the question. Just stick to completely responding the prompt in a systematic way and you‘ll be fine.
I’m surprised AP Chemistry wasn’t on here lol. My year it was the highest failing ap test. Even my class only had 2 people pass it. One person was someone who took the class before and the other was a foreign exchange student who already knew the material lol
@@smoothbrained4channer976The thing is, the people taking the advanced calc courses are probably experts in the field of math. This explains why calc ab has a higher fail rate than calc bc, despite bc being easier.
It's like "On page 196 paragraph 3 line 4 of *random Shakespeare writing* what was the inferred preferred in depth original artistic pronunciation of the meaning of the correct coordinates of the word 3($3(4(_7$((jrjsk
Because it combines the hardest subjects known to teenagers: math, science, and politics. You need math to do equations, science to know how the world works, and politics to know what laws not to break
i’m honestly surprised by ap gov. i remember it being relatively easy, like it had a lot of overlap with the general constitution/ early american history stuff we learned basically every single year. but maybe that’s a virginia thing, we have a weird amount of “state history” stuff based on a constitution that was not completed anywhere near here
@@andylee8093 uhm same, the 2021 ap exam, most of them werent energy questions. there were a lot of other questions too, especially on the free written questions...
@@dragollax7830 i might be remembering incorrectly but almost all of my mcq was energy and momentum and most the frqs were pretty straight forward but i don't remember them too well
@@nguyener14 BYE I was literally going to take ap lit next year but after seeing this I might take something else. ANYTHING WITH A 3 LETTER ACRONYM SUCKS I SWEAR
I took ap environmental science my sophomore year and don’t let the fail rate scare you. I literally didn’t study or pay attention during the class at all. The only thing I did was start studying three days before the exam and I got a 4. The only studying I did too was watching the review videos that college board posted. It’s honestly so easy and I have no clue how so many people did poorly.
yep, i took it freshman year and it was very easy, got a 5. thé reason the average is so low is bc most people taking it are seniors who don’t care anymore
Me talking AP Gov right now: “Well this is a little unfortunate” Edit: OK UPDATE. So I finished the course; it was only a semester long. I still have to take the AP exam, and I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. Honestly I really enjoyed the course halfway through it, it’s just that the fundamentals, like court cases, amendments and all; I don’t think it was taught to clearly, but by the end of the semester, I understood it all. Way better than in the beginning of the year at least. So much so that I was even able to get a 100 on the final, which for me, I was pretty happy about. What sucks though, is that after all that, I averaged a final score of 89.36%. Literally off by only 0.16%. Even my teacher when he added the score in was like, “ooooohhhh, that’s not good, that’s really not good.” Off by THAT much. Despite that, If you want to take the course, I’d highly recommend it. It really does explain a lot about the political system, and the amount of meta about the course is hilarious.
I took it last year, and tbh it is NOT worth it to take the test. Unless you’re really interested in the subject or you know it’ll be important for the major you want to go into, do not spend a hundred dollars to take that test. I go to a UC for college, and they’re super generous with ap credits, but my gov test was basically useless. I got a 3 on the test, which would’ve gotten me out of one social science GE, but since I already had a 4 on APUSH I already had all the social science credit I needed. It was a waste of money and a waste of time, in my experience at least. I know several of my classmates took the class but not the test and they seem to be doing perfectly fine without it.
I took it last year. The test was very easy. Probably one of the classes I put the least amount of effort into. I'm going into stem but I still think taking the test was worth it
I took 3 of those classes recently, APUSH is tough but most of it comes down to knowing how to answer the questions, AP Gov is pretty straightforward but you should put extra time into studying the Supreme Court cases, and AP Lit is just tough
Remember: it’s because these classes have so many taking them. Classes like Calc BC and Physics C are miles harder but less people take them and those who do are predisposed to do wel
That adds up for all the exams listed except Physics 1, because most students take Honors Physics -> Physics C instead. That makes the pool of Physics 1 kids comparatively small. Also, that exam was some bullshit. CollegeBoard doesn’t even provide all the formulas you need to solve some of those problems. I was trying my damndest to remember the formula for rotational acceleration the entire time. The Free Response wasn’t actually terrible, but the MCQ killed my entire class this year. I’ve made 5’s on all my exams so far, and with pretty much a guaranteed 5 in Calc BC and really solid tests in both APUSH and AP Lang, Physics 1 was 100% the hardest AP exam I’ve ever taken. That test sucks ass.
I took the AP Human Geography test this year and I’m surprised by how many people said they did bad on it, I dunno, that might’ve just been my school though.
For us, it was a freshman class, so many people scored poorly on it because of their lack of experience in testing. Also, I believe many people take it just to boost their gpa, so they end up scoring quite low on it.
Honestly same, I think my teacher was just really good but I didn’t do any extra studying for the test and still got a 5. I guess I don’t really know how it went for the freshmen in my class though.
I took AP Lit as a sophomore last year and managed to get a 4. My teacher taught my class absolutely nothing about the exam, only mentioning a bit about it after some people had already taken it (there were 3 administrations, I took it administration 2). I pretty much just spent a week watching and taking notes on every AP lit video I could find and took a bunch of practice exams. Since I was short on study time, for the essays I looked at the past prompts and thought about what evidence I’d use (I thought about the first two essays as if they were AP history essays), and for the third essay my strategy was to try and fit 1984 into the prompt somehow, because that was the only book my class read that I understood (I was not about to use Hamlet). I’m much better at typing than writing, so getting to write the essays with a keyboard made it much easier for me as well.
I’m so glad my school has a LEGENDARY teacher for apush, ap gov, and ib history of the americas. I’m taking the AP gov test this year, and I’ve been doing well on all of the practice tests I’ve taken thanks to him.
As a student who has taken both AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2, AP Physics 1 is definitely harder since the biggest hurdle is in the beginning when you have to change the way that you think. You have to learn how to analyze and use abstraction to solve problems to a degree that most students haven’t encountered. The principles are easy, the application is hard, and your worst enemy are your preconceived notions of how the world works. However, when enter AP Physics 2, you already have taken AP Physics 1 and have already cemented the mindset you need making the transition much easier.
Damn, took AP Gov, Lit, and US History in high school and found all 3 to be pretty easy for myself and the majority of my class. Although from what I heard from my teacher AP Gov got a pretty big overhaul a few years back so that might be part of it.
Huh. I took that last year and I remember my teacher mentioning this year (I’m taking another class with him this year that many students from last years APHuG are in) and he said the AP exam pass rate for his class was 70 something%.
@@iliketurtles2843 We’re talking about the National pass rate. A little more than half of all students who take the APHG exam get a 2 or lower. School pass rates vary between schools. My school has an APWH class that has a 95% pass rate. Crazy stuff
I got a 4 on calculus (during pandemic, remote), but then I showed that i could do it legitimately by getting a 4 in APUSH. Could not believe it since I had gotten 3s before on a lot of things, except that 5 in gov, but that was remote, so I had less things to mess up on since multiple choice wasn’t a thing
It honestly is really easy. I only studied for three days before the exam started and got a 4. All I did was watch the review videos that college board posted and that was it. Half of it is like common sense stuff too so you should definitely take it if you’re considering it
Last year I was talking to some kids from my school who were taking AP Physics 1, and the told me they didn’t start learning about torque until 2 classes before the AP test
@@UserName-dt3kc lucky lmao, Im taking notes for the first time and it’s painful lol, I have to take notes on 8 more pages by tomorrow and it’s currently 11pm
@@Cmac5612 ikr, I'm taking ap courses right now and they really have lowered their standards. Jesus, the average Joe can just walk in. If you're truly advanced as in advanced placement, you should be able to pass the ap exams no problem.
You want a 5 on physics, hit me up. I'm a physics tutor and I got a 5 back in 2015 when it first came out when it was like 65% fail rate. Don't ask about AP lit, I am part of the 56% there.
I loved physics but hated the style of the questions. I feel like they could phrase the questions a lot more easily and still get the point across. Like I don’t want to read 2 paragraphs for a single multiple choice question and then each answer choice is a paragraph itself. Then you realize after like 2 minutes “oh this is just a fairly simple momentum problem”
The reason AP Physics 1 is the highest fail rate is because lots of schools have students take the exam without the students actually knowing any of the course material. Schools only do it to say they have some AP classes in their curriculum.
I feel like it also depends on who takes the classes. like you’re not gonna sign up for ap calc bc lightly so everyone in that class is gonna be taking it seriously. now in a class like apush (at least from what i’ve seen) there are gonna be people taking it just to take an ap class so there are more people in the class that dont care as much about the class
My personal rankings from my own experience of the tests I took. 1 being the hardest. 1. AP bio 2. AP Calc 3. AP Euro 4. AP Human geo 5. AP environmental science 6. AP English language 7. AP gov 8. AP Psych
I’ll be fine taking APUSH, APCSP, AP Lang, AP Physics 1, and AP Stats this year 😅. In addition to Prom and the SAT and driving and getting a job and scholarships and looking for college 🥹
@@goatmodegamingThe only bad AP out of those is APUSH. I fricken hate American History and that class required too much of my time. It honestly made me depressed that winter (I also took Physics 1 and Psychology that year). I got a 1, but honestly I didn’t care enough to pay attention anymore. I should’ve took regular US History,
@@thatguy720I have a lot of extra credit in mine and teacher is super chill at least. But yeah it is very hard, I know I can just rely on extra credit to get my grade up though
Ngl, see if you can do physics from a community college if you can afford it. You will be better guaranteed to get the credit in your university, And, generally, you’ll learn a WHOLE lot more/be prepped for the next physics class in college. Physics in college is about teaching and making sure you understand what’s important/how to think around these type of problems. It doesn’t ‘teach to a test’ like AP physics teachers are forced to. Plus, you can often get that period free every other day to do your homework/study when you’d normally be in a semi-useless lecture at high school.
It is crazy to see how things vary from school to school. In my school, AP Psych, APUSH, and AP Physics are all considered the easiest AP classes to take.
Thing is physics, gov, env sci, and apush are typically open to students earlier on who aren't prepared for the workload/aren't warned which results in higher rates. Though APUSH and Lit in that list are worthy of being known of difficulty.
I'd say most of these classes: Physics 1, APUSH, APES, and Lit are some must take courses for rigorous schools like magnet schools etc. It's not classes that are for many students that are interested in the subject (so they don't care as much) and APES is a course that many Freshman take, so the inexperience is also a factor
Honestly APUSH makes sense at least to me because a lot of people take it believing it to be a walk in the park up until they get to the actual AP test part of it.
APUSH honestly wasn't bad. Almost all questions were stimulus-based, so, for the most part, as long as you remembered the basic ideas and time frames, then you were fine. Source: I was in virtual, didn't try very hard in the class, and still got a 5. (It helps that I like history in the first place, though.)
If physics 1 has the highest fail rate, I can’t even imagine the horrors of the sequel: physics 2
Lower actually. Many types of students take physics 1, but physics 2 is calculus based and only required for engineering and physics majors, so even if it's harder; smarter people are taking it, so a bigger percent of those take it are already inclined to do well in physics, so it has a higher pass rate
physics 2 is still algebra based, but covers topics not covered in ap physics 1, like fluid dynamics and electrostatics. Physics C: E&M is the calculus based course, which is usually only taken by those who have a knack for physics
@@rickharrison2782 my bad I did physics 1 and physics C and I assumed that E&M was physics 2
Physics C has one of the highest 5 rates.
Yeah💀💀💀
There was a 70% fail rate during the pandemic for my schools Ap computer science test due to an error preventing people from submitting their projects. College board being the greedy bastards they are didn’t do anything about it.
Lol that’s a fat rip 😂
The 2020 exams were really something else...
Did your school file suit?
@@matthewstark9071 My school didn't give a shit. AP Compsci was a brand new class in a school full of english and soon-to-be psych majors.
@@nopejustnope3900 damn, was it comp sci A or Principles?
I’d just like to point out that this doesn’t necessary make these classes the most difficult. Often it’s just that these classes tend to be taken by people that aren’t prepared. That’s why calc AB has a higher fail rate than BC - you have to be a special kind of crazy to take BC.
Yeah, all the dumb kids in my school take AP Environmental Science, explains why the failure rate is so high
BC is not that bad but you are right about unprepared people. A ton of people who I know aren't the greatest students and haven't taken APs before are now taking AP Gov because it's advertised as an easy semester AP class, and I am confident that those same people will contribute to that fail percentage because they are just not used to AP tests.
@@hammurabitheawesome674 what would you consider a more difficult ap class than BC, out of curiosity?
@@vanderengland5775 AP English with the proper teacher. I am a junior and currently taking both of these classes, AP Calc BC is the hardest math I've done, but it's still not bad compared to my English teacher.
@@vanderengland5775 Honestly hard to say because it definitely depends on the person. Math was always pretty easy to me so BC is not an issue even though I can see how some parts can absolutely destroy some people. AP Chemistry for me is a way harder exam just because I can't grasp the concepts easily, even though others have said it's simple. Pretty much any AP History test is painful for me because I hate memorizing all the vocab, events, and essay formats, but again people who are good at that might have no issues.
So if you want my answer then I'll probably say AP Chemistry because even though some parts made sense to me, others I just couldn't understand. Also I feel like many other classes including BC build up concepts over time, while all 9 Chemistry units are drastically different and many of them have zero correlation with the other units, so you're having to remember a lot of information without being able to tie it all together nicely.
Makes sense. Alot of students probably flunked out on free response. AP Gov and APUSH also got some crazy af questions too but maybe it's changed. Last time I took it was 5 years ago :(. Hot rip tho
it was pretty easy last year, the Taylor Swift written response was fun lol. But the free response questions were *mostly* just either you know it or not.
(I made a 4)
What's Apush?
@@melonie_peppers AP us history I think
AP Gov is easy wtf is this 50% fail rate
Only have had Apush for this first quarter this year, and I'm planning on switching out and going on independent study. Its way to hard for me, I don't know why I was put into it.
By "did the math" he means he looked at the pass rate list on collegeboard
Lol true 😂
That's literally what I was thinking, like we know bro didn't do any math
Tbf saying he did the mass is better then saying he looked at college board
@@kingofdemons948why is it better?
In his defense, he did have to subtract by 100 to get the fail rates, and subtraction is pretty advanced, if you ask me
I feel like it could just be because my APUSH teacher is legit a goddess at teaching, but almost everyone in her classes passed
Gaytan? Lmao
What's APUSH?
@@_kessarkana_ AP U.S. History
@@boebena ohhh...Ty😂💕
My class has everyone pass the APUSH exam. My teachers name is Adam Norris and he is on youtube. He has over 100k subscribers because of his APUSH review videos. Man is literally the goat, had an 100 all year and the course is waited so it is such a grade booster
Studying for a APUSH is crazy. It is all about memory and reasoning, but to a ridiculous extent because of the "best answer" as opposed to a right answer and the SAQ's and DBQ's being possibly nothing that you have covered. Either way I still got a 5, but goddamn.
I always felt like I never knew when to stop on some SAQs and especially on LEQs lol my answers were wayyyy too long but still rocked a 4 thank god
Great I’m taking apush this year
@@pandaborg2466 it’s honestly not too hard. I got a 5 on APUSH and Gov. All of the essay type questions can be written using a structured format that works every time. I forgot how I structured my answers but there are a bunch of templates online to help. Good luck!
@@seaborg9946 I think I have an idea what you’re talking about. My apush teacher teached us this format (X. but, A and b. Therefore Y. X being counter argument. A, B being evidence for argument, then y as your argument. I think I’m missing something but it’s a pretty useful format for SAQ’s I’ll quite say.
@@TMC3Official Yup. The good thing about APUSH and Gov is that they don’t care about how well it’s written. All that matters is the content in your responses and that it answers all parts of the question. I think a lot of people try to add flowery diction that really doesn’t help with answering the question. Just stick to completely responding the prompt in a systematic way and you‘ll be fine.
I’m surprised AP Chemistry wasn’t on here lol. My year it was the highest failing ap test. Even my class only had 2 people pass it. One person was someone who took the class before and the other was a foreign exchange student who already knew the material lol
and im surprised ap calc wasnt here, cus that shits hard
@@smoothbrained4channer976 not for Asians.
@@engr.tonystark3504lmao
@@smoothbrained4channer976The thing is, the people taking the advanced calc courses are probably experts in the field of math. This explains why calc ab has a higher fail rate than calc bc, despite bc being easier.
Is ap literature like answering questions about books or is it answering questions based off a passage?
It's like "On page 196 paragraph 3 line 4 of *random Shakespeare writing* what was the inferred preferred in depth original artistic pronunciation of the meaning of the correct coordinates of the word 3($3(4(_7$((jrjsk
@@sorcererofsalt5786 gurl I- 😃
@@sorcererofsalt5786 Are you fr ?
@@sorcererofsalt5786 the real question is what will this help with if you manage to pass
@@epistarter1136 it will help your grades
Idk why people don't like physics as much. It is one of the best build up
You'll get to know once you see how much I scored..no offense
@@gopikasumith9016 how much??
@@pyrojackson9001 guess we'll never know
@@ardith1742 i believe yeah
Because it combines the hardest subjects known to teenagers: math, science, and politics. You need math to do equations, science to know how the world works, and politics to know what laws not to break
I took apush and apgov, tough tests, but not too horrible. I feel like the free response was what tripped people up
Just took APUSH today - free response was tough but I think I did okay on the DBQ and LEQ - not so much the SAQ's
i’m honestly surprised by ap gov. i remember it being relatively easy, like it had a lot of overlap with the general constitution/ early american history stuff we learned basically every single year. but maybe that’s a virginia thing, we have a weird amount of “state history” stuff based on a constitution that was not completed anywhere near here
Also a lot of overlap from APUSH
Me, a physics student:
Visibly shaking and sweating
Physics 1 is just conservation of energy except for collisions which are conservation of momentum, if u see it ull do well, if u don't...
@@andylee8093 huh what? there's more to it than just conservation of energy...
@@dragollax7830 uhm i took it last year and more than half the questions on the ap were conservation of energy
@@andylee8093 uhm same, the 2021 ap exam, most of them werent energy questions. there were a lot of other questions too, especially on the free written questions...
@@dragollax7830 i might be remembering incorrectly but almost all of my mcq was energy and momentum and most the frqs were pretty straight forward but i don't remember them too well
Me, in AP Eng Lit: **Visibly sweating** How interesting
It’s writing all those essays that’s screws you over
i’m literally taking all the ap classes he said in the vid
@@jumarshmellow And the fact that essays have more weight than MCQ. But then again, I hate English MCQs more than essays
@@bingus2929 omg good luck lmao
@@nguyener14 BYE I was literally going to take ap lit next year but after seeing this I might take something else. ANYTHING WITH A 3 LETTER ACRONYM SUCKS I SWEAR
I took ap environmental science my sophomore year and don’t let the fail rate scare you. I literally didn’t study or pay attention during the class at all. The only thing I did was start studying three days before the exam and I got a 4. The only studying I did too was watching the review videos that college board posted. It’s honestly so easy and I have no clue how so many people did poorly.
Thanks for that I have it this year
yep, i took it freshman year and it was very easy, got a 5. thé reason the average is so low is bc most people taking it are seniors who don’t care anymore
Yeah I was confused at the high fail rates because many people regard it as one of the easiest AP classes . . .
My dumbass teacher hasn’t taught shit but so far I’ve gotten 5s on my APs with little prep so I think I’m good, I’m sophomore year rn
Thank you homie
Me talking AP Gov right now:
“Well this is a little unfortunate”
Edit:
OK UPDATE. So I finished the course; it was only a semester long. I still have to take the AP exam, and I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. Honestly I really enjoyed the course halfway through it, it’s just that the fundamentals, like court cases, amendments and all; I don’t think it was taught to clearly, but by the end of the semester, I understood it all. Way better than in the beginning of the year at least. So much so that I was even able to get a 100 on the final, which for me, I was pretty happy about. What sucks though, is that after all that, I averaged a final score of 89.36%. Literally off by only 0.16%. Even my teacher when he added the score in was like, “ooooohhhh, that’s not good, that’s really not good.” Off by THAT much. Despite that, If you want to take the course, I’d highly recommend it. It really does explain a lot about the political system, and the amount of meta about the course is hilarious.
I took it last year, and tbh it is NOT worth it to take the test. Unless you’re really interested in the subject or you know it’ll be important for the major you want to go into, do not spend a hundred dollars to take that test. I go to a UC for college, and they’re super generous with ap credits, but my gov test was basically useless. I got a 3 on the test, which would’ve gotten me out of one social science GE, but since I already had a 4 on APUSH I already had all the social science credit I needed. It was a waste of money and a waste of time, in my experience at least. I know several of my classmates took the class but not the test and they seem to be doing perfectly fine without it.
I took it last year. The test was very easy. Probably one of the classes I put the least amount of effort into. I'm going into stem but I still think taking the test was worth it
@@luke_222 what did u get?
@@dextaposition3785 5
@@luke_222 what was the worst score u got on an ap test and what ap was it
I took both AP Gov and AP Music Theory. Gov was the hardest one by far for me. Got a 3 while for music theory I scored a 4.
Same got a 3 as well
Is 4 good?
@@bandaged_skeleton yes, the highest score is a 5. A score of 3 is passing, 4 is impressive, and 5 is shocking.
From all my friends they say music theory is by far the most boring class there is, can you guys give some insight to why it’s so boring?
@@jaxryz_380 ohh I thought it was not good. Thank you!!
A lot of it honestly depends on the teacher. I got a 4 on APES but a 2 in Psych
I took 3 of those classes recently, APUSH is tough but most of it comes down to knowing how to answer the questions, AP Gov is pretty straightforward but you should put extra time into studying the Supreme Court cases, and AP Lit is just tough
Remember: it’s because these classes have so many taking them. Classes like Calc BC and Physics C are miles harder but less people take them and those who do are predisposed to do wel
That adds up for all the exams listed except Physics 1, because most students take Honors Physics -> Physics C instead. That makes the pool of Physics 1 kids comparatively small.
Also, that exam was some bullshit. CollegeBoard doesn’t even provide all the formulas you need to solve some of those problems. I was trying my damndest to remember the formula for rotational acceleration the entire time. The Free Response wasn’t actually terrible, but the MCQ killed my entire class this year.
I’ve made 5’s on all my exams so far, and with pretty much a guaranteed 5 in Calc BC and really solid tests in both APUSH and AP Lang, Physics 1 was 100% the hardest AP exam I’ve ever taken. That test sucks ass.
Me, who hasn’t taken an AP test before and is currently enrolled in APUSH: *sweats*
I took the AP Human Geography test this year and I’m surprised by how many people said they did bad on it, I dunno, that might’ve just been my school though.
For us, it was a freshman class, so many people scored poorly on it because of their lack of experience in testing. Also, I believe many people take it just to boost their gpa, so they end up scoring quite low on it.
I got a 4
Honestly same, I think my teacher was just really good but I didn’t do any extra studying for the test and still got a 5. I guess I don’t really know how it went for the freshmen in my class though.
As someone who failed the APUSH exam makes sense. Some of those questions were so convoluted and/or had little to nothing to do with what we learned.
i’m literally in apush rn💀
Me about to take my AP US Government Exam in 2 hours:
how'd it go?
I took AP Lit as a sophomore last year and managed to get a 4. My teacher taught my class absolutely nothing about the exam, only mentioning a bit about it after some people had already taken it (there were 3 administrations, I took it administration 2). I pretty much just spent a week watching and taking notes on every AP lit video I could find and took a bunch of practice exams. Since I was short on study time, for the essays I looked at the past prompts and thought about what evidence I’d use (I thought about the first two essays as if they were AP history essays), and for the third essay my strategy was to try and fit 1984 into the prompt somehow, because that was the only book my class read that I understood (I was not about to use Hamlet). I’m much better at typing than writing, so getting to write the essays with a keyboard made it much easier for me as well.
When ur taking the top 3 classes this year 💀💀💀
I’m gonna be taking AP Phys 1 in next year in 10th, and I’m gonna be taking AP Eng Lit in junior year. Great, now I’m scared 😃
Well how did it go
Funnily enough, I got a 1 on Physics 1 and a 5 on Physics 2. Not quite sure how I managed to do that but it is what it is.
That’s actually insane. ig it’s just cuz they are significantly different material covered
That means you are just better at one part of physics.
ah how the tables have turned
I found physics 2 to be way easier and way more interesting than 1
the way two of my best classes are on this list 😭
*laughs* I’m in danger
(I’m a freshmen taking AP Physics 1)
Dropped that class and take it on your junior or senior year
@@screenmemes2hoursago498 shouldn’t drop out of that class, just pay attention and it’s easy
@@tomasavage6815 no I haven’t taken that class yet I’m in just 10 grade
gg rip
I signed up for AP Chem and AP Physics 1 as a sophomore this year. P A I N.
My APES exam was today and when I tell you it was one of the easiest exams I have ever taken.
My friend missed the time for the Apush exam so he had to take it in September. He in the end though got a 5 but he spent hours in the summer studying
I studied for 2 weeks and got a 5 💀
is the score a 1-10? I don’t understand the scoring and meaning of AP ( I’m Asian)
@@freshacado4304 it’s from 1-5 (5 being highest)
@@SWNerd oh lol I thought it had the same system as Quackity’s law school scoring technique
Wait, there's AP exams in September?!
When ur currently in 2 of those classes 💀
Extremely late update- I passedddddd :D (worst years of my life, college is so much better)
When you’re gonna be taking four of those classes 💀💀
@@riftryn WHY DO U HATE URSELF???
AP Euro was super hard too, almost no one in my school passed that crazy thing. The questions were barely anything we went over.
Uh oh🤣 I’m taking AP Euro this year
I got a 5, but yeah, I agree it's super hard, more so than APUSH or AP World
Me, in physics 1 and currently doing physics homework the night before a test: yeah
I’m so glad my school has a LEGENDARY teacher for apush, ap gov, and ib history of the americas. I’m taking the AP gov test this year, and I’ve been doing well on all of the practice tests I’ve taken thanks to him.
So nobody’s going to talk about how smooth the loop is?
Wow this is great I’m taking three of those!!!!!!!
As a student who has taken both AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2, AP Physics 1 is definitely harder since the biggest hurdle is in the beginning when you have to change the way that you think. You have to learn how to analyze and use abstraction to solve problems to a degree that most students haven’t encountered. The principles are easy, the application is hard, and your worst enemy are your preconceived notions of how the world works. However, when enter AP Physics 2, you already have taken AP Physics 1 and have already cemented the mindset you need making the transition much easier.
Funny thing is, I’m taking two of those classes this year in high school, and the fact that my high school offers all 5 of those classes.
Damn, I still really wanna be a physicist
Not my literally just applying to do physics, English lit and math
Damn, took AP Gov, Lit, and US History in high school and found all 3 to be pretty easy for myself and the majority of my class. Although from what I heard from my teacher AP Gov got a pretty big overhaul a few years back so that might be part of it.
Idk why I’m always watching u, I’m like In 5th grade and I’m watching college tips/ info and stuff.
Interesting. I was told AP gov was easy. I’m a freshman 😢
It's a free credit if you pay attention, pretty sure 90% of the failers are seniors who don't give two fucks about their score
I’m in apush rn and we have a I’m Wednesday…wish me luck😬😭😂
I am surprised that more people failed APUSH than AP Calc
Shit both the aps im taking this year as a freshmen are here 😭😭😭
I believe #6 is actually human geography, which is the ap I'm taking this year (as a freshman
I took that my freshman year and it’s actually a really good class but a lot of people fail the exam because it’s usually everyone’s first AP class
Lol I almost failed that but my teacher felt bad for me or something and gave me a c. Needless to say, I’m not in ap world history this year lol
Huh. I took that last year and I remember my teacher mentioning this year (I’m taking another class with him this year that many students from last years APHuG are in) and he said the AP exam pass rate for his class was 70 something%.
@@iliketurtles2843 We’re talking about the National pass rate. A little more than half of all students who take the APHG exam get a 2 or lower. School pass rates vary between schools. My school has an APWH class that has a 95% pass rate. Crazy stuff
I passed that with a 5 last year (Centripetal and Centrifugal are stupid)
thought ap stats would be on here since it has the lowest perfect scores
So what, this is pass RATE
@@juanm.guillermety2189 Bro...
I got a 4 on calculus (during pandemic, remote), but then I showed that i could do it legitimately by getting a 4 in APUSH. Could not believe it since I had gotten 3s before on a lot of things, except that 5 in gov, but that was remote, so I had less things to mess up on since multiple choice wasn’t a thing
Nice to know my first ap class as a freshman that I also happen to have 1st period is the 5th highest failing class!
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THAT PERFECT LOOP
I’m surprised AP Environmental Science is in this video cuz it's supposed to be one of the “easier” AP classes
It honestly is really easy. I only studied for three days before the exam started and got a 4. All I did was watch the review videos that college board posted and that was it. Half of it is like common sense stuff too so you should definitely take it if you’re considering it
@@meeton2990 I didn't study at all the entire year and had an A in the class and a 3 on the AP exam
It's easy. Dumb kids take these classes and fails them. :)
Cause of the stereotype that it's so easy, people don't study at all and fail lol
Last year I was talking to some kids from my school who were taking AP Physics 1, and the told me they didn’t start learning about torque until 2 classes before the AP test
Oh no, half those AP’s i’m taking next year. Rip
Oh wow I have the take AP ENV SCIENCE IN 9Th grade cause I’m advanced wish me luck
I’m taking human geography my freshman year, another pretty low passing class, gl man
@@UserName-dt3kc lucky lmao, Im taking notes for the first time and it’s painful lol, I have to take notes on 8 more pages by tomorrow and it’s currently 11pm
I’m telling it’s not that hard. It’s only such a low pass rate cuz the class is taken by morons most of the time looking to fill up their schedule.
APES is great
@@Cmac5612 ikr, I'm taking ap courses right now and they really have lowered their standards. Jesus, the average Joe can just walk in. If you're truly advanced as in advanced placement, you should be able to pass the ap exams no problem.
"WHAT DID YOU DO"
"he won."
"WHO WON?!"
" *physics, won.* "
Seeing this the day before my AP Gov exam 😀.
Surprisingly easy though wasn't it??
@@joshskov2134 yeah I did it today and it was like pretty easy actually. Not sure why the fail rate is so high
I think they dumbed it down for us this year😄
APUSH and AP lit student here, my chances of getting college credit this year seem great
You want a 5 on physics, hit me up. I'm a physics tutor and I got a 5 back in 2015 when it first came out when it was like 65% fail rate. Don't ask about AP lit, I am part of the 56% there.
What're your rates? (I'm taking AP Physics 1 btw)
I loved physics but hated the style of the questions. I feel like they could phrase the questions a lot more easily and still get the point across. Like I don’t want to read 2 paragraphs for a single multiple choice question and then each answer choice is a paragraph itself. Then you realize after like 2 minutes “oh this is just a fairly simple momentum problem”
My intro to business class has a 100% fail rate. Our teacher is AWFUL at his job
Oh damn… I’m in APUSH and AP Lang right now
The reason AP Physics 1 is the highest fail rate is because lots of schools have students take the exam without the students actually knowing any of the course material. Schools only do it to say they have some AP classes in their curriculum.
I feel like it also depends on who takes the classes. like you’re not gonna sign up for ap calc bc lightly so everyone in that class is gonna be taking it seriously. now in a class like apush (at least from what i’ve seen) there are gonna be people taking it just to take an ap class so there are more people in the class that dont care as much about the class
The fact that I’ve taken every one of these
I’m taking AP environmental science and most peoples in my class just straight up don’t study or complete assignments so this makes perfect sense
I'm currently a freshman in school, and I'm in the AP program for History. I don't really understand what's going. This is going to suck.
Ikr I’m a freshman taking AP Japanese and the teacher is such a strict grader
when you took the APUSH and AP Lang exams this year and passed:
suprisingly calculas 2 wasn’t up there
We are cooked tmr 💀
I think he would be a good teacher cuz he knows when people cheat
I kinda got scared then I realized quantum physics isn’t there
My personal rankings from my own experience of the tests I took. 1 being the hardest.
1. AP bio
2. AP Calc
3. AP Euro
4. AP Human geo
5. AP environmental science
6. AP English language
7. AP gov
8. AP Psych
Any tips for the AP Psych test?
I agree with the bio.
You've got to be kidding, I'm taking 3 of those this year and one of them next year!
I’ll be fine taking APUSH, APCSP, AP Lang, AP Physics 1, and AP Stats this year 😅. In addition to Prom and the SAT and driving and getting a job and scholarships and looking for college 🥹
IM GONNA LITERALLY BE SO DEPRESSED 😂
@@goatmodegamingThe only bad AP out of those is APUSH. I fricken hate American History and that class required too much of my time. It honestly made me depressed that winter (I also took Physics 1 and Psychology that year). I got a 1, but honestly I didn’t care enough to pay attention anymore. I should’ve took regular US History,
@@thatguy720I have a lot of extra credit in mine and teacher is super chill at least. But yeah it is very hard, I know I can just rely on extra credit to get my grade up though
Dang so more then half of the people in those classes fail
Ngl, see if you can do physics from a community college if you can afford it. You will be better guaranteed to get the credit in your university, And, generally, you’ll learn a WHOLE lot more/be prepped for the next physics class in college.
Physics in college is about teaching and making sure you understand what’s important/how to think around these type of problems. It doesn’t ‘teach to a test’ like AP physics teachers are forced to.
Plus, you can often get that period free every other day to do your homework/study when you’d normally be in a semi-useless lecture at high school.
I’m surprised ap art hisory wasn’t included
It is crazy to see how things vary from school to school. In my school, AP Psych, APUSH, and AP Physics are all considered the easiest AP classes to take.
It's March 2023. I take 3 of these in 2 months...
*wish me luck lads*
Wow! This one loops so well!
The second I saw AP Physics I
*fuck*
Not me taking Apush and physics 1- but honestly Apush is mainly the sheer amount of stuff you need to learn- physics 1 though is an actual nightmare
Not me taking the top 4 highest fail rate test this year😅😢
Thing is physics, gov, env sci, and apush are typically open to students earlier on who aren't prepared for the workload/aren't warned which results in higher rates. Though APUSH and Lit in that list are worthy of being known of difficulty.
I’ve heard too many bad things abt a push, even my older brother failed, so I’m only abt to take ap calc and cs idk how I’d do on those
I'd say most of these classes: Physics 1, APUSH, APES, and Lit are some must take courses for rigorous schools like magnet schools etc. It's not classes that are for many students that are interested in the subject (so they don't care as much) and APES is a course that many Freshman take, so the inexperience is also a factor
Guess who’s taking Physics 1 AP😂. Actually going to school on a Saturday to get more help with the class.
This makes me feel a little better about my 3 on the ap physics exam lmao
i knew apush was gonna be on here
Honestly APUSH makes sense at least to me because a lot of people take it believing it to be a walk in the park up until they get to the actual AP test part of it.
The APUSH exam on a DBQ on one of the last units, which many classes (including my own) were not able to reach do to remote learning
Numbers like this scared me so much last year taking Physics 1
i find this funny because ap english and physics were 2 of the 3 tests i passed lol
This is so true because majority of my physical 1 classes in my school failed with 80% failing in each class
Environmental Science felt like a blow off class, which led to a lot of people underestimating the exam.
well damn. I'm taking APUSH next year. We struggling with this one fellas!
APUSH honestly wasn't bad. Almost all questions were stimulus-based, so, for the most part, as long as you remembered the basic ideas and time frames, then you were fine.
Source: I was in virtual, didn't try very hard in the class, and still got a 5. (It helps that I like history in the first place, though.)