#Advanced Placement classes

[roseworth]

the crazy thing about ap testing is that they would give you essay questions like “was slavery good or bad” but we would be taught not to answer what you believe, but answer what you can best support from the documents you’re given. so you look at the documents and 9/10 of them are pro-slavery documents from the 1700s so millions of high schoolers have to write entire essays on why slavery was good

[lovewash3d-doll]

🌻Best AP Classes for Writers in HighSchool🌻

AP Langugage & Composition 📝

Language is even in its name! While you’ll spend a large portion of class practicing argumentative, synthesis, and rhetorical analysis essays, you’ll also have a space to solely focus on the craft of writing. Rhetoric devices are something good writers should be able to recognize in other works and use in their own to make them more effective and powerful. Every metaphor, repetition, and literary device is intentional, and the tools you choose define your piece. In my class, we also dedicated time to writing several narrative pieces including a description of place piece, subjective definition, and a personal story. This was actually the first English class where I felt we were actually taught how to write well instead of just being told to. I also appreciated the attention to editting in this class and how to polish a piece, from chopping it up and rearranging it to the many advices and rhetorics of other writers.

AP Literature📖

One of my favorite AP classes is AP Literature! It is full 360 from AP Language, where you switch from analyzing writing to analyzing characters and stories and go back to reading books! It’s a very useful in-depth focus on fiction, and knowledge that you can reflect onto your own writing. All three tested essays are the same except for whether or not you’re analyzing a story, poem, or your self-selected book : you are analyzing how “ideas”/ elements in a story contribute to its overall meaning and a universal theme. My class learned about different writing eras/periods/movements, basic plot structure, how to actually digest poems, and character FOILs. You spend a lot of time deeply analyzing books and characters and the more you read, the better of a writer you are.

AP Psychology🫂

After my first Creative Writing class, my teacher told me that my writing lacked emotional depth and authenticity, suggesting that I spend some time studying psychology. To say the least, AP Psychology entirety improved my writing! It became one of my favorite AP classes and showed me the potential and power of emotions, behavior, and phenomena in the mind. The characters in your stories are not just pieces on a chessboard waiting for you to pick the next move, ignoring their humanity. Reactions, last-minute decisions, and changes in the psyche create tension and propel your story. That’s how the rising action works! You give characters a challenge, an obstacle, and they climb, stumble, and climb again onward on your mountain of a plot. Characters are a large aspect of what makes a story interesting and the more life-like you can flesh them out, the better. Sometimes character development and change is the entire plot! By learning the basics of every branch of psychology, you get a taste of so many different facets of what it means to be human and you learn very tangible models and theories to help you! Psychology is the blueprint of making characters!

AP Enviromental Science 🌱

Although AP Environmental Science does not seem very related to writing at all, it is related to world building. I was pleasantly surprised to learn about different biomes, natural phenomena, how the wind currents works, the different ways to use natural resources to support a civilization, and how nature and humans interact. It really is a little guidebook of the Earth and can greatly help you with the vocab and information to make your own world! There are so many parts of ecology we don’t ever consider in writing nor their effects on both the environment and humans. Earth— the physical land your story takes place in— is more important than you know and the framework and skeleton of the world you make.

AP Comparative Government 📜

Social science classes and writing go hand in hand! Although a rare and not often offered AP course, AP Comparative Government will teach you the basics of making a political system in your story. The course revolves around 5 country case studies where the history, goverment structures, and citizen realms are examined and compared. The whole first unit is dedicated towards learning every word you’ll ever possibly need to know to be inspired and craft your own political system. There are so many aspects to a governments. It’s eye-opening and informative to be able to break down systems and their effects, discuss them, and study the components.

XOXO,

lovewashed doll🌻

[angie-is-silly]

AP scores are out

I GOT A THREE LMFAO

[d4nnyartss]

Too smart for regular classes too burnt out for AP classes

[fungusqueen]

my spanish class is going to have an exam to wrap up the pre-holiday season and I had questions about the exam, whether it would be open-book (because it's online) etc.

this is a language school and we don't get grades or degrees; it's purely learning so I was also wondering what the purpose of the exam was because some exams are for standardized placement (which would be necessary to advance to the next level)

and the teacher's initial response was to be like "don't worry, it won't be that difficult..." and then he gave some examples of new concepts that WOULDN'T be on the test....but I'm over here like wtf I WANT a hard test AND I want to get tested on new concepts! Because otherwise, what the fuck am I paying for? so now I'm wondering what the hell this test will be AND is the teacher just trying to be kind and reassuring or is this test going to be a waste of time? I'm definitely going to study and idk about anyone else in the class but I'm just trying to be bilingual

EDIT: this is my first time in a language school so it's definitely a whole new experience and I don't know what to expect!

[ventingblogidkman]

genuinely fucking hate school

i was in ap euro this one time, and we were just doing a very quick, verbal post-spring break review

and at one point the teacher asked “When was the Thirty Years War?”

I, someone who *cared* about the course material, knew the answer to be “1618-1648”, and said that

One of the other students shouted out, “Oh, of course *you’d* know that”, and the rest of the class started laughing

so yeah, fuck school, the only environment where you can be mocked for doing well

[gkbc-is-starting-a-studyblr]

I must be insane taking five APs my senior year, but that is a problem for future me.

[lisa-and-shadow]

In my senior year of high school, the policy was that if you were tardy to class 3 times, you got "in school suspension" (detention). I lived in an exceptionally rural area where I was frequently caught out by tractors and a fucking CSX FREIGHT TRAIN on occasion. And despite my best efforts would have to sit at a railroad crossing watching a half mile of assorted bulk goods in freight cars amble by in no particular hurry. So after my first 2 tardies to first period, I realized the solution was to skip class entirely. So I'd go to Bojangles and eat breakfast and chill until second period. Never got the third tardy. Great policy, guys. 👍

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[men-i-find-attractive-yaps]

No cause GANG 🤩

[mitsdedistance]

How to Design a Fully Responsive UI/UX: Step-by-Step Guide for 2025

Master the art of creating fully responsive and user-friendly websites and mobile apps with MITSDE’s comprehensive online UI/UX design course. Whether you're in Mumbai or Pune, this program equips you with essential UI/UX skills, tools, and industry-relevant knowledge to enhance user experience and boost your career in design. Learn from industry experts through interactive online sessions and hands-on projects. Enroll today in MITSDE’s UI/UX design course and take the first step toward becoming a skilled UI/UX professional.

[jvminstitute]

Data engineer training and placement in Pune - JVM Institute

Kickstart your career with JVM Institute's top-notch Data Engineer Training in Pune. Expert-led courses, hands-on projects, and guaranteed placement support to transform your future!

[codeasalai]

Why Digital marketing is always important

Get knowledge in the basics of websites and digital marketing to get the skills you needed to land an executive level job and also click-through rates, and customer retention.if you are curious in it digital marketing course in madurai to explore more a Social media marketing uses digital platforms like Facebook,InstagramBuild ecommerce stores, analyze online performance, and grow customer loyalty to build brand awareness. 30 millions monthly active users are in facebook its is a right place to get new customers

For more details - https://www.codeasalai.com/digitalmarketing-course 

[iicsinstitute]

Indian Institute of Computer Science (IICS) is Delhi's leading IT training institute, offering a wide range of affordable programs and courses to empower learners with essential technology skills. With expert instructors and practical training in areas like AI, programming, web development, and more, we aim to prepare students for thriving careers in the tech industry. Join us to build your future in IT!best software engineer courses in Delhi

[theramblingvoid]

Hey here's an idea! If feeling like I'm cooked for not having relevant work experience and enough technical skills at age 22 after three jobs and two separate post secondary institutions is the norm, then maybe something's wrong.

[lifeintheworldtocome]

i fear i am completely behind in every aspect of my life

[eliteprepsat]

Is it better to take an AP or honors course and get a B than it is to take a regular course and get an A?

The too-short, oversimplified, tl;dr answer is: yes.

But it’s much more complicated than that.

The real question behind this question is whether or not you should risk taking a certain AP or honors course if you think there’s a good chance you won’t get an A. There are two concerns in play here. On the one hand, you need a high GPA to get into the most competitive universities. On the other hand, you also need to have a rigorous course load that includes AP and honors courses.

The ideal is that you would get all A’s with a ton of AP and honors courses. For most students, this isn’t possible. Be honest with yourself: how many of these rigorous courses can you handle while still maintaining a high GPA?

If you want to gain admission to competitive colleges and universities, you need to take some AP and honors courses. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should always opt for AP or honors, especially if it’s a subject you’re not particularly skilled at or interested in.

How many AP or honors classes should you take? That depends on what year you’re in, what your goals are, and how much work you can handle. The key to answering all these questions is self-awareness.

What are you passionate about? What are you good at? Where do you want to go to college? These are the kinds of questions you need to be asking to be as successful as you can be in high school.

The top Ivy League applicants will typically take 4–6 AP courses in their junior year. But there is no quick and easy answer to how many you should take. Not everyone can get into an Ivy League school, and there is a strong argument to be made that most students—even the “best and brightest”—should not go to an Ivy League school.

You should take no more AP an honors courses than you can handle while still achieving a high GPA.

What you absolutely want to avoid is transcript padding. Some applicants will cruise to easy A’s taking no AP or honors courses at all. That will not impress most admissions committees.

As Kiley explains in his article How Many AP Classes is Enough?, you should “take as many of the most rigorous classes available to you as you can as long as you can do well in them.” At most competitive universities, 7–12 total AP courses over the course of your entire high school career will be recognized as a rigorous course load.

Back to the original question: if you have your heart set on a top-tier institution, then chances are you will have to risk a B in an AP or honors course at some point. What this will communicate to admissions committees is effort, rigor, and interest.

You should absolutely take AP and honors courses in classes that align with your proposed major or minor, and you should add to that list any subject that you find interesting.

Again, you don’t want to avoid AP and honors courses just to keep your GPA up; that approach could communicate a lack of rigor and effort. But you also don’t want to risk getting a C in an AP course, either.

Long story short: it is absolutely worth occasionally risking a B in an AP or honors course, as long as you’re also mixing in a healthy dose of A’s.

A perfect GPA and a packed AP course-load is the ideal. Short of that, you’re going to want to find a healthy balance between A’s and AP’s.