Yea half of the Chinese friends I know (I’m Chinese) are all taking Ap Chinese first year and are gonna double up in math for next year. I’m going to Chinese four, but holy crap some of these guys are gonna take Ap French right after Ap Chinese.
@@hdajq892ey7 Depends on your commitment, and your dedication to learning the basics. An important part of learning Chinese is to spend time learning the basics, in fact that’s probably the most important part, everything else is secondary. If you screw up learning that, Chinese will seem very difficult and unintuitive, just like any other language, but if you learned a latin based language it gets even more difficult, since your first language and second language are completely different. The most important thing is that you have to understand the pronunciations and strokes and basic characters to pass any Chinese one course with flying colors. I recommend you first learn the pronunciations of 妈麻马骂吗. This will help you learn the speaking portions of Chinese, along with the pronunciation while giving you a simple enough introduction to the language. After you can say it at a good enough speed with good enough pronunciation and become able to say 妈妈麻马 while conserving the meaning to someone who knows Chinese, you should be good enough for Chinese one in the speech department, as long as you follow the coursework the teacher gives you in the speech aspect. After that, I recommend you learn the basic strokes of Chinese, which are the 点，横，竖，撇，捺，and so on and so forth etc. While learning these basic strokes, you should also learn the order of which you must write these strokes, and this is where we get to an important part, where you can’t necessarily choose whether or not you fill this role, and that would be whether or not you are right handed. Most people are, but fair warning, this is pretty important. The Chinese language has a heavy focus on being right handed, as the entire language is built upon the assumption that the person using it is right handed, including what direction your strokes go in. I would know, because growing up in China I was left handed, and I was forced to change to right, although it wasn’t as hard since it was a young age. However, since I assume you are also in 8th grade, it is a fair warning since you likely can’t choose whether or not you want to be right or left handed at this point. After learning the basic strokes, the next step for me would be to buy a 字帖 at a basic level and work through it, making sure to practice good form the strokes. Make sure to apply what you learned from the order of strokes and what the stroke names are by saying them as you write, like saying 点 after doing the top dot of 家. After you are done with one character, pronounce it, this will help you remember it. If you do that along with the coursework if you take Chinese, you should be able to pretty easily learn the Characters and Speech. As for Grammar, I can’t really help I was kinda born knowing the grammar on an intuitive level, so good luck with that lmao. Don’t forget that you should listen to your teacher above all, but this should be pretty helpful.
@@packles81cuz the non-english APs are more basic since they are focused more on the language than extremely in-depth writing. according my friend who got a 5 in ap japanese last year, the stuff they tested was just 5th grade level knowledge
The GOV comment was so relatable. I took stats this year and 15 minutes into the exam the guy next to be laid his head down and slept for the next hour and 15 minutes.
Same. Got a 1 but passed the class with 100 extra points (101) and didn't care enough for the college credit since we HAD to pay for the test and could NOT opt out
@@stankyt5882nice username btw, but schools can force you to pay 98 dollars for something that isn't even required for graduation?!? What if you self studied an exam and decided to take the class senior year or something for easy grades? Or what if most colleges don't accept credits for that exam??
@stanky5187 quite literally the same boat I was in, I'm in school for mechanical engineering but couldn't fit any physics APs into my schedule without having to give up music, my psychology, or my gov class (which the civics class here at my college is waved thanks to my 4 that I got on the test), so I could flunk the tests with no harm no foul. Issue is yes, you had to pay for the test because it was expected that if you selected the AP-level class that you take the AP test that went alongside it because if you didn't wanna take the test then don't take the class and take the class one rung below it... I suppose it did make sense to me and why it may not make much sense now
Sameeeee passed ap calc ap stat and ap phyics C with a 5 tho but failed ap lang ap phych and ap world. Maybe that says a lot about me huh my reading comprehension is like preschool level
@@stevenchen9852 I’m a Stem student and I did better on my AP Lit exam than I did my AP Calc test, probably because I loved my Lit teacher more than my Calc teacher
Colleges will care more about your grade in the class than your test score. At most colleges it isnt even possible to get college credit from an AP test, so the fact that you took a rigorous course matters more than if you passed the AP exam.
@@dundundun2383 Same. But unfortunately, a lot of colleges dont consider APs equivalent to their courses and wont offer you credit. They’ll care more that you took a rigorous class than they will about your exam score.
I had APHUG this morning and it was so easy compared to the rest of my history aps. It was extremely basic compared to AP art history, AP world, AP euro, and APUSH (I got fives on all of those though ☺️)
Honestly for history I kind of just make up stupid stories to tie events together. Helps keep everything in one chunk that's easier to memorize than like 10 distinct events. And of course greasing the wheels of bullshitting on essays is a fine art.
You’re scaring the shit out of me now! All my friends said apush was super easy but then ended up getting a 2. The same ones are saying gov was super easy, but if they get a 2 again istg
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I took Calc Bc last year and my teacher literally told us that there was no reason why we shouldnt get a 5 on ap test cause he gave test harder than ap style question so by the time the ap test rolled up the class was only the people who did well on the test while the others dropped out. My whole class got a 5 at least lol 😂
Literally what they should be doing. Same reason they put astronauts through grueling months or years of training for maybe a few days in space. If you're doing the training right, the real thing shouldn't be so bad
Here’s a tip. Make sure your high school can give college credit before you graduate. I wish I took that opportunity in my high school so I wouldn’t have to spend money on classes I already took and take other or more useful classes for my potential career
cuz the barrier to get a 4 or 5 in E&M is really low compared to Mech. I remember the max was %54 on E&M, which is basically if you get the half of the exam correct you get a 5 lmao
We had to do a practice ACT sophomore year, and the thing you said about the AP gov exam was exactly what happened. I was over here actually trying, and the kid next to me would click through the test so quick and then sleep. I think he and his friends were all clicking a different letter on each part of the test, like a for english, b for science, etc. I hope he doesn't do that on the actual thing ;-;
There are a bunch of people in my uni that took AP calc classes in high school, but none of the credits transfer over so they have to take the same classes as me, someone who never took an AP class. Their asses got scammed
Most Ivy League and top schools don't even take 5s for college credit. However, they do care what score you got as a measure of your college readiness. The tests aren't only for the credit.
For schools that don't take a lot of credit, the grades in AP classes matter more than the exam scores. AP exams make up a very small part of admissions.
@@learnsatmath The ap scores are kinda like a right of passage for top schools. You have to have them or else you will barely be considered but they by no means guarantee acceptance.
What's funny is I got a 2 on EVERY exam. Calc bc, government and econ. I had No idea at all wtf was going on in econ and in government i had a 98 in that class. i knew every single court case. I had an 87 in calc BC and knew every integration method. Yet the score is the same??
I took AB because BC is faster paced and I didn't have the best experience with math. I have some regrets (most of my smarter friends are doing BC), and next year I'll be taking BC, so I'll have truly understood Calc by then. I wouldn't say I'm that average, but I'm taking 7 AP classes and I have A or A+ in all of them.
Nobody made higher than a 3 in my AP compsci class. To be fair, the teacher taught us basic Java, got high, and then let us play Halo 1 LAN off our flash drives. No regrets 😂😂
This is everyone’s AP compsci I stg. I got a 3, we played on an occulus everyday in class, and the teacher just gave everyone a 100 and said we could learn to program during the class if we wanted.
AP stands for “advanced placement” a person in high school can take these classes to earn college credit in high school to lessen the load in college and to still get a higher education while not having to go to/pay for college.
I’ll be real I probably got a 3 on the ap calc bc test just cuz I did not study series at all cuz they annoy the hell out of me & I did not want to even think about doing them
@@hyperbroli6672 bruh idk I was just like “ok I hate series I will do everything but that” not knowing that series count for like 50% of the exams points
AP Gov comment is true, but not for the reason you think. I don’t know it was just this year, but the test was so incredibly easy that most people including me finished both sections like an hour early. So yes people were sleeping by the end of it lol.
I could eat Calc BC breakfast dinner and lunch yet get eaten by AP French and history APs because I don’t study lmfao 💀 shit isn’t interesting, at least calc is worth smthg, all I need is Physics 1/2, Calc, and comp sci credits anyways
Ok but the thing is that both AP Calc exams are genuinely EASY 5s. I took both exams in junior and senior year respectively and they really aren’t that hard if your teacher isn’t dogshit at teaching calculus. If you thought it was hard then that’s because your teacher can’t teach.
The sleeping part might just be because AP gov is way too fucking long for how easy the content is. I finished both sections with like an hour left and was left in excruciating boredom.
I got credit in Gov, but only 3's in chem and AB calc. Got a social studies credit for free, and got to take thise hard stem courses twice. Worked out great
Can confirm about "A.P. gov" being a preschool class. I had my tests when covid shut down the schools for half a year and they didn't yet have the in infrastructure to do online class so the teachers had to improvise very shoddy materials in a hail mary - and I still got a *4* ! (To put that in perspective for my "AP econ" was split into two semesters, first being "macro" second being "micro" - "micro" was the covid semester. Got a *4* on the macro test and a *2* on "micro", although granted I think micro is harder overall)
I live in Alabama and my gov exam was ridiculous. Gov meant we take the macro exam as well so the year was already split in half for two AP classes, and we did alternating days so we only had like 30 days of classes for that exam
Past bc test 5 and ab test 3 scorer here. One more thing about bc test. Half of the bc curriculum is calc ab. So if you've already taken calc ab and the ab test, it's not nearly as hard as calc ab where everything is fresh, scary information.
The other thing with AP gov is that, if your school uses trimesters, it only goes the first two trimesters, meaning you have an entire 3 months or so to forget all of it before taking the test
When I was in high school, I got 5s on ab and bc calc, chem, physics, and comp sci. I also got 3s on gov, us hist, and both english classes. It is almost like some people have strong suits in what is considered hard for most.
AP classes are also valuable because top colleges expect you to be taking the hardest classes available to you. If you don't pass any AP tests it's not a good look.
You could also just go to a community college first to get your Associates, then apply to university after. By then, your high school accomplishments do not matter.
@@SpocksCat I'd rather get my bachelor's from a decent public university and graduate debt free than be miserable in high school desperately trying to be good enough to get into a top university and graduate tens of thousands of dollars in debt. That's just me though.
In 1995, my call teacher made us copy our written section and hand it into him, and that counted towards our class grade. So I suppose there is a pretty high bar to entry - I made one numerical error on the last question. 😔
I remember years ago when, the day before the test, our teacher told us the Physics 1 test had a 30% pass rate and we all immediately panicked but I don't think anyone from my class failed
Just finished the calculus bc mock. Wasn’t too hard but my brain shut off by the time I reached the 5th FRQ. I forgot what the average rate of change was 😂
