Ranking All 38 AP Classes by Difficulty (Tier List)

What do you think? Leave a comment if you agree/disagree with my tier list. I tried to be as objective as possible and incorporate multiple perspectives and CollegeBoard's own AP data, but it's important to get as many points of view out as possible!

Timestamps:
Intro - 00:00
AP 2D Art & Design - 0:40
AP Calc AB - 0:55
AP Calc BC - 1:17
AP Comp Sci Principles - 1:49
AP Comp Sci A - 2:17
AP Statistics - 2:33
AP Biology - 3:05
AP Environmental Science - 3:32
AP Physics 1 & 2 - 4:03
AP Physics C - 4:25
AP Art History - 5:09
AP Chinese - 5:24
AP French - 5:47
AP German - 5:48
AP Italian - 5:59
AP Japanese - 6:05
AP Latin - 6:08
AP Spanish Language - 6:25
AP Music Theory - 6:33
AP English Language - 7:03
AP English Literature - 7:19
AP Comparative Government - 7:42
AP Euro - 7:56
AP US History - 8:23
AP World History - 8:45
AP Micro & AP Macro - 9:02
AP Psych - 9:28
AP Seminar - 9:54
AP Research - 10:07
AP Drawing - 10:18
AP 3D Art & Design - 10:35
AP Human Geography 10:53
AP US Government & Politics - 11:11
AP Chem - 11:25
AP English Literature - 11:56

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[airmand]

You heard it here folks, APES is harder than AP Calc BC

[aaravshah]

bro put calc ab as very hard but put calc bc as a ROOKIE class 💀💀💀

[nicholasrui]

putting physics c in master tier and calc BC in rookie tier is crazy, especially when you only put BC in E tier because of the pass rate, which is high for physics c also.

[dysprosiumdx]

blud is putting Calc BC on the same level as CSP 😭wild

[Michael-pplz]

I took the AP Psych exam during COVID in 2020. It was all online. I scored a 1 because the site crashed and I was denied a retest. Finished the class with an A though.

[mahreelowberloeber]

Music theory is not an easy class. Even for musicians it’s basically impossible,

[mackaronie]

I’m surprised that AP Chem is at S tier, I just finished it and made a 94, and I had never taken an AP class before. My teacher was a saint however.

[peyejon]

Only AP I took was Calc and the actual content wasn't super hard, it's just learning the next level of math like usual. The actual difficulty of AP Calc is the test in which the difficulty comes from knowing when and where to apply what calculus depending on what it asks you. A really easy example is finding the velocity at time t, that's just finding the derivative at x=t but further into calc ab it gets much harder.

[SunnyBoi.]

This really depends on the school. In our school, AP Lang and Comp is hands down the hardest AP in our school, while Physics C: Mech and Chem were actually relatively easy (and most people did really well on the AP test, including me). Calc AB and BC are also incredibly easy at our school, and the average person here gets a 5 on the AP Test for that.

[JimmyCooper-yxix]

I know it's a bit late (I hope you see this), but for the SAT (I know it's kinda off-topic) on the common app, they ask you to submit scores you wish to report. I'm aware that some schools participate in collegeboards score choice program, but even with that in mind, when I plug in the singular score I wish to submit on the common app, on the page where they summarize what you've completed, they put that 1 score under the title of "number of past SATs taken." However, I've taken 3 SATs but I chose to submit 1. Can someone (preferably someone in college at the moment) clarify that contradiction? What did you personally do? And what should I do?

[luckysevens]

Im taking ap calc ab and its been pretty straightforward, thanks to taking pre cal last year and im just like that

[TheRealChopin]

Somethings wrong with me, I found AP Chem so much easier than AP Lang

[alexanatorjones]

if a college were to ask what color you are what would you put

[adamsiegel]

I have ap physics C mechanics today, I’m cooked

[SpectrogramStudios]

AP music theory is definitely a C or B even if you have musical experience because you have to do melodic and harmonic dictation, which isn't really stuff that you do in music classes in middle or high school. On top of that, you have to sing, which would be easy for vocalists or singers, but awful for musicians who chose to play aninstrument because they would have likely intentionally chosen not to sing. On top of that, the course is EVERYTHING music theory related starting from "this is the treble clef" to harmonic dictation. So, the bulk of the more challenging work is taught toward the latter half of the course, which means less time to study for it, unlike AP Lang where the essays can be taught in any order.

[alvaroabdalla]

In my school AP world history is hardest AP class in school

[jaydenprasad]

AP Human Geography exam is hard while the workload is very essy to handle and the topics are quite easy to quite difficult

[ezozabaeva]

please make a video “reading my supplemental essays that got me into Stanford”

[cosmicflare_]

AP lang and AP ush were harder than AP chem for me for whatever reason

[watermelonindianboi]

Would AP macro be helpful for someone that wants major in economics?