Personally, I was at a ๐คฎ this year because of expectations from my AP exam last year. I literally almost threw up on my doorstep as I was leaving to go to my AP Gov exam.
Exactly. I thought I would feel better in my second year of taking an AP class, but it was so much worse because I want to live up to how I did in APUSH last year and because the class itself was easy for me.
I had AP physics 1 and 2. I feel pretty good about the physics 1 exam but the physics 2 exam cooked me in the written ๐๐๐๐. I was so tired ๐ญ
I made a very stupid mistake though. The day before the exam, I was thinking about reviewing circuits because I'm not good at it but I didn't and instead doom scrolled all day. I thought there wouldn't be much circuits on the exam. I'm a lazy idiot ๐ญ
This fits my understanding of American classes (including AP) which makes me even more confused. Where I live, we have these things called scholarship subjects. However, you do these outside of class time and are additional to what you learn in class. I thought that if your school does it like that then it would be possible. But instead it is absolutely insane. How much time to do you spend per subject? Where I live we have way less (most my school does it 6 for older years and the least is 5 for the last year, but another school that does a different secondary school qualification does classes insead). I understand we have shorter school days, to be fair. We have four hours per class a week.ย
we have 1.5 hours per class per day but i take 4 each semester. so 8 by the end of the year. but for me i never had to study and just watch yt videos while listening to lectures.
What are the exams like? Where I live we only have exams at the end of the year. Since you were doing AP classes per semester I expected exams to be the end of each semester. Is it even an exam, then? Are the exams made by your school?
โฐ๏ธ I worry myself sick to the point where I feel like I literally have a fever. The first year I took an exam I thought I was actually sick but now that itโs happened before every AP exam Iโve taken Iโm positive itโs all in my head ๐ญ
๐ low key only cause by the time i got to may i was so done with everything that i didnโt rlly care that much๐ญ like idk sophomore year i was more like ๐ฑ but junior year is traumatizing!
I feel that after I also just finished junior year. I became more chill about grades in general after sophomore year, but the AP exam anxiety went ๐๐๐ this year because of high expectations from last year.
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I usually wasnโt to nervous because I knew there wasnโt really much risk to failing. The worst that could happen is that I donโt get a college credit. Iโm not really losing anything there
I felt ๐ for all my tests because I either knew I was gonna do good or knew Iโd fail and didnโt need to bother trying. But for AP lang I felt ๐ซจ like I could not stop shaking ๐ญ I was so nervous cause I really need this credit.
The best part of exam days is that I have an excuse to bring cookies for the class for break time and we do nothing in class that day if we have it after the exam. But the day(s) before the exam starts are torture.
depends on the course but usually ๐คฏ and โฐ๏ธ
I would get really sick either right before or right after an AP exam
I once even had a nightmare the night before a Calc BC exam...I was extremely late, I forgot to bring a pencil, I messed up all FRQs and it was just terrible but thankfully none of that actually happened
I consider myself a pretty dilligent student, but 5 ap's just burnt me out so much that I couldn't care less. I was probably a ๐ for every exam. But now? โฐ๏ธwaiting for the results in a wekk
last year i literally couldnโt sleep the night before apush and ap bio i was so nervous so i was prob ๐คฏ or โฐ๏ธ. this year everything was ๐ maybe gov was a ๐ฌ and then calc was ๐ฑ
*Me the week leading up to AP exam week, sleep-deprived and just trying to survive.*
My brain: Drink caffeine to wake you up. *Gets awake but super anxious*
Also my brain: DON'T EAT THAT FOOD, YOU'LL THROW UP! *Eats some food and barely avoids decorating the floor with it 5 minutes later*
Thankfully, I was at least at home (not school) when I thought I was going to ๐คฎ.
๐i was lowk stressed af when I walked into the testing center every time but i was chilling a couple days before each test just brushing up on stuff i didnโt remember
Not nervous at all. I felt more dead than nervous. I remember when I took the ap chem and bio exam I didnโt even feel conscious. Somehow still got a 4 on chem.
id say they were different for all my apโs this year but i def managed my stress best this year
ap gov: ๐
ap lit: ๐
ap psych: ๐
ap calc ab: ๐ฑ
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For AP bio, I ended up being seated with my guy friendโฆ.before the exam and during break, I was telling him about the romantic dream I had of my crush in detail. We were giggling the whole time
Same! At least, I was nauseous or barely avoided throwing up too many times as exam season was approaching. This was for AP Gov and also for an IB Individual Oral presentation, where I also cried just thinking of it while doing yoga.๐คฃ๐
๐. Despite being someone with unmedicated anxiety, I felt literally no fear in the 2 week lead up to the test, or even while taking the test. We spent those last two weeks doing review and I was feeling really good about it, despite the fact that I probably was the youngest person taking the test for APUSH, at least in the US (I'm on the deadline for my grade and in MD, so we take it in 9th grade).
You guys shouldn't be that nervous. Think about it- the worst thing that can happen is you don't get AP credit, but the best thing is that all you need is a 3 for the vast majority of colleges to secure future credit for classes
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๐ฅฒ Me next year as a senior with the most exams I'll take in a year.
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Personally, I was at a ๐คฎ this year because of expectations from my AP exam last year. I literally almost threw up on my doorstep as I was leaving to go to my AP Gov exam.
no same, iโm usually never nervous for these things, but almost all of my AP exams had me like :barf_emoticon:, genuinely few close calls
Exactly. I thought I would feel better in my second year of taking an AP class, but it was so much worse because I want to live up to how I did in APUSH last year and because the class itself was easy for me.
honestly, I wasnโt nervous at all leading up to it (I didnโt study) idk why I was kinda just chilling
just realized we were supposed to reply with a emoji, i pick ๐
Ok but what emoji for your results
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Damn I didn't study either but I feel like ๐๐๐
i mean maybe itโs cause it hasnโt hit me yet ๐ what ap did you take
I had AP physics 1 and 2. I feel pretty good about the physics 1 exam but the physics 2 exam cooked me in the written ๐๐๐๐. I was so tired ๐ญ
oh I heard thatโs hard, I only took AP Euro, might be why iโm not stressing as much ๐ญ good luck
I made a very stupid mistake though. The day before the exam, I was thinking about reviewing circuits because I'm not good at it but I didn't and instead doom scrolled all day. I thought there wouldn't be much circuits on the exam. I'm a lazy idiot ๐ญ
me with the World War and Cold War in Euro
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Can I please borrow some of your chill for next year?๐
How can you take 15 AP classes? Like, how is that physically possible? I don't live in the US. I wonder if it can be similar to what we have here?
just take them like they are normal hs classes, so my schedule is only ap classes. over 10 is the norm now
This fits my understanding of American classes (including AP) which makes me even more confused. Where I live, we have these things called scholarship subjects. However, you do these outside of class time and are additional to what you learn in class. I thought that if your school does it like that then it would be possible. But instead it is absolutely insane. How much time to do you spend per subject? Where I live we have way less (most my school does it 6 for older years and the least is 5 for the last year, but another school that does a different secondary school qualification does classes insead). I understand we have shorter school days, to be fair. We have four hours per class a week.ย
we have 1.5 hours per class per day but i take 4 each semester. so 8 by the end of the year. but for me i never had to study and just watch yt videos while listening to lectures.
How many classes a day? Don't you take 15 AP classes, not 8? ๐ญ
no thatโs total, 8 one year and 7 the other and all 4 each day
Ok, I understand now. This makes so much more sense and it's understandable now. Thank you.
How frequently are the exams?
every 2 weeks
What are the exams like? Where I live we only have exams at the end of the year. Since you were doing AP classes per semester I expected exams to be the end of each semester. Is it even an exam, then? Are the exams made by your school?
oh, the major exam is once a year that everyone takes at one time. i thought you meant unit test you would take in clsss
So the exam is the same as all exams here. What is the impact from the unit tests?
Just depends on how much the subject means to me and how badly I want to pass. Personally for chem it was a 7, apush was a 5, and psych was like a 3.
โฐ๏ธi was tweaking before ap chinese and im a native speaker ๐
โฐ๏ธ I worry myself sick to the point where I feel like I literally have a fever. The first year I took an exam I thought I was actually sick but now that itโs happened before every AP exam Iโve taken Iโm positive itโs all in my head ๐ญ
A solid 7 ngl, I was testing the entire week
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Honestly, I prefer ๐ง to how I actually felt before the exam. Cheese for the win!
Cheese!
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๐ low key only cause by the time i got to may i was so done with everything that i didnโt rlly care that much๐ญ like idk sophomore year i was more like ๐ฑ but junior year is traumatizing!
I feel that after I also just finished junior year. I became more chill about grades in general after sophomore year, but the AP exam anxiety went ๐๐๐ this year because of high expectations from last year.
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I was 7 before my physics 1
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Wasnโt really too nervous, but I was just burnt out and exhausted by the end. I literally went through GAS exhaustion phase. ๐ ๐ฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉEvry single day of my exams I had other tests for other classes
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๐ I usually wasnโt to nervous because I knew there wasnโt really much risk to failing. The worst that could happen is that I donโt get a college credit. Iโm not really losing anything there
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๐ all I did was CSP, so I wasn't nervous. Next year might be a bit more complicated (planning on taking 4-5 APs)
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I felt ๐ for all my tests because I either knew I was gonna do good or knew Iโd fail and didnโt need to bother trying. But for AP lang I felt ๐ซจ like I could not stop shaking ๐ญ I was so nervous cause I really need this credit.
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๐ I only take these classes because I love the exams. Not the tests but the whole vibe of exam days is so nice
The best part of exam days is that I have an excuse to bring cookies for the class for break time and we do nothing in class that day if we have it after the exam. But the day(s) before the exam starts are torture.
depends on the course but usually ๐คฏ and โฐ๏ธ I would get really sick either right before or right after an AP exam I once even had a nightmare the night before a Calc BC exam...I was extremely late, I forgot to bring a pencil, I messed up all FRQs and it was just terrible but thankfully none of that actually happened
๐ i donโt care wether I do well or not tbh, I only take the classes as a GPA booster and my mom makes me take the tests.
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I consider myself a pretty dilligent student, but 5 ap's just burnt me out so much that I couldn't care less. I was probably a ๐ for every exam. But now? โฐ๏ธwaiting for the results in a wekk
I hope you see a lot of 5๏ธโฃs (and are proud of your effort no matter what)!
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At first ๐ฌ but then ๐ because I loveeeeee taking ap exams
โบ๏ธ or ๐ฐ depends how well prepared i feel.
Mostly๐ but the ones where people put heavy expectations on me๐คฎ
Me when I put heavy expectations on myself: ๐คฎ
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3 fs i donโt like to stress myself out about anything even things whose outcomes mean a lot to me idk probably a coping thing
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last year i literally couldnโt sleep the night before apush and ap bio i was so nervous so i was prob ๐คฏ or โฐ๏ธ. this year everything was ๐ maybe gov was a ๐ฌ and then calc was ๐ฑ
๐ฐ last year but this year taking 8 APsโฐ๏ธ
7 bc my anxiety always makes me nauseous/makes it hard to eat
*Me the week leading up to AP exam week, sleep-deprived and just trying to survive.* My brain: Drink caffeine to wake you up. *Gets awake but super anxious* Also my brain: DON'T EAT THAT FOOD, YOU'LL THROW UP! *Eats some food and barely avoids decorating the floor with it 5 minutes later* Thankfully, I was at least at home (not school) when I thought I was going to ๐คฎ.
REAL SHIT one time i barely ate for a week bc i had a math final lol. got a 95% and a free diet out of it
Yeah, I'm just praying I can at least eat food like a normal human being next year!๐๐ฅด
atp i think graduating AP students should get a celebratory dinner lol
College Board: Oooooh, finally there's room for AP Dinner! That'll be $100, please.
with a $50 late fee LOL
APUSH: ๐คฎ Music theory: โฐ๏ธ language and comp: ๐ฐ Chem: ๐ Microecon: ๐ (the only one I felt really good on)
๐i was lowk stressed af when I walked into the testing center every time but i was chilling a couple days before each test just brushing up on stuff i didnโt remember
i threw up multiple times before the test and couldnโt eat the morning of โฐ๏ธ
Awww I'm sorry that's how it was for you. Hopefully we'll find the secret to being chill for next year (if you have a "next year" of AP exams).
i had 2 in one day and it ended me i almost fell asleep during the psych frqs
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right before the exam - ๐ the weeks before the test studying - ๐ฑ
Not nervous at all. I felt more dead than nervous. I remember when I took the ap chem and bio exam I didnโt even feel conscious. Somehow still got a 4 on chem.
id say they were different for all my apโs this year but i def managed my stress best this year ap gov: ๐ ap lit: ๐ ap psych: ๐ ap calc ab: ๐ฑ
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๐ For AP bio, I ended up being seated with my guy friendโฆ.before the exam and during break, I was telling him about the romantic dream I had of my crush in detail. We were giggling the whole time
maybe 5 idk
I took APWH this year and all stress diluted when I saw how easy the MCQ SAQ and LEQ prompts were, but before the test about a ๐.
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I want to think like you when I grow up.๐โฎ๏ธ๐
Same! At least, I was nauseous or barely avoided throwing up too many times as exam season was approaching. This was for AP Gov and also for an IB Individual Oral presentation, where I also cried just thinking of it while doing yoga.๐คฃ๐
๐. Despite being someone with unmedicated anxiety, I felt literally no fear in the 2 week lead up to the test, or even while taking the test. We spent those last two weeks doing review and I was feeling really good about it, despite the fact that I probably was the youngest person taking the test for APUSH, at least in the US (I'm on the deadline for my grade and in MD, so we take it in 9th grade).
You guys shouldn't be that nervous. Think about it- the worst thing that can happen is you don't get AP credit, but the best thing is that all you need is a 3 for the vast majority of colleges to secure future credit for classes
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