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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at a Catholic HS.  Everyone gets 4s or 5s.

My kids have gotten all 5s on their AP exams. They take 1 AP soph, year and then 4 Jr and 4 Sr year.9 total.  Have honors courses too.

They don't have the mountains of work--but it is still rigorous that you describe in your first scenario.[/quote]

And it depends upon the kid and the AP course.

My kid avoided APUSH/AP Eng because they know those would be extremely time consuming.  While they could do it and get a 4/5, they didn't want to spend so much time for one course to do well.  So they took 4 STEM courses (or 3 plus AP Psych). For them AP Chem and AP Physics and AP Calc AB and AP CS and AP Bio did NOT require much extra time.  They didn't have to study much it was just the next natural progression for them after precalc and regular chem and physics and Biology (required at our HS).  They got 5s in all of them, so the material was learned.  Other kids thought they took more effort, but for my kid they had yet to need to study for a science or math course and that didn't change until Calc BC. There the teacher taught to really prepare them, and everyone typically gets 5s (in 10+ years of teaching it, 99% of kids have gotten 5s, and the rest 4s, only a few 3s over the years). [/quote]
There is SO much depending on the teacher in the above examples. Not every school is the same in terms of workload per week, even if the course name is the same on transcript.[/quote]

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