Future AP Psych Students

First off, I’d like to say that ap psych is definitely a class you should consider. It is a very interactive and student oriented class compared to many other rigorous ap classes. Psychology as a whole is a very interesting subject as it pertains to life much more than other ap classes woul. I myself found it very interesting learning as to why we perform certain habits, how our behavior is derived from external and internal sources, and many more. The class for those planning on taking it is based of off primarily note taking and group work. Ms. Halfen will teach the class the unit and afterwards we do a variety of activities further enforcing the information needed for the test. Vocabulary is also very essential to the class. Vocabulary is optional because your test grade will also be your vocab grade if you choose not to take it, however it is not recommended as one, you do not learn the vocab (most likely), and two the test is pretty difficult making it hard to maintain a high grade if you do bad on it. Although the tests are very hard a lot of the time, I would still recommend taking the class as it is very useful as a college credit. Many degrees require a psych credit and saving money on it now is very helpful. Also, although the tests are hard, she has other grades such as blog posts and group grades so that you still maintain a good grade. One suggestion I would have to make would be going over our tests. Personally I found it difficult to perform well on the tests because I really didn’t have an effective way of knowing how to really answer certain questions. If we went over common missed questions and aspects of the test missed, I believe students would start to perform much better on later tests. All in all I would have to say that I enjoyed the class as a whole. It was fun, engaging, and interesting which is something very rare for a class to have in my opinion.