What's the difference between AP classes and accelerated classes?

[michellebrown48]

I told someone i took AP biology and they got super impressed because they took Accelerated biology and that it was hard so she can't imagine doing AP biology. Ummm i think she should not be impressed lol, i thought they were the same? whats the diff?

[normalice]

ap - advanced placement. That means it's a normally paced class but they skip a lot of the prerequisite stuff you should already know. accelerated means they cover things faster.

so, if you knew (say) Calculus I already, you might take AP calculus II. But if you didn't know calc I, you might take accelerated calc which is both calc I and calc II combined into one class.

[normalice]

wait. ignore that. I think AP is actually a college prep class. i. e. it's essentially a college course that you take in high school so you don't have to take it in college. It needn't be "accelerated" though..

[ASEXY]

Accelerated classes are classes where they teach all the material in a short amount of time and AP classes are college level courses that the college you attend in the future might you give you college credit if you get at least a minimum score on the AP exam at the end of the year.

[linds34]

Accelerated is a designation set by the school so it could mean different things. An AP class teaches you the material that's on a specific AP test and prepares you for that test so you can earn college credit. So in an AP class you should learn basically the same thing no matter where you took it.

[TazWax]

An accelerated class is when you learn something in a shorter time period than you would normally. AP are classes where you can get college credits after taking an exam.

[pingiluv]

I think AP is college credit while accelerated is just that. For example I took AP geology and AP calculus and got college credit for that my senior high school year

[snowangle]

I think accelerated biology is just a bigger coverage of the subject than regular biology class. Whereas AP is an actual college course.