As students become older, more advanced classes are open to them. AP and Dual Credit classes are the most advanced classes upperclassmen are able to take here. AP classes are basically advanced classes, with more challenging course work. Dual Credit classes come from the local Wylie campus of Collin College, where students are able to take college-level courses on campus.
However, these classes are well-known to be very demanding and harder for students to maintain, with the immense amount of work and studying it requires. But using helpful advice and tips, it can become easy to excel and succeed in these classes. And many of these suggestions come from Wylie High’s very own students.
Lainey Clever, junior, currently takes three Dual Credit classes, along with previous AP classes and she gives advice on how to succeed in these classes.
“Don’t procrastinate on your assignments because they are time consuming if you let them all add up and definitely don’t study the night before. Study gradually, or else you won’t remember it all in one night,” Clever said (11).
Along with advice from Clever, another junior student, Jacob Watson gave some special insight on how to keep up in advanced classes.
“[Textbooks] are very extremely important to read even though it’s not required… reading the textbook really clarifies some things they can’t really hit in a 45 minute class,” Watson (11) says.
“In Dual Credit specifically, I would say, while you do have those free periods off between days, it’s not necessarily to do whatever you want. You should be using those times to do the work that’s presented.”
Despite these students currently being able to succeed, they still did make some mistakes along the way, when they began their classes.
“I assumed the [Dual Credit] classes were like high school and I was sorely mistaken. They are college classes and there’s no late work,” Clever said, “Approach Dual Credit with the mindset of ‘this is a harder class and it’s more of a college class, but it will help me in the future.”
Even through hard work and tiring times, these classes are immensely helpful and beneficial for students.
“For me, I really want to take these classes, not only for college credit, but also it’s just a higher level of effort and work and that really does prepare you for the next level,” Watson said. “If you’re taking these classes, it’s just gonna make the transition to higher-level work so much easier.”
“AP and Dual classes are beneficial because you get to start your career earlier and we are so lucky to have these opportunities here in Wylie High,” Clever said.
AP and Dual Credit are extremely helpful and profitable for students at Wylie High School and can be very easy to pass and excel at when given advice and guidance from others, especially fellow students.