[header] How to get good grades in ap courses [title] Understand that this will not be like your standard classes. [step] First and foremost, you should learn that your ap course is not simply a more difficult version of a high school course. Instead, it is a college course that has been re-worked to fit into a high school environment. 
Just because you have breezed through your high school classes doesn't mean you will be able to do so in your ap courses. Ap courses are made to show you what college is like, and to show colleges that you can manage the workload.