[srjjs]

Bio's reading is not only plentiful, but boring and rather dense at times as well. However, it's fortunate that most of the time, you won't need to know the level of detail the textbook goes into. As long as you understand the broader concepts and are good at reasoning, you should be able to do well based on class lectures and homework alone. Well, that and labs.
At our school, at least, it's the class that students have to worry about, not the test itself.

That advanced/honors track for math doesn't look too bad. I don't see why they'd consider AP Statistics to be harder than Calculus, though.

Honors/AP has taken a very unfortunate toll on our school. It's a public school without many remedial classes, so the segregation between the students enrolled in "advanced" classes and those who aren't has become a bit vicious.