<p>People who have taken AP Chemistry before, what is your advice to success in a class or the exam? Thanks!</p>
<p>read the book carefully and do a lot of practice problems.</p>
<p>get out as fast as you can, that's my suggestion.</p>
<p>Do your homework, memorize the formulas well, keep a flexible mind.</p>
<p>When in Doubt, Mole it Out.</p>
<p>yea just do whole mess of practice problems.
be a good problem solver. (your given -> needed)
know how to be very flexible with exquations and how to manipulate them and stuff.</p>
<p>I would have taken notes that are good enough so you basically only have to look at them. Review every day or so before a test. Also review each chapter over, so once the AP test is near you do not feel overwhelmed</p>
<p>if you have a bad teacher i would recommend...
1) get the Zumdall textbook, it is the best chemistry textbook out there
2) learn your solubility and redox rules, its an automatic like 30 points on the chem ap test to get 100% on predicting products
3) get a few prep books, barrons is decent
4) know Zumdall front to back. Zumdall has the hardest practice problems. if you can do those you should be good</p>
<p>have fun :-D</p>
<p>what's the latest zumdahl book that's out right now? cuz the textbook i have is copyright 1993 .. and it says third edition. just wondering if there's a more updated version out there..</p>
<p>stay positive....and diligent</p>
<p>Zumdahl is good, but unfortunately extremely boring. I could not force myself to actually read through an entire chapter. Also the practice problems may be difficult, but not really indicative of the types of problems that are asked on the exam. What really helped me was the AP prep books. I used Barron's and the purple book (I don't remember the name). Also try and get old practice problems so you know the format of the test. Trust me, this helps enormously, more so than any other AP exam I've taken. And as Shrek2004 said, learn those redox and solubility rules...that is the easiest part to study for and will help you a lot!</p>
<p>I would just get a review book and study</p>
<p>I thought the Zumdahl Review Book was very good. I crammed through half of it the night before my 1st Semester Final, and I got 90%, which was the highest anyone had scored in several years. More than half of the questions I missed were in the first 5, which were designed so that everyone could get them right (they were on sig figs and scientific notation - I don’t know what happened).</p>
<p>pay attention in class and do the hw assignments.</p>
<p>(current year of thread) - (year of thread formation) = delta(thread necro) = AP exam score</p>
<p>Use this formula as often as possible.</p>
<p>Do the reading and all hw. On the exam, cheat</p>
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Because that’s really going to help him 5 years later and less than 10 hours away from this year’s test.</p>
<p>LOL I didn’t see the date, sorry!</p>
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And discuss the test in great detail within 48 hours of its administration. Ideally in some sort of recorded electronic or broadcast medium.</p>
<p>^^Make sure the proctor is standing near you too!</p>