<p>Right now I am in AP Chem and the class is very hard. The teacher doesn't exactly teach but expects us to read and understand the chapter at home. The chapters are easy to understand ( we use Chemistry the central science by brown/lemay) and the questions are easy but the tests in our class are a lot harder.
Our teacher uses past AP exam questions for the topics that we are going over and they are much harder than the quizes/homework.
Any suggestions on overcoming this huge jump in difficulty. I haven't been able to find any AP chem questions online so i'm contemplating getting the Barron's AP Chem book, would that work well to my advantage?</p>
<p>get PR...everything is covered in that..
how many APs are you taking?</p>
<p>Our school only offers 3 this year: Chem, Calculus, and Literature and they give us a lot of homework for all three on average- 2-4 hours a night just for those.</p>
<p>I'm in AP Chemistry too and I'm using the same textbook. Maybe your teacher is difficult or something but the class is really not that bad. I guess getting a review book is good. I believe PR is the best book recommended on this website for AP Chem.</p>
<p>I took AP Chem 2 years ago but I remember that Peterson/ Arco's Review book helped me a lot.</p>
<p>Barron's has questions that are harder than the AP exam questions and covers more topics than AP is testing. Princeton Review is much better.</p>
<p>hmm...do more yourself...three in one year wont look too challenging to colleges</p>
<p>well the AP courses are considered harder than the actual college courses on the same subject. In addition our school has a reputation with universities as being one of the hardest schools in Texas we've had 1-3 persons get accepted into MIT every year for 14 years straight.</p>