<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I'm looking to self-study AP Chemistry during my Junior year and was wondering what sort of advice or tips you guys have to offer?</p>
<p>I'd also appreciate if any of you have notes that I could use since I will be doing this entirely on my own. I'm sure some of you who have already taken it have teachers who put their notes/assignments/worksheets online. If so, could you please link me? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>The Lab question will be hard for you if you self-study.</p>
<p>Get a textbook definately, don't rely on review books alone. Do all the chapter problems in the textbook.</p>
<p>Yes I'm worried about the lab. Would it do to just read the lab and work with sample results?</p>
<p>Lab procedures are important too. So you should find a way to practice those, unless you've done lab-intensive classes before.</p>
<p>You could potentially just use sample results, but the best way is to do actual labs.
If you're lucky and you get an easy lab question, then it could possibly work.
If the lab question asks you to design a lab, then you could have some difficulty.</p>
<p>Hm...I see. I was searching on google and managed to download some notes for my self-study, but I'm hoping someone actually has some for me that are good and that they can share with me to use. </p>
<p>I wonder if there's a way to fix the lab problem. Approximately how many labs do you cover in an AP Chemistry course?</p>
<p>We did about 15 labs this year</p>
<p>Is there a way I can take a look at the labs any of you guys do? I know most chemistry teachers have webpages for online chemistry resources..</p>
<p>Btw, this year I took Normal Chemistry and AP Physics B. Between the two it seems that there's quite a lot of stuff I've already covered in AP Chemistry. There are new things of course, but not as much as I thought. Can anyone reaffirm this?</p>
<p>step 1: get and read a textbook (brown, lemay...., or chang....)...don't worry about doing every single practice question at the end of the chapters, just do enough so that you're solid on the concept.
step 2: reinforce all concepts with PR (make sure you study the descriptive chemistry rules well for FRQ #4 and that you learn all of the solubility rules)
step 3: download old FRQs and MCs from past exams and do these until they seem easy..CB uses the same format every yr and basically the same questions with different numbers...get the scoring guides for some past exams, too, so you know how they grade.</p>
<p>as far as labs go, if at all possible, try to do all of the recommended AP labs (a list can be found on AP central, or in the PR book)...if not make sure you can do the basic ones, including titrations, molar mass, etc.
this site has some decent ones: <a href="http://www.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/lab/Experiments/RVGS-Experiments.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.chem.vt.edu/RVGS/ACT/lab/Experiments/RVGS-Experiments.html</a>
there are countless other sites, as well. just google "AP Chemistry labs" or something to that extent.
Don't worry too much about labs, we only did 10-12 and I was fine (although we did a lot of the others in Gen Chem sophomore year), just hit the major points.</p>
<p>I've done the titration lab and a few others during my sophomore year..not many, but some. Thanks for the tips and advice, I really need lots of those. ;)</p>
<p>This year's class did a lot more labs than we did sophomore year, b/c for the first 3 months of sophomore yr we had a teacher who didn't care and we would just have study halls every day. That's also probably why up until this year no one has passed the AP Chem exam (for the last decade or so, anyway)...I know at least 5 or 6 in my class did this year for sure....good thing they replaced the chem teacher.</p>
<p>x.X do you happen to have your chemistry lab reports? If so, do you mind sending them to me?</p>
<p>I'd appreciate if anyone has their lab reports and could email them to me.</p>
<p>Just wondering.. who here has actually done a self-study of chem and scored a 4 or 5? And if so, what did you use?</p>
<p>I find that you can reason out the lab questions most of the time without lab experience. My teacher didnt do many actual labs and I had to look them up but i dont think that will be much of a problem as long as you study the procedures for the major labs (calorimetry, chromatography, titrations...)</p>
<p>Oh and I heard Cliffs is a great resource for brushing up on the Chem labs... but only labs lol. Everything else I've heard about it (the actual "review" part) is negative.</p>