<p>I am wondering, how did you judge whether you were "ready" to take an AP Chemistry class? Is it whether you have enough math? Or have a regular high school chemistry class under your belt already? Do you just dive in and try it? I did well with the biology (taking the SATII soon), finished geometry and will start Alg II, and did go through some of a high school chemistry book a couple years ago. I'm sure I would do fine with a regular chem class, and I'm trying to figure out if I should go for AP.</p>
<p>If you've never taken any chemistry class, take chemistry or chemistry honors. If you do well in it maybe go to AP, but AP chem is one of the harder APs (from what I hear) so unless you have a passion for math and science don't take AP. At least not yet.</p>
<p>agreed with what swim2daend said. i really loved chem honors so i took AP Chem. </p>
<p>actually, chem and bio are two totally different beasts. you really dont need algII in chem, just how to do simple logs.</p>
<p>so to answer your qtion, take chem honors first</p>
<p>The math in AP chem is so easy. The hardest thing really is the manipulation of exponents with no calculator (i.e. 3x10^-4/2x10^-3)</p>
<p>i dunno what guys are talking about. im in ap chem right now, and its like nap time. we finished the curriculum at the end of march, and we've taken 2 AP practice tests so far in class. on the first one i got 91% of the total possible points, and i got 94% on the second one. Considering that you only need about 60% to get a 5, i'd say AP chem is a ****ing joke. take it for sure. and you definently don't need any extreme math skills. Just need to know how to work with exponents (which you should learn in algebra 2) and logs.</p>
<p>Yeah, sk33tast1c is right. Chem is a joke, I don't think I missed more than 5 points on the entire test when I do practice exams...then again, I'm a USNCO (possible top 20) guy, so take what I say with a grain of salt...</p>