@Shanban1607 It was name, element symbol, and fixed charge(s)- which is harder for the elements in period 3-7.
@ak2018 Still in summer? I’m on my third week. I thought it was bad that we start early but just realized that means more class time before the AP exam 
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@ZealousScholar It’s kind of funny too, a lot of people thought going back to school a week before Labor Day was too early. The whole point was to lessen the amount of snow days we had been accumulating.
@Shanban1607 Glad you’re not actually failing - you seem like you’re being proactive about your AP year. Practice and review are key - especially because lots of teachers will give extremely varied multiple choice midterms from standardized tests. If you go ahead and study each new thing extensively you’ll just need to stay sharp with the practice questions and note reviews rather than having to re-teach the stuff to yourself. I’d say keep a small toolkit of useful resources at the front of your binder
To any previous test takers, can you sort of give us a range of percentages for how much each of the following topics were on any previous exam?
So I went to my AP Chemistry teacher’s wiki page and almost broke into tears. She already has up a to-do list of everything we’ll be for the first two weeks!
**Here we go…the first two weeks are hectic and then it settles down a bit.
At least now I know what we’re going to be doing. I’m not exactly happy to learn that I might have two quizzes IN THE FIRST WEEK! Add that to the in-class timed essay on Into the Wild I have to write for AP English Language and a diagnostic test for AP Chemistry, meaning, as of now, I will have a test, one or two quizzes, and an in-class timed essay all during the first week!
If this is an accurate representation of my normal school week this year, which I hope it’s not, I honestly don’t know what I got myself into. All well, I can’t back out at this point, before I even started!
On the bright side, I purchased The Princeton Review’s Cracking The AP Chemistry Exam 2017 Edition. It’ll come in on Thursday, September 1st, one day before the Nomenclature and Balancing Equations Quiz.
My AP Chem teacher gave us a Zumdahl AP Chemistry textbook to use for class. I also had my lab safety and equipment quiz yesterday. Hopefully, I did well.
I apologize for rambling - I’m typing this on my phone. THERMODYNAMICS WAS THE LARGEST PORTION OF THE TEST! If you understood thermodynamics alone, you could have probably pulled off a 2 or a 3. It was that important. They had a few sections on intermolecular forces of attraction (basically free points if you memorized VSEPR). Equilibrium was also pretty important, but if you thoroughly understand Le Chatelier then you have nothing to worry about. Also, understand how the common ion effect works in both Ksp and Ka/Kb problems. It’s very important to understand how buffers work. Organic chemistry is no longer tested at all, so just understand the concept of hydrocarbon combustion and the intermolecular forces exhibited by large organic molecules. Electrochemistry and Gases were pretty important for the FRQ, but honestly I can’t recall any multiple choice sections with either one. As for the labs - they are incredibly important. There were 3 sections of about 5 questions each that revolved around lab analysis.
@lhw1998 Thanks for the advice! I also learned that no one passed the exam last year in my school… . So I’m self studying like crazy. I’m on oxredox while my class is doing basic mole conversions. Hopefully I at least get the lab experience out of the class ~X(
had the worst test today and after talking to the rest of my class i’m pretty sure a lot of us failed 
@fuzzypolarbears OMG same…
God help us all… [-O<
I got a 75% on our FRQ today for the thermodynamics chapter (CH 5)… She doesn’t teach us the AP format!!! we just get random worksheets as homework …I’m going to fail…
@sewin2music
Wow already on thermodynamics…
And a 75% is good! That percentage is equivalent to a 5.
I just took a Lab Equipment and Safety Quiz on Thursday and I got a 44/45, which was an 98%! :)) I’m kind of mad too, because I literally missed ONLY one question!
hey guys do you know what topics we don’t need to know for the test this year? i was skimming through my review book and there were a couple topics i saw that i heard we didn’t need to know in depth (like organic chem) so i was wondering if there were any other topics we don’t have to hardcore study
@fuzzypolarbears
Be careful with not learning orgo well. One of my friends who took the course last year said there were 12 MC related to orgo. Idk if they maybe didn’t understand the question fully, but it’s definitely essential to learn all the info if it’s in an updated review book. What review book do you have? If it’s 5 steps, PR, or Barron’s, everything is important (except sometimes barrons goes too in depth, but I’d still make sure to learn it). For example, people say nuclear chemistry is not on the new AP Chem exam. Yet, Barron’s Nuclear Chem chapter cites the two big ideas (as created by CB) that it’s teaching the information for.
Exams vary year to year and form to form so don’t always listen to one person.
For example on my AP Euro exam, there wasn’t a single question on France in the 18th century, but that doesn’t mean students shouldn’t learn, arguably, one of the most important time periods in European history.
Quick Question: Does anyone know a really simple way to balance this equation: Al(OH)3 + HC2H3O2 > Al(C2H3O2)3 + H2O?
Got a 79% on my last test yall 
Honestly, I’m happy if I get out of this class with a C…
@Shanban1607
Nice! But shoot for the A or B. I don’t think colleges excuse a C just because you’re in AP Chem as a sophomore.
@ZealousScholar Haha I know. My teacher’s just super tough No one in my class got higher than an 86 on this test
@ZealousScholar ohh ok thanks! i have 5 steps actually, and i had just heard some topics weren’t tested but i guess not, thank you!