@Shanban1607 Looks like the AP exam will be a breeze for you if the class is so hard.
@fuzzypolarbears Not saying that some topics will be very prevalent. It’s fine if there are 1 or 2 questions in MC that I didn’t study, but I’m worried about if that topic is a whole FRQ. We have ample time to prepare so it’s good to cover all the bases. Studying high yield information specifically, will be good for people that prepare for the exam in March and April.
And yeah, 5 steps is good, but I cannot imagine that a book of that length has more than what’s needed on the exam. (Some of this is based off my teacher’s and friend’s comments/recommendations).
@ZealousScholar oh yeah that would be terrible to see something on an FRQ that you didn’t study for…this is actually our first ap chem class at my school and i’m scared to see how it’s going to end up
@ZealousScholar Wow! We have four class sections of AP Chem with at least 25 students in each class, so about 100 students this year. I believe we had around a 60% pass rate.
@sewin2music Good luck! The teacher probably isn’t used to the old curriculum so he/she won’t have the old habits that some teachers have.
@ak2018 Wow that’s a good pass rate! I wish my teacher would take advice, but he thinks it’s all the students fault (it is partially but not fully :-@ ).
Well, I just got an 83 on my Nomenclature and Balancing Equations Quiz, which my grade down to a 91. Apparently, however, based on my AP Chemistry teacher I actually did pretty well. In fact, most of my answers were little mistakes. I had 35/42 points and had 7 incorrect answers. The little mistakes were:
I wrote said "Disulfure Pentaoxide" instead of "Disulfur Pentaoxide" . I wasn't marked down for this, but I just likely made the mistake because I was writing too fast.
I thought the Vanadium in this problem was part of a molecular formula, silly me, and I wrote what was supposed to be Vanadium (V) Oxide, rather than Divanadium Pentaoxide.
I, apparently, didn't simplify the formula for Vanadium (IV) Oxide. I got V2O4, which was technically the right answer, but I should've written V2O. I still feel like I should've gotten this right.
I had forgotten that chlorite had a -1 charge instead of a -2 charge. I was wrong! Thus getting the incorrect formula for Chlorous acid.
There were two Balancing Equations questions I got wrong. One was a problem that almost everyone was tripped up by, and on the other I made one little mistakes that ended up ruining the whole problem up for me.
And my last mistake was that I forgot the actual polyatomic ion for chromate, and instead wrote down the formula for dichromate. This caused my writing equations answer to be wrong.
@ZealousScholar I agree. One thing that I plan on doing this year is create a couple memory tricks and pneumonias. Not too many though, so I don’t overload my brain. I already made one for remembering Strong Acids to look out for, as they are not molecular species. The pneumonic I made was Cece C. Brinoso:
Ce = Percholric Aid
ce= Chloric Acid
C. = Hydrochloric Acid
Br = Hydrobromic Acid
i = Hydroiodic Acid
no = Nitric Acid
so = Sulfuric Acid
I actually just finished watching an online lecture from EdPuzzle for my class. Our class is doing a “flipped classroom” thing where our homework is to watch video lectures online and then ask questions and practice in class. Funny enough, I had to finish the lecture by 12am today, and I did, or the lecture would close. I have to do another lecture on Stoichiometry by Monday at 12am.
Am I the only first time chem student here? Boy… am I going to fail this exam. This is my teacher’s 2nd year teaching AP Chem, and only 2 out of 14 people passed last year (a 3 and a 4). So far I’m doing well in the first unit, but I feel my teacher isn’t really putting any emphasis on the AP Exam… Oh and anyone use 5 Steps to a 5? Should I add on Princeton Review
@carbonnanotube If your teacher isn’t good and you want a really thorough book, use Barron’s. That’s what I’m doing because my teacher has about a 2/50 pass rate. 5 steps is also good. IMO it’s very similar to Princeton so there’s no use in getting both except for the practice tests. Good luck!
Has anyone been studying Metathesis? We’re currently on the topic in my AP Chem class. We’ve been practicing doing them and they seem fairly easy once you get the hang of it.
I just got my Empirical and Molecular Formula and Average Atomic Mass quiz back and I’m so mad! I literally would’ve had an A too. I had one question wrong, but it was worth 10 points. 6 points were taken off for me.
It was on Average Atomic Mass. I think the problem was that I could really try to get the percentage abundances to add up to 100. A lot of people had problems with that question because while the question said “four major isotopes” there were fives bars on the bar graph. He said only to calculate the four. I really hated having to gauge where the bars were on the graph. I had a 29/35 or an 83%, I’m pretty sure I’m going to be a B student in Chem this year, as I predicted.
