Not necessarily… My teacher just teaches us the simple version of the concepts, then expects us to know how to apply those concepts to AP-style questions without and prior practice of doing so… It’s hard 
@Shanban1607 Would it help you to learn with other resources? I know Khan Academy is pretty good with their content.
@Shanban1607 Try looking up simple worksheets for the problems. For example if it’s on limiting reactants, instead of AP lab problems, try worksheets that increase your efficiency at each step of the process.
@ak2018 @ZealousScholar Thanks for suggestions guys
Had a 5 hour study session with my class at Panera today for our test in this class tomorrow 
Can someone explain what the penetration effect is?
What topics are you guys on now and when are you taking your Big Idea 1 Test?
We just took a Light Waves/Energy and Electron Configurations Assessment today and our Big Idea 1 Test is will be sometime in mid-October.
@ak2018 We just finished reactions in aqueous solutions, now we’re covering thermochemistry. Our quarter test isn’t necessarily over big idea 1, it’ll cover the three sections we’ve done so far (solutions, thermochemistry, empirical formulas, and stoichiometry)
@ak2018 We already took the Big Idea 1 test. I got a 94 i had a 97 in the bag but i made some dumb mistakes.
Wow, I wish my teacher structured the class according to Big Ideas. All we’ve done is Dimensional Analysis, Molar Conversions, and Nomenclature. It seems like an honors Chem class tbh. No way we get through 75% of the information in AP Chem.
@ZealousScholar Same here but we already finished Big Idea 1 and have moved to Big Idea 2 but so far it feels like Chem honors.
@kassh4
My teacher seems to teach the class to prep us for College Freshman Chemistry.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to memorize VSEPR models/angles/names? I’m having a hard time remembering them…They all look/sound the same!
I GOT A 100% ON MY AP CHEM QUIZ! I legit cried for 2 minutes after getting my paper! It’s really funny because when our teacher said that we were getting our quizzes back, I was going to get a calculator to calculate my downfall. On my way back to my seat, my teacher gave me my quiz. I looked at it and put my calculator away. The quiz was on Electromagnetic Radiation and Electron Configuration. My grade should at least rise from an 85% (B) to an 87% (B+).
My chem teacher is making us memorize all the solubility rules but my text book and my prep books say that they don’t have to be memorized… omg
@Shanban1607 Our teacher made us memorize them also
@kassh4 @Shanban1607 My teacher discourages us from remembering the solubility rules and the periodic trends. I believe he also said that the AP Chemistry exam this year, as shown by the new format of the AP Chemistry exam, will be more conceptual and less memorization. I’m pretty sure that why your textbooks and prep books say they don’t need to be memorized. Instead, he said it would be “much more efficient and time-saving on the exam” to memorize Coulomb’s Law, when it comes to the solubility rules, and to explain the periodic trends using the shielding effect.
I see how you can understand periodic trends but is there anything to understand with solubility rules? We haven’t covered solubility yet but it doesn’t seem like something you can understand.
@kassh4 It’s basically memorizing which elements are soluble in water, and which ones form precipitates with others. It’s important when writing net ionic equations of reactions in aqueous solutions. The rules are simple enough, but just a pain to memorize
Got my first A on a chemistry test! Finishing the quarter with an A! 