I’m not much of a conceptual person, but I’m pretty good at math. I want to do well in the class and on the AP test, of course. I did extremely will in my Honors Chemistry class last year (98%), but I felt like my teacher gave away too many free points and his curves were so generous. Also, I’m not really sure what to expect out of both classes. Is AP Chem significantly harder than Honors chem? Thanks for any advice.
Also, I’d like to major in Computer Science, and I’m excellent at memorizing things (if that means anything).
I don’t know much about the CS field, so I can’t say which class might be better for you if you plan on majoring in CS. In most cases, college-level chem will be much more rigorous than a high school chem course (it varies between schools though). I’d say that taking either course will be fine as long as you’re successful in it. If you don’t have a physics class already taken, I recommend you taking AP Physics, since you have already taken Honors Chem.
Besides asking previous people who have taken those classes before for their opinions, for me AP Chemistry was similar pacing to first semester of college chemistry but without proper explanations by the teacher to match with the pace. I did a lot of self-teaching for AP Chemistry.
AP Physics may assist you in preparing in problem-solving trait that’s in Computer Science.
Granted my bias comes from my school having more people taking Physics AP and succeed than taking Chemistry AP and succeeding.
I took AP chem and it is nothing like honors chem. At my school most people do very well in honors chem while the average for AP chem was around a 75. Both subjects contain a lot of math however I think you would succeed more and enjoy more physics. Most of the class is just memorizing equations and knowing when to use them basically while chem is almost as conceptual as it is math based.