<p>I was wondering if I would be able to take AP chemistry without a previous chemistry class? I was also thinking that I could learn chemistry the summer before I take AP chemistry. Any advice would be helpful</p>
<p>You don’t have to take chemistry before AP Chemistry. It would be easier though if you did regular chemistry first. I’m taking AP Chemistry without a previous chemistry class, so it’s doable.</p>
<p>Thank you! I just wanted to make sure it was doable</p>
<p>It’s definitely doable, but will obviously take more work/effort. Getting a head start over the summer would be a great idea. There are plenty of resources online that can prepare you well for AP Chem.</p>
<p>It’s doable, but I have a friend who’s doing it right now. She’s describing it as “like death.”</p>
<p>Depends on what you already know and/or can study, I guess. I’m taking it with essentially half a year of chem (school takes two years to teach what should be taught in one) and I’m okay.
But some people at my school go into regular chem without even knowing what an atom is, and on the first day of class in AP Chem we talked about chemical bonding and electrons, so those people would be lost.
My advice would be to look at a few AP Chem videos/lessons on the Internet and see how lost you are.</p>
<p>Thank you all for your advice, I think I’ll look at some AP videos and such to see if I’m lost, although I do know most of the basics from my eighth grade science</p>