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<p>No, I didn’t. I was trying to point out that your response was highly subjective and it tries to portray an opinion as fact. It’s not a matter of my intelligence or flaunting my ego, but rather you claiming that the AP test is "brutal and “difficult” without recognizing that the OP quite possibly has a natural aptitude for chemistry. </p>
<p>People’s strengths lie in different areas. You shouldn’t assume that everyone shares your strengths.</p>
<p>Edit: darksaber21 is spot on ~~</p>
<p>I would like to know your schedule if you don’t believe chemistry is worthy enough to actually take during the school year. Perhaps you don’t have enough slots in your schedule?And if your teacher simply cannot do her job properly, like mine. You end up self studying the class anyways. It was her first year teaching, she was like: “Guys, I’m going to be honest with you, I have no idea how to teach you electrochemistry, I frankly don’t understand it myself, just read the textbook, and watch youtube.” (4 days before the exam). The class prayed to Jesus that was not going to be a electrochem FRQ. There was. My friend, at like 10 or 11 am, after the exam to the AP chemistry room. She was teaching an honors chemistry class. He yelled “FU CK you”. He didn’t show up to school for the rest of year.</p>
<p>@zezima</p>
<p>I’m an incoming sophomore and my schedule looks like this:</p>
<p>Health(Zero Hour)
Band
French II
AP World History
Chemistry
Honors English 10
IB Math SL Yr. 1 Acc.</p>
<p>I’m taking regular Chem this year. I think my original question was if I should self-study AP Chem ALONG with my regular Chem class?</p>
<p>Personal ability and inclinations aside, as a general statement, AP chemistry is seen as a typically harder exam. Assuming you’ve never taken chemistry before you don’t know at all how you will do with chemistry. Some people excel in it while others will simply never understand it, but those same people may be able to take every AP Physics exam there is and pass with flying colors. All that being said, I took AP chemistry this year after taking a pre-ap chemics course (chemistry + physics) and although sometimes the material was difficult I personally never struggled that* much. However, 1) I had an EXCELLENT teacher and 2) I know MANY people in my class who were all very smart but still struggled a lot to just simply grasps the concepts, grades and AP scores set aside. Also, I agree with someone who commented before that you are taking out a lot of potential joy from the course. I LOVED AP Chemistry, the labs, the discussions, all of it and have decided to pursue chemistry in college consequently. Focusing solely on taking the AP for the sake of the AP removes the potential exposure you could have in class that self-teaching simply can’t provide. All that being said, yes it CAN be done, but I think the more important question is SHOULD it be done, in which case in my opinion? Absolutely not.</p>