<p>so, the test is MAY 13TH! and that is really soon.
ive taken a practice test and got 52/75 CORRECT/ without subtracting the ones ive missed.</p>
<p>i think that is pretty good?</p>
<p>but im worried because im only in Chem H--my school does not teach ap courses. and the teacher will not be able to cover equilibrium, acid/base, and kinetics by next week. i am following a podcast and i understand the basic concepts of each subject.</p>
<p>WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST I SHOULD DO TO PREPARE?---and also, what did YOU do to prepare?</p>
<p>um 52/75 is pretty good. A 5 but after u subtract the ones u miss, prolly a 4. But thats multiple choice man. Free Response has 1 question that is DEFINITELY Equilibrium, 1 that is DEFINITELY kinetics, and 1 that is DEFINITELY Acid/Base… if u dont know those topics inside and out, then u can HOPE to get a 3 on the test. Good luck and start studying.. try Barrons, it has harder stuff and u need the overpreparation.</p>
<p>I think your score should equate to around 4, though it’s possible that you get a 5 depending on the curve this year.</p>
<p>Anyway, the first FRQ is always acid/base/equilibrium, so you should def read/do practice problems.</p>
<p>As for preparing, I did 2 or 3 old MC sections and quite a few old free response sections and got a 5. I didn’t actually “study” much–I just did problems. It helps tremendously.</p>
<p>actually, over 80% of the kids who took the 2007 ap chem test and got a 46 or better on the m.c. ended up getting a 5 (the other 20% must have bombed the free response). A 52, subtracting the ones you get wrong, translates into 47.25 (assuming you didn’t skip any), so you’re in pretty good shape there. But there’s definitely going to be equilibrium, acid-base, and kinetics problems on the free response. If you don’t know how to do them, you might just be that 20%.</p>
<p>My advice: go over all the mathematic equations for the equilibrium, acid-base, and kinetics (and electrochemistry and thermodynamic if you haven’t done those either). Know how to use the equations and just do practice problems. Skip over the conceptual stuff and just start cramming until the test.</p>
<p>agreed, dont read too much material on it. Just learn the basic formulas and do a **** load of problems until u know it in the back of ure head. But do hard problems.</p>
<p>actually, that 52/75, depending on how you did on free response, can still be a five… i got a 53/75 on MC on a practice test last week (after correction, it was a 47.5)… i took the free response question and got nearly all of them right</p>
<p>my overall score was a 114 (out of 150), and the minimum for a 5 was a 101 on that particular test, so with missing 22 questions of MC, i still got a relatively comfortable 5..</p>
<p>next test i missed about the same amount and didn’t do so hot on Free response, so i got a 4… so it’d be good to get about 50 on the MC after the correction so that you can do about the same of free response and still pull out a five</p>
<p>well hmm
ive taken about two practice test and i find the free response section to be easier than the MC.
mostly because its just concepts and explaining pretty simple things–like pressure cookers and stuff.
ive touched on kinetics/ab/ and equil by myself
im pretty fluent in ph, poh, concentration, and eq
—but i still will do more problems.</p>
<p>also, is the required equilibrium problem always first? it seems to be mentioned first everywhere.</p>
<p>It was a real ap test from a couple of years back, and my teacher gave me the scoring rubric used by the graders.. and my teacher checked after me and made sure i graded right</p>
<p>if i didn’t have something on there that they looked for, i didn’t give myself the credit.. i think my scores were 9/9, 10/10, 8/9, 8/10, 8/9, 12/15 on the 6 FR questions</p>
<p>mech. pencils should work, but use #2 wood pencil just in case… in some instances the mech. pencils fail for some odd reason (rare cases though… but just to be safe)</p>
<p>On the practice AP chem test I took last week, there were questions asking you to explain whether a reaction would have positive or negative delta G, delta S, delta H, etc. So yeah, understanding the concepts of thermodynamics is pretty important. A lot of it can be figured out just as a virtue of the equation delta G = delta H - TdeltaS.</p>
<p>Sushant- Pretty much on any collegeboard test, any non multiple choice question can only earn you credit. They’ll give you points for right answers, and if you’re wrong, you just don’t earn anything.</p>