Best way to get a head start on these classes next year?

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Next year, I will be a junior and will be taking some classes that I want to prepare for over the summer. Particularly, AP Chem, AP physics, AP Comp sci, AP lang, precalculus honors, and spanish 4. I’m pretty self motivated to study for these classes over the summer and I’m not trying to learn all the material, just maybe like the first month or two of the key things and maybe more depending on how much time I have. Also asking if any of these said classes even needs prep.
So for background info

  • AP Chem
    I took honors chem this year
    -AP physics
    no previous physics courses taken (School only offers AP’s for physics)
    -AP lang
    took English 10 honors this year
    -AP compsci
    no previous experience, school has regular comp sci beforehand, but did not take
    -Honors Precalc
    Took algebra 2 honors
    -Spanish 4
    took Spanish three
    So I’m thinking for chem and physics a review book might be good, maybe Barrons? I have looked through other threads and seen zumdahl zumdahl mentioned a lot for chem but it is like 100$ so too expensive for something I might get as a textbook for free once school starts.

For ap lang i have no idea, I heard it is a lot of writing but idk how to prepare for that by just writing randomly in a journal. Does this one need any prep?

For ap compsci, I started looking stuff over at code academy just for like an hour, I don’t know if that’s the best site/resource so if there’s better ones let me know!

Honors precalc. Need any review for this? Should I buy a like a cheap 10$ textbook from amazon and start on that or are there specific topics from algebra 2 that I would be better off reviewing instead

Spanish 4. Unlike the other spanish classes, this one is the first without a textbook at my school and I have not found any textbooks online either. Reviewing spanish 3 vocab is a little pointless because the vocab is all in my head now and It would only take a few hours to cover everything. Any good spanish books online? How do I get better at writing/reading/speaking by myself.

I’m not trying to spend my whole summer reviewing for these things, because I’m doing other stuff too. I’m trying to review in my free time, probably a couple hours each week. NOT trying to learn the whole course, just get the basics of the first month or two.

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If it’s AP Computer Science Principles, check out Code.org. A lot of the schools take advantage the College Board’s partnership with that site.

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You can start by reviewing your notes from honors Chemistry. That way you’ll be more familiar with the first two chapters or so. im not sure what AP chemistry textbook you guys use

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Hey, we have a pretty close schedule! I’m taking AP Bio instead of Chemistry though. For Spanish, consider looking at Duolingo for a quick review, and possibly try to listen/watch things in Spanish to get used to listening to people talk at a normal pace and fluently. For Comp science, I would recommend the book Head Start Java, as it has a good basis for coding and all that. Best of luck!

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What classes do you plan to take senior year? What do you plan on majoring in? It looks like your on the right path. There should be review books and websites.

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Thanks!, I looked up code. org and head start, they both seem good so Im probably going to use those now to learn some java over the summer :-* Reviewing notes seems good for chem, probably going to need to pick up a barrons or princeton review or something like that for physics or chem.
Super geo, I don’t know all of the classes I will take senior year yet, but will probably go on to physics 2, comp sci ab, either ap or spanish 5, and either ab or bc calc

If anyone knows some stuff about ap lang tell me
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