<p>...if there are any out there. haha</p>
<p>i'm signed up for AP chem this coming school year. i will be a junior. i am pretty good at math and maybe interested in going into the medical field (depending on what happens with the health care bill) so i decided to take a chance. i've heard it's the hardest AP. is it really that bad? also, the teacher didn't assign any summer work, which supposedly makes the first month unbearably difficult. is there anything i should do this summer to prep?</p>
<p>i managed to survive my junior year, and ended up having the highest grade in my class. @ my school ap chem was supposed to be the hardest class ever, but i felt the ap test wasn’t that difficult since i studied outside of class (not a lot, i got the sparknotes ap pack and realized it was a waste of money so i just re-read parts of my textbok) we had NO summer homework, and I didn’t prep at all.</p>
<p>Honestly, it depends on the teacher. I took AP last year and I had a phenomenal teacher, at least one of the top five in my state. In my situation, it was really difficult going into the class as a little sophomore, but I didn’t try TOO hard and ended up with an 89 for the year. In my case, the tests were brutal at first because she used the AP versions, but it really does help in the long run because you get used to the format, and my test grades improved as time went on.</p>
<p>I would just say throughout the year try to familiarize yourself with the test itself if your teacher doesn’t. As for the summer, try to look over your notes from last year if you still have them. If not, don’t worry about it, I highly doubt he/she will give you a hardcore test on everything you learned previously on the first day. Most basic concepts start coming back to you once you start learning more elaborate subject matter.</p>
<p>Don’t stress too much. It’s claimed to be the hardest class in my school too. It’s not hard to get a five at all. Good luck!</p>
<p>Lol, AP Chem was a fun class.</p>
<p>If you enjoy it, it could very well be the easiest test you’ll take… And the class won’t be difficult at all either.</p>
<p>If you don’t… Keep up with material and study from a review book (Which you should do anyways)</p>
<p>AP Chemistry is definitely do-able. You really don’t need to prepare for it over the summer. In fact, it’d probably be best if you took some time off to relax before you need to attack schoolwork. If you insist, though, you can learn the first few chapters of your textbook. I assume the first month only covers stoichiometry, and that’s relatively easy to master.</p>
<p>I took AP Chemistry as a sophomore with no regular Chemistry beforehand. It supposed to be one of the hardest classes at my school, but really, all the content and material are in the textbook. If the textbook is comprehensible and helpful, it should help you all the way through AP Chemistry, just like for me. Moreover, my AP Chemistry class only covered up to equilibrium, and so I had to self-study from there, using my textbook. The AP Chemistry Exam was moderately difficult for me.</p>
<p>It depends. I never once studied for that class and I succeed well (yes, by succeed I mean asian succeed. lol). I guess it all depends on your aptitude for chemistry on your previous sophomore year. </p>
<p>Still, ignoring that, I think the class is really not that hard as people say. If you honestly commit yourself and put your time into it, then it’s really not that bad.</p>
<p>About the summer assignment… No, it shouldn’t affect the class THAT much… Just quickens up the pace of the class a bit.</p>
<p>The AP Chem exam is by no stretch difficult. It was a difficult class at my school, since I had a brand new teacher (had a PhD from an ivy and had taken AP chem in high school but had never taught before) and he made us learn a lot more than was covered on the exam. I was the only person to get an A in my class, a couple A-s, a lot of Bs and Cs. I suggest getting the Princeton Review book and go through the first few chapters (almost all of the stuff in at least the first half of the book should have been covered in your first-year chem class. I think it’s good to go over this stuff and do the problems…the first weeks of AP Chem should be pretty easy if you remember this stuff). The math in AP Chem is a JOKE, so being good at math won’t help you a ton.</p>
<p>If you’re majoring in math and science it shouldn’t be too hard. It’s my lowest AP test score ever and I hated it, but A) even though my teacher wasn’t bad, she was more interested in teaching us the material and barely touched on the format of the test B) I’m an English-oriented person.</p>
<p>For our summer assignment, we simply had to memorize the names of the symbols of the more common periodic elements and a couple of common compounds’ names and abbreviations. This is an easy part to self-study if you want to get a head start.</p>
<p>It’s almost like another math class with a twist (not math so much as knowing certain formulas and applying them in different ways); I struggled with it because the format (of chemical equations) was just strange to me. But it’s really just ratios and conversion and all that.</p>
<p>Firstly, don’t worry about doing any summer work, unless you haven’t even taken regular Chem (if you haven’t then that’s not good, haha). Secondly, if your class is year-long (I just had it for a half-year due to block scheduling), it should be a fairly easy class over all, but if it isn’t, it’ll be a pain but still manageable. The test itself isn’t difficult since there’s a nice curve, and if you took regular Chem and did well in the class with a teacher that actually covered material, then AP Chem is quite breezy if you still remember stuff. Overall, the class was easy for me (I had a teacher though, that let us retake tests, I only retook 1 though), and the test wasn’t too tough, not too easy. </p>
<p>I ended up with a 5 and an A and a B (the B was due to me not doing about 2 weeks of homework in the 2nd semester…I really slacked. I was gone to China for 2 weeks and never made up the work, and I aced a test for a chapter I wasn’t there for (it was Kinetics I think).</p>
<p>Bottom-line: Don’t stress too much, you’ll be fine if you just work a bit</p>
<p>AP Chem is one of the easiest AP exams to take if you put forth effort in class to actually learn the material.</p>
<p>"i managed to survive my junior year, and ended up having the highest grade in my class. @ my school ap chem was supposed to be the hardest class ever, but i felt the ap test wasn’t that difficult since i studied outside of class (not a lot, i got the sparknotes ap pack and realized it was a waste of money so i just re-read parts of my textbok) we had NO summer homework, and I didn’t prep at all. "
This is basically me as well other than the fact that we had to memorize some flame tests colors and stuff like that for summer work. However, now the AP test is a week earlier so the kids have to read 2 chapters now 
I dodged a bullet with that one. I got a 5 by the way while doubling sciences with AP physics B if that shows how much time I actually had to devote to chem.</p>
<p>I got a five on both biology and chemistry this year. My advice is to learn the material when it’s first taught.</p>
<p>In my opinion, Chemistry is the hardest AP.
I’ve taken 7 AP classes, and gotten 5’s on all of them except Chemistry, which I got a 3 on.</p>
<p>Chem can be tricky for most people, but I think if you pay attention in class and have a good review book you will be fine.</p>
<p>Meh I had a new AP Chem teacher and literally learned nothing 2nd semester. I still dont understand titrations or any of that. I still somehow got a 5 on the AP Exam.</p>
<p>lol i honestly don’t think anybody can tell you whether ur class will be hard or not (you might have better luck asking someone at ur school). also, no one can predict whether or not you will score well on the actual ap test at this point. there are just so many factors (as u probably have seen). some people scored well even though their teacher was bad, and some people got a really low score even though they had an A in their ap class. so… my suggestion is to just take the class, and study for the ap exam outside of class in addition. no need to do summer prep.</p>