<p>For those who have taken the class and the exam, kindly give me some tips on how to do exceptionally well in this class. I took Honors Chemistry this year, with a very demanding but great teacher, who also happens to teach AP Chemistry. </p>
<p>Please give me any tips on how to generally get an A in the class, as well as your past experiences. Thanks!</p>
<p>Oh, and is there anything I can do to prepare over the Summer?</p>
<p>Over the summer, you could review what you learned in Honors Chem and perhaps go into more depth with it. During the school year, you should really just follow the class with your textbook. Do practice problems until you fully understand the concept and calculations that go with it. I know it sounds obvious, but… I didn’t do it, lol. But if you do all of this, you will be a-ok.</p>
<p>Read the chapters and do the practice problems at the end of the chapter. Also, keep an equation sheet</p>
<p>Does your teacher assign some sort of summer assignment? Our had us go over the basics and had us memorize elements/polyatmoic ions over the summer before class started.</p>
<p>As far as the class itself, I actually had quite a bit of trouble since it was my first AP course but a number of my friends did exceptionally well so I guess i’ll run down what not to do (what I did) and what could help you (what my friends did). </p>
<p>I usually got bogged down reading the chapters but I never really tried to understand it, I just read it and ultimately a lot of time was wasted. I found really trying to understand the lesson and going over notes to be useful. </p>
<p>Also if you’re confused try to get help from the teacher ASAP instead of just ignoring it and moving on. Some concepts came back up and not understanding the first couple meant I wouldn’t understand the newer topics. If you can keep up with just understanding what is being taught and going in small steps that should help a lot.</p>
<p>Also many of my friends concentrated more on the examples in the chapters rather than the readings to help with questions.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you, but I took Honors Chem in 10th grade and ill be a senior now. Over the summer, i’m going to study for the chem SAT2 and once i know all that pretty well (pretty much the basics for chem that i would have forgotten), im going to start going over Princeton Review chapter by chapter. That way ill be well equipped for when school starts</p>
<p>Read. the. textbook.</p>
<p>Haha. Our chemistry classes don’t have text books. Well, technically they do, since the state requires one, but they don’t matter at all.
Pay attention in class and take diligent notes. Follow along with all the examples your teacher gives, and if s/he gives you time to practice them in class, doing them before the teacher finishes them, take full advantage of that.</p>
<p>I took Chem AA (same thing as Honors, my school has a weird system) in 10th grade and I’ll be taking AP next year as a senior. We have a small summer assignment that I’ll work with my father on to some extent, as he is a retired chemical engineer. If you work hard in chem, stay up with your notes, review them, prepare for labs, especially if they’re graded on accuracy as well as completion, you’ll do fine.</p>
<p>Advice? Do. Not. Take. AP. Chem. </p>
<p>I repeat. </p>
<p>Do. Not.</p>
<p>lily robin…not helpful haha</p>
<p>I have to read about 200 pages from Zumdahl’s and also answer questions for the summer assignment. I’m sure that is some good review.</p>
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I wholeheartedly agree. I took AP Chem this past year as a sophomore (no previous Chem classes), and barely read the textbook at all. For the first half of the year I was wondering how everyone knew things such as oxidation numbers and combustion until I realized you have to read the thing, not just do the problems. Also, make sure you don’t make simple mistakes, that brought my grade down from a 98 to a 93-94 (yes I calculated it). I’m not sure how you could fix this though, if I did I would be a very happy student. :)</p>