<p>I was wondering if these courses were the same because they are both considered first year courses. Any experiences?</p>
<p>AP Chemistry is taken after Honors Chem at my school. It is harder</p>
<p>AP chem is also taken after honors at my school. The teacher who teaches AP teaches honors and is easier on the AP kids.</p>
<p>Same as at my school…Ap chem comes after honors. in my case, both were hard for their own separate reasons. honors chem was harder because sometimes getting over that “hump” of learning a concept for the first time can be really challenging, and the homework/work was more structured. however, we didn’t go into half the amount of detail we went into in AP chem. also, in AP chem, our teacher made the class less structured homework wise…which made it easier during the year but very difficult come ap time when you really had to buckle down! </p>
<p>…but that’s just me!</p>
<p>Ap is taken after honors and I felt it AP was slightly harder but both classes were easy in my opinion.</p>
<p>at my school, AP Chem is after Honors Chem, but most of the smart kids take AP Physics C instead.</p>
<p>at my school honors chem is first and then you can take AP Chem in any of your remaining years of high school.</p>
<p>2 years after I took my Honors Chemistry course, I just found out that the book our teacher used was indeed the AP Chemistry book! And our class was no ordinary class, our teacher was involved in the invention of Gatorade and she was tough as anything! Then the very next year they change it to a college level course that was actually easier (the 8 or so students out of the 100 person class that took her honors course never got credit). Her class was 95% problems, her tests were usually just 4-5 problem solving problems, nothing else, so needless to say I still wouldn’t have been prepared for the objective portion of the AP Chem test.</p>
<p>at my school ap chem is supposely a second-year course
ap chem = 60% repeat from honors chem
people who passed honors with a B or higher usually have no problem in AP.
then again, theres always over-achievers going directly to ap and get As.</p>
<p>At my school, we were forced to take Chem Honors before AP - which helped a lot 
Luckily, I had the same teacher for both years. Indeed, Honors was much easier than AP, but not by a whole lot. My teacher made sure to prepare us well for AP - so if you had a passion for Chem, you would at least survive in AP :)</p>
<p>i took regular chem and jumped into ap chem. not a good idea.</p>
<p>however, all of the chem honors kids were doing just as poorly as i was. at my high school, chem honors was apparently easy, but as soon as we hit ap… it was a whole different story.</p>
<p>its harder to study when you’re caught up in the whole “omg this is so hard. ill never get it” i found it SO much easier later on in the year. for me, i have to stop worrying, and completely focus on whatever im studying.</p>
<p>Wait… so are you guys saying that you have to take Honors Gr. 11 Chem => AP Chem or Honours Gr.11 Chem => Honours Gr.12 Chem => AP Chem?</p>
<p>No. Most of the time it’s Honors sophomore year and AP either junior or senior year.</p>
<p>At my school it’s the same teacher. AP is infinitely harder. I didn’t do anything in Honors and pulled of good grades. What we did in Honors was the first 2 weeks of AP.</p>
<p>definitely harder. i can’t imagine taking the ap exam w/o takin chem honors. ap chem is tricky tricky. no crazy new material…but tricky indeed.</p>
<p>I’ve heard everybody has A’s in AP Physics and Chem at my school. The teacher gives a lot of extra credit and loads peoples grades up.</p>
<p>Regular chem I had the hardest teacher and it was difficult. Not really the concepts but getting a grade. AP, on the other hand, has more difficult problems but it was considerably easier to get a good grade (did the labs, did occasionaly problems, listened in class, and I was set to get easy As on tests without studying). I think what makes AP harder for some is the problems are longer and more complex.</p>
<p>At my school you can’t take AP Chem until after you’ve taken honors Chem. I think if you have an A in standard Chem you can take AP as well. So AP Chem is definitely a 2nd year of chemistry - no one is allowed to go straight into it. I haven’t taken them yet, but based on what I’ve heard, AP is harder. The AP teacher is not the same teacher who teaches Honors Chemistry, but I’ve heard it’s the material, not the teacher, that makes it more difficult.</p>
<p>AP Chem is one of the hardest courses at my school. Half the kids who take Honors get in to AP. Nobody from regular chemistry gets into AP. </p>
<p>I was lucky to get in. :P</p>
<p>Our school gives the option to take either Honors Chem or AP Chem in the junior year. I took AP Chem without any prior background in regular or honors chemistry and I thought it was a relatively easy class, and I felt well prepared for the AP test as well.</p>
<p>At my school there is no honors Chemistry. You either take AP Chemistry or regular Chemistry. I thought that the AP class was much harder than the previous honors classes I had taken, but I love chemistry so it didn’t matter much.</p>
<p>I suggest that you take AP Chem; it’s a great class and you’ll learn a lot.</p>