<p>I'm planning on taking Chemistry honors and they teach AP Chem material. However the teacher doesn't teach so I basically need to self-study for the hard tests, labs, and quizzes he gives frequently. Is it possible to spend only an hour each day to keep up with the class?? How long do you really need to study AP Chemistry for to get A's in your class and a 5 on the AP exam??</p>
<p>I have taken AP Physics B and will be taking AP BIO and APES concurrently with Chemistry Honors. I have self-studied some of fluids, thermodynaimcs, heat, and atomic/nuclear physics already for the AP Exam. Thermodynaimcs and heat took me only a few days to study (crammed by studying the WHOLE day), I understood most of it too. Atomic/nuclear I spend about a week to grasp everything, photoelectric effect, nuclear reactions, E=mc^2 and understood it pretty well. When I attempted to self study these sections, they seemed HARD to me at first and I couldn't get anything. I had to look at many sources to firmly comprehend the basics, after that I got everything down by rereading many times and practicing.</p>
<p>Since I'm able to self study thermodynamics in a couple days, and the others in less than a few weeks while understanding most of the material. Will I be able to take on Chemistry Honors (which teaches like an AP class) by myself with no instruction from the teacher at all? Do you guys have any links to sites, especially podcasts, that allow you to understand the material? I really want to tackle this class so I'm starting to get insight/advice now. Chemistry honors should be taken with AP Bio and APES right? Should I not put chemistry off until my senior year or a community college? Thanks guys! =]</p>
<p>I'm really confused at what your question is. I took a chemistry honors course this year with a bad teacher. I had about 2-4 hours of hw from her, and then studied on my own for at least an hour. I survived with many review books: Barron's Chemistry (Regents), PR SAT II Chem, Barrons SAT II Chem, and AMSCO Chemistry (brown cover).</p>
<p>2-4 hours of chem homework?? are you serious? I have a lot of questions sorry =[ So do you need to study at least 2-4 hours everday to get an A in the toughest chemistry honors classes?</p>
<p>Um every school has a different Honors Chemistry program... ~_~
So it's a bit strange to press for answers so adamantly like that when H chem at some schools are harder than others and each school's program operates differently for the most part.</p>
<p>At my school, all of the kids were telling me to not take it because it's "suicide" but I thought, "Heck, I'll blindly take it and see for myself."
Got D+'s on the first two exams. 100% on the third one. Mostly As after that. Ended up with an A. I don't know the exact number of kids with As in that class, but I do know that it's a small number.
I recall someone getting 2/100 on a particular test.
Thing is, the teacher does not teach well at all, so I had to put in the extra effort to study on my own time and press myself to comprehend the information.
I don't know why you're asking random people who mostly have different Chemistry programs at their school than at yours, but if it's any use to you, I just described H chem at my school.</p>
<p>at my school, and my friends school, almost everybody gets an A or a B in honors chemistry... I took it online at flvs.net and got a 97 percent without doing anything at all</p>
<p>uh...yeah? Look at me, I was not even the best chem student in my class until I took the SAT II last year and got a 790. Then, I spent a total of 3 weeks from august to march studying for the USNCO local exam (I should have done more, I know) and got a 54/60 on the test, which was the highest in the county. I took the national exam and most likely would have made study camp had my proctor accepted my scrap work(long story)...I took 2-3 review tests the day before the AP chem exam and pwned the real thing.</p>
<p>A lot can happen in 8 months, so remember that where there's a will there's a way...</p>
<p>We don't even have an honors, we have a regular and then a stupid. However, I know a few people who took the regular and then took the AP with virtually no selfstudy, 2 got 5s and 3 got 4s.</p>
<p>ouch, regardless of the level of chemistry, let's not call any of them "stupid."</p>
<p>Sorry, I didn't mean it like that, I apologize. It is a remedial chemistry, I was mad at something and took it out without thinking. </p>
<p>I wish we did have an honors though.</p>
<p>Well I've asked people at my school and they study for around 2-3 hours each day.. isn't that a lot? If I prep over the summer will I reduce that by a lot?</p>
<p>Personally, I would never try self-studying AP Chem. I took both Honors and AP Chemistry and I learned SO much more in AP that I would have never known and never been able to understand on my own had I only taken Honors. There are a lot of confusing concepts/procedures that I learned in AP and wouldn't have been able to self-study. But if you are a great chemistry student now and you work really hard on it, then you might be able to do it.</p>
<p>well you can't really go by how much time it takes others to study. This year my friends had arounf 6-7 hours of hw a night while i managed to get straight As the entire year with 4 AP classes by spending maybe 30 mins a night. It all depends on the student.</p>
<p>You could self study it..only if you really love chem and have a passion for it...don't do it to impress the people looking at your application.</p>
<p>About half the kids in my chem honors class failed. Tests were very hard and the teacher gave out huge worksheets with like 300 problems on them, and we only had a few days to do them.</p>
<p>yeah, the thing with chem and physics is you have to like the material itself in order to have the motivation to self study...</p>