<p>Let's see, throughout the year we did the following (and tested) on stuff that is never on the AP Exam</p>
<ol>
<li>Henry's Law</li>
<li>Naming and drawing Complex Coordinates</li>
<li>Drawing "bubbles" for pi and sigma bonds</li>
<li>Normality</li>
<li>Beer's Law</li>
<li>Redox titration</li>
</ol>
<p>We never stressed on the real topics like acid/base titration and solubility rules because almost everyone, but a few people have already done Pre-AP Chem, are doing Pre-AP Chem concurrently with AP people.</p>
<p>I’m so sorry! You should complain once the year is over (so it doesn’t screw up your grade).</p>
<p>My teacher is amazing. She’s been teaching AP Chem at my school for something like 25 years. She probably has at least a 90% record for getting her students to get 5s. She can be scary, but it’s all for good. Of the topics you named, we at least mentioned all of them, but we didn’t do too much with some of them (of course some, like Redox titrations we did forever).</p>
<p>This is the first time my teacher is teaching AP Chem, so…at least you got taught something unlike my class where webhad to teach ourselves everything.</p>
<p>I had 3 actual labs total and 4 virtual ones…we’re supposed to have 22.</p>
<p>Well its my teachers first year teaching AP chem and from the beginning she told us exactly what we need to know for the exam. Over the summer she took a course that would help her to know what subjects to emphasize and what subjects to leave alone. </p>
<p>We will see how we all do in July but hopefully we will all do great because I my Chem teach to death. :)</p>
<p>Well…my class did two, maybe three labs all year and all had to do with observing water. Okay. Every class period is focused on doing work straight out of the textbook. My teacher could not answer any questions without looking up the topic in the textbook herself. My class did not finish learning the curriculum because of much wasted time. The teacher was also learning at the same pace that we were. So we didn’t go over electrochem, organic, thermochemistry, or nuclear and I crammed them all in my brain self-studying.</p>
<p>That really stinks! AP chem is one of those classes you need a good teacher for, especially labs and such - things that you cannot just simply self-teach yourself. Generally, if a teacher has a tendency to have poorer grades, they have a chance of being replaced (at least, at my school that is). Hopefully you do well on your other exams!</p>
<p>My teacher was very good and prepared us well…</p>
<p>lemone…Beer’s Law and Complex Coordinates are occasionally found on the AP Chem test…</p>
<p>Redox titration maybe rarely? I recall seeing a question on redox titration somewhere.</p>
<p>But yes, acid/base titration should be stressed, solubility rules you just have to memorize, the teacher can’t really do much there. If your teacher did redox titration, you should understand acid/base titration since they are similar concepts.</p>
<p>Perhaps your best bet is purchasing a good review book (Barrons is very detailed) and study from that. They provide all the information you need to know for the AP exam.</p>
<p>A lot of those things come up on the exam occasionally. We didn’t go over Beer’s law until a couple days before the exam when it came up in a practice exam we did as a class, but once I checked it out I realized it has shown up in several FRQ sections in past years. I think the issue is more that your teacher didn’t go over the things that WERE on the exam. Especially acid/base titrations (we did SO many of those, I think I could titrate in my sleep at this point).</p>
<p>My entire class hated my teacher for most of the year, but we all found a sudden appreciation for him during the exam, when we realized how well he had prepared us (he was a first year teacher, fresh from getting his PhD, so he had no track record of students’ performance on the AP exam for us to judge). Our tests were very challenging all year (much more difficult than the AP exam). We also spent a lot of time learning things we didn’t need to know for the exam, but if you think about it, the field of chemistry is a lot more than what the college board deems most important.</p>
<p>yeah, we never did anything you mentioned except for beer’s law in a lab. So I would say my teacher should be fired for not preparing us at the same extent yours did. It’s all about chance, and I’m sure your teacher honestly thought you needed to know those topics. That attitude is a lot better than some others who fail to prepare their students in general. Heck, we never even went over electrochemistry, and it was one entire question. Be grateful for what you know, because for all you know, every one of those topics could have been asked for and your class would be extremely prepared. It goes both ways. The fact is, you never know what is going to be on the test.</p>
<p>We just finished learning Acids and Bases last week and received a test on it. My teacher informed us today that three people passed and their grades were in the low 70’s. ZING and BURN!!!</p>
<p>Absolutely horrible. I’ve had 1 of the 2 A’s in the class for the whole year, and it didn’t help at all. He skipped organic, electrochemistry, equilibrium…etc…It was pretty pathetic taking the test. I’d be thrilled with a 3 at this point considering I completely fudged my FRQ’s.</p>
<p>I think my teacher is very tough, but fair. He also taught us many of those topics you mentioned except the coordination complex. I feel he did teach us everything we had to know except electrochemistry and organic chemistry, which we rushed in the last few days, but it still worked.</p>