<p>Lab techniques. I got real lucky on that.</p>
<p>amen.</p>
<p>anyone taking spanish tomorrow?</p>
<p>Multiple choice was not bad, a few were tricky, but again the key concepts were not on it. I think I got between 60-70, on 2012 one I got got 58/75, and this time I had so much time I could check everything over and made a lot of corrections.
The essays were surprisingly easy, I just wrote a lot, because I didn’t know what they’re looking for on 5 and 6, since all the questions were essentially the same. I figured if I wrote enough, I’d get it right. Calorimetry I’m really good at, we did a lab on calorimetry, a big test on it, and tons of problems at the beginning of the year.
With the curriculum change, they’re destroying the topic of chemistry, all the important topics like Lewis acid and base and phase change diagrams are being taken out.
Anyone doing AP Biology next week, if so, what do you think of the new questions?
It’s “lab based” which translates into vague, I could have answered many of MC questions without even taking the class.</p>
<p>Self-studied chem, so no labs. Calorimetry was easy only b/c we did the same stuff in Physics.</p>
<p>To above, I’m taking Bio but late, not next week. Sorta confused on the new format though. Using old review books minus the removed curriculum content.</p>
<p>With chemistry, did you take regular chemistry before, or no chemistry classes at all?
With new format, they’ve changed it, but for the worse. It’s not well developed and the questions are not well thought out. Do a practice test as soon as you can, and read over what they’re looking for, the essays give no information and expect you have specific points, and the MC are reasoning, but hard reasoning.</p>
<p>Took hnrs chem last year but learned ~nothing.</p>
<p>Wait say what about the new format? And where did you get practice tests (and how do companies like Cliffs know what the new tests are like?)? The course description practice q’s?</p>
<p>Because I have:
<a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/2012advances/Pearson_Campbell_Biology_9th_Edition.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/2012advances/Pearson_Campbell_Biology_9th_Edition.pdf</a>
and a whole slew of AP bio materials from my school library (Kaplan, PR, flashcards, as well as old Cliffsnotes I have) that I’m relying on. I probably also have time to read ~20 chapters of Campbell (bio is relatively fast for me).</p>
<p>That’s too bad, a lot of the basics of AP chemistry, most of first semester, and bits of second are covered in regulary chemistry. And the the practice tests (there’s only two of them) are not available anyway (I’ve looked everywhere), they are only in class. There’s no other problems anywhere, the Cliffs books are still not adapted to the new problems, the material is the same, but test preparation hasn’t been incorporated into the curriculum, so this year everything was the same as last year’s AP Biology, except for some of the test questions during the year were different, but’s its not developed well yet.</p>
<p>On a somewhat of a side note… I just looked at the new AP Chemistry curriculum… and I’m pretty shocked. They’re taking out so much: Nernst equation, buffers, Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, assigning quantum numbers to orbitals and electrons, lewis acids and bases, colligative property calculations, phase diagrams, memorizing of solubility rules, indicating positive and negative electrodes, less on hybridization, formal charge of electrons, and more…</p>
<p>Looking at the new AP test format, if I was to take the test was sampled, I probably would have been extremely happy coming out of the testing room. Also, look at how empty the new equation reference sheet is compared to this year’s (page 160 - 161). </p>
<p>For anyone that wants to take a look for themselves:</p>
<p><a href=“http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/2013advances/AAP-ChemistryCED_Effective_Fall_2013.pdf[/url]”>http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/ap/2013advances/AAP-ChemistryCED_Effective_Fall_2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>I wonder how AP Chem next year will be.</p>
<p>I think the curve will go from 60-65% to about 70-80%.
There is no way that they will make chem one of the “joke APs”</p>
<p>no memorizing of solubility rules? how is that even possible in ap chem?
no buffers?
what is the world coming to?</p>
<p>The end of times is nigh</p>
<p>Bullcrap. Chemistry was a hard class. I took it with the intention of getting a 4. I know much of the material but have a meh teacher and horrid test. For all the chapters we learned I felt like only 6 of them were actually on the test. Now I’ll have to do all this over again in college.</p>
<p>APs are going downhill anyway. I keep hearing that the class itself is becoming more important. AP biology turned into anything but biology with the new curriculum. I can only Imogene what will become of chemistry</p>
<p>I think you guys are stressing! Move on to the next AP!</p>
<p>For those of you asking about the curve, it is determined after the exam data is compiled. Statisticians look at the data and determine appropriate cutoff points for each score category. Furthermore, the different forms (E and O I believe) will be curved differently if the statistics deem necessary. It looks bad if everyone who had one form did really well and everyone who had the other did really poorly. Last year the cutoff was higher to reduce the number of 5s that would have been achieved. If everyone gets 5s, it makes getting a 5 meaningless. For the most part, Collegeboard knows what they are doing where curves are concerned.</p>
<p>What kind of justification is this???:</p>
<p>“Lewis acid-base concepts are beyond the scope of this course and the AP Exam.
Rationale: The definition of Lewis acids is commonly taught in a first-year high
school chemistry course and is therefore considered prior knowledge.”</p>
<p>Reading and writing are also taught in a first-year elementary school class and should therefore be considered prior knowledge. Does that mean there should be no reading and writing on the exam?</p>
<p>Completely illogical if you ask me.</p>
<p>Colligative properties as well. Just because it’s prior knowledge doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be tested! You can’t use the excuse in college anyway…</p>
<p>Perhaps they should rewrite the AP Calc exam and remove all algebra and graphs because it’s “prior knowledge.”</p>
<p>Those justifications are straight BS.</p>
<p>5’s are already pretty meaningless if you ask me…</p>
<p>It seems CollegeBoard is trying to get to make the exam more conceptual (not that it wasn’t already fairly conceptual), but in trying to do so, they’re eliminating key concepts and knowledge that students should really know by heart after a year of genuine AP Chem.</p>