<p>Took it this year as a sophomore, good luck everyone!
VSEPR is still in the new curriculum; hybridization is getting the boot though.</p>
<p>I’ll be taking AP Chemistry next year! Kind of nervous, but I’m up for a challenge 
I guess I’ll wait to get a review book until the new and updated ones arrive, because Barron’s AP Biology book changed a lot in the 2013 edition, and it really helped me a lot for the exam this year!</p>
<p>So if they’re changing the curriculum should I wait to get a new prep book because I’m not sure whether to get Barrons or Princeton Review 2013 or 2014. What book would be the best to get a 5?</p>
<p>Plus, when do they release the new prep books? Like Barrons and PR</p>
<p>I think they release around maybe February (sometime early next year) and I went through that forum that had like 1000+ posts discussing different prep books and it didn’t exactly help me narrow my choices. I think I’m going to wait until the new prep books are released and get Barron’s, PR, and maybe 5 steps to a 5. People in the past have said that a combination of Barron’s and PR are great and 5 steps to a 5 is pretty fantastic as well. (This might be overkill, but I don’t like relying on just one book.)</p>
<p>We really need an AP Chemistry self-study thread. I’m surprised there are threads for Physics C and Biology but none for Chemistry!</p>
<p>Dang they don’t release till February? I was hoping sometime this year</p>
<p>Haha yeah, it was the same case with AP Biology… 
I’m considering choosing PR for the AP Chem exam because I heard that it was really great this year, and hopefully it will be well-updated. :D</p>
<p>I am taking Chem. II DC next year and will be using a study guide along with the class to take the test at the end of the year…my teacher doesn’t have time to teach everything for AP and DC, so does anyone have any recommendations about what the best book would be to use?</p>
<p>Sophomore taking it next year! I took Honors Chem as a freshman and had a A+ average. (97% average, that is).</p>
<p>I was wondering if it would be a good idea to buy the Barron’s book, and finish it over the summer since I have a strong chemistry background…</p>
<p>I’m taking it next year as a junior. I took Honors Chem this year and found it to be really easy, but AP Chem is supposedly 584254500x more difficult. I have Barron’s but it’s an older one and doesn’t reflect the updated curriculum.</p>
<p>I had 97 or 98 in honors chem as a sophomore. I took AP chem as a junior and I ended up with a 82%. I had the 2nd highest grade in the class. I didn’t study that much. But let’s just for the Organic chem/VSPR test, my friends studies for like 5 hours and got 54%. Started studying 2 weeks before the AP test, got the AP test, and I got gang banged. CHeck out the 2013 FRQs for real, they random as hell.</p>
<p>I am taking AP Chem next year as a junior. I’ll only be in precalc(most at my school take it while in calc bc) so i’m a bit nervous about the math. I got 104% in reg chem w/o studying. I’m going to start rememorizing the ions and all of that stuff!</p>
<p>@antiglacier: I too will be taking it next year as a junior alongside PreCalcH. Also, it will be without taking a regular chem high school course. Everyone at my school does that and they’re fine. Most end up with B’s and the most applied with A’s. All you need is Alg II for AP Chem.</p>
<p>Taking AP Chem next year as a junior/senior (early grad). I really enjoyed chemistry this past year and thought it was super easy. I’m excited in learning more about chemistry so I might end up learning all the AP material during the summer just because :p</p>
<p>@antiglacier97: I took it this year as a Junior (granted it was the old curriculum), while taking Algebra II. I was the only person in the entire class who wasn’t in Precalc or calc, and I had the highest average in the class at the end of the year. All the math you need is basic computational stuff, plus a tiny bit of logarithm knowledge. You certainly don’t need Calc BC.</p>
<p>I would just like to wish all of you good luck with one of the most frustrating, but also rewarding classes you will take in your high school career. There will be many times where you feel like you will never figure something out (some of which you won’t), but eventually you will at least sort of understand most of it and it will feel great when you are able to do a 6 part question and get it all correct. Fair warning though I spent 1-3 hours every night on the class, and wound up with a B+ one semester and an A- the other, so don’t expect to coast on by to easy A’s like in regular/honors chem. If your teacher ever offers study sessions/practice tests/other help outside of class, I really reccomend you take advantage of it as it helps a lot.</p>
<p>Just finished AP Bio, hated the new AP exam format but got a 770 on the SAT II bio. My goals next year as a senior are to self study for AP Chem, Physics C, Statistics, Psychology, Comp Sci, Environmental Sci, Microecon, and Human Geo (Far-fetched goals, but a man has to dream right? Lol. And I’m aiming to pay like $1,000 on AP tests this year). And then I’ll take classes and AP tests for Calculus BC, Lit, Physics B (My school does not have C), Gov, and Macroecon (my school does not have micro).</p>
<p>For AP Chem I’ll be using four textbooks to self study: Zumdahl, Burdge, Jespersen, and Chang. I guess I’ll wait for the PR, 5 steps to a 5, and Barrons 2013 editions for the new AP Chem test. I’d hate it if the new test would be like Bio. Also, I’ve taken regular chemistry as a sophomore instead of AP Chem because the teacher at my school apparently sucks. So now I’m a senior and I probably forgot everything in regular chem, but I guess I have background knowledge?</p>
<p>I hope my plans for AP Chem and these AP’s would be manageable given that I’m planning on reading through whole prep books first this summer and then cracking open textbooks, hopefully finishing a few by the end of the summer.</p>
<p>I know this may have been discussed already, but I don’t feel like rereading.</p>
<p>Because the 2014 AP Chemistry exam will be revamped, what prep book should I get? What changes are being made to the course?</p>
<p>SimplyAnEngima, that sounds not only completely ridiculous, but also completely unmanageable. Good luck though, it’s your life.</p>