*** Official AP Chemistry Thread 2013-2014 ***

[SteelTrapMindset]

<p>Next year, the chemistry exam will be revised. Will this be like how it was for AP Biology? Harder? Easier? Here is the official statement from the College Board:

@College Board

Revisions at a Glance A new curriculum framework describes the content knowledge and thinking skills students should demonstrate for success on the exam. The new AP Chemistry Course and Exam Description is organized around six big ideas in chemistry, which serve to focus and structure the course. It also includes a set of learning objectives that describe the content knowledge and thinking skills that students should demonstrate to succeed on the AP Exam. Each learning objective combines science content with one or more of the thinking skills described in the science practices. Content has been reduced to help teachers focus on developing conceptual understanding. By reducing content, teachers get the time and flexibility they need to explore key concepts of chemistry through the science practices and hands-on guided-inquiry labs. Students are encouraged to apply the science practices. The course supports student achievement through multiple opportunities to test, evaluate, and refine explanations and predictions of natural phenomena through the following science practices: Generating representations and models Developing strategies for collecting data Making connections across scales, concepts, and domains. Students’ conceptual understanding of the particulate nature of matter is emphasized. The redesigned course supports students in mastering the quantitative aspects of chemistry, by enhancing their qualitative understanding and visualization of the particulate nature of matter. Scientific inquiry and student-directed labs are stressed. Moving away from a lecture-and-demonstration model toward a collaborative approach, the redesigned course offers students many opportunities to take risks, apply inquiry skills, and direct and monitor their own progress toward academic goals.

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[lonelynerd217]

<p>It seems as thought the revisions will be similar to those of AP Biology.
The number of multiple choice questions is decreasing to 60, and instead of 6 similar-size FRQs, there are 3 long FRQs and 4 short FRQs.
Basically, it seems that the course is going away from the traditional approach of “here are some numbers, find an answer” to a more theoretical approach, which involves more writing and less solving.
Personally, i think that the new exam will be more difficult for me, since I am not good at FRQs.
Here is the new course description:
<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&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[sshsdancer97]

<p>I’m supposed to be taking AP Chem next year… Either that or AP Physics B.</p>

[jadenio]

<p>Hahaha “the six big ideas” yeah in bio we had the four big ideas. Don’t worry you’ll probably just have to look at a bunch of graphs of chemical reactions or something and analyze&interpret them.</p>

<p>Basically, they killed AP Bio and they’re probably gonna kill AP Chem.</p>

[lonelynerd217]

<p>LOL what the heck?
From the course description:</p>

<p>Language of reducing agent and oxidizing agent is beyond the scope of this course
and the AP Exam.</p>

<p>Calculations of molality, percent by mass, and percent by volume are beyond the
scope of this course and the AP Exam.</p>

<p>Wow, they really did kill AP Chemistry.</p>

[skierdudee]

<p>This was already made
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1505089-official-ap-chemistry-2014-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/1505089-official-ap-chemistry-2014-thread.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[Weeknd]

<p>@lonelynerd wth! those are so easy and vital to chemistry…what the heck is going on</p>

[jtalley24]

<p>Finishing up AP Bio and optimistic about AP Chem! lol</p>