<p>Most types of scientific, programmable, and graphing calculators can be used if they do not have typewriter-style (QWERTY) keyboards. Minicomputers; electronic writing pads or pen-input devices (Newton, Palm); pocket organizers; calculators that use paper tape, make noise, or “talk”; or ones that require an electrical outlet are also not allowed. Calculator memories do not have to be cleared. Students may not share calculators during the exam."</p>
<p>TI84 is a common programmable graphing calculator and should without a doubt be allowed on the exam</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt
Tips: Do all questions at the end of the chapters. Do past FRQS. Khanacademy has some good chemistry videos but they are mainly conceptual and intended for a high school audience. Use crash course for your review book and bozeman AP chemistry essentials videos on youtube; with these you will absolutely decimate the multiple choice. If you want in depth lectures MIT OCW has a good chemistry series and Educator.com has a very good one as well but you have to pay for that site.</p>
<p>Somebody from last year’s thread probably has the pdf </p>
<p>@boomvoom4000 No, we’re using “Chemistry: ACentral Science” and we’re nearly done with electrochem (My teacher goes through the book a little weirdly, but we already finished gases snd all that quickly because my Chem I Honors class went over it)</p>
<p>My class is using ‘Chemistry, the Central Science’ by Pearson. However, my teacher lectures about the chapter topic in general and only uses the book to assign work.</p>
<p>Would reading Atkins Chemical Principles be enough for the AP exam? I’m prepping for the chemistry olympiad and given that Atkins has been the most recommended on CC, I don’t want to read Atkins and Zumdahl or some other textbook.</p>
<p>I heard that the official practice exam is very useful for studying. Could someone please send me a PDF of it?
BTW I am self studying this AP test.</p>
<p>I took AP Chem last year as a junior and got a 5 on the exam with A’s on both semester. I didn’t really studied a lot for the exam because my teacher was damn good and we had 2 required practice tests on Saturdays. Oh, and he had this DJ-like voice when he talked so it was actually cool when we have lectures lol
I think AP Chem is definitely one of the most rigorous and hardest classes in my school along with AP Calc BC but AP Chem can be harder to understand so you should spend some extra time to read your textbooks (we used Zumdahl I think) because they REALLY help. Videos are good too but I never used them. You should memorize mono and polyatomic ions and solubility rules; we used them most of the year. We had homework everyday ranging from 1.5-2 hours a day but my teacher’s very lenient about it. Our tests included FRQs during class and a multiple choice at lunch (it sucks I know). The labs can be time-consuming, too, but the last one was THE BEST! We got to use the stuff we learned over the year and tried to identify 9-10 solutions without my teacher’s help. I think I bought Barron’s too early in the year because I never even got to use them until March when I started refreshing stuff but I think Barron’s a good book to buy.
Overall, AP Chem is one of the best classes to take in high school! Good luck AP Chem students! :)</p>
<p>@Bassguitar @Kitsyxoxo Also Chapter 6 of the Chemistry: A Central Science. I’m not sure if the other teachers do this too but we skipped to the end of the book to do electrochem and thermochem before coming back and doing ch.6</p>
<p>Just to let you guys know, the AP test last year was, in my opinion, MUCH harder than anything covered either in class or in the review books. I got a 95 in the class (105 on the final) but I only got a 2 on the AP test. </p>
<p>This is the first time our teacher has used the zumdahl textbook so idk how it holds up to the AP test. Regardless, everyone got 2s last year lol</p>
<p>Thermochem test tomorrow. Studying like crazy. Read 400 pages of zumdahl today, have done 300 problems. Average grade for tests is 50% or so at my class.</p>