<p>Hahah all you lucky bastards on the semester! I’ve got my 1st quarter final on Friday. Killlll meeeeee</p>
<p>@Smargent “on the semester”? You mean on a semester scheduling? </p>
<p>My school has 4 class per semester, but makes AP Chem and AP Lit go for the whole year. APUSH in 1 semester was fun lol… still got a 4 though</p>
<p>Hello! I’m also taking AP Chemistry. Our class is just finishing up the gases chapter and is going in order so they are very far behind. I’m on chapter 8 which is bonding which isn’t much better but I’m trying to cover all the material because people who took the class last year said he wasted a lot of time and didn’t cover a lot of what was on the test. Does anyone have any suggestions or a pdf of the revamped test or something similar? Thanks!</p>
<p>Hey guys, I was going to take the AP Chem course offered by edX, but then they moved the start date of the course to after the AP exams. Does anyone know any other free online AP chemistry course that will finish before the AP exam?</p>
<p>That sucks. There are a bunch of chemistry classes offered on Coursera but I looked at them and they wouldn’t really cover everything on the AP exam. Are you in an AP chemistry class and was just using this as a review or was this your whole learning method?</p>
<p>@ptolemycleopatra I was planning on taking the class this year, but there were too many people in the class so I dropped the class for physics. It was going to be my main learning method, but I also have an Atkins’ Chemical Principles textbook that I was planning on using for prepping for the Chemistry Olympiad.</p>
<p>Has anyone looked through the Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam (2015 Version) by Princeton Review that was released on December 2? </p>
<p>I’m looking for a review book for AP Chemistry, but the reviews on Amazon suggest that both the Barron’s 7th Edition and the Princeton Review’s 2014 version had a bunch of major mistakes. I’m wondering if the new 2015 version of Cracking the AP Chemistry Exam addressed the errors, or if I would be better sticking with Barron’s. I think it would be unlikely for Barron’s to release a new edition right afterward it released the 7th edition last year.</p>
<p>Also, has anyone used the 5 Steps to a 5 review book? On Amazon, it looks alright, but not great (3.8 stars). </p>
<p>Is anyone else at naming hydrocarbons and organic chemistry because I want to know if we are on track with other AP chem classes or behind? Thanks!</p>
<p>@NIHHIHH I finished Chemistry over the summer, so I might not be entirely correct, but… That’s one of the last things I did O_o… </p>
<p>@NIHHIHH My class has that for a winterbreak assignment</p>
<p>organic chemistry isn’t on the exam so you might be a little off track.</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 I think it’s technically “not on the exam” but a lot of the concepts come up under the idea that some organic principles are just extensions of the basic chemical principles.</p>
<p>@Smargent
No, literally the most organic chemistry you will see is the examples in problems be organic compounds, but you will never see any actual organic chemistry on the exam. Studying the properties of alkanes for example would be pointless. </p>
<p>A common example where an organic compound might be used in a problem is in a intermolecular forces question on large compounds have stronger intermolecular forces. </p>
<p>Takes no organic chem knowledge to answer these kinds of questions. </p>
<p>You should know the basic hydrocarbons (methane, ethane, propane, and butane), but anything further than that (functional groups, properties of alcohol, alkanes, etc.) is completely unnecessary for the revised AP exam.</p>
<p>*This is ot to say that an AP class shouldn’t include “True” organic chemistry topics in the course (that is at the discretion of the teacher), but I am sure that these organic chemistry topics will not show up on the AP exam.</p>
<p>**** molecular geometry. Do you have to memorize the shapes? Because once you start mixing lone pairs and bonds, it becomes all memorization that you can’t figure out with logic. This is why physics >>>>> chemistry</p>
<p>Also, crash course chemistry on youtube sucks. The guy either hovers over the surface of the material, stays stuck on explaining the significance of the concept in real life for half the time, or goes way too deep into the topic while still missing the necessary info. I want to learn how to solve problems and rationalize concepts. </p>
<p>“But learning how to solve problems isn’t what crash course chemistry is for…”</p>
<p>Then it sucks. </p>
<p>molecular geometry should be pretty intuitive after a while digesting the material and remembering the names for each one. The table in your textbook should be helpful. Also review VESPR theory.</p>
<p>If you don’t like crash course then I would recommend bozeman on youtube or khanacademy. I don’t know any resource that focuses solely on problem solving. This is probably due to the fact that unlike physics the problems are pretty simple after the qualitative reasoning is soundly constructed.</p>
<p>I think bozeman and the crash course book were the most helpful during prep for the exam. </p>
<p>Also, the most important thing that I can not stress enough is to not gloss over the solved examples in the textbook. Study those as a priority and do not stop studying the concept and method they used to solve that problem until you completely understand it and can walk through the problem without looking at their solution.</p>
<p>Hi, I am getting ready to start self studying for AP chem. My school does not offer AP chem, but i need it to get into the college i want. Do you think it is too late to start studying? I have the chemistry: a central science textbook, and have started reading it. Do you guys have any tips for self studying? Please let me know!</p>
<p>Topic-wise, we finished four chapters doing a comprehensive review of chem, stoichiometry, solutions, VSEPR and molecular models, gases, and intermolecular forces. Doing a small assignment over winter break on Photoelectron Spectroscopy (PES), and probably beginning either Equilibrium or Kinetics after reviewing that when break is over! Still have to take semester finals, too. 
My teacher really recommends the PR 2015 version. She told us that it’s substantially well revised than the 2014 version, so I will probably get that and use CC as well. Maybe I’ll get Barron’s, but I may or may not. </p>
<p>Hi, I’m taking this course this year. I’m a sophomore and I’m also taking AP World and AP Lang. Out of those, I think this will be the hardest. I heard some juniors at my school who took this last year talking about how it was way harder than the class and everything…I’m scared. Has anyone taken this class last year and recommends a certain prep book?</p>
<p>@dsi411
You are right hat this exam is harder than the other two. AP lang and world are about medium level difficulty while AP chem is in the hard category.</p>
<p>The exam isn’t unreasonably hard though, and the revised version introduced last year is actually noticeably easier than the old version of the exam. The only thing about last year’s exam is that they didn’t give enough time for the new FRQ’s (one problem had fifteen parts).</p>
<p>The best way to prep for the exam and study throughout the year is to use the crash course book and bozeman videos on youtube.</p>
<p>I thought the barron’s was more in depth but it’s practice tests are all the same and the free response is just plain dumb. The princeton tests are a bit better but its less in depth (though sufficient?). Both have a bunch of mistakes, but princetons has fewer (I was so pissed when i had to solve pKa for an unknown base, and I figured out it was a typo in the answers…)</p>