<p>Hi. For my sophmore year I want to take AP Chem and skip Honors Chem. Is this advisable? Over the summer I want to do a self study for Chem
(Teaching Company DVD) , take AP Chem sophmore year and then take the regents and AP exam. Do you learn all of the things in Honors Chem in AP Chem? Any comments about this? Is this reccomended? Is this transition hard? Any tips or information would be very helpful. Thanks.</p>
<p>It is fine, for AP Chem is almost always better than any honors course. In most cases one will definitely learn more. All you need to have is a solid math foundation and the ability to memorize a lot of formulas.</p>
<p>You can definately self-study it over the summer, but Chem will be material like something you have never seen before. In my AP Chem class, all the basic stuff from Honors was done via summer HMWK. The first semester of AP Chem is a review of Honors, but in greater depth. If you have the time and the resources you can definately do it. Like I said before, it will be like something you have never seen before, so take it slowly.</p>
<p>Besides the Teaching Company DVDs is there anything that I would need to know for AP Chem (that I would learn in Honors) that is not in here:</p>
<ol>
<li>Introduction and Philosophy</li>
<li>Quantitative Reasoning in Life and Chemistry (Part I)</li>
<li>Quantitative Reasoning in Life and Chemistry (Part II)</li>
<li>Density</li>
<li>The SI (Metric) System of Measurement</li>
<li>Converting between Systems of Measurement</li>
<li>The Mole Concept: Preliminary Ideas</li>
<li>The Mole</li>
<li>Solving Mole Problems
<ol>
<li>Avogadro's Hypothesis and Molar Volume</li>
<li>Percent Composition and Empirical Formulas</li>
<li>Solving Empirical Formula Problems</li>
<li>Writing and Balancing Chemical Equations</li>
<li>An Introduction to Stoichiometry</li>
<li>Stoichiometry Problems</li>
<li>Advanced Stoichiometry</li>
<li>An Introduction to Molarity</li>
<li>Solving Molarity Problems</li>
<li>Additional Molarity Problems</li>
<li>Basic Concepts of Chemical Equilibrium (Part I)</li>
<li>Basic Concepts of Equilibrium (Part II)</li>
<li>Interpreting an Equilibrium Constant</li>
<li>Le Chatelier's Principle (Part I)</li>
<li>Le Chatelier's Principle (Part II)</li>
<li>An Introduction to Equilibrium Problems</li>
<li>The Self-Ionization of Water</li>
<li>Strong Acids and Bases (Part I)</li>
<li>Strong Acids and Bases (Part II)</li>
<li>Weak Acids and Bases</li>
<li>Solubility Equilibria</li>
</ol></li>
</ol>
<p>Any other information would be appreciated :)</p>
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<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>i dont recommend skipping honors chem. to AP Chem. Chemistry isnt that easy, but if you think you can handle AP Chem in sophomore year you should do it. the internet isnt a bad place to self-study subjects. i taught myself latin and italian through free tutorials</p>
<p>It depends on the teacher in your school. And also the quality of your summer course. I skipped honors chem a year before taking AP chem. I actually found I was better prepared because my course was very, very comprehensive, and I found that I could grasp the concepts very easily (but most everyone else could not). I'd learned topics that people in honors chem had never covered. Now I have the highest grade in my class. :p</p>
<p>Then again, my class is the dumb class (there are two).</p>
<p>Maybe talk to the AP chem teacher and see what they have to say about that. I talked to my teacher before I skipped the course and she was very against the idea. And very rude to me. Grr. Anyway, now I'm doing well in her class anyway, so it serves her right.</p>
<p>Btw my course was also more comprehensive than the one you're doing. We covered most of the topics as an AP course, but in less depth.</p>
<p>I would recommend a better course, or extra self-studying by getting a textbook or something.</p>
<p>Since your going to be taking regents, Im guessing your a new yorker. Did you check to see if skipping honors chem for ap is even possible? Make sure you do that first. Also, to take the regents chem exam, don't you need 30 chemistry labs?</p>
<p>I am a New Yorker and I skipped Honors Chem and went to AP as a soph, and it was fine. You just have to put a lot of work in over the summer building up a knowledeg base of things like names of elements and names of ions. Also, you must constantly study during the year. As long as you can grasp the concepts, you should be fine on the AP/Regents. I ended up getting a 5 and a 100.</p>
<p>Thanks for everyone who has posted. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Get the Peterson's prep book.
It is great to aid with AP Chem.
Get the Silberberg textbook and do all the blue problems at the end of each chapter.
That will help make the AP exam a lot easier.</p>
<p>It's fine to skip honors and go to AP chem as a sophomore, which I and many other students at my school did. I did take normal chem before, but our teacher pratically didn't teach a thing, so it doesn't really matter.</p>
<p>On the other hand, what's a regents test?</p>
<p>Just wondering would Physics be easy to skip and go to AP Physics? I want to do that, but I don't know if I should. </p>
<p>I'm in Chem now. The class doesn't teach too much info. I think if you know most of the stuff in Cliff Notes that might be enough.</p>
<p>prometheus, they're a set of stadardized exams that New York high school students take for graduation.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the replies. Anyone else?</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend some textbooks or other supplemental material that could go with my course to help me better prepare for AP Chem? Any other comments are greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Bumpppppp!</p>
<p>I used the Barrons Regents Review to build a knowledge base (names of elements, ions, etc) and then used the Zumdahl textbook in class, and the Barrons AP Review book before the exam.</p>
<p>My school doesn't offer AP chem. I took the honors course my soph. year. I didn't know I could take the test, but 6 wks or so before the exam, I found out others were taking it. So I self-studied the AP stuff. I think I used the Barron's book (and maybe another one), as well as my text book. I got a 4, and I didn't study as hard a I should have.</p>