They're changing the AP Chem exam?

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<p>dang this is bad</p>

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<p>Crap...our teacher didn't teach us complex ions because he thinks too much time is put into it when we could instead learn something else better and skip those equations on the equation section.</p>

<p>Now, we're going to have to do it.</p>

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<p>Ugh, I hate complex ions. My teacher hasn't bothered with them either because she assures me that a maximum of one multiple choice question will involve weird compounds I've never seen before.</p>

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<p>we are not doing them</p>

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<p>We did them. You guys should do them (even if on your own) because they are fairly easy to learn, and now they will most likely be on the test for 1 or 2 questions (not much, but can make the difference).</p>

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<p>Question 4 (reactions) is only worth 5% of the entire exam! Yes! (Coming from someone who knows absolutely nothing about descriptive chem).</p>

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<p>wait does this apply to this year's test? damn that sucks we don't have a choice</p>

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<p>@lobgent
That's very vague. We all use different books. I use the prentice hall book that is blue (a little old). Can you give a few sample problems, so i know what concept you're talking about?</p>

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<p>I bet the curve will be much more generous given the fact that ~50% of the students won't know about the changes and probably around 5% won't even follow the new instructions. Additionally people, who focused only on certain parts of the syllabus are a kind of screwed as well.</p>

<p>It may be a good thing, if you've studied that is.</p>

<p>BTW here's a good link to learn about complex ions. They're really quite simple if you read through all of the text.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.chemguide.co.uk/inorganic/complexions/whatis.html#top%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.chemguide.co.uk/inorganic/complexions/whatis.html#top&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>What from that article made you think about complex ions? There was just one reaction that involves it, and it SAYS that it will form a complex ion. So, you don't really need to know much, other than what the basic definition of a complex ion is.</p>

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<p>well i think you should still learn it to be safe.. i mean its not that hard. just memorize the most common commonions and you should be fine. then, from the rxn it should be obvious which ones form. </p>

<p>.. so yeah. we no longer get to choose which ones to do =| which means NO MORE SELECTIVE STUDYINGGG T__T</p>

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<p>yeah, but you still only need a 75% or so for a 5...</p>