<p>Please, kill yourself. You are worse than Mao (at least Mao believed that he was actually helping people) and on par with Stalin. On so many questions, the ONLY difficulty comes from the tedious, frustrating, time-consuming fraction math. UNBELIEVABLY IRRITATING.</p>
<p>Does every solution REALLY need to be 100mL? It really can't just be 1L? The mass percentage of Hf NEEDS to be 62.2%? It can't be 75%? The mole fraction of Ne is SERIOUSLY 1.2/2.8? It can't be 1/4? </p>
<p>What, exactly, is the harm in letting schools provide simple TI-30 calculators? If you're worried about test fairness (some schools may not be able to afford TI-30's), just have the test in the same format as it is now, accessible without calculators, but just let people use them, like on the SAT.</p>
<p>There is simply no need for me to be doing tedious calculations like 6/1000x2/50 or eyeballing fractions like 180/275 to determine percentages on a college-level science exam. None at all. It's an embarrassment to the legitimacy of the AP program.</p>
<p>I’ll say it again, the AP program does a ****-poor job of simulating an actual college environment or exam situation. It’s just more difficult work re-hashed in the same high school fashions. I’m surprised so many Universities put up with it.</p>
<p>You better get used to dealing with fractions. I’m not allowed to use calculators at all in my college math classes - and the professors love putting in problems that end up in tedious arithmetic.</p>
<p>I just want to clarify that calculators are only allowed on the first three questions of the FRQ test. Also, in case you guys don’t know, the formula sheet and the reduction potentials are not given for the multiple choice test either.</p>
<p>Yeah, most annoying part about ap chem. Doing fractions under time constraints is highly aggravating, especially when I really do not see the point of having all no calc MC.</p>
<p>You kids really want to get in a debate about grammar with ME? I got an 80 on the PSAT Writing section and an 80 on the MC portion of the SAT writing section.</p>
<p>“I don’t like that guy because him banned calculators.” That is not AT ALL what my sentence is saying. My sentence more follows the format of: “I see him eat pizza”. Because this thread is a message TO the person who banned calculators on AP Chem, the banner is the object of the sentence, and thus is given ‘whom’ as a pronoun.</p>
<p>What you’re saying is that “I gave the message to he” is correct.</p>
<p>Mental math really IS that hard for me, that’s why I had to drop AP Chem. I have dyscalculia (it’s a real thing that I’ve really been diagnosed with) so I have a LOT of trouble processing numbers in my mind. I’m fine with a calculator, but our teacher also limited our use of them, just like on the test, so my chances of success were pretty low from the outset.</p>
<p>Guys it “Whomever”.
Mental math? What happen to writing problem out. Btw even me, a kid top of his math class, can’t even mental math well enough. And I got straight A’s.</p>
<p>I completely understand all of your points. (those who are upset with the ban). I am in AP Chem this year and just took the MC portion of my final today which was some past AP exam. The math was by far the most irritating part. I don’t want to do 45.67/23.5x .005/500! It does me no good. It actually limits the time I can spend thinking out some question about hybridization or some other more difficult topic.</p>