<p>OK, so I'm a sophmore choosing classes for junior year. This year I attempted to take chem, but I was always really confused. Then when i missed a lot of school I had to drop it. I'm not unsure if I should just give it another try, or should I just skip it and do physics instead? Any advice or opinion is much appreciated, thanks in advance!</p>
<p>we took physics before chem -- I found physics infinitely harder.</p>
<p>however, I'm the sort of person you'd expect to become an english major. if you're into the scope of applied mathematics, you probably will like physics.</p>
<p>I took chemistry, biology, and physics in ninth grade, chemistry and physics in tenth grade, and IB Chemistry HL and IB Biology SL in eleventh and twelfth grade. I always found chemistry infinitely easier than physics (and so much more interesting!), but I've never enjoyed applied math either, so it really depends on how much that interests you.</p>
<p>im taking chem right now and physics next year. chem really isn't that hard you should try it again. what part of chem confused you, in particular?</p>
<p>Chemistry.</p>
<p>I agree with most of the above posters that I find Chemistry much easier (currently in Chem HL...find it way easier than physics SL last year...so, yeah.)</p>
<p>I haven't taken physics, but I think chem is pretty easy; I just don't like it at all.</p>
<p>As a future English major, I found that chemistry was a lot easier. It may take a while to get some of the concepts, but once you get it, it's like wow. Physics on the other hand....once I got it, I was just like thank God!</p>
<p>Took honors chem sophomore year and honors physics junior year. Chem was easier, by far. I'm actually taking AP Chem right now, but you can't pay me enough to take AP Physics.</p>
<p>I took Physics in ninth grade and struggled with it the entire time. I'm now in Chemistry and find it incredibly easy, I don't know why, and it's alot more interesting.</p>
<p>Physics is so much easier!</p>
<p>Neither one's easier than the other. I found them both to be incomprehensible.</p>
<p>Chemistry is much more fun and easier.
Physics should hang itself.</p>
<p>OK, thanks for the opinions! What I didn't like about chem is that it seemed so conceptual that it was hard to be real.</p>
<p>oh, it is real :D
didnt you do labs?</p>
<p>yeah, but I had to drop out before we did ones that were really any fun, and I guess I'm just that much of a lab person (hated the lab write ups lol).</p>
<p>It is very difficult to compare sciences based on a high school level. Even in AP chemistry I found the class to consist more of memorization and promises of eventual explanations than actual intuitive instruction.
My physics class though (no AP offered at high school) makes no pretense that it is anything but a class for plugging and chugging through formulas (the time-tested New York State Regents method). I have done a marginal amount of reading on rigorous physics from a text book I found and I believe that Physics is easier when taught to a comprehensive level.<br>
In regular chemistry and physics though in high school I have done better in chemistry because I make to many foolish mistakes in repetitive simple physics.</p>
<p>One of two Bs I got in high school was in first semester Chem. Largely, it was because I was bored to tears, never had to study for a science class before, and was caught off-guard when it turned out that I had to tune-in a little bit to do well. </p>
<p>As such, I hated chemistry.</p>
<p>Physics, por otro lado, is much more interesting to me. It's just plain cool to know how electricity works and things of that nature... I got an A last semester, but I worked A LOT harder than I had in Chemistry.</p>
<p>So which is easier? Physics as a subject is easier to fall in love with, in my opinion. Thus, I do a lot better. Chemistry... well, there was no excuse for my B other than laziness. It was an easy class intellectually, thus it was harder for me. If that makes any sense.</p>
<p>Give me a good formula sheet and a good teacher and I think Physics could be easy. I don't think the process of the problems are hard, but understanding it is..</p>
<p>i thought physics was INCREDIBLY easy and chemistry was INCREDIBLY hard, but i hate chemistry and i like math,.... also i took honors chem and regular physics</p>