So I'm taking AP Chem. next year...

[Future Doc1]

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I'm taking AP Chemistry next year and I was wondering if anybody could give some advice on how to excel and ace the class and then also give some advice on study tips for the AP Chemistry college board exam at the end of the year. Better to be prepared, right. 😉

 

[EyEnStein 07]

Pay attention in class, keep up with everything, do all the homeworks. Research on this board or online the best review book for AP chemistry.

Also you can go directly on the collegeboard website, click on AP testing, and view many free response questions (actually was on the test) dated. If you can do all of those by the end you should be in great position.

 

[Sttebbs]

When I took this course my teacher sucked, assigned almost no homework, and didn't really explain the material well in class.

I "aced" the course (5 on the ap test, 800 on the SAT subject test) by doing several things:

-Reading through each chapter (duh)
-Paying special attention to certain diagrams (molecular geometry, certain lab-style diagrams for things like electrochemistry/gas laws)
-Memorizing what needed to be memorized (polyatomic ions, solubility rules, maybe a few things relating to colors of solutions)
-Doing all the odd problems at the end of the chapter until I felt I knew it well enough to move on to something else. (Work problem, check answer, if wrong figure out why my answer was wrong, repeat.)

So yeah, your textbook is your friend. I didn't find many of the concepts in AP Chemistry really difficult to understand (except hybrid orbitals... dear god) so for me it just boiled down to being aware of all the different types of questions that could be asked about a certain topic and understanding the procedure for working out all those problems... then some conceptual things, but that's all easy anyway.

Good luck!

 

[twocentnews]

I got a 720 on the SAT II for Chem and a 4 on the AP.

My teacher sucked, so all I really did was read the Princeton Review AP Chem book around the time of the exam and everything went fine.

Of course, it helped that my honors chem teacher was fantastic and had pretty much taught us everything we needed to know before he left.

Good luck, it's a challenging but a great course.

 

[Salvorix]

Get a good AP review book.

 

[xnfs93hy]

I would buy a textbook as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Chemistry-Central-Theodore-L-Brown/dp/013218642X/ref=pd_sim_b_1

This is what the AP Chemistry students at my school use.

 

[Sttebbs]

I have to second jefgreen's book recommendation; I used the 8th edition in class/when studying and it was very easy to understand.

 

[Arm N Hammer]

Follow the accumulation of everyones advice here--
thats my advice