guptasaintx

What is the exam honestly like for those who have taken it? Like are the multiple choice mostly conceptual or problems or just really obscure things like colors and uses of elements? Or do they require lot of application of concepts in obscure ways???? I do not really kno what to expect and would like some advice for kinda what the MC will be like and what to emphasize. Should i bother going over like uses of elements and stuff and colors or more concepts?

stephennn

based on the 3 ap exams I've seen and the audit from this year it is more conceptual. you're not going to really need to know that the presence of sodium will turn a flame yellow, that info won't hurt but it's not going to be more than a few questions(if that) in the multiple choice.

if anything its in the free response that you would have to know some laboratory concepts and thats if you have to identify something but theres typically not questions like that. I've never taken the exam but i took all of the released ap's and its really clear that the test has gotten much much easier.

however an ap chem class is supposed to give you the lab experience as well and knowing flame tests and knowing how to prepare a buret is part of chemistry so its not all conceptual. just most of it is conceptual.

sushant269

On the MC, theres a little bit of everything. Balancing Redox reactions, telling colors, lab hazards, periodic trends. Little bit of everything. Although i do believe that stoichiometry appears more than others based on the practice tests i have taken. FR, well its just equilibrium, (kinetics or thermodynamics), descriptive chemistry problems, lab problems, and 2 essay questions probably on periodic trends.