Failing Chemistry..Please Help!!!!

r2v2018
Tue, 26 Dec 2017 20:56:07 +0000

If it makes you feel better, I am in AP Chemistry (previously took regular Biology, Honors Chemistry, and AP Biology) and the class averages for the tests are often in the 30s and 40s. Basically everyone failed the first multiple choice test on stoichiometry (I somehow got a D- on the MC, but my whole exam averaged out to an F thanks to the FRQs).

I have found that like other STEM classes, doing practice problems is key to mastery, and plus, it helps in committing methods and steps of solving problems to muscle memory. I’ve found that sometimes when I don’t practice enough, I freak out because I have no idea how to start specific problems; this is what happened to me on the first test, and it caused me to miss a large portion of the FRQs that should have been easy for me.