My PSAT score was a 192, and my SAT was 2260. So a big jump… i’m hoping to get national merit except there will be a new PSAT. We’re like guinea pigs ugh.
And yes that is true… I could… But it will clash around the time of PSAT as well… I’ll have to see what happens! 
Yeah, I really want to get National Merit, but I’m better at the old SAT than the new SAT.
I just took the Barron’s diagnostic test for the SAT Chem and there’ s a lot of stuff I haven’t learned in there… Hopefully I’ll get it all down by the time I take it (in June; I’m also taking Math 2, but that’s easy). I’ve hear Barron’s is an absurdly difficult practice book, though.
A lot of the things that I haven’t learned yet are on the topic of acids and bases…we do that when we get back from spring break.
We wrap up Chem H with 2-3 weeks of Organic Chemistry and Electrochemistry, accompanied with a research project presentation.
We just finished acids and bases, but there’s still a lot of stuff on the Chem test that my textbook didn’t cover. We’re going over reaction energies and stuff next; we also go over reaction kinetics, chemical equilibrium, redox reactions, and electrochemistry. I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that my teacher will make us do presentations on the remaining three chapters (nuclear, organic, and biological chemistry).
I wish I know what I will learn next in Chemistry 
I only know that we will learn about the gas laws, but I don’t know what else we will learn.
We just finished a unit on bonding/VSEPR stuff/drawing Lewis dot structures.
For some reason, my Chemistry teacher seems to teach backwards; most of the material you all will be learning, we covered in the beginning of the year.
My teacher goes in order of the textbook, and I know that we cover the first 20 chapters of the book, so I know what we’ll be learning. How are you guys only learning how to draw Lewis dot structures now?
@topaz1116 We very much skipped around in the textbook. We started with chapter 2, jumped up to chapter 17, went back down to chapter 11 and 12, dabbled a bit in chapter 18, and so on.
A majority of my classmates (myself included) were familiar with how to draw Lewis dot structures, but this was the first time we formally learned how to draw them for compounds and polyatomic ions.
This year (sophomore year) is the first year that students at my school actually have a class solely in chemistry (grade 6: life science, 7: Earth science, 8: introduction to physics/chemistry but quite lacking on the chemistry part, 9: Biology).
How are you guys preparing for your AP Exams?? They are approaching quicklyy
Wow, how many AP’s are y’all taking? I’m taking none, just all honors!
I was going to take 5 APs (APUSH, Lang, Physics, Stat, Econ) but now I’m going to be in Germany next year, so I’m taking zero.
I’m taking 3 APs this year: Comp Sci, Calc BC, and Physics C. I’m a bit concerned about Comp Sci because I’m taking it online and am actually slightly behind schedule-- I’ll definitely need to prep a bunch for it, but I can’t really start until after the school musical is finished. Calc should be fine though, as my teacher teaches quite well and I’ve caught on easily to petty much everything. When studying for our midterm, I took a Calc AB exam before anything else, just to see, and got a 5 on it despite us not having covered about a chapter of material on it. I’ll definitely do practice tests and review, but this isn’t a big stressor. Physics…I don’t know. I’m not sure how much Mechanics I remember from first semester, and E&M is harder. I’m going to go through the test prep book and do a lot of practice FRQs for this one, but again, not until after the show is done can I study as much as I’d like to.
@petitlion that’s so cool!
@topaz1116 oh how is acids and bases? We just finished a unit of Thermodynamics and Kinetics. Haha, we did biochemistry in freshman bio. We did a week of redox in the reactions and stoichiometry unit. We’ll do more in electrochemistry.
We also did gas laws last semester
Lurker from Australia here. I must say what you guys learn in high school puts Australia’s high school curriculum to shame.
@boundforberkeley Really? Everyone here talks about how bad the school systems are in comparison to foreign schools. Or maybe that’s just Maryland schools haha
@petitlion Wow that is really cool. Do you speak German?
I’m only in 1 AP class, which is AP Gov. I don’t feel I need to prep for it much since the lowest grade I’ve gotten on a test was an 88 and that was because I messed up on the FRQ. I have a PR review book and a packet my teacher gave us so I should be fine.
@boundforberkeley hahaha, a lot of our schools are ranked top in nation. Mine is close in proximity to Stanford and Silicon Valley, and is ranked in the top 10 for STEM education.
And most of the people you see on College Confidential are the most smart, motivated and diligent. Some of the rest…eughhh it gets really bad.
I’m taking three AP exams, AP World History, AP English Language, and AP Chemistry. I really need to start preparing. I got prep books for them but I haven’t opened them this whole Spring Break. My teachers gave me so much homework over Spring Break and that is what I have been doing for the past two weeks. Now it’s the last day of Spring Break…I hope we review in class for the AP exams a lot. If I don’t get a 5 on APWH and APEL I’ll be very disappointed. AP Chem I’m not too sure of.
The only AP I could have taken this year was AP Stats, which I foolishly opted out of.