<p>I ask because in honors/ap at my school we haven’t covered much organic chemistry or nuclear. Also, vsper is really annoying to learn, is there much of this on the subject test?</p>
<p>Yes there is all 3 of those. Not too much organic but you never know…</p>
<p>Who knows, what if a whole classification set is on functional groups or identifying the properties of molecules like proteins, carbs, ligands…etc. Probably unlikely but you never know lol CB loves to screw people over. </p>
<p>And for nuclear, know what the 3 types of decay are and fission and fusion. Half life too. </p>
<p>I don’t know what detailed vsepr is but you should know how to get the shapes of molecules.</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard, just know the functional groups, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes (you can remember the prefixes with Monkeys Eat Peeled Bananas) and some basic naming conventions. Also make sure to know some common knowledge stuff like glass isn’t made out of hydrocarbons and info like that. As for nuclear, I hear that you should know the different types of decay (beta, alpha, positron, electron capture, gamma, etc) and how to calculate half-life/radioactive decay thingie (really easy). I’m assuming for VESPR that you should know the bond angles (linear-180, trigonal planar-120, trigonal pyramidal-107, bent/angular-104.5, and tetrahedral-109.5) I’m not sure if you have to know anything higher than that (someone please confirm).</p>
<p>Alright, thanks for the responses guys. I’ll have to read up organic and nuclear. Also, if anyone else can comment more on vsper, please do.</p>
<p>Honestly, I didn’t know anything about organic chem (even when I took the AP exam) and I didn’t notice any organic chem questions on the subject test. As for nuclear, there was one or two at max, and it was easy. </p>
<p>If you know the basics of bond angles, molecular geometry, hybridization, etc. you should be fine. I don’t remember seeing any VSEPR questions but I haven’t thought about chemistry at all since I took the subject exam in may.</p>
<p>You should also know how single/double/triple bonds translate into sigma/pi bonds.</p>
<p>can someone please clarify what 314159265 is saying? Does he mean that single bonds = sigma bonds, double bonds = pi bonds? I thought sigma bonds were bonds in the s orbital and pi bonds were bonds in the p orbital. Can someone give me a quick run down of this? I’m kinda shaky :(</p>
<p>Pi means
Single = sigma
Double = sigma and 1 pi bond
Triple = sigma and 2 pi bonds</p>
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<p>Anything about comparison of bond strengths, e.g. which molecule exhibits greatest hydrogen bonding?</p>
<p>^I think there may be. It’s not a hard, complex, or long topic, though.</p>
<p>@vbpointer: no probz gurl
@beatz: basically, hydrogen bonding occurs between H and FON elements. Btdubs, I think Ionic is the strongest type of bonding, then covalent, then hydrogen, and then the other van der Waals bonding types.</p>