<p>Haha. Let me guess… you guys use the Zumdahl book? Our class does too. :P</p>
<p>Mine doesn’t use Zumdahl. We use Chang (and I do not recommend it, the wording is terrible). My teacher walked in on the first day and said “We’re skipping the first half of the book, you have to remember it all from honors chem.” Luckily I took it last year (I’m a sophomore now) but all of the seniors in my class haven’t taken it in 2-3 years.</p>
<p>bump…c’mon let’s keep this updated!</p>
<p>^^^No, we use the Brown/Lemay/Bursten/Murphy AP Edition of Chemistry: The Central Science. We’re just starting chapter 5 now, Thermochemistry.</p>
<p>coffeeandtea, i’m in the same boat as you- my class uses chang, i’m not a fan… the problems are good when coupled with my teacher’s challenge problems, but the actual text isn’t too great. what chapter are you on?</p>
<p>I am using Zumdahl too. We are skipping around but we have covered around 6 chapters and skipped the first 3. Our class is only a half of a semester so its pretty brutal to cover as much as we need to. But I have put together some pretty useful Chem programs for a TI 84 if anyone would like any of them just message me.</p>
<p>I’m worrying from hand calculate multiple choice question, getting use to the calculator and it hard to start over, if any one have tips or website to help me with calculate without calculator, I’ll very appreciate! arigatto</p>
<p>^I thought that’s be difficult because I didn’t do any non-calculator practice until I took a couple of MC practice tests a week or two before the exam, but it’s much simpler than you think. If you get the problems, the only thing you’ll need to be sure of is exponent rules and your multiplication table from third grade.</p>
<p>My class is moving super fast and we jump around the book like crazy. It would make much more sense if we went at least kind of linearly. It is always referencing equations we don’t know from the earlier chapters but we aren’t doing those ones for months. I don’t see why we would purposefully wait to do something that could help us with the current chapters until later.</p>
<p>Our year so far has been this: (chapter numbers are in the Chang book)
-a review of balancing redox
-kinetics (chapter 13)
-equilibrium (chapter 14)
-acids and bases (chapter 15)
-a unit on structure (literally chapters 7-10 all at once in the span of two weeks)
-this long weekend (no school thursday or friday) we have to self study atmospheric chemistry (chapter 17) and we are taking the test at lunch on Monday (and we still have regular class)</p>
<p>Next we’re doing thermochemistry (chapter 6)</p>
<p>lol thats pretty much how my class is roling.</p>
<p>do u mind if i ask u if u go to an LI school in NY?</p>
<p>I go to a private school in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>I finished the whole structure unit this week with a two day long test and we’re starting thermochemistry on Monday.</p>
<p>o dam wow.</p>
<p>we have a review test on gas laws >< (ridiculously easy. all i find is really dumb is the open ended manometer><)</p>
<p>to all taking AP Chem, is it able to do it online such as FLVS?</p>
<p>@FRUITFLY: nowhere else have I seen arigatou spelled that way
@Custardapple101: sure, but it would probably be less expensive and time-consuming to self-study</p>
<p>I am currently on the B+/A- border (about 0.1% on the A- side) because I suck at following directions on labs. We have a test on bonding and VSEPR/molecular geometry on Monday which I really need to study for because I fail at this material and memorizing VSEPR structure names.</p>
<p>I have my AP Chem final tomorrow and I’m so worried. My teacher is making it a mock AP exam and she said she expects us to all get around 70%!</p>
<p>How are you guys studying?</p>
<p>My chemistry teacher sucks. He’s notorious for having no student ever getting a 5, and only one kid getting a 4, with the rest 2’s and 3’s.</p>
<p>The only thing I learned this year was some basic thermochemistry, and we’re not even done with that unit. We only had 2 tests the entire year, based on review of last year.</p>
<p>I should self-study, right? Anyone think I’d be better off reading Zumdahl or getting Barron’s or something?</p>
<p>Barron’s is amazing. It has its fair share of typos but I would definitely not be passing without it.</p>
<p>My teacher doesn’t teach from any book mostly, as far as I can tell. We all got a textbook, but we only use it once every few weeks to do problems out of.
The exception is for predicting chemical equations - we use the Ultimate Chemical Equations Handbook, by George R. Hague and Jane D. Smith. Everything we do with equations is taught straight from that book, and historically since our teacher started using it, everyone aced the equations section. We get a quiz every (most) Friday, which is simply four reactions given in the format of the AP exam, and we have to write the balanced net ionic equation for them. Predicting equations was our second unit after the review unit in September, and we get to use the handbook until the midterm exam (I’m not looking forward to losing that). We also get a homework assignment every Monday due Wednesday, which is 10 reactions. (all in the style of “element/compound A reacts with element/compound B” or “gaseous E/C A is passed over a solution of E/C B” or “E/C A reacts with hot, concentrated acid B” or many other possibilities)</p>
<p>I doubt if anyone could duplicate the teaching style of my teacher. He knows how much he has to get done in a certain week, and he wastes the rest of the time - including letting us play with fire during labs. Historically, the classes usually do much better than the national average - at least 50% get a 3 or above, if not more.</p>
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I’m not the one you asked, but I’m on LI - Harborfields to be specific.</p>
<p>I don’t like chemical bonding.</p>
<p>ap chemistry really is confusing to me…my teacher hardly teaches too so I am sorta nervous for the actual test…i have the PR and barrons book, do you think solely reading those two books will help me get a 4?</p>