Official AP Chemistry Thread (2014-2015)

@heckarad - Glad I’m not the only one, everyone else on here seems to have thought the FRQs were super easy :frowning:

@heckarad same, my teacher’s teaching style just didn’t click so I had to self teach myself 80% of the material (which didn’t go well) so if I get a 3 I’ll cry tears of joy probably

I took Form C:
The MC was pretty fair. Too bad I was panicking about time (misread the clock) so I probably screwed up a few of them. I was able to check 38 of them, so assuming that I screwed up on ~12 of them, that’s about a ~80% if the experimental questions were split between my wrong and right.
The FR was decent too. I couldn’t do the one that involved (Q2.) wavelength long free response, but I made up numbers to keep going, so probably only got 4/10 on that one. Other than that, I think I got roughly ~33/46 on that.

~76% right, so probably a very very low 5 or high 4.

Also, I have a general question about AP tests. Since there’s multiple versions floating around, does each test get its own curve? From what I tell, people who got a certain form said it was easy, and the other said that their form was harder. If those versions are different, does college board release those different versions? Thanks in advance.

@glasshours Honestly everyone in my class were saying the FRs were what got them so maybe it’s just that we were a lot stronger in multiple choice to be fair we focused more on that in class… We all had different versions right? Coming out of the test everyone in my class had different questions from each other so it’s a little nerve wracking

@20wildcat20 My teacher was fantastic so honestly I have no excuse lmao… It was just really hard material for me to learn since I’ve only taken math up to algebra 2 thus far (I’m a junior but long story, I could be in calc right now but in middle school I had a lot of family problems that took priority and I ended up getting held back a year in math) so I’m just not as strong as some of the other kids are in the math background of things. I skipped most of the calculations on the FR so I’m hoping I was able to get by with just the ones that needed explanations :slight_smile:

@Kelvas According to my teacher, there will be separate curves and separate scores for both versions of the test. (meaning your teacher will know which test you got, you may not though)

Could someone send me the Google doc if they have it. Thanks

@heckarad Oh, alright. Thanks!
That’s a relief. My teacher is expecting a five from me, so I don’t want to disappoint her. I’m probably going to ask her for a recommendation, so hopefully it goes well. Haha.

Hey, can someone send me the Google doc?

Quick super dumb questions guys… I did all of the parts of each free response completely out of order (I did the easy ones that required little to no math way before any others) so each part like A, B, Bii, etc are all out of order on the paper. I labeled everything and it should be neat enough to follow but they won’t dock me for this right? I didn’t think of that as I was doing it and didn’t have time to change it.

someone send me google doc please.

@heckarad as long as you labeled what each part is, they won’t dock.

I really hope the curve is different for each form. Based on what I’ve heard, form O was way harder than form C. :frowning:

can someone pm me the doc please

I had Form O. and it was fine for the multiple choice but then the FRQ’s i didn’t know how to do most of them… So I guess there goes my hopes of a 4.

@glasshours I know, I had O too :confused: everyone in my class who had E felt it was really friendly.

I had Form O. It was easier than my practice exam but still difficult.

Someone pm me the link please

Yeah the FRs for O were tough I agree… but my teacher said that the College Board outright stated that the different versions would be different levels of difficulty so there’s absolutely no way they could not curve them differently.

@heckarad Yes the free-response questions for O were difficult! But still easier than the ones on my practice exam… So I don’t know… Hoping for the best!

link to google docs please