<p>Okay, I am not American. I am Canadian and in my school, almost everyone is averaging an A in the class (most of my classmates barely speak English…)</p>
<p>Are you all stressing out because of certain difficult topics like Acid/Bases (took me a while in my Pre-AP course to memorize it, I will admit it is not easy)</p>
<p>I think that the only thing that is hard about this course is the Acid/Bases and Solubility chapters. Everything else is really straightforward. </p>
<p>Although some of the Gas Law question can be really difficult and some of the Lewis Dot questions are also challenging, but it is mangeable.</p>
<p>My teacher say that on average, only 1 or 2 people get a 3 on the exam, everyone else gets 4 or 5s with ease.</p>
<p>In my AP Chem class (last year), people think AP Chemistry is hard because they couldn’t understand what the book is saying. They didn’t take the time to analyze what they’re reading or the examples to see how math is involved. I heard that this year AP Chemistry class at my school are having a hard time, and there’s no one in that class who has a potential to pass the exam. </p>
<p>For me, the hardest thing was kinetics, but I eventually understood it. Everything else was straightforward, and organic chemistry, I skipped (I’m going to have to deal with it in college).</p>
<p>Clearly either Canadian public schools are highly superior to American public schools, or your school is better than you think it is.</p>
<p>Anyway. From what my old AP chem teacher tells me, the problem is how the average student down here likes to learn. A lot of kids don’t see the point in learning concepts. They just want to memorize a bunch of facts (see: “can I self-study AP whatever in 2 months”), and to them the difficulty of a course is equal to the number of facts they must memorize.</p>
<p>With a lot of high school classes, including most APs, that works just fine. But in AP chem, you need to learn FAR more than you can just memorize and regurgitate on the test. So if you don’t learn by understanding the concepts, you aren’t going to do well.</p>
<p>No there are two types of people in my school, well three types</p>
<p>the “western people” (mostly white people, black/minority ethics, native-born asians who cannot speak their native language), the pure asians who can barely speak English, and finally the asians that is between the two (I am the last type)</p>
<p>AP Chem is the roughest class in my school. Our teacher does that on purpose so we will do well on the exam.(about half take it, almost all 3s and 4s, sometimes a 5 will pop up.)</p>
<p>AP Chem is probably the hardest class in my school. Our teacher is an Asian woman, who is brilliant. She’s been to top universities and is a great <em>student</em>. I emphasize student because she can’t communicate as well with the students. She goes over very BASIC topics in class and expects her students to illustrate extraordinary abilities on the tests themselves. Mostly everyone gets A’s on labs and class work, but falters when they go on the test. To date, there isn’t one person who has actually recieved a grade better than a C+ on one of her tests. The difficulty of a class depends greatly on the attitude of the instructer, at least that’s what the case is at my school.</p>
<p>lol, when I took AP Chem, my teacher was new at it…and spent half the time not in class, or talking about soccer (he was also our soccer coach) :/</p>
<p>still somehow managed a 5 though…without studying - so something must have gone right</p>
<p>The AP Chemistry Exam covers a wide selection of topics and it goes into great detail. To make sure there’s enough time to prepare for the exam, it starts 25 minutes before school starts.</p>