Also, maybe look at the books at the bookstore that prep you for the AP Chem exam. Maybe get a tutor through your school also.

You really need to go to your teacher asap and if he blows you off, get your parents involved. And it is not likely that if you are running a B right now you are miraculously going to get solid A’s on the next 2 tests that occur later in the course. It you are not getting the “why” behind the answers, it is going to continue to be a problem. You really need to go address this with your teacher or you are not going to do well as it keeps building upon itself.

You have to get it out of your mind that you can memorize and forget after the test. The problem is that AP Chem takes a higher level of thinking. I just basically memorize and forget it after the test. and my biggest question is what do you think i should do to prepare for his tests? I read all the textbooks and everything but I still don't get the concepts of what we have learned. But I really need to do well regardless and I would sacrifice up to 4~5 hours a day just for this subject. Maybe that's what actual AP test is like and he is trying to make us practice. He just expects more than what the book and his lectures say. I can memorize definitions of words, but that does not do anything on the test. I swear, if we learned a simple 'addition,' he is the person who expects us to know multiplication, division, square roots. On the test, he asks really conceptual questions on the multiple choices and uses free responses from past AP exams. The biggest problem is actually consuming the concepts and using the knowledge on the tests. (2~3 hours a day on 7~10 questions) while my friends actually understand them and do them quickly. They are difficult though, taking me unsual amount of time. I've gotten 2 C's in the tests so far, and I've calculated that if I get an A (above 93%) on the next to exams along with 100% on homework, I can raise it up to an A-, hopefully an A.īut the problem about the class is that chemistry is not really entering into my brain well I don't really get the basic concepts of how everything works out.

The thing is that I need, NEED an A in the class for some personal reasons.

I'm about 2.5 months in now, and I currently have 85.5 in the class which is a solid B. Hi, I am a high school student taking AP Chem with probably the hardest teacher in the school (this is a fact).

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