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Get ready, get confident, and get your highest possible score!
Gearing up for the AP Chemistry test? This practical guide is packed with all the resources and help you need to bring your skills up to college level. You'll find test-taking tactics and strategies, advice on how to make the most of your study time, and clear explanations of the chemistry concepts and problems covered in the exam.
Prepare for the exam get comfortable with formats and scoring, manage your time, and reduce stress
Play with building blocks understand atomic structure and bonding and grasp atomic geometry
Grasp how colliding particles produce states nail down the chemistry that produces solids, liquids, gases, and solutions
Control reactions figure out displacement, combustion, acid-base, and oxidation-reduction reactions and get familiar with stoichiometry
Describe patterns and predict properties practice descriptive chemistry and get used to organic chemistry nomenclature
Know your way around a chemistry lab from equipment, common tasks, and safety equipment to concepts and data analysis
Measure your yields use practice exams to train your brain, test your skills, and focus your studies
Open the book and find:
Everything you must know about the exam
Help creating a pre-test plan
A full-scale review of all exam topics
Plenty of practice questions and explanations on each topic
An overview of College Board-recommended labs
Multiple-choice question decoding tips
Handy lists of important ideas and equations
Two full-length practice exams with answers, explanations, and scoring guides
Synopsis
Review material and expert test-taking tips to help students ace the AP Chemistry exam
In 2006, over 90,000 high school students took the Advanced Placement chemistry exam, and since 2002, there has been a 30 percent increase in the number of students taking AP Chemistry courses in U.S. high schools. AP Chemistry For Dummies includes a detailed overview of the exam and subject reviews of all topics. It features two full-length tests with answers and explanations designed to help students bring their skills up to the collegiate level and maximize their scores on the exam.
Peter J. Mikulecky, PhD (San Diego, CA), teaches science and mathematics at the Fusion Learning Center in Southern California. Michelle Rose Gilman (Solana Beach, CA) is the founder of Fusion Learning Center and Fusion Academy and the author of several For Dummies science, math, and test-prep titles. Katherine Brutlag (San Diego, CA) teaches chemistry and other sciences at the Fusion Academy. Together, the authors also cowrote Chemistry Workbook For Dummies (978-0-470-25152-2).
Synopsis
A practical and hands-on guide for learning the practical science of AP chemistry and preparing for the AP chem exam
Gearing up for the AP Chemistry exam? AP Chemistry For Dummies is packed with all the resources and help you need to do your very best. Focused on the chemistry concepts and problems the College Board wants you to know, this AP Chemistry study guide gives you winning test-taking tips, multiple-choice strategies, and topic guidelines, as well as great advice on optimizing your study time and hitting the top of your game on test day.
This user-friendly guide helps you prepare without perspiration by developing a pre-test plan, organizing your study time, and getting the most out or your AP course. You'll get help understanding atomic structure and bonding, grasping atomic geometry, understanding how colliding particles produce states, and so much more.
To provide students with hands-on experience, AP chemistry courses include extensive labwork as part of the standard curriculum. This is why the book dedicates a chapter to providing a brief review of common laboratory equipment and techniques and another to a complete survey of recommended AP chemistry experiments. Two full-length practice exams help you build your confidence, get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and focus your studies.
You'll discover how to
- Create and follow a pretest plan
- Understand everything you must know about the exam
- Develop a multiple-choice strategy
- Figure out displacement, combustion, and acid-base reactions
- Get familiar with stoichiometry
- Describe patterns and predict properties
- Get a handle on organic chemistry nomenclature
- Know your way around laboratory concepts, tasks, equipment, and safety
- Analy
Synopsis
Gearing up for the AP Chemistry exam?
AP Chemistry For Dummies is packed with all the resources and help you need to do your very best. This AP Chemistry study guide gives you winning test-taking tips, multiple-choice strategies, and topic guidelines, as well as great advice on optimizing your study time and hitting the top of your game on test day.
This user-friendly guide helps you prepare without perspiration by developing a pre-test plan, organizing your study time, and getting the most out or your AP course. You’ll get help understanding atomic structure and bonding, grasping atomic geometry, understanding how colliding particles produce states, and much more. Two full-length practice exams help you build your confidence, get comfortable with test formats, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and focus your studies. Discover how to
- Create and follow a pretest plan
- Understand everything you must know about the exam
- Develop a multiple-choice strategy
- Figure out displacement, combustion, and acid-base reactions
- Get familiar with stoichiometry
- Describe patterns and predict properties
- Get a handle on organic chemistry nomenclature
- Know your way around laboratory concepts, tasks, equipment, and safety
- Analyze laboratory data
- Use practice exams to maximize your score
AP Chemistry For Dummies gives you the support, confidence, and test-taking know-how you need to demonstrate your ability when it matters most.
About the Author
Peter J. Mikulecky, PhD and Kate Brutlag teach Math and Science at Fusion Learning Center/Fusion Academy in Solana Beach, CA.
Michelle Rose Gilman is the Founder of Fusion Learning Center. Members of this team have authored AP Biology For Dummies, ACT For Dummies, Pre-Calculus For Dummies, Chemistry Workbook For Dummies and GRE For Dummies.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Part I: Thriving Inside the Test Tube: How to Prepare for the Exam.
Chapter 1: Knowing What You’re Up Against: The AP Chemistry Exam.
Chapter 2: Preparing Yourself for the Exam.
Part II: Building Matter from the Ground Up: Atoms and Bonding.
Chapter 3: Looking Under the Atomic Hood: Atomic Structure.
Chapter 4: Answering Questions about Atomic Structure.
Chapter 5: Working and Playing Together: Bonding.
Chapter 6: Answering Questions on Bonding.
Chapter 7: Doing Atomic Geometry: Molecular Shapes.
Chapter 8: Answering Questions on Molecular Shapes.
Part III: Colliding Particles to Produce States.
Chapter 9: Putting a Finger to the Wind: Gases.
Chapter 10: Answering Questions on Gases.
Chapter 11: Condensing Particles: Solids, Liquids, and Solutions.
Chapter 12: Answering Questions on Solids, Liquids, and Solutions.
Part IV: Transforming Matter in Reactions.
Chapter 13: Reacting by the Numbers: Reactions and Stoichiometry.
Chapter 14: Answering Questions on Reactions and Stoichiometry.
Chapter 15: Going Nowhere: Equilibrium.
Chapter 16: Answering Questions on Equilibrium.
Chapter 17: Giving and Taking in Solution: Acids and Bases.
Chapter 18: Answering Questions on Acids and Bases.
Chapter 19: Transferring Charge: Oxidation-Reduction.
Chapter 20: Answering Questions on Oxidation-Reduction.
Chapter 21: Knowing Speed from Spontaneity: Kinetics and Thermodynamics.
Chapter 22: Answering Questions on Kinetics and Thermodynamics.
Part V: Describing Patterns and Predicting Properties.
Chapter 23: Knowing Chemistry When You See It: Descriptive Chemistry.
Chapter 24: Answering Questions on Descriptive Chemistry.
Chapter 25: Living with Carbon: Organic Chemistry.
Chapter 26: Answering Questions on Organic Chemistry.
Part VI: Getting Wet and Dirty: Labs.
Chapter 27: Knowing Your Way around the Lab: Equipment and Procedures.
Chapter 28: Taking the Tour: Recommended AP Experiments.
Part VII: Measuring Yields: Practice Tests.
Chapter 29: Practice Test One.
Chapter 30: Practice Test Two.
Part VIII: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 31: Ten Math Skills to Bring with You to the Exam.
Chapter 32: Ten Critical Types of Chemistry Problems.
Chapter 33: Ten Annoying Exceptions to Chemistry Rules.
Index.