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Understanding the structure of the test, what’s covered, and how much each section is worth is essential to passing this exam and deciding how to spend your time prepping for this exam.
Here’s a link to a downloadable poster with all this information:
AP Chemistry Exam Structure and Weighting Poster
If you want to know more about each unit covered on the exam and the percentage of questions on the test that utilize the concepts covered in a unit, click the link below. Be sure to scroll down to the course overview section and click “AP Chemistry Course at a Glance” to see all the unit details, or “AP Chemistry AB and BC Course and Exam Description Walk-Through” for an even more in-depth explanation of each unit.
Here’s a link to the units covered on the test:
AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
If you haven’t taken the time to check out the AP Daily videos that College Board provides to students when they enroll in their AP classes or sign up for the AP exam, then you are missing out on a huge resource.
AP Daily videos are great for learning the concepts covered on the test. They are best used as a review resource to cover anything you need further explanation on from week to week when you are learning concepts covered on the test or learning a concept your teacher at school never bothered to cover in class.
If you already feel pretty confident that you are at least familiar with every unit covered by the exam, you’re better off just watching the college board’s AP unit review videos posted to Youtube (see the next section for a link to unit review resources).
Here’s a link to instructions on how to watch AP Daily Videos:
Get access To College Board AP Daily videos
The College Board has hired university professors and outstanding high school teachers to record unit review videos that will help you review weeks’ worth of exam concepts in a single sitting.
Unfortunately, whoever manages the College Board’s Youtube content could not be bothered to put the unit review videos in sequential order from the first unit to the last. So, you’ll want to keep that in mind and start reviewing earlier units first if you want to review the content in order.
Here is a link for students in the final stretch of their AP Exam review who want to watch College Board unit review videos with AP Teachers and Professors (you will need to navigate to the AP Chemistry review session playlist, but the content is very well organized, so it should be easy to find): College Board Unit Review Videos
This resource calls itself a study guide, but really it’s just a set of written notes for reviewing every concept covered on the exam.
Here’s a link to downloadable AP calculus concept notes:
I highly recommend using the resource below for taking bite-size practice quizzes that will test your knowledge of concepts covered on the exam and provide you question specific explanations of how to find the correct answers to the questions provided.
The user interface for this resource is not slick or pretty, but it gets the job done. To avoid getting lost searching for any downloads available on this page, click the download you want and look for the heading that says “Link” or “Download,” and then follow the link provided. We would just stick to using the practice quizzes since the quality of the downloadable content is hit-or-miss on this site.
Here’s the link to short multiple choice practice quizzes:
AP Chemistry Multiple Choice Quizzes
The link below will take you to multiple-choice sections used on the College Board’s AP Chemistry exams from 1984-2002.
There are more practice problems here than you could ever need! The only catch is that they are laid out in a way that you are going to want to solve them on a separate sheet of paper and then check your answers at the back of the pdf later since there’s not much room to do your work on the test if you were going to print these questions.
Notes:
The best way to access the downloadable pdf of the 1984 resource is to click the print option and then save as a pdf. The multiple choice section of the 1994 resource ends on page 33. The multiple choice section of the 2002 resource ends on page 20. Feel free to move forward with the free response sections if you would like the extra practice!
Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 1984
Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 1994
Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 2002
The link below will take you to the College Board’s Free Response Questions test bank from past tests with answers and scoring guidelines to show you how student answers are scored.
Real Free Response Questions and Answers
The best way to prepare for taking the AP Calculus AB exam is to practice answering questions on the actual exam. That’s why you should plan to use past exams released by the College Board as a part of your exam prep process.
There are only a few REAL full-length college board exams with answers and scoring keys released from the test room available to the public, so please be sure to use these tests when you feel ready to test your knowledge of the concepts being tested on the exam.
DO NOT WASTE THE FULL-LENGTH PRACTICE TESTS!
Plan to take at least one of the full-length practice tests timed in one sitting so that you know where you are with your ability to pass this exam.
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch review videos:
Try taking a multiple choice section from a past exam: Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 1984
Note: you may want to check your answers with the key as you go, rather than after you take the entire test. This will give you immediate feedback on what you know vs what you missed and which concepts you need to focus on in the future
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch AP Unit reviews (video 4): College Board Unit Review Videos
More review videos: Intermolecular Forces
Try taking a free response section from a past exam: Real Free Response Questions and Answers
Note: I would start practicing with the older FRQs, and save the most recent FRQs for practice closer to the AP Exam
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch AP Unit reviews:
More in-depth review options:
Take practice quizzes as you have time throughout the week: AP Chemistry Multiple Choice Quizzes
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch review videos:
More in-depth review options:
Reaction Mechanisms and Rate Laws
Multi-Step Reaction Energy Profiles
Take an untimed full-length practice exam: 1994 AP Chemistry Exam
Note: you may want to time yourself and mark where you would have run out of time in an actual exam. Don’t stress about timing or cut yourself off, but it may help to be aware of your pacing and what you will want to work towards for actual exam pacing.
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch review videos:
More in-depth review options:
Review concept notes on questions you missed from your practice exam:
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch review videos:
More in-depth review options:
Chemical Equilibrium Constant & ICE Tables
Properties of the Equilibrium Constant
Take practice quizzes as you have time throughout the week: AP Chemistry Multiple Choice Quizzes
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch AP Unit reviews (video 5: acid/base equilibrium): College Board Unit Review Videos
More review videos:
More in-depth review options:
Introduction to Acids and Bases
Weak Acids and Bases Equilibrium
Try taking a multiple choice section from a past exam: Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 1994
If you need to know what is covered in this unit, use this resource: AP Chemistry Exam Unit Breakdowns
Watch AP Unit reviews (video 7): College Board Unit Review Videos
More review videos:
More in-depth review options:
Gibbs Free Energy & Equilibrium
Take a timed full-length practice exam: 1999 AP Chemistry Exam
Watch AP Daily videos to review concepts from the questions you missed on your practice exam: Get access To College Board AP Daily videos
You may also want to listen to the College Board’s tips on approaching different types of FRQ sections in their YouTube channel (check out videos 3, 6, or 8) College Board Unit Review Videos
Take 1-2 free response free sections from a past exam: Real Free Response Questions and Answers
Review concept notes on questions you missed from your practice exam:
You may also want to listen to the College Board’s tips on approaching different types of MCQs in their YouTube channel (check out videos 1, 2, or 8) College Board Unit Review Videos
Take 1-2 multiple choice sections from a past exam: Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 1994
Take one multiple choice section from a past exam under timed conditions: Real Multiple Choice Questions For Everyday Practice 2002
On a different day take one free response section from a past exam: Real Free Response Questions and Answers
Take a timed full-length practice exam:
Take practice quizzes throughout the week to test random bits of knowledge you need to do well: AP Chemistry Multiple Choice Quizzes
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