AP Central: AP Chemistry Course and Exam Description
1. What is the course design and what is its purpose?
AP Chemistry is designed to be parallel of a chemistry course usually taken during the first year of college. In taking a high school chemistry course, there is a probability of making a score of 3 or higher on the AP Chemistry Exam. The revisions to the course and exam emphasize skills that college and university chemistry professors expect from students.
2. What are the course prerequisites?
The recommended requirements for enrolling into an AP Chemistry class is to complete a high school chemistry course and successfully complete a second year of algebra or an equivalent math course.
3. How much class time is recommended and how many hours of…show more content… Outline the course and give percentages for each major topic.
There are six parts of the the course. Viewed as the Big Ideas, they include the following:
Big Idea 1: The chemical elements are fundamental building of materials of matter, and all matter can be understood in the terms of arrangements of atoms. These atoms retain their identity in chemical reactions.
Big Idea 2: Chemical and physical properties of materials can be explained by the structure and the arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules and the forces between them.
Big Idea 3: Changes in matter involve the rearrangement and/or reorganization of atoms and/or the transfer of electrons.
Big Idea 4: Rates of chemical reactions are determined by details of molecular collisions.
Big Idea 5: The laws of the thermodynamics describe the essential role of energy and explain and predict the direction of changes in matter.
Big Idea 6: Any bond or intermolecular attraction that can be formed can be broken. These two processes are in a dynamic competition, sensitive to initial conditions and external perturbations.
i. What do these percentages mean?
The percentages were not included in this addition of the AP Chemistry Course and Exam