Solutions to Day 3 and Day 4 of the AP Chemistry Test Review

• Please go the the Events Calendar. Under the date of Saturday, April 30th, 2011 are the solutions to the problems with $ signs for the day 3 and day 4 review for the AP Chemistry test review. I hope to have the Podcast solutions for remaining three problems that were optional to do from the day 4 and day 5 reviews posted under the date Sunday, May 1st, 2011 by tomorrow morning. Make sure that you are proficient at all of the types of problems reviewed last week, but especially equilibrium problems.
• As you review for the test, make sure that you review all of the problems from last week and all of the problems from the Friday morning review sessions. At the review session held at school this morning, I noticed a lot of people using review books for the AP Chemistry exam. That is great, but make sure that you use the old free response problems as study material also. The review books usually do not match the complexity of the old free response questions.
• On Monday morning, be at school by 7:30 a.m. Be at the auxiliary gym by 7:45 a.m. If you need to borrow a calculator or you think that you need batteries for your calculator, come by room #327 prior to the exam.
• The format of the test is first the multiple choice section then the free response section. You will have 90 minutes to answer 75 multiple choice questions. You will only be given a periodic table for the multiple choice exam. You will need to remember basic equations and do simple calculations without the aid of a calculator. You will have a list of equations and constants for the free response section of the test. You will have two parts to the free response section. Part (A) is the part of the free response test that calculators are allowed. You will have 55 minutes for part (A). Part (B) does not allow calculators and is when you answer conceptual questions. You will have 40 minutes to finish part (B). The multiple choice part of the test is worth 50% of your overall grade and the free response is the other 50%.
• Remember, you are not only studying for the AP Chemistry exam, but also for the final for the AP Chemistry class, which will count for 20% of your semester grade. The test will given over a total of three days. On Tuesday, May 3rd, you will take the multiple choice section of the final. On the AP multiple choice test, you get roughly 50 seconds per question. The multiple choice test for the final will be designed with 41 multiple choice questions to be completed in a 50 minute time frame. Wednesday, May 4th is a late start day, so no part of the test will be given. We will choose the class T-shirt that day. On Thursday, May 5th, the non-calculator portion of the free response part of the exam will be given. Time limitations of the real AP Chemistry test will be followed, so you will have 40 minutes that day to complete the exam. On Friday, May 6th, the calculator portion of the free response part of the exam will be given. You normally have 55 minutes for this part of the exam, but will only be given 50 minutes. I will remove parts of the original questions to make it fair terms of time. On Monday, May 9th, I am going to reserve that day for any make-up exams that need to be completed. If you have completed all exams, you will be released from class. Remember, I will curve the final and then add the extra credit that you have earned by coming to the early morning sessions and the practice exams. After studying for the real AP Chemistry exam, you should not need to day any more studying for the class final. I will make sure to choose questions that address material that we have covered extensively in class and during the review process.
• For the class final, you will have an equilibrium problem for the first part of the calculator portion of the free response section. Since we did not have a test over thermodynamics (entropy, enthalpy, Gibb's free energy) and electrochemistry, I will guarantee you questions on the free response part of the final exam covering those topics. I will also guarantee you a question covering chemical reactions like the once given on the day 3 review from the last week of class.
• Feel free to call me on my cell phone if you have any questions tomorrow as you study. You should all have my number. If not, call someone in class that may have it.