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Administered in May each year, the Advanced Placement Chemistry exam tests high school students on concepts present in introductory-level college courses. Scoring well on the AP exam can also earn your college credit. But earning that coveted score of 5 requires polished time management and study skills, as well as a dedication to mastering the challenging Chemistry concepts
What Topics are on the AP Chemistry Exam?
The AP Chemistry Exam will challenge you to prove your prowess in the following areas:
- Experimental design
- Analyzing data and identifying patterns or explaining phenomena
- Creating or analyzing atomic and molecular views to explain observations
- Articulating and then translating between representations of data
- Following logical/analytical pathways to solve a problem
The AP Chemistry test centers around nine major units, covering all the topics covered in the AP Chemistry course.
- Unit 1: Atomic Structures and Properties – moles and molar mass, periodic trends, atomic structure, and electron configuration, etc.
- Unit 2: Molecular & Ionic Compound Structure and Properties – chemical bonds, Lewis diagrams, and the structures of metals and alloys, etc.
- Unit 3: Intermolecular Forces and Properties –ideal gas law, kinetic molecular theory, solutions, and mixtures, etc.
- Unit 4: Chemical Reactions – stoichiometry, physical and chemical changes, and acid-base reactions, etc.
- Unit 5: Kinetics – reaction rate, and steady-state approximation, etc.
- Unit 6: Thermodynamics – energy diagrams, heat transfer, thermal equilibrium, and Hess’s Law, etc.
- Unit 7: Equilibrium – Le Chatelier’s Principle, the direction of reversible reactions, and calculating equilibrium concentrations, etc.
- Unit 8: Acids and Bases – acid-base titrations, molecular structures of acids and bases, and the Henderson-Hasselbalch equation, etc.
- Unit 9: Applications of Thermodynamics – cell potential and free energy, coupled reactions, electrolysis, and Faraday’s Law, etc.
How Long Does the AP Chemistry Exam Last?
The AP Chemistry exam includes 60 multiple-choice questions and 7 free-response questions, including 3 long essays and 4 short-answer questions. Each section represents 50% of your score. Lasting 3 hours and 15 minutes, you’ll have 90 minutes to complete the multiple-choice section in part 1, and 105 minutes for the free-response questions in part 2.
The multiple-choice section on the AP Chemistry exam assesses both content knowledge and science practices. Some of these questions are part of question groups, which consist of a few questions that ask about one set of data.