Class overview

The AP® Chemistry course provides students with a college-level foundation to support future advanced coursework in chemistry. Students cultivate their understanding of chemistry through inquiry-based investigations, as they explore content such as: atomic structure, intermolecular forces and bonding, chemical reactions, kinetics, thermodynamics, and equilibrium.

The AP® Chemistry course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first college year. This course is taken with the idea in mind that students will likely take the AP® Exam to receive college credit or placement at the student’s college of choice. For some students, this course enables them to undertake, in their first year, second-year work in the chemistry sequence at their institution or to register in courses in other fields where general chemistry is a prerequisite. For other students, the AP® Chemistry course fulfills the laboratory science requirement and frees time for other courses. Such credit and placement tied to the AP® Chemistry exam could lead to students’ readiness for and engagement in the study of advanced topics in subsequent college courses.

Please Note: AP Chemistry is an every day class - meaning even if you do not have homework, you are spending at least 20 minutes a day reviewing your material or reading the textbook, or doing activities out of the workbook!