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CPScienceDude wrote:I'm taking Honors Chemistry as a freshman this upcoming school year. What should I expect?
Expect it to be somewhat challenging (I say somewhat since I’ve found that chemistry is one of my stronger subjects since I bypassed honors and went straight to AP Chem and since my college chemistry grades are on average better than a lot of my other grades heh, but not everyone’s the same way), since that’s what honors classes are at least supposed to do.

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Ok cool. I’m going div C. My middle school team doesnt let freshmen try out. My highschool team needs more people anyway
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CPScienceDude wrote:I'm taking Honors Chemistry as a freshman this upcoming school year. What should I expect?
It'll be a lot of hard work, but it'll be worth it.

Of course, I'm drawing off of my experience of only ever having one chemistry class, and it was A.P. Chemistry, so your experience may differ. I was 1 or 2 questions from getting a 3. And I think I coulda studied my way to that 3, but I didn't expect to do that good, so I didn't study my hardest in the weeks before the test. I did study, but there's always more you coulda done...
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Things2Do wrote: Of course, I'm drawing off of my experience of only ever having one chemistry class, and it was A.P. Chemistry, so your experience may differ. I was 1 or 2 questions from getting a 3. And I think I could have studied my way to that 3, but I didn't expect to do that well, so I didn't study my hardest in the weeks before the test. I did study, but there's always more you could have done...
If you want me to go even further, I could correct "A.P." to "AP" and "1 or 2" to "one or two", but I don't suppose you'd like that.
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Things2do wrote:
CPScienceDude wrote:I'm taking Honors Chemistry as a freshman this upcoming school year. What should I expect?
It'll be a lot of hard work, but it'll be worth it.

Of course, I'm drawing off of my experience of only ever having one chemistry class, and it was A.P. Chemistry, so your experience may differ. I was 1 or 2 questions from getting a 3. And I think I coulda studied my way to that 3, but I didn't expect to do that good, so I didn't study my hardest in the weeks before the test. I did study, but there's always more you coulda done...
Honors isn't AP. I'm taking honors this year and it's really really easy (at least my teacher is). An AP chem course would be much harder.
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Things2do wrote:
CPScienceDude wrote:I'm taking Honors Chemistry as a freshman this upcoming school year. What should I expect?
It'll be a lot of hard work, but it'll be worth it.

Of course, I'm drawing off of my experience of only ever having one chemistry class, and it was A.P. Chemistry, so your experience may differ. I was 1 or 2 questions from getting a 3. And I think I coulda studied my way to that 3, but I didn't expect to do that good, so I didn't study my hardest in the weeks before the test. I did study, but there's always more you coulda done...
Honors isn't AP. I'm taking honors this year and it's really really easy (at least my teacher is). An AP chem course would be much harder.
AP is not that much harder than Honors, although it definitely depends on the teacher. Only a few topics in AP aren't usually covered in Honors (more details on acids and bases, electrochemistry, etc.).
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kate! wrote:
Things2Do wrote: Of course, I'm drawing off of my experience of only ever having one chemistry class, and it was A.P. Chemistry, so your experience may differ. I was 1 or 2 questions from getting a 3. And I think I could have studied my way to that 3, but I didn't expect to do that well, so I didn't study my hardest in the weeks before the test. I did study, but there's always more you could have done...
If you want me to go even further, I could correct "A.P." to "AP" and "1 or 2" to "one or two", but I don't suppose you'd like that.
"A.P." is a acronym for "Advanced Placement," and "coulda" is a word, according to my Southern dictionary, myself, and most of the people that I know. As for the numbers, my mother's autocorrect is strange...
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Things2do wrote:
kate! wrote:
Things2Do wrote: Of course, I'm drawing off of my experience of only ever having one chemistry class, and it was A.P. Chemistry, so your experience may differ. I was 1 or 2 questions from getting a 3. And I think I could have studied my way to that 3, but I didn't expect to do that well, so I didn't study my hardest in the weeks before the test. I did study, but there's always more you could have done...
If you want me to go even further, I could correct "A.P." to "AP" and "1 or 2" to "one or two", but I don't suppose you'd like that.
"A.P." is a acronym for "Advanced Placement," and "coulda" is a word, according to my Southern dictionary, myself, and most of the people that I know. As for the numbers, my mother's autocorrect is strange...
You don't abbreviate NASA as N.A.S.A., do you? I didn't think so.
Also, CollegeBoard uses the term AP, not A.P., but if you would like to dispute even further, be my guest.
The point is, no one likes posts "correcting" people's grammar or spelling or whatever. They literally don't do anything except annoy people. I know that originally this wasn't a grammar nazi type post but still, there's a reason why Prescriviptists (lol I probably butchered the spelling) exists.
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dxu46 wrote:I don't see anything wrong with this post but I wanted to edit it anyway to join in on the fun
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