AP Exam Workbook for Chemistry: The Central Science, 11th edition

By: Edward Waterman and Stephen A. Lemay and Brad Brown and Theodore E. Brown

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Synopsis: Advanced Placement Chemistry is more than just a course in first-year college general chemistry. Whether or not your AP exam score qualifies you for college credit, there are many advantages of taking Advanced Placement Chemistry. It is an opportunity, while you're still in high school, to prepare for college by challenging yourself with rigorous college-level work. Your classmates will often be some of the best and brightest students at your school and the peer group you study with will enhance your own abilities as a student. It is likely that your teacher will be among the best at your school and he or she will have invaluable knowledge and insight. Besides acquiring advanced knowledge of chemistry, the science central to all other scientific disciplines, you will also develop your skills in analytical thinking, abstract reasoning, problem solving and effective communication. You will enhance your study skills, both as an individual and within a group, and you will increase your own ability to learn how to learn. A second year of chemistry in high school will give you a decided competitive advantage over your future college classmates who have not taken Advanced Placement classes in high school. Advanced Placement Chemistry can serve as a measure of "survival insurance" for that upcoming pivotal year in life: the first year of college.