Content Update: AP® Chemistry beta

Thanks, IchabadKrane - we're happy to hear you're finding the new AP Chemistry course so useful! As for the Organic Chemistry course, we don't have any plans to add exercises or mastery to that course at the moment. However, we'll keep your feedback in mind for the future!

Lauren Rosebrugh (and everyone else), I just discovered that a new unit, Thermodynamics, is now part of AP/College Chemistry Beta. This includes 8 playlists, but 3 of them, Endothermic and exothermic process, Heat transfer and thermal equilibium, and Energy of phase changes, only have videos, no practice exercises. There are two Unit Quizzes. One of them comes after all three of the playlists with no practice exerices. The other one comes at the end. Only playlists that have practice exercises come between the first Unit Quiz and the one at the end. Finally, there's a Unit Test, which comes after everything else.

Will there eventually be a practice exercise for the above-mentioned playlists? And if ones do get added, will this mean that the Unit Test will have these additional skills added to it, thus making someone who had already mastered this unit have to go through the Unit Test again to get 100% mastery?

I first saw this new content in the iPad app. Since I know that sometimes content is incomplete in the apps, I checked the website to see if the three affected playlists have practice exercises there. They don't have them there, either.

Now that I see this new unit in AP/College Chemistry Beta, I plan to start working on it tomorrow (Friday, April 23/23 April). Since two of the three playlists missing practice exercises are the first two in the unit, and the other one is the fourth one in the unit, I will go back to any practice exercises that may get added, watching the videos again if I need a refresher.

Thanks for any help anyone can give me on this. Emoticon-free/Emoji-free responses preferred.

Regina Litman You're seeing all of the content in the newly-released Unit 6. While we may expand the number of exercises in the unit in the future, there are currently no plans to do so. I hope you enjoy working through the unit!

Hello! I've been using AP Chemistry Beta for the past few weeks now, is this course going to be adding Units 7-9 before the 2021 AP Exam? This would be really helpful to me and everyone studying for the 2021 AP Exam. 

Abhi We are planning to release exercises for Unit 7 before the exam - I hope you'll find them useful! Best of luck studying for the exam!

I've noticed a new unit called "Equilibrium" has been released, but there are no videos or articles on it. Was this intended?

Hi IchabadKrane - it was intended! We wanted to get as much content out to learners before the exam as possible, so we released the exercises for Unit 7 even though the videos weren't done yet.

Hi, you might already know that College Board has announced 3 "administrations" of AP exams (w/ possible addition of a 4th administration for make-up testing; undetermined), w/ the 1st chemistry exam on 5/7 and the 3rd on 6/10.

I'm taking the 3rd exam. Given the gap between the above dates, do you plan to release more content between them?
Thanks

Hi calvin! Unfortunately, we won't be adding any more content to the course before the 3rd sitting of the exam on 6/10. However, we just turned on Course mastery for AP Chemistry beta, which opens up the Course challenge. The Course challenge pulls questions from all of the units in the course (currently, there are 7) and can help you determine where you need extra review. I hope that helps with your studying. Best of luck!

I'm excited, but if I were to choose one, which one should I practice? The beta or the original? 

Hi Blueprint - I would strongly recommend the beta course! The beta currently has over 50 practice exercises (the original has none) as well as over 100 new videos created just for the course. Additionally, we'll be finishing the beta in the next few months and replacing the original course with it. Let me know if you have any more questions, and happy learning!

The course is so helpful for me because my school doesn't provide any AP classes. Thank you! It says that the first seven units of AP chemistry are available. Does that mean the rest will be accessible soon? If so, will they be uploaded by May AP exams in 2022?? Thank you so much!

Hi Esther - we'll be releasing content for Units 8 and 9 over the next two months (so in plenty of time for the 2022 exams!). I hope you'll find it useful!

Hello there,

I just started this course and I'm loving it so far. My only question is that will it be ready for ap 2022?

Hi Sana Alansari - it will! We're planning to release the remainder of the course (covering Units 8 and 9) over the next month and a half. I hope you enjoy taking the complete course!

I love the videos that have worked examples in this course so much!!! Will the course be finished by March 2022 cause I will have my AP test in May 2022. THANKS A LOT!!!

Hi Trân Nguyễn - it will! We're planning to release the remainder of the course (covering Units 8 and 9) over the next month and a half. I hope you enjoy taking the complete course!

Hello there,

What is the difference between the AP Chemistry Beta and the normal AP Chemistry course? It seems that AP Chem Beta will replace the normal AP Chemistry course. Is that true? Also, will I be ready for the exam if I only do the completed AP Chemistry course on Khan? Thanks a lot, Lauren!

Hi teletraan_1 - good questions! The AP Chemistry beta course is going to fully replace the legacy AP Chemistry course in just a few weeks. Compared to the legacy course, the beta course will have over 150 new videos as well as over 65 new practice exercises. The beta course doesn't cover absolutely everything you might see on the AP Chemistry exam, but it can help prepare you for a majority of the exam. I hope that helps, and happy learning!

Can this be used as a stand alone course, and are there any experiments that I could do to go along with this?

Hi CarlyW - the AP Chemistry course doesn't cover lab skills or include any experiments, so it isn't entirely stand-alone. However, it does cover a majority of the remaining content in the course, so it can still prepare you well for the exam. I hope you'll find it useful!