Jun 21, 2026 | Workshops |
AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON AP SUMMER WORKSHOPS: Please Read. Why are you receiving this email? Because you have signed up for, and paid for, the AP Chemistry Summer Workshop 2026 at Adrian Dingle’s Chemistry Pages/ChemEducator LLC. What has happened? Unfortunately,...
Jun 13, 2026 | 2026 Exam, VSEPR |
As time has passed, and as the AP exam has been devastated in terms of its difficulty, I’ve decreasingly seen questions that pique my interest. Approximately once every decade the AP exam throws up something that propels me into deeper investigation. Now,...
May 19, 2026 | 2026 Exam, AP, College Board |
If you’re looking for my answers to the released 2026 Free Response Questions, you’ll need to wait a little while. There are plenty of people who have worked these problems already, and nobody needs a chemistry expert to work these problems, you can hire a...
Apr 25, 2026 | Stoichiometry |
I’ve always hated BCA tables. As such, I’ve never used them so don’t need to ‘kick them to the curb’, but you should. I’ve hated them mostly because it’s just another one of those things that in my eyes is an unnecessary...
May 29, 2025 | 2025 AP Chemistry, AP |
Having screwed-up the original administration of the 2025 AP Chemistry FRQs by failing to listen to just about everyone on Earth that knows anything about AP Chemistry, the College Board followed-up that enormous mistake with … well, another error! This is of...
May 16, 2025 | AP, AP Chemistry, Tutoring |
An increasingly popular way for high-achieving students to study AP Chemistry is emerging. I’ve been tutoring students in A Level, IB and AP chemistry for 35 years. There probably aren’t too many people kicking around anywhere that have done more hours of...
May 13, 2025 | 2025 AP Chemistry |
EDIT: Final Answers are published here The 2025 FRQs were perhaps a modicum harder than 2024, but how could that possibly have not been the case? Even with a touch more difficulty the questions remain staggeringly predictable surrounding things like buffers, pKa, the...
May 13, 2025 | 2025 AP Chemistry, College Board |
Following umpteen other missteps, most notably literally allowing cheating on the AP exams in 2020 and in 2021 by having zero control over who was in the room with students when they took the exam at home, the College Board once again exhibited unconscionable...
Feb 20, 2025 | AP, College Board, UNIT 08 |
It wasn’t that long ago that we were teaching that d-orbitals were involved in the hybridization process of species with more than four electron domains around the central atom, and that AP exam questions were asking about the same (2006, 7(b)(ii)). Then, along...
Aug 2, 2024 | Uncategorized |
I talk about the importance of referencing the CED all the time. What that actually means is the importance of understanding and interpreting the TOPIC LOs and their associated Essential Knowledge statements. The rest of the the CED (skills, CB propaganda, educational...
