AP Class Reflection Paper

Experiencing a course that is new is both intimidating and challenging at the same time. The realization of taking a harder class made me change my studying habits as well as doing independent learning to fully understand the concept of the materials that were given. Even though people say, ”You should get out of your comfort zone and do something different “ is something that I was afraid of since it was not something I used to; but I learned that every once in awhile people should take a risk and be open minded in everything they do.

Taking my first AP class was something that changed my life for the better in realizing how different high school teaching is from college teaching. I was always fascinated in chemistry when I took the course during sophomore year; learning about how chemical react with one another creating something phenomenon and learning how a reaction takes place in a microscopic levelled me to take AP Chemistry. AP Chemistry teaches chemistry in a whole different level where chemical reactions can determine whether it is either a redox/ oxidation equations, equilibrium, kinetics, thermodynamics and etc. The class is also a faster pace as well because the teacher needs to teach the student the topics they need to …show more content…
Also, I realized that I could not cram it all in the night before a test either since there are a lot of information that needed to be taught there are going to be fewer exams causing multiple chapters to be one test. Self studying is a major learning ability that I had to do by myself since the class was a fast paced, so I had to learn materials on my own and prepare myself because the topics that were taught are the building blocks for the following chapters and without the basic knowledge I would get lost/ confused through the whole