AP Chemistry is less about memorizing more chemistry and more about answering the AP way — multi-step reasoning, particulate diagrams and FRQs scored point by point. Since 2007, Dr. R Ramajayam has coached students through exactly this, including a perfect-5 scorer now at Stanford.
All nine College Board units, prioritised by your diagnostic — not taught in a fixed order. Students typically need the most work on equilibrium, acids & bases, and thermodynamics, where AP questions chain several concepts together.
Half the exam is free-response, and graders award points for specific justifications. Every week you write FRQs against real scoring guidelines; we review exactly which point you earned or missed and why. Knowing chemistry is not the same as scoring it.
AP loves particle diagrams and lab-based questions — explain at the molecular level, interpret experimental setups, justify sources of error. We drill this style deliberately because school courses often skip it.
“I get As in class but my practice AP tests come out a 3.”
Class tests reward recall; the AP exam rewards multi-step reasoning under time pressure. We close that gap with timed mixed-unit practice and FRQ scoring discipline — the same chemistry, examined the AP way.
“Equilibrium and acid-base problems destroy me.”
These units chain concepts: ICE tables into Ka into buffers into titration curves. We rebuild the chain link by link, then practice the AP question styles until the setup step — where most errors happen — becomes automatic.
“I don't know how to write what the graders want on FRQs.”
Scoring guidelines are public and very literal. We study them together so you see exactly what earns a point — then train your answers to state cause, effect and justification explicitly every time.
A diagnostic across the nine units, one FRQ reviewed together, and a plan for your target score — no obligation.