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Next week on tuesday and wednesday I have orientation for college and I have to take a few placement tests. I have to take the tests for chemestry, math, and spanish, but the only one im actually worried about is chem. I took it when I was a junior, but since that was 2 years ago i forget alot about it. By chance does anyone know any good online reviews or guides for chemestry. I did well in chem so I know if i just find some stuff to review it will start coming back to me. thanks
DogDragon
19 Jul 2006, 5:37pm
Next week on tuesday and wednesday I have orientation for college and I have to take a few placement tests. I have to take the tests for chemestry, math, and spanish, but the only one im actually worried about is chem. I took it when I was a junior, but since that was 2 years ago i forget alot about it. By chance does anyone know any good online reviews or guides for chemestry. I did well in chem so I know if i just find some stuff to review it will start coming back to me. thanks
Hey look around in here http://chemistry.about.com/
Look in the upper left for what it has.
airbornflght
19 Jul 2006, 6:29pm
Ahh, chemistry is so much fun, I loved that class, just wish that I took AP Chem instead of enriched. I had a 98 in Enr. Chem, teacher said I should have taken AP. Although, it was still fun none the less. Avagrado's constant, Balancing Equations, Labs....Cant wait to take college Chem.
Leonardo
19 Jul 2006, 6:57pm
Baron's might have a review guide. Most of the larger book stores have a good selection of Baron's publications.
airborn, how do you enjoy balancing equations, thats the most boring part of chemistry. I do find some stuff interesting, but balancing is more like math....at a 1st grade level.
thanks dogdragon, its really helping me, especially those solved problems. I forgot how to do alot of that stuff because i havent seen it for so long.
edit - you saved my life. this has everything ive been looking for. thanks so much, you have no idea how awsome this is. I'm just gonna browse through this stuff for the next few days, and hopefully on tuesday I'll do really well and place out of chem.
DogDragon
20 Jul 2006, 12:47am
just trying to help, I know you would do the same
Oh GOOD LUCK
fingerflinger
23 Jul 2006, 2:55am
Chemistry was a crazy course for me. Our teacher was out literally half of the year with back surgery, and when she was in class, it was impossible to understand her very strong Nigerian accent. Crazy times. But even so, I did okay on my placement tests for college, so don't sweat it.
I learned how to play Euchre in my chemistry class. That's about it.
Cobalt
24 Jul 2006, 10:34pm
Can't forget the SparkNotes (http://www.sparknotes.com/chemistry/).
I think I used it to review the basics back before I took the AP. Otherwise, they've never let me down. ...I think.
omg I love this sparknotes!
WuGgaRoO
24 Jul 2006, 11:16pm
dude dont worry about placement exams...the worse u do the easier the class will be..also you don't wanna over study and do amazing cuz you might be put in this ridicilious class which u will struggle in..my suggestion, study a bit..not too much
the main point here is that he first yr of college is really tough on everyone..if ur in a high end chem class and u don't really like it..then itll be just that much harder
Ok i finally got back from the hell that they call orientation. Basically from 7:30am-9pm yesterday I was either taking tests, or being lectured about ways to do bad in school. Today I had to actually register for my classes and then I got to leave, so it was only like an hour and 1/2. Anyway I placed out of the first chem class, so now I only have to take 1 chem class instead of 2, and same with spanish. Math.....Well I have 4 calculus classes ahead of me, ill just leave it at that.
anyway thanks for the links
airbornflght
26 Jul 2006, 10:34pm
spanish is mandatory...oh **** I am ****ed.
I think I could test out of most science/math classes, but probably not anything that has to do with foreign language.
I can say my name and ask you how your day is, and that is about it, because I feel that I shouldnt have to learn spanish, just because they are coming into a country where the national language is English yet refuse to learn english, such as, if a whole city of americans moved to France, would it be right for us to suggest to them that they learn english instead of us learning French?
Nomad
26 Jul 2006, 10:51pm
My placement exams were kind of absurd.
I got 10/44 on my math placement exam (It was all Algebra II concepts, which was a disaster in my school, I had six teachers in one semester) which would have forced me to take two years of pre-high school and high school Algebra. Luckily, I passed the AP Calc exam and got completely exempted out of math.
I took my German exam after not having the class for two years and still placed into third year, although I'm not pursuing it.
spanish is mandatory...oh **** I am ****ed.
no spanish isnt mandatory, but it does fill in the requirements for one of my electives. I have to take a world cultural elective and I'd much rather take spanish than something like african tribal history. I'm terrible at history because I just find it so boring. Spanish comes easy to me so it was instinct for me to take it.
edit - airborn, dont worry they have intro spanish classes if you really are that worried. The name of the class is even called elementary school spanish, so you know its stuff like "hello how are you", "my name is:", "this is a shoe". OU has tiers of electives (basically levels), and I need to fill up 2 tier 2 electives, and the more advanced spanish I took meets that. I was initially going to take review of spanish just because I wanted something really easy, but then I found out it was a tier 1 course, and basically a waste of money because it wasnt going to benefit me in any way.
airbornflght
27 Jul 2006, 3:19am
Are you going to Oklahoma University? If so, I will be there next year most likely. I cant wait for college, aside from AP Comp Sci, and a few others, high school is really starting to feel like it is wasting my time.
ohio university, the only thing that im worried about are those 4 calc classes. I took pre-calc this year in highschool and the last 3 weeks or so we spent on actual calculus. We covered differential stuff and integral stuff. I actually find the calc stuff we went over to be alot easier than the trig and other stuff that we were doing the rest of the year.
airbornflght
27 Jul 2006, 12:29pm
ohio university, the only thing that im worried about are those 4 calc classes. I took pre-calc this year in highschool and the last 3 weeks or so we spent on actual calculus. We covered differential stuff and integral stuff. I actually find the calc stuff we went over to be alot easier than the trig and other stuff that we were doing the rest of the year.
damn, trying to find people I know that will be going with me, hopefully some of my friends will be going to OU, oh well, not that it matters too much, I just cant wait to get to college.
Most schools require a language now, or that you can place out of it with your high school language.
Buddy J
27 Jul 2006, 6:34pm
damn, trying to find people I know that will be going with me, hopefully some of my friends will be going to OU, oh well, not that it matters too much, I just cant wait to get to college.
I'll tell ya, as a grad from OU, test out of as much language stuff as you can. The classes are 5hr classes with extra lab time and they're a pain in the butt. Because everyone takes spanish, they fill up fast and if you're not lucky, the only open classes you can get into are either at 7 a.m. or after 5. :honoes:
I had to do three semesters of college spanish. :banghead:
airbornflght
27 Jul 2006, 7:07pm
I'll tell ya, as a grad from OU, test out of as much language stuff as you can. The classes are 5hr classes with extra lab time and they're a pain in the butt. Because everyone takes spanish, they fill up fast and if you're not lucky, the only open classes you can get into are either at 7 a.m. or after 5. :honoes:
I had to do three semesters of college spanish. :banghead:
are f'in kidding me! They better be super introductory for me, cause like I said, my spanish vocabulary might be 30 words; not counting numbers. Why are they 5 hour classes for? shoot, Im taking English I this year in concurrent enrollment, and it is only a 3hr class.
Buddy J
27 Jul 2006, 8:12pm
The first 4 semesters of foreign language are all 5 hour classes. After that, they become 3 hour classes.
Man, if you can, at least take it in summer school. Anything is better than taking it during a normal semester, where your teachers are all grad students who can't speak English.
tmh88
27 Jul 2006, 10:37pm
My spanish class is on monday tuesday thursday and friday from 12:10-1 so I kinda lucked out with that one. My earliest class is chem which starts at 9:10 which isnt terrible, but my last class is sociology which ends at 2 (1:10-2).
most classes of my classes are either 4 or 5 credit hours. To graduate I need 192, and this first semester im taking 18. (spanish - 4, sociology - 4, chem -5, math -5)
airbornflght
27 Jul 2006, 10:43pm
what are you going to major in?
My spanish class is on monday tuesday thursday and friday from 12:10-1 so I kinda lucked out with that one. My earliest class is chem which starts at 9:10 which isnt terrible, but my last class is sociology which ends at 2 (1:10-2).
most classes of my classes are either 4 or 5 credit hours. To graduate I need 192, and this first semester im taking 18. (spanish - 4, sociology - 4, chem -5, math -5)
Wow, I wish I would finish class at 2... but first classes at 10:30 or 12 is probably related to my classes going into late afternoon.
That's a lot of hours, I think you only need like 120-130 in most majors here. Maybe you guys scale it a little differently.
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