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VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Chemistry => Topic started by: Ematuro on February 04, 2011, 04:31:58 pm
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Anyone know which textbook has the most difficult questions? Or the best questions to work out of? I've got a good teacher who explains concepts really well so now I'm just trying to find a good textbook to work out of so I'd like some insight thanks xD
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I hear heinamann is quite good.
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Heinemann
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My teacher says heinemann has the best questions.
Even though the explanations are written in quite simplistic language.
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Eh, I never did textbook questions. They were fairly useless, I found. I used Heinemann too..
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Eh, I never did textbook questions. They were fairly useless, I found. I used Heinemann too..
what DID you do then?
Checkpoints or prac exams from the start?
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Eh, I never did textbook questions. They were fairly useless, I found. I used Heinemann too..
Agreed. I also used Heinemann, and thought the questions were of a pretty low standard.
Personally, I'd recommend the Neap books then Checkpoints.
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Eh, I never did textbook questions. They were fairly useless, I found. I used Heinemann too..
what DID you do then?
Checkpoints or prac exams from the start?
ahaha, that's a secret.. ;)
I got lazy with checkpoints too. :)
I just read and understood the material, and answered a few questions here, then did 10-15 practice exams for each semester.
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Take a look here:
http://vce.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,34320.0.html
(my first poll - so proud ^_^)
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wow Heinemann wins by a long shot LOL. By the way, would there be any recommended uni chemistry books that are quite relevant to the VCE course that I could use as well? I've heard learning further ahead of the VCE course helps deepen our understanding so I'd like to check it out for myself.
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wow Heinemann wins by a long shot LOL. By the way, would there be any recommended uni chemistry books that are quite relevant to the VCE course that I could use as well? I've heard learning further ahead of the VCE course helps deepen our understanding so I'd like to check it out for myself.
I sometimes use a book by Raymond Chang called 'Chemistry'
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My school uses Heinemann too, but our chemistry teacher recommends we also do questions from Nelson and also Study On. I really like the Study On questions, and I like the Nelson explanations, which I think are very clear.
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If you're looking for challenging questions, i suggest you try Neap and TSFX, textbooks aren't exactly designed to be 'challenging', they're just a resources to develop your foundations.
I use nelson though, it's quite good, heinemann is also pretty good.
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^^ TSFX questions are fairly basic btw. NEAP is much better.
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But are TSFX better than textbooks at least? Also, where would I get NEAP questions from? The NEAP study guide?
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But are TSFX better than textbooks at least? Also, where would I get NEAP questions from? The NEAP study guide?
Yep the NEAP study guides. TSFX has more concise notes, but thats about it.
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Geez, you think TSFX is concise? They were almost as long as the textbook minus most of the fluff (case studies and the like/irrelevant content). If you want short and sweet notes, get A+. Seriously, they're concise.
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If you're looking for challenging questions, i suggest you try Neap and TSFX, textbooks aren't exactly designed to be 'challenging', they're just a resources to develop your foundations.
I use nelson though, it's quite good, heinemann is also pretty good.
Tsfx just copies their questions from old vcaa exams. On the other hand, neap pay teachers to write the questions for their books. So neap is better in terms of exams and questions
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Do the heinemann questions to get you started.
Then do some of the review (heinemann has horrifically long reviews)
ONCE you did, go do checkpoints and selected questions from past papers.