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Best Chem textbooks?
« on: November 20, 2011, 04:57:56 pm »
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Is Hein. methods considered inefficient? This is the book I follow.

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« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2011, 06:09:48 pm »
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Quote from: Bazza16 on November 20, 2011, 06:07:01 pm
Hein is a very good chem text i'm pretty sure

Agree, I think most people will agree that it is the best textbook for VCE chem. I think the Nelson one has more questions though.
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« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 06:41:14 pm »
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^yes Nelson has much more questions than Hein.
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Re: Best Chem textbooks?
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2011, 07:39:28 pm »
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What about study on chem (jacaranda?) 
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Re: Best Chem textbooks?
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2011, 08:24:41 pm »
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Quote from: Hercules on November 20, 2011, 07:39:28 pm
What about study on chem (jacaranda?) 
Crappy tbh, good for the bare essentials but crappy if you want to know absolutely everything about the course - go for Heinemann.
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Re: Best Chem textbooks?
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2011, 08:37:36 pm »
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Oh ok thanks. I think ill do the study on book over holidays since my school is using it to understand the basics then go through heinemann at home during the semester to go through all the details. Hopefully i go through with this plan :D
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2011, 09:20:10 pm »
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Very good advice, and this pretty much applied to any quantitative VCE subject!
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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2011, 11:28:41 am »
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Thing is you are not really doing much in the holidays anyway. I was studying for Specialist, Physics and Chemistry at the same time during the holidays, and it gave me a huge headstart in term 1. Although I didn't remember everything I studied for, but I was able to pick it up very quickly once we begin doing chemistry again. And while other students are learning the new stuff, I'm already going through reviews and doing exam questions.

So it's definitely worth to go ahead and go through the textbook for all the subjects.
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Re: Best Chem textbooks?
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2011, 12:28:28 pm »
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just a question, how do you manage this with a LOAD of holiday homework your subject teachers give you?
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« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2011, 01:38:23 pm »
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I'm this is true with other schools, but my teacher didn't give me much homework. Basically stuff like read the first 3 chapters of the textbook etc. Which is what I plan to do with the whole book anyway.

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« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2011, 11:41:26 pm »
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Hey huaxiadragon,
thanks for the advice..it is really useful for me to apply throughout my VCE chem
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« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2011, 11:28:27 pm »
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You are a great aspiration good luck in the future with your further studies and thank you for the advice
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« Reply #12 on: December 03, 2011, 12:25:19 am »
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Btw is Nelson 1/2 or Hein 1/2 better?
Give me opinion regarding to the benefits of these two. :D
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Re: Best Chem textbooks?
« Reply #13 on: December 03, 2011, 07:38:13 pm »
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what the hell? I never made such a thread...

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« Reply #14 on: December 03, 2011, 07:40:31 pm »
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Btw there is actually no difference between Heinemann Chemistry and Heinemann Chemistry Enhanced except for the pictures LOL :P
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