Chem Checkpoint questions are too difficult!

[suskieanna]

My chem sac is next week so I am doing practice questions on chemistry checkpoints but they are just too difficult! there are even things that I never learnt at school! Is it just me whose finding it difficult? What do I do???

[Erutepa]

My chem sac is next week so I am doing practice questions on chemistry checkpoints but they are just too difficult! there are even things that I never learnt at school! Is it just me whose finding it difficult? What do I do???

I have noticed that there are quite a few questions that do ask about content that isn't actually in out study design. The best thing to do is to familerise yourself with the study design and skip questions that are outside of the study design.
That's what I do and it has served me well becusee there are plenty of useful questions in the checkpoint book.

In Reguards to being affronted with hard questions and mistakes, it's important to embrace errors and turn them into a learning experience. I think everyone will be making plenty of mistakes when they first reach a topic, but it is those who really analyse their shortcomings in knowledge that end up excelling. I've started documents where I write down all my mistakes and fill in little holes in knowedlge for just this purpose.