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Re: Year 12 Chemistry. Is it hard??
« Reply #15 on: August 01, 2010, 10:09:12 am »
None of it is that hard when you get your head around it, especially with spectroscopy, it's the most confusing topic at first but when you understand it becomes fairly simple.
I think for the entire of the chem course, the hardest are some of the stoichiometry-volumetric type questions, even after understanding it, which doesn't take long, i found it was the easiest to make mistakes/be tricked.
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Re: Year 12 Chemistry. Is it hard??
« Reply #16 on: August 01, 2010, 01:20:05 pm »
Anyway bottom line if you actually do the work you're set every night and pay attention in class you're set

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Re: Year 12 Chemistry. Is it hard??
« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2010, 11:39:42 pm »
never enjoyed chem cept for a bit of unit 4 = =;

but i survived okay since i did different types of questions from my friends study guides/notes

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Re: Year 12 Chemistry. Is it hard??
« Reply #18 on: August 03, 2010, 12:29:09 am »
Ask you're teachers about it, most of the people on this board are crazy smart as you'd see from the midyear results. If you're going ok then it shouldn't be too hard. Make sure to study for exams really early, I didn't and I made stupid mistakes that I wouldn't have made if I had prepared earlier.

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Re: Year 12 Chemistry. Is it hard??
« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2010, 12:56:55 am »
year 12 chem really isnt that hard, if u ensure that u have ur mind around the concepts and are able to understand what a stoichiometry question is asking you to do..
its certainly not in the league of specialist, and it really is overrated in dificulty.. im more of a maths person, but manged to get past chem unit 3 with a bit of reading every couple of nights and 20 or so praccy exams - i maintain that these are the optimal way to increase marks:)
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Re: Year 12 Chemistry. Is it hard??
« Reply #20 on: August 04, 2010, 12:46:30 pm »
You'll do fine as long as you don't overload yourself before exams :)
Unit 3 hit me like a bomb about 3 weeks before exams, and I really stuggled memorising the wide range of applications they get you to do in exam style questions... got a dissapointing C+ on midyears :(

so far unit 4 is looking manageable, and i'm really gonna put in everything i got for this one..
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