For those who have GC Destroyer

[0rgansm]

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How do you use it??

I expected a big book.. But damn, 700 pages of handwritten general chemistry

Anyone come up with a good approach to tackling the book?

 

[JLT223]

Do 30 questions at a time, review only when you finish all 30. Make notes of anything and everything you don't know.

 

[FutureDent20]

How do you use it??

I expected a big book.. But damn, 700 pages of handwritten general chemistry

Anyone come up with a good approach to tackling the book?

I think you are referring to the General Chemistry destroyer and not the DAT destroyer. Those are valuable notes written by Dr. Romano. I would suggest you either use it as notes to refresh your memory. Or if you already watched chad's videos and doing DAT destroyer problems, if you still confused about a topic refer to that book (That's what I did). Most of the questions in destroyer are explained there in little more detail. it also has questions about that specific topic and it helped me tons to clarify something that I was confused (specially in periodic trend). Hope this helps.

 

[0rgansm]

Do 30 questions at a time, review only when you finish all 30. Make notes of anything and everything you don't know.

For the new GC Destroyer? Or are you thinking about actual Destroyers GC section?
The format is pretty peculiar. Unlike normal Destroyer, you're not working through question after question with the answers in the end.

It's pretty scattered with little concept reviews, questions, explanations, maybe some diagrams to display a concept conceptually. I'm not even sure how many problems are in each section, which kinda throws me off... I have no idea how long itll take per chapter

EDIT: didn't see futuredents post

 

[0rgansm]

I think you are referring to the General Chemistry destroyer and not the DAT destroyer. Those are valuable notes written by Dr. Romano. I would suggest you either use it as notes to refresh your memory. Or if you already watched chad's videos and doing DAT destroyer problems, if you still confused about a topic refer to that book (That's what I did). Most of the questions in destroyer are explained there in little more detail. it also has questions about that specific topic and it helped me tons to clarify something that I was confused (specially in periodic trend). Hope this helps.

Did you also use Odyssey?
I really like the format of Oddysey, and plan to go through it before tackling DAT Destroyers OC section.

I had initially planned on working through GC Destroyer (wish they came up with a more clever name) before DAT Destroyers GC section, but the book stumped me. I'm not sure if it's meant for that.

Should I just start DAT Destroyers GC section and mix in GC Destroyer here and there? Kind of bums me out, since I feel like those 700 pages of notes have extremely valuable information that I may miss out on

 

[FutureDent20]

GC destroyer calculations are not meant for DAT that's why if you read beginning of the book Dr. Romano mentions to use calculator when doing the calculation. Other than that everything else is still the same. Have you watched chads videos? i would def watch those then start DAT destroyer and every topic you have difficulty in refer to GC destroyer and do that topic. Even after you finish with DAT destroyer, lets say you are taking practice test if you feel weak in one area on the test, again refers to GC destroyer. Doing that you're going to almost go over the GC destroyer or maybe all of it.

For Odyssey, yes i did use it. It is def tricky! but it prepares you for DAT destroyer O-chem. After I did the odyssey, G-chem destroyer was piece of cake. But it takes time to go over all the 24 chapters (40-60 problems). Again, depending on when you're taking your DAT, if you have time do what i did. But if you don't, go over DAT destroyer first then refer to odyssey on areas your weak on (just like G-chem, explained above).