Prepare General Chemistry

[ssky8006]

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Hi there~🙂

I'm starting pre-pharm on this summer semester with English and Math and I'm gonna attend to General Chemistry on next semester. According to the class schedule book, before register Gen Chem, I need to take Chem placement test or finish the basic level of chemistry.

I learn and liked chemistry when I was a high school student and got pretty good score but I graduated my high school in Korea and it is almost 10 years ago. I have BS degree but it has no relevance with science.

So I might be feel strange to restart studying chem again(especially with English) and have no idea how to prepare the chem placement test but I'm sure if I can choose a nice book, that'll be helpful. Or If there is a website that I can study, that will be good for me too.

Can anybody give me some suggestion to buy a book or find out a site? I tried to search at amazon.com it was hard to make a decision. Please give me some help to skip the basic level of chem class.

(If I wrote some wrong expression, sorry about that. I'm still studying English. Probably....I have to study in my whole life.)

 

[lightfire22000]

General Chemistry, by Linus Pauling, is the best Chemistry textbook out there I think.

 

[tommyVoltage]

It's just a placement test for General Chemistry. I don't know if it will be that challenging because you're being placed in the very basics. I wouldn't even guess how to prepare for that test. Maybe it will have some math problems on it too?

 

[diastole]

I have no idea what is on a chemistry placement test but I bet knowledge of high school level chemistry is good enough to pass. Maybe you could pick up an AP Chemistry study guide and relearn the old high school material.

 

[Maxpwer222]

- Stoichiometry
- Strong acid/base
- General periodic table trends
- Maybe some early organic chem. Naming simple compounds, Hexane etc.
- ICE tables
- Energy and chemical reactions
- Gases pV=nRT

Gen. Chem is not really hard. It is mostly simple equations and you just need to know when to apply them. I would recommend trying to find the Gen Chem website of whatever college you are going too and see if they have the syllabus posted.

 

[tommyVoltage]

http://www.foothill.edu/placement/chem.pdf

I imagine most school's placement test will be like this. Pretty basic.

 

[ssky8006]

General Chemistry, by Linus Pauling, is the best Chemistry textbook out there I think.

Thanks! I'm gonna take a look of this book in the bookstore today.👍

 

[jasonbourne]

Hi there~🙂

I'm starting pre-pharm on this summer semester with English and Math and I'm gonna attend to General Chemistry on next semester. According to the class schedule book, before register Gen Chem, I need to take Chem placement test or finish the basic level of chemistry.

I learn and liked chemistry when I was a high school student and got pretty good score but I graduated my high school in Korea and it is almost 10 years ago. I have BS degree but it has no relevance with science.

So I might be feel strange to restart studying chem again(especially with English) and have no idea how to prepare the chem placement test but I'm sure if I can choose a nice book, that'll be helpful. Or If there is a website that I can study, that will be good for me too.

Can anybody give me some suggestion to buy a book or find out a site? I tried to search at amazon.com it was hard to make a decision. Please give me some help to skip the basic level of chem class.

(If I wrote some wrong expression, sorry about that. I'm still studying English. Probably....I have to study in my whole life.)

I think Gen chem silberberg is arguably the best out there. It has lots of questions and you can get the solution manual. Trust me, this book is perfect

 

[ssky8006]

It's just a placement test for General Chemistry. I don't know if it will be that challenging because you're being placed in the very basics. I wouldn't even guess how to prepare for that test. Maybe it will have some math problems on it too?

No, My math level is pretty good than I expected. (eligible for calculus or higher)
I guess the main problem is I need to be familiar with Chemistry words in English.

 

[ssky8006]

I have no idea what is on a chemistry placement test but I bet knowledge of high school level chemistry is good enough to pass. Maybe you could pick up an AP Chemistry study guide and relearn the old high school material.

Thank you for your advice. I will check some book in the book store.

 

[ssky8006]

- Stoichiometry
- Strong acid/base
- General periodic table trends
- Maybe some early organic chem. Naming simple compounds, Hexane etc.
- ICE tables
- Energy and chemical reactions
- Gases pV=nRT

Gen. Chem is not really hard. It is mostly simple equations and you just need to know when to apply them. I would recommend trying to find the Gen Chem website of whatever college you are going too and see if they have the syllabus posted.

Thank you! I will try it.

 

[ssky8006]

http://www.foothill.edu/placement/chem.pdf

I imagine most school's placement test will be like this. Pretty basic.

Thank you again. I already tried to find some of examples but I couldn't found enough questions at the google search results.

 

[ssky8006]

I think Gen chem silberberg is arguably the best out there. It has lots of questions and you can get the solution manual. Trust me, this book is perfect

Thanks! I'm gonna go to the bookstore and try to find this book.

 

[jasonbourne]

Thanks! I'm gonna go to the bookstore and try to find this book.

Another thing i am sure you will ike about this book is that the questions are very similar to PCAT questions. Very similar in length and strength. This book gave me awesome chem scores.