Rate sections from Berkeley Chemistry by order of Difficulty.

[misplacedshadow]

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Hey All,

I just wanted to know the order of the Berkeley Review Chapter sections for Book 2 from hardest to easiest. These are the sections in the book.

Section VI: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VII: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VIII: Thermochemistry

Section IX: Kinetics

Section X: Electrochemistry


I wanted to do the sections starting with the hardest first and then ending with the easiet. What topics do most student find most difficult? What order should I do them so i do the most difficult section first and easiest section last?

 

[MedPR]

Hey All,

I just wanted to know the order of the Berkeley Review Chapter sections for Book 2 from hardest to easiest. These are the sections in the book.

Section VI: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VII: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VIII: Thermochemistry

Section IX: Kinetics

Section X: Electrochemistry


I wanted to do the sections starting with the hardest first and then ending with the easiet. What topics do most student find most difficult? What order should I do them so i do the most difficult section first and easiest section last?

VI and VII are the same

 

[fas376]

Hey All,

I just wanted to know the order of the Berkeley Review Chapter sections for Book 2 from hardest to easiest. These are the sections in the book.

Section VI: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VII: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VIII: Thermochemistry

Section IX: Kinetics

Section X: Electrochemistry


I wanted to do the sections starting with the hardest first and then ending with the easiet. What topics do most student find most difficult? What order should I do them so i do the most difficult section first and easiest section last?

If you think Section 6, Phases and Phase Changes, is hard, wait until you get to Section 7, Phases and Phase Changes.

 

[Temperature101]

Hey All,

I just wanted to know the order of the Berkeley Review Chapter sections for Book 2 from hardest to easiest. These are the sections in the book.

Section VI: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VII: Phases and Phase Changes

Section VIII: Thermochemistry

Section IX: Kinetics

Section X: Electrochemistry


I wanted to do the sections starting with the hardest first and then ending with the easiet. What topics do most student find most difficult? What order should I do them so i do the most difficult section first and easiest section last?

I hate electrochemistry...

 

[411309]

I have no idea. I felt like I did good on all of those chapters. The only chapter i had slight issues on was kinetics where some of the passages were tough.

but i also felt like tbr physics was tougher than GC.

 

[misplacedshadow]

If you think Section 6, Phases and Phase Changes, is hard, wait until you get to Section 7, Phases and Phase Changes.

lol, You silly rabbit you, I meant section 6 gases. I messed up copying and pasteing.

 

[misplacedshadow]

I hate electrochemistry...

Thanks for your input, Then I believe I will start with that section first.

 

[misplacedshadow]

I have no idea. I felt like I did good on all of those chapters. The only chapter i had slight issues on was kinetics where some of the passages were tough.

but i also felt like tbr physics was tougher than GC.

Thank You. I guess I will do Kinetics second. So do Electrochemistry, then Kinetics. Okay what order to do the last 3 sections...

 

[fas376]

Thank You. I guess I will do Kinetics second. So do Electrochemistry, then Kinetics. Okay what order to do the last 3 sections...

No. Kinetics is easy shi.t.

I would say the hardest is electrochemistry, then thermochemistry (wait until you get to the end of the chapter where they talk about refrigerators), then kinetics, then phase changes, and lastly gases.

Also, I think the second book is easier than the first. The first book had long a.ss chapters (the atomic theory one was like f.ucking 60 pages). And I hated the acid/bases/solution chemistry part of it. Second book is much easier in my opinion.

 

[MedPR]

No. Kinetics is easy shi.t.

I would say the hardest is electrochemistry, then thermochemistry (wait until you get to the end of the chapter where they talk about refrigerators), then kinetics, then phase changes, and lastly gases.

Also, I think the second book is easier than the first. The first book had long a.ss chapters (the atomic theory one was like f.ucking 60 pages). And I hated the acid/bases/solution chemistry part of it. Second book is much easier in my opinion.

I agree that kinetics was pretty easy.

I would rank those sections thermo > electro > phase changes > gases > kinetics.

 

[fas376]

I agree that kinetics was pretty easy.

I would rank those sections thermo > electro > phase changes > gases > kinetics.

At least we agree that phase changes, gases, and kinetics are all easy chapters. Thermo and electrochem were definitely the toughest (electrochem is very unintuitive)

 

[misplacedshadow]

No. Kinetics is easy shi.t.

I would say the hardest is electrochemistry, then thermochemistry (wait until you get to the end of the chapter where they talk about refrigerators), then kinetics, then phase changes, and lastly gases.

Also, I think the second book is easier than the first. The first book had long a.ss chapters (the atomic theory one was like f.ucking 60 pages). And I hated the acid/bases/solution chemistry part of it. Second book is much easier in my opinion.

Thank You fas376, you just planned out my entire week. Today, Electrochemistry, Friday, Thermochemistry, Saturday Kinetics, Sunday Phase Changes and Monday Gases. Just going to read the contents of TBR books and take a **** load of really good notes. Once that is done, memorize the notes and then move to practice questions.

 

[misplacedshadow]

Thanks guys, this thread really helped me a lot on deciding what to do. I will ask again the order of difficulty for physics once I am done with the gen chem.

 

[fas376]

Thank You fas376, you just planned out my entire week. Today, Electrochemistry, Friday, Thermochemistry, Saturday Kinetics, Sunday Phase Changes and Monday Gases. Just going to read the contents of TBR books and take a **** load of really good notes. Once that is done, memorize the notes and then move to practice questions.

👍

Took me almost 3 days to fully comprehend everything in the solution chemistry chapter. Took me about 45 minutes to go through the gases chapter. You'll be fine. Good luck.

 

[misplacedshadow]

👍

Took me almost 3 days to fully comprehend everything in the solution chemistry chapter. Took me about 45 minutes to go through the gases chapter. You'll be fine. Good luck.

Thank you. Well time to hit them books and go hard on them espresso shots.

 

[MedPR]

Thank you. Well time to hit them books and go hard on them espresso shots.

+1 for not typing "expresso."

 

[411309]

hm really, i thought the kinetics passages were tough; some of them anyways and the rest of the chapters were super easy.

 

[UrshumMurshum]

I just went over electrochemistry again and did three passages.

It's just weird going from oxidizing agent to reduced to cathode to anode to product at anode to reducing agent to electrolytic cell to which way reduction occurs and oh by the way what's the oxidizing agent to the thing that gets reduced in the reducing agent's cathode.

gurrrrggle.

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

I haven't done Electrochemistry yet, but I'll rank em from hardest to easiest:
1) Thermochemistry: oh lawd, only reason my percentages stayed consistent were because of those easy passages at the end
2) Phase changes: some passages were really hard, first 6 or so were easy
3) Kinetics: I just did this, and I found it to be a bit hard for me, then again I dove into the passages the day after I read the chapter
4) Gases: again, some were hard, others were easy

I thought the hardest chapters in the G. Chem series were 3, 4, 5. Thankfully, 5 made more sense due to 4, but 4 was a nightmare. 3 had unreasonably hard passages.

 

[Czarcasm]

As someone whose completed the book and passages: Thermochemistry (hardest), Kinetics, Electrochemistry, Phases and Phase Changes (easiest)

 

[nemo123]

Oh gosh... TBR. Brings me back to those horrible MCAT study days.

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

^ MCAT proves that the horrible-ness of TBR paid off lol

 

[Swagster]

Hardest to easiest.

1) Thermodynamics. I never liked that subject to begin with. I was fine through the first half of the chapter, but struggled at the end.
2) Kinetics. It is either super easy or super hard. I like graphs.
3) Phases had so much material. It wasn't that bad until I got to Raoult's law and the deviations.
4) Gases was pretty easy.
5) Electrochemistry I thought would be my hardest topic here, but it is explained better in the BR book than anywhere. It all came back to Leo says Ger. Their way of doing electrochemical cells is spec!