<p>Hi,</p>
<p>It has become sort of a ritual to scoff down review books in preparation for exams, whether it is an AP Exam, SATs, or SAT 2’s, I always review with a review companies’s book. Now I am wondering if my technique is solid. It involves reading through the book and highlighting important lines/definitions and then once I have made one run through the book, I take a piece of paper and hand write the highlighted material. Does anyone else have any advice on how to go through the Barron’s book. </p>
<p>If this helps in your answer: I am reviewing for the Chem SAT 2 using Barron’s (I have already reviewed for the AP Exam a couple of weeks ago so the material is pretty fresh).</p>
<p>I like to annotate big ideas of each paragraphish on the side if there’s big margins.
I tried this for APUSH: I wrote questions for each main idea. I ran through the questions to see if I could answer and lecture on the topic. If I couldn’t, I’d highlight the question to come back to it. I’d then weed out the questions I knew. Then I went back and ran through the highlighted. I’d knock off a few easily. Then, for the ones I still didn’t know for the second runthrough, I’d highlight in a diff color/star it/what have you.
Wash rinse repeat until the whole thing’s lectureable.</p>
<p>I’ve also done “term maps”, where I take the big ideas/terms and mapped them together and basically did the lecture thing agin.</p>
<p>I suppose this would work with chem as well, at least for the concepts. I’m also studying for SAT2 Chem with the Barrons after having taken AP! Have you worked through the whole book yet? I haven’t. :I I am approximately 30 pages in. /afughhh</p>
<p>@rollingduck </p>
<p>Hi, rollingduck I plan on going through all the content in the Barron’s chapters today (excluding the multiple choice questions at the end of each chapter). I guess I’ll give your method a try for one of the chapters. </p>
<p>@youTalkintoMe You’re planning to finish the whole book today? Each chapter (reading) takes me 1 and a half hours… How can you speed through so quickly?</p>
<p>@rollingduck </p>
<p>Ya, today I woke up and experienced the same exact thing it took me and hour to read chapter 2. I was so ignorant lol. Are you reading everything in the chapters or skimming topics that could not possibly be on the test such as the Lyman Series?</p>
<p>@youTalkintoMe I’m highlighting everything I’m not really familiar with (like heavy water; wasn’t touched upon in AP) and then from there, I think I’ll make them into Q&A and just do as much practice as poss. What’re you shooting for? </p>
<p>@youTalkintoMe Ditto! I really want an 800 on the chem… I’m also doing USH on the same day. Blah. </p>
<p>@rollingduck </p>
<p>I should have taken the USH one too, cause i took APUSH but I got lazy. Guess I’ll have to remember all the history until September haha</p>
<p>@youTalkintoMe All of my vigor that was instilled in me before APs happened kind of dissipated. /melts into chair
Trying to resuscitate it via coffee. ONTO CUP NUMBER 400 YAY. </p>
<p>@rollingduck The only thing thats motivating me is that all everyone including you is studying and I would feel guilty if i didnt lol. You said earlier that you were reading each chapter. I’m on chapter 3, and I am not really learning anything by re-reading information about dipole bonds and such. I think i might just skim through the chapters and only read the paragraphs that I need to refresh. </p>
<p>@youTalkintoMe Lol, you’re motivating me too. But we’ve got to move faster because every time I look at a calendar I get a mini heart attack. ~ * ~ GUILT * ~ * ~</p>
<p>I’m skipping around. I went directly to organic because I remember nothing from Regents chem, the last time I touched organic. </p>
<p>I’m going to try to read each chapter, but yeah, don’t spend too much time on stuff you already know. Just skim/speed read through it as a refresher (because the AP was 3 weeks ago) and maybe highlight some of the tidbits that Barrons mentions. I don’t think the extra stuff Barrons mentions is super important, but I guess it’s something to keep in mind. Maybe come back and Q&A-ify the tidbits you highlighted when there’s time. </p>
<p>@rollingduck I am not to worried about time to review we have 12 days after this, if you get through atleast 4 chapters today and 3/4 tomorrow then you should be able to do 1 chapter a day and have 4 days left to review the book what you highlighted. Here is a link to 6 practice tests (3 from College board and 3 from PR and other good sources NOT BARRONS): <a href=“Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life”>Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life;
<p>I plan to just mix these tests in between the chapters. I think I have a solid plan to review, if you kind of make a plan like this one it should give you a little confidence 
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<p>@youTalkintoMe Wow, thanks a bunch for the practice materials!! I only had the 2006 SAT Subject book from CB (i.e. one.)
Ugh orgo’s taking forever. But I’ll finish this one. Probably hit two more by 12 and call it a night. </p>