<p>Hi, I hear chemistry 101 is a hard course to take. I failed the first quiz and actually felt prepared going into it. I want at least a B in the class, but that quiz just really got me down. Class examples and the homework is pretty straightforward, but I hear tests/quizzes are something else. Does anyone who has taken the course have any recommendations on how to study effectively? Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Talk to the Prof or TA. Ask their advice. They know that your “average” NU kid has probabaly never even received a B in a class before - and some profs make first tests tough just to make sure they grab their kids attention.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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<p>You guys got pretty much straight As in HS and most of you would score near perfect/perfect if exams/quizzes were similar to examples/homewok; the prof’s goal is to make the exam difficult enough so that the distribution will resemble more or less a bell curve. That’s not to say examples/homework are not useful; they serve as the basis you can use to tackle whatever they throw at you during the exam. At the end of the day, the exam problems are usually variants of what you already saw, even though they don’t appear that way. The more you are familiar with the materials and examples/homework, the more similarity you will be able to recognize.</p>