Chemistry Placement Exam? Anyone?

thatonedude822
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 04:09:17 +0000

I’m a HS senior taking General Chem at a different CSU and in order to take this class I had to take the chem placement test, which I’m assuming is pretty similar to CSULB’s, if not basically the same.

According to CSULB’s website, “General concepts covered on the test include these chemistry topics with the greatest emphasis: chemical formulas and composition, balancing and stoichiometry of common chemical equations, ideal gas law and gas properties, the nuclear atom and atomic structure-orbitals, periodic properties of elements, and solutions: behavior, concentration and stoichiometry. Math topics with the greatest emphasis include interpretation of algebraic equations and their graphs, and measurement and the metric system using scientific notation.”

So, to me, it sounds like it will basically cover general high school chemistry. If it’s anything like the test I had to take, that’s exactly what it is, along with some basic algebra. Honestly, if you kept your notes from HS Chem, just look over those and you should do fine. Don’t waste money on a review book (which I highly doubt even exists, seeing as only basic level chem is covered on the exam). If it’s like the CPT I took, it’s even easier than the Chem SAT II, let alone the AP Chem test (which makes sense, seeing as the chem class you enter after passing the CPT is basically just AP chem all over again).