SAT II Chemistry preparation

am9799
Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:09:38 +0000

Our school uses Addison-Wesley Chemistry (fifth edition) and it pretty much covers everything on the test. You can buy it used for only a couple dollars. I am not saying that this is the best book you can buy but it is on the test’s level.
After you study and understand all the concepts try to get really familiar with certain elements, compounds, reactions etc. For example you should know everything about NH3, CO2, CaCO3, water and a few more. Those are usually example on the books/prepbooks, Don’t go crazy on orbitals and hybridization and VSEPR and such as long as you can apply them to a bunch of common compounds. When you take the test, do not over think. When you need to use complicated theories to answer a question you are bypassing the obvious. When it comes to trivia, again, don’t go crazy. You need to know colors of salts, flame tests, ions etc. Learn the obvious not the whole spectrum. Solubility rules, again, they tend to be the same compounds tested again and again (usually compounds with Ag and Pb). For activity of metals again don’t memorize the whole list but be able to remember that an element is under of above H so if you learn the few metals that are below you are done.