SAT II Chemistry preparation

Grativity
Wed, 17 Jun 2015 09:50:10 +0000

thank you all, @am9799 and @guy6127. I planned to look into chemistry text book as well, except that I was going to start looking at the textbook about a month and a half from now on. As I’ve mentioned I currently am outside US, and would have to wait about 2 weeks for any ordered english book to come to me. Besides, my chemistry teacher in US is generous enough/trust me enough to let me borrow a good chemistry textbook without any due date or fee. So I am planning to ask my chemistry teacher for a chem book as soon as I get back to US, in early August. That would give me about 2 weeks to go over the chem book, which I believe would be enough time for me.
The reason I would take SAT Chemistry is that (1) it is related a lot to SAT Physics, a test which I am pretty confident that I will score high, and (2) I plan to major in math or science (not natural science though) in college, so I need a way to show my math and science proficiency. As you may know, many of the stuff in SAT Chemistry and Physics are interelated, such as types of atom decay(alpha, beta,etc.), some of thermodynamics, many concepts, and so on. Also, if I were to take other science subjects such as Biology, I would have to really like start over, since the last time I took a biology class was in freshmen year. Even if I wanted to take anotherbiology class, I cannot because my school is so small and the courses are so rigid that all seniors HAVE TO take Chemistry/Physics class regardless of my preference (thankfully I do want to takethat class). No other honors science class is offered for seniors; every other science class is regular, not honors, class. Also, our school has a science teacher who is verygoodat teaching chemistry, so I can ask her many chem questions until the day of the SAT Chemistry test, which is in October.
The good thing is that I am understanding stuff on PrincetonReview considerably well, and that many of the stuff that I learned in my sophomore year chemistry class are coming back to me. Looks like I don’t have to start from scratch, after all.