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Hey guys, I am studying for my final for Gen Chem and will be taking the ACS gen chem exam this week. Has anyone here taken it before and if so, what equations and/or constants will be given? Thanks for the help guys!
Medline
Medline
I forgot to answer the question... lol. For the inorganic two test, you're given a whole slew of constants, a periodic table, & just a handful for equations. You get the Nernst equation, Grahams law, Arrhenius equation, & the integrated rate laws. Thats it. The rest is up to you to know. I forget what all was on the ACS 1 exam. ^_^Hey guys, I am studying for my final for Gen Chem and will be taking the ACS gen chem exam this week. Has anyone here taken it before and if so, what equations and/or constants will be given? Thanks for the help guys!
Medline
I don't think you become ACS certified. Rather they just test your overall knowledge of the subject. Perhaps kind of like SATs. My professor said its something you can show to the college you want to transfer too, because more than any letter grade, that is going to show you how much you learned about the subject & compare you to others in the field. For our college, its the final exam for all chemistry classes.Aside from demonstrating your mastery of chemical concepts, I'm curious:
What's the point of the ACS gen chem exam? Do you need to take a series of their exams in order to become ACS certified, or something?
Yeah professors really take into account your score in the final grade for the class - in my Quantitative Analysis course the professor actually gave a student an A because he got a good score on the ACS exam despite his bad course grade. It is a good test to compare how versed you are in chemistry compared to the rest of the nation.I don't think you become ACS certified. Rather they just test your overall knowledge of the subject. Perhaps kind of like SATs. My professor said its something you can show to the college you want to transfer too, because more than any letter grade, that is going to show you how much you learned about the subject & compare you to others in the field. For our college, its the final exam for all chemistry classes.
Perhaps I should pick up a study book anyways, then -- so far I haven't had to take one, but I do have to take a couple of competency exams, one for each of my teaching fields.Yeah professors really take into account your score in the final grade for the class - in my Quantitative Analysis course the professor actually gave a student an A because he got a good score on the ACS exam despite his bad course grade. It is a good test to compare how versed you are in chemistry compared to the rest of the nation.
Medline, I am going to take ACS final exam next week. We haven't learned Gas Law yet so all Gas Law's questions will be extra credits for those who answer them right. For the whole test you just took, which part would you recommend me study more to do this test well? I heard from the old students, ACS test is extremely hard so I am so nervous and I have no idea what to focus on now. Please give me some tips to do it well. I need 88 to keep up my A grade lol. Thanks in advance.Well I ended up doing well, I got a 92%. I was pretty surprised that they didnt give any of the equations, although they did give a couple constants such as the two R values for gas. Also, our exam was 70 questions and had to be completed in 110 minutes including bubbling in all of our student info. Everything considered it wasnt that bad other than being extremely rushed for time. Thanks for all of the help though guys!
Medline
Lucky you! Gas laws were probably the easiest thing on there. :) PV=nRT. Plug in and you're done. If I remember, there was some questions such as "In a gas chamber the temperature is increasing. The volume of the container is staying the same, so what must be happening to the pressure?" And you'd just need to look at the equation and see that the pressure must be rising.Medline, I am going to take ACS final exam next week. We haven't learned Gas Law yet so all Gas Law's questions will be extra credits for those who answer them right. For the whole test you just took, which part would you recommend me study more to do this test well? I heard from the old students, ACS test is extremely hard so I am so nervous and I have no idea what to focus on now. Please give me some tips to do it well. I need 88 to keep up my A grade lol. Thanks in advance.
Thanks, how about the rest of the exam lol? Was there a lot of diagram also?Lucky you! Gas laws were probably the easiest thing on there. :) PV=nRT. Plug in and you're done. If I remember, there was some questions such as "In a gas chamber the temperature is increasing. The volume of the container is staying the same, so what must be happening to the pressure?" And you'd just need to look at the equation and see that the pressure must be rising.
Good luck!
I don't really remember what all was on inorganic I, but speaking of diagrams, know your phase diagrams. I can almost guarantee there will be a question on those. Other basic things like stoichiometry & molarity are always there. Easy points that you don't want to miss. Other than that, it pretty much covers everything you learn.Thanks, how about the rest of the exam lol? Was there a lot of diagram also?
Ah... phase diagrams! Yeah, there was 3-4 questions referring to one phase diagram. I got two parts of it wrong because for for some stupid reason I got the solid and gas portions of the diagram reversed; they're relatively simple questions, but just make sure you look over them quickly sometime before your test!I don't really remember what all was on inorganic I, but speaking of diagrams, know your phase diagrams. I can almost guarantee there will be a question on those. Other basic things like stoichiometry & molarity are always there. Easy points that you don't want to miss. Other than that, it pretty much covers everything you learn.
Are those diagrams about Pressure, temperature and volume or ionization energy?Ah... phase diagrams! Yeah, there was 3-4 questions referring to one phase diagram. I got two parts of it wrong because for for some stupid reason I got the solid and gas portions of the diagram reversed; they're relatively simple questions, but just make sure you look over them quickly sometime before your test!
The one I remember showed the pressure and temperature which a substance would change from solid to liquid to gas. Make sure you know the vocab associated with such a graph (I don't happen to remember any, sorry!).Are those diagrams about Pressure, temperature and volume or ionization energy?
Does anyone know any website to practice ACS test ?