I’m dual-enrolled in general chemistry II this summer at a local college and my professor announced that the final will be composed of 50 true/false questions, uncurved, covering all topics we learned this semester, with no required explanations.
Has anyone had any kind of experience with something like this? What should I expect? Any advice? The topics that’ll be covered are equilibrium, kinetics, thermodynamics/thermochem, electrochem, acids/bases and solutions, molecular forces, and a little bit of organic chem. We will likely not get to nuclear chem, so I doubt that’ll be on the exam.
I’ve calculated that I’ll need about an 86 to maintain an A in the class… which means that I can’t miss more than 7 questions 
Regardless of the format of the final exam, you should expect that it can cover anything that was in your course (and prerequisites).
The true-false format means that even just random guessing is expected to give you 50%, unless an incorrect answer gives a negative point instead of zero points. So getting to the 86% threshold is probably easier than you think.
True/false for all 50 questions? Consider yourself one lucky person lol
@ucbalumnus That’s reassuring, but I’m still worried about all the exceptions there are in chemistry. I favor depth over breadth, which is why I tend to do better on unit exams (which were all multiple choice and short answer) than finals and midterms.
@NotYetEngineer Lol for some reason the greater odds of doing well are intimidating me. The idea of no partial credit is also a bit nerve-wracking, but I guess that’s just how college is.
I actually prefer multiple choice. True and false questions are sometimes designed to be tricky, and it is usually fairly easy to do well on multiple choice, assuming you know the material
Does your professor permit writing a short explanation at the side? Sometimes students overthink T/F questions and you might be able to get partial credit for showing your reasoning.
@stradmom We are allowed to use scratch paper to work out problems, but the Scantron bubble form is the only thing that gets graded.
@AnEpicIndian too bad - good luck on the test!
The best advice I’ve heard for T/F tests is that if one part of the answer is false, the entire statement is false, even if there are true parts within the statement.