Chem Olympiad?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Does anyone have any experience with the national exam, with respect to the percentage of questions that need to be correct to merit advancement to the study camp? thanks :)</p>

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<p>hmmmmmmmmmmmmm</p>

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<p>I forget, but somewhere in HSL there’s a thread called usnco, with A LOT of info on it.</p>

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<p>Ask piccolojunior or someone named like that.
There’s also some guy named jdlkem or something like that.
They know ALOT about the olympiad.</p>

<p>However, i do know a few things.

  1. The lab portion of the national exam is worth very very little… just have a decent technique and you’re set
  2. the FRQ section is the most important by far!
  3. they’ll probably put more advanced organic / biochem in the exam this year.
  4. 55/60 on MC and getting MOST of the FRQ section right (getting ALL the easy parts of the questions and about 75% of the difficult parts on the FRQ) should get you in the camp. To get something like top 50, it’s a lot less difficult.
  5. They only grade the FRQ section if your MC is decent. (i dunno what they mean by decent)
  6. Practice old tests over and over… including the ones that were before 2000. (You have to find them on some website a teacher made… i forgot where they were)</p>

<p>Btw, I planned on doing the national exam this year but i realized that i would be too busy so i gave up. So that’s how I knew all that in case u were wondering</p>

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<p>mmmmm, thanks!</p>

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<p>all i remember is
it would’ve been a lot easier
if they’d given us more time</p>

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<p>The frq seems pretty average. The lab is above AP. Hopefully I’m not mistaken.</p>

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<p>does the lab section have significant weight?</p>

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<p>the lab section is valued a lot less than the frq and mc</p>

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<p>thats a relief :)</p>

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<p>Yeah, that’s a big relief haha.</p>

<p>I believe the site equilibrium was talking about is chemteam… they have old tests posted.</p>

<p>How is everyone preparing for the orgo chem portion? I have Carey’s Organic Chemistry and I’ve read the first few chapters, but it’s long and complicated and I don’t think I’ll be able to finish the entire textbook in time.</p>