<p>I plan to take the test this June, but don't know the difficult level of it.</p>
<p>Is the test comparable to SAT2 Chem in which I got an 800?</p>
<p>By the way, it appear to me that some questions, especially #2 and #6 in the Stoichiometry/Limiting Reagents/Solution Practice Quiz have controvertible answers. </p>
<p>Could any Chemistry experts point me a way out?</p>
<p>If this thread goes beyond the range of topics covered by CC, please just ignore it.</p>
<p>Any constructive ideas will be highly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>i took the test last year around august, more than a year after AP Chem and taking the SAT II in chemistry (i got a 4 and like a 700) and i ended up getting in the 20's. From what I remember, the test questions were very very similar to the practice questions and practice quizzes, so if you know how to do those you're fine. Remember, all you really need to do is get above like a 10 or something in order to not end up in the one and a half hour recitation for gen chem first semester. You don't have to try to ace those questions because none of them are like what you'll be seeing in chem111. I didn't do particularily well on the test but i ended up doing well in genchem so don't sweat it too much..and even if you do end up in the extended recitation, you don't really have to stay in recitation sessions--i normally left after my quiz.</p>
<p>Is it definite that we have to take the chem pre-test?
(I'll be taking chem next semester for engineering).</p>
<p>You won't be able to get into a PLTL group if you don't take it. I didn't take it, and wish I had. PLTL really helped me second semester when I finally got into a group. I wish I'd had it for orgo! (PLTL, which stands for Peer Led Team Learning, is an extra "study" group outside of lecture. I put quotes around study, because it's more than just a study group. It uses a bunch of creative approaches to get you thinking about the course material, and ultimately understand it better.)</p>
<p>It seems to me that nearly all the things I can do are calculating and balancing!</p>
<p>I think you don't need to take it if you plan to enroll chem 111 next semester.</p>
<p>I took the test just today. I think it was easier than the quizzes but a harder than the practice questions. I got a 23 and the online thing said that I don't have to review any topics. I think they'll change their minds when they see I got a C- in my high school chem class.</p>
<p>TAKE THE PLACEMENT TEST. It's not absolutely imperative, BUT if you want to have the chance to be in a PLTL group, you have to have taken the exam (it doesn't matter your score) - and even if you think you're the god of chemistry now, you probably just want at least the option of getting that extra help, should you end up needing it (I promise you Chem 111 is NOTHING like any other chem course you've taken, even if you got a 5 on the AP exam and have already taken upper level chem courses at your local university - it's not the same here). My PLTL leader was more useful than the professors, I told him all the time I didn't need to go to lecture when I had PLTL to teach me everything :P... so yeah. Keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Secondly, YOU PROBABLY WANT A LOWER SCORE. I had possibly the single worst high school chemistry teacher in the nation, and never took AP chem, and mayyybe answered like 5 of the questions on the placement test, and I'm sure I didn't get all those right, and not even that score was bad enough to get me into extended recitation. Which is just another option you might want to have. First semester I ended up walking out of my recitation and going to the extended one, just because my recitation TA sucked, and I sucked at chemistry, so it was nice to have an actual professor teaching on the more personal level of the recitation section (which is basically just a time when you learn how to actually work the problems that will be on the tests instead of just learning the theory behind it all, and you have weekly quizzes in there that will probably be dropped at the end of the semester).</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you really are the god of chemistry, don't go purposely failing and taking the places of kids who actually need extended recitation. But if you really don't know anything about chemistry, don't go cramming for the test to make it seem like you do. If you have a good background in chemistry, recitation sections aren't really necessary to go to at all (aside from taking the quizzes, which you can leave after... most people do, and do fine in the class), so don't worry about that. But if you DON'T have a good background in chemistry, it probably will be necessary for you to have a TA who actually knows how to teach, which extended recitation guarantees. BUT PLTL really is amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing help (unless you have a bad group, which I've only heard of happening once), so just don't cheat yourself out of that by skipping out on the placement test just because you're afraid of "not doing well". Or because you're lazy. Or even because you don't have access to a computer at all all summer, or don't know about it. Just don't not take it. It'll screw you over if you end up needing help outside of class, which most people do.</p>
<p>Oh I forgot, being in extended recitation also gives you the opportunity to be in a second weekly tutoring group, like PLTL but they work the problem sets the professor gives out weekly instead of new, separate problems. PLTL you can only miss three times before getting kicked out, because there are limited leaders and everyone wants to be in a group. But these other weekly tutoring groups you can show up at for the first time the week of the final and they'll welcome you with open arms. PLTL leaders are probably better, though, because they have to take a weekly class where they brush up on the material they already aced once, and the other tutors don't have to take the brushing up class. I don't really know anything about how good this tutoring option is though, because I signed up for mine the first day of my official extended recitation (Dr. Shields (the recitation teacher) let me sign up second semester because I had gone all first semester, haha), and never actually ended up feeling like I needed to go.</p>
<p>24。。。
Hope that's not too bad</p>
<p>Was anyone told that they have to retake the test after already taking it? I know I did poorly but isn’t it odd to be told to study for a placement test by WUSTL?</p>