<p>Can you reccomend any books? Thanks for the advise.</p>
<p>Sparknotes has 3 practice tests and a whole free book online which is pretty good. Almost every actual book gives harder practice tests than the actual test turned out to be. I over prepped with Barrons, got an 800 anyway but didn't see a SINGLE question about electrochemistry or radioactivity.</p>
<p>Thanks Johnfn</p>
<p>What are the things I have to make sure I know in order to get 600 and over?
How many questions can I get wrong to get a 600?
Can someone do well without take ap chemistry?</p>
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<p>Princeton Review.</p>
<p>Study with PR.
The week before the test read through all the sparknotes chapters.
Today's test was definitely way easier than the practice tests I took from Barron's, sparksnotes and even PR!</p>
<p>took it last year in my first year of chem practically self studying since the teacher kinda sucked at explaining things and i got a 720 at seventy something percentile. the pr book is the best, but all their practice tests are the same as the old editions. use the other books for more practice on problems.
dont stress too much about acid/base problems, or anything with too much calculations. the no calculator rule makes them a little ridiculous, but theres plenty with basic stoichiometry</p>
<p>I would dis-reccommend Kaplan.</p>
<p>It had an ok review, but the calculation was EXTREME and completely unrealistic.</p>
<p>It's tests which had a ridiculous amount of very hard calculations and some obscure concepts were pretty unnecessary. </p>
<p>Princeton Review is very good, fairly realistic. </p>
<p>Sparknotes is great.</p>
<p>Barrons has an excellent review, but it's tests are much harder than the real exam. </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You can't use a calculator?? Danggg. So the calculations are pretty easy right? LIke no weird numbers and decimals..?</p>
<p>Did anyone have trouble finishing the test? What was the hardest material covered..like what did you struggle with on the test?</p>
<p>I have PR, Barrons and I'll read over Sparknotes online I guess! I'm thinking AP Chem will help a lot..</p>
<p>calculations are easy.
And when there are decimals, they usually make it pretty obvious if you've done the basic calculations.</p>
<p>During practice tests I REALLY struggled finishing within the allotted time. I'd usually have 3 -5 questions left by the time an hour was up. But I found the lower degree of difficulty of the actual test (paired with adrenaline, I suppose) allowed me to finish with 10 minutes to spare. </p>
<p>You should be fine with all the review you're doing!</p>
<p>Use Barrons. With its harder-than-real practice tests, I assume you should breeze through the important one. Right?</p>
<p>Well, I'm using it. Haha. (IBChem SL)</p>