<p>I use Glencoe's "Chemistry: Matter and Change". It's only good for supplemental purposes. I actually bought a cheap chem book off ebay by Zumdahl (college text) and it is easy to read and understand. I haven't had much time to read it alot though.</p>
<p>Heh. That's the book I'm using actually. What chapter are you on? I'm on Chapter Ten, and have found it easy to self-study, but it does take just doing it...the book's labs are pathetic, though.</p>
<p>We're on chapter 10 too. That chapter's not too hard; balancing equations is the easiest part of Chemistry I've done so far. The book isn't too good at explaining how to predict products of reactions though.</p>
<p>My Chem teacher doesn't like the labs in the book either because she says they aren't cool haha. The only one we did from it was the igniting magnesium lab, and my group's magnesium didn't even light up.</p>
<p>The labs are sort of light. I've seen books for elementary school textbooks with the exact same labs.</p>
<p>Luck, below 70 is an F. 70-77 is a D (which is passing, barely).
I remember, when I lived in Texas...a 60 was a passing grade.
Unfair!</p>
<p>how is below a 70 an F?...is the work done like so easy that they made the standards for the grades harder or something?..lol</p>
<p>idk about that 60 being a passing grade...but i thought that its usually <65 = F >= 65 is passing</p>
<p>Aw. =)</p>
<p>I was ranting about a similar situation once. The person I was talking to told me not to criticize my teacher, belittling me for blaming her. If I could have smacked him through the computer, I would have.</p>
<p>I know that feeling. :o</p>
<p>Molly, I have the exact same grading scale. Very sucky.</p>
<p>I can't wait to get back to my old school the grading system there is</p>
<p>100-98- A+
97-94- A
93-90-A-
89-88-B+
86-84-B
83-80-B-
79-78-C+
77-74-C
73-70-C-
69-68-D+
67-64-D
63-60-D-
59-58-F+
57-54-F
53-Below-F-</p>
<p>I LOVE THAT GRADING SYSTEM!! :0)
I used to take it for granted until my A- became a B- lol</p>
<p>We have no + or -. Only numerical grades and your basic A, B, C, D, F</p>