<p>I have to take it next year but I only took chemistry my soph year in hs and I honestly do not know anything</p>
<p>experiences for those that took the class?</p>
<p>nobody here will have your identical stats/experience. just work hard in 6A and keep an eye on how well you’re understanding the material. if you’re REALLY in over your head, you can transfer to chem 4. you can buy the book off amazon now and get a heads-up on the material if you want.</p>
<p>just wondering, do you know where we could find the book required for chem6A for the coming fall? thanks</p>
<p>check the “chem 4 vs 6A” thread from a few days ago.
and people will be selling the book in a few weeks for sure, online and on campus, if it’s the same one from last year :)</p>
<p>Principles Of General Chemistry Vol 1 W/aris Card (ucsd Custom), Volume 1, 2 Edition, 9780077470500 by Martin Silberberg</p>
<p>I don’t think you can find it on Amazon or those such sites, but you can find it on Facebook from someone who had it.</p>
<p>Maybe this was answered before – How important is this aris card? I was thinking of buying the book at half.com without the aris card. What is aris card anyway?</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. I don’t want to go back in threads, but if anyone has an answer to even explaining what the aris card is, we will all greatly appreciate it.</p>
<p>i never used or heard about an “aris card”…i basically bought the book online and solutions manual. that should be sufficient enough (i dont know if things have changed though)</p>
<p>[McGraw-Hill</a> ARIS – Features – What is ARIS?](<a href=“http://www.mharis.com/features/whatIs.php]McGraw-Hill”>http://www.mharis.com/features/whatIs.php)</p>
<p>(i have no idea what it is, but google gave this)</p>
<p>is there more than one book for chem 6a? i saw another post that said Chemical principles: the quest for insight by Peter Atkins is the chem 6a book…</p>
<p>that was the old 6a book … are you sure you’re looking at the correct quarter? i just looked up 6a for weinberger in the fall and it’s the silberberg text.</p>
<p>“Is Chem6A hard?”</p>
<p>Easiest Chem class you will probably take unless you take chem4</p>
<p>^That’s a little bit misleading.</p>
<p>^ Why is that?</p>
<p>Assuming you are taking the rest of the chem series and on, chem6A covers the most basic concepts, not to mention it’s the first weeder class so you get all the people first starting the major that will change later so the curves are more favorable. </p>
<p>Can you really say that Chem6B/6C are easier to grasp?</p>
<p>Related question; who’s a good professor for this class?</p>
<p>I dunno, Chem 6b’s material was presented in a much clearer way and order, so I thought 6B was the easiest. 6A is a lot of material to swallow at once (especially if you haven’t had the best preparation), and a lot of people are still unsure of how much they have to work in college relative to HS. and 6C was the hardest for me, since it was such a miscellaneous hodgepodge of stuff they hadn’t covered in the other two classes - I have a BS and MS in chemistry, and I still can’t remember the stuff in 6C all that well. </p>
<p>but to each his own …</p>
<p>Astrina, you took chem6AH though, did you not? Chem 6A is generally easier compared to its other regular counterparts, which is usually a consensus amongst bio/chem students in my year at least… that remained in their majors.</p>
<p>yeah, i took 6AH my first quarter at UCSD … then went back and TAed genchem classes for three years.</p>
<p>my guess as to why 6A is deemed “easier” by your friends is that it has the most overlap with what they recall from high school - basic nomenclature, stoichiometry, etc. but it’s still a lot of random stuff to recall. there’s more application and less rote memorization in 6B, which i think is easier.</p>
<p>Is there a different chem book for chem 6A and 6B?</p>
<p>i’d vouch for no.</p>
<p>(but you can check on tritonlink’s schedule to be sure.)</p>