<p>I'm entering Berkeley as a freshman for the fall semester and I have a poor chemistry background. I earned an A in my high school chem class but that was two years ago and my high school is under performing. I'm going to be taking an intro to chemistry class at a community college this summer. Does anyone know where I can get old chem 1A notes? And can anyone advice me if there are professors that are more 'newbie' friendly (if there are some - not asking for easier classes, just ones that are wary that people may have terrible backgrounds).</p>
<p>Any other advice is appreciated</p>
<p>You can watch old Chem 1A lectures on youtube.
[YouTube</a> - Chemistry 1A - Lecture 1](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>get a chem book and study. worrying about the class will not make you better.</p>
<p>edit: oh and if you do choose to watch lectures, make sure you do so at 1.15-1.25x speed to get through the material faster. you can DL lectures from webcast.berkeley.edu</p>
<p>taking a chem class at community college is a good idea i think. ask you’re taking the course, keep asking yourself if you’re really getting the main points of what is being taught. it’s tempting to plug and chug or memorize facts in chem, but if you just do that you don’t do well on exams.</p>
<p>Get the textbook and read it. I believe till Chapter 19! : P No joke. but you don’t have to read that far if you don’t want to. They sell an answer book for practice problems so you could do that for each chapter.</p>
<p>Do you know which textbook Chem 1A will require this fall?</p>
<p>If you go to [Home</a> Page - Online Schedule Of Classes](<a href=“http://schedule.berkeley.edu%5DHome”>http://schedule.berkeley.edu) and look up any course, there will be a link in the course listing called “View Books”. If the book list has been provided, it should be listed there.</p>