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<li><p>Does the SAT Chemistry Subject Test supply any formulas or constants at all for you? Ex: Planck's Constant or the formula for energy, E = something something divided by wavelength</p></li>
<li><p>Also, does much memorization need to go into the process? Ex: like memorizing all the molecular shapes and corresponding bond angles, and more</p></li>
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<p>-Is the one hour time-limit often an issue? SHould u work relaly fast?</p>
<p>Also, can anybody that took the test recently, like in January 06 of maybe even more recent if they offered, give some general info on how it was? difficult? lotta questions that surprised you? specific hard questions?</p>
<p>i've heard the one hour time-limit is the major problem... not sure bout the other ones, but for the first one I think you gotta know basics (PV = nRT) but nothing too in-depth</p>
<p>for second point - I think just having a general idea about the shapes would be useful, have a general idea what the angles are.</p>
<p>Eh? Planck's constant and waves are more...physics. I don't think that you get a formula sheet, but there aren't a huge amount of equations and constants to know in chem (just mole, ideal gas, and some other sutff).</p>
<p>Well, memorization is inevitable. If you're asked what the electronegativity scale is based on, you're screwed if you try and figure this one out. I'd say a lot less memorization than both physics and bio though.</p>
<p>One hour should be fine. I finished in 40 minutes after skipping a few questions. I bubbled in all the answers and had 10 minutes left to double check everything.</p>
<p>I finish practice tests in 40 minutes, too, so I have time to double check my answers.</p>
<p>And it's more conceptual than practical, so there won't really be much math - especially dealing with formulas and constants. More of the calculations will be on stoich stuff, in which you only need to multiply values they give you, like mole ratios and concentrations.</p>
<p>They give you a periodic table, but no formulas or constants.</p>
<p>yeah you use very few formulas...even with the cases I used formulas, a lot of them I just used them for a general concepts ("if volume increases, pressure does what?").</p>
<p>also, the 1 hr time limit really isn't a problem, IMHO...I didn't really rush and still finished in 40 mins, and had time to check over everything @ least once...</p>
<p>yea for SAT IIs, everything is an estimate.</p>
<p>you won't have to calculate the # of moles given an obscure pressure, temp, volume, etc. (like 750 torr, 280K, 1.34L)..... it'll be all conceptual.</p>
<p>the trickiest part is definitely the TTCE section though...... make sure you understand what they are actually asking on those...... i'm nervous for my chem score just b/c of that section.</p>
<p>-Im using the Barrons SAT 2 Chemistry book to help me... and i was told that the information is too detailed and the questions are harder than the actual test. Does anybody know if this is true?</p>
<p>-Also, so is it true that if i answer only 55 out of the 85 questions and get them all right... i can still get a 700?</p>