<p>I was looking through my Barron's review book and I noticed this whole thing on atomic spectra. Are we actually supposed to know all that? Does it ever show up on the real test? I know that Barron's includes a lot of superfluous information so is this one of them?</p>
<p>I don't think there was an atomic spectra question on the november test, but then again, I skipped over a bunch of problems without even reading the whole problem (probably why i only got 700).</p>
<p>Nope, there was no atomic spectra thing on the November test. And I read every question.</p>
<p>Thanks! Any conversion factors that are must know (e.g. joules to kcal)?</p>
<p>I don't think so. I leared some constants but I don't think I used them - I just learned stuff like specific heat of water, ideal gas constant...</p>
<p>It probably is worth learning stuff to do with pressure, like 760mmHg = 1 atm, and 1mmHg=13.6mm water.</p>
<p>Most of the exam was pretty conceptual though. Its hard to remember specific things to recommend studying.</p>
<p>They really don't expect you to know all the conversions and stuff...
It's an easy test, in my opinion, even though i got a 730 lol!
But still, the reasons why you could get lower than 800 is by the wordings
and especially to international students
I hate wordings lol
they're too hard
the camouflauge technique or something like that
But yea, the calculations are very simple (i.e. 2 moles * 1mol/2moles) and just memorize some very basic formulas
that's all you need; no spectro whatever
I didn't even see "spectro" in chemistry till this quarter!
Barrons suck
Go for PR
I used the book, got a 740 in practice test
and got 730 in real test</p>
<p>i found the review books to be a lot harder than the actual november test.
i did three practice exams in princeton review and one in kaplan, i got 640, 660, 670, and 700. </p>
<p>took the actual exam nov 5.
got a 790- i think the practices are generally a little harder to get you 'more prepared' for what you'll actually encounter on the actual test, and i think what you'll see is that the math is a lot easier, the T/F/CE questions are a little more straightforward and less abstract, and the problems are less of 'problem solvers' and more of 'gimme the facts' type things. i'd know all the important formulas they give you, and i can almost guarantee there will be at least one or two questions involving the equation M1V1=M2V2 disguised as some other kinda of problem. that's all the basic advice i can remember to give. </p>
<p>good luck</p>