Probably the 11th, like last year.
10 of 20 people were from an online class.
@ichen21 do you know which online class?
Hello, all of you guys have talked on an online forum about the USNCO before the exam end date on April 29
Well it was quite likely that 90% of the test takers had already taken the test, and the actual proportion who must have viewed the exact posts on this specific website(being posted late on the evening on the first to last day) for it to benefit them is minute. There was no usable information discussed, unless you specifically studied all of the vague breadth of the topics mentioned. You canāt cram for this competition in ~3-5 hours of studying, even if you have an a slight idea of the topicsāI myself studied for 2.5 months at 2-5 hours a day, and I am not sure if I even got far in the competition. I donāt see your point.
It was clear violation of competition rules which state that no discussion is allowed on online forums and the contract that you signed on the day of the competition. It doesnāt matter who saw it or how much it helped them, it is a clear violation of the rules
Iām looking to prep for next year, and I found online courses that correspond with McQuarries Physical Chemistry (apparently its the gold standard?) and one the corresponded with Voet Biochem (Voet is a camp book, but biochem is kinda not in chem olympiad anyways? I might read it if its interesting tho). I was wondering if there are any online courses that correspond with/use Housecroft Inorganic or Clayden Organic. Thatās extremely specific, though, so I donāt expect much answers lol. Are there any other free online college chemistry courses that help with USNCO in general?
I believe the ābestā online course is known to be Art of Problem Solvingās āWOOTā USNCO preparatory course.
^Yup I heard good things about ChemWOOT as well and have had good class experiences with AoPS. Glad to hear that AoPS is also good at teaching chem
Where can we find the results for honor and high honors?
Not out yet; I predict itāll be within today to next Saturday.
FYI everyone - all lists are now available on the ACS website (Study Camp, Honors, High Honors).
@fretfulmother I canāt find it, can you DM me the link?
@ichen21 - done! 
@fretfulmother Can you also DM me the link? Thx!
@bobnana - done
how did everyone do? Do you guys know when individual scores will come out?
Judging from the score estimation, I was only off 1-2 MC questions from top 150. I am not going to complain, but putting all the work in and getting screwed by questions where it feels like no actual understanding is used, just memorization or plain luck (e.g the radioactive decay question, the ionic radius ranking) is discouraging. At least this competition made AP Chemistry easy as heck, but I feel like focusing more of my efforts into some other ECs for the next year.
Got honors (top 150).
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