What do you do when teachers don't teach?

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<p>MIT has some great online (free) video lectures for AP Physics that I use when I miss class or when I’m studying for SATIIs (my physics class is a C class so we don’t cover all of the material on that). They also have some for Calc and DEs. Not sure about Chem though.</p>

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<p>I agree that when you have a really bad teacher (as many experience at various times), you have to do more work on your own. The textbook can help. You can also go to the bookstore or library & get additional books to help you learn the subject. Basically, it becomes a self-study situation. You may be able to get classmates to form a study group and you can together learn the subject.</p>

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<p>It sucks. But you can totally get through it. </p>

<p>Just read your textbook. Get an AP prep book if it’s an AP class (those help SO MUCH). Get 2 if you want. They’re so freaking helpful. There are some great threads on good AP prep books somewhere on CC. Get with some friends who also want to learn the material and just work your way through it. You’ll bond with your friends and still learn the stuff. In fact, if he doesn’t teach at all in class, just read your AP prep book in class. THat way, you don’t even have to do that much of work outside of class.</p>

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<p>[MIT</a> OpenCourseWare | Chemistry | 5.111 Principles of Chemical Science, Fall 2005 | Home](<a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/5-111Fall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm]MIT”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Chemistry/5-111Fall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm)</p>

<p>Like the guy above, MIT Opencourseware has videos that usually great for learning about specific topics. Being able to listen to it should give a pretty good background on it.</p>

<p>I had a pretty bad chem teacher last year; she actually mistaught a bunch of topics. If you can’t manage to get by through the text, use the internetz.</p>

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<p>Yeah, like chocobok said, study yourself.</p>

<p>My best friend’s the valedictorian (I’m right behind him) but he knows nothing aside from what he is taught in school. Read no books, magazines, online articles, anything, unless school prescribed it. Not good for you. I’d say that, aside from science where there are experiments where theoretical principles are physically demonstrated, it’s better to teach yourself most things.</p>