<p>im hoping its not too late to sign up
and the 5% extra credit will be accepted by all chem professors except sailor right?
b/c on the sign up page, the only professor name i see is johnson</p>
<p>it’s not extra credit, it’s 5% of your overall grade. as in, if you don’t do it, your max grade is a 95%</p>
<p>)': I thought it was extra credit at first too, humm
and yea, I asked about that as well! they always list johnson as the instructor, probably because she seems to be in charge of the whole thing.</p>
<p>I’m doing it right now after finding out that the 5% is not extra credit. :(</p>
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What the heck. And it isn’t even free.</p>
<p>theres no deadline to register to do it, rght? just have it done by oct 2nd?</p>
<p>@chowsx</p>
<p>Yeah that’s right.</p>
<p>wow if your max grade is a 95, then wouldnt that mean its harder to get an A?</p>
<p>@Gravity</p>
<p>Yeah, exactly. That’s why I’m doing the ALEKS program now. I don’t want to risk my grade.</p>
<p>It’s pretty short and simple, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem for you guys assuming you’ve taken Chemistry at some point in high school. You can knock it out in a day if you work at it :)</p>
<p>ALEKS is really helpful guys. I think you’ll be happy that you did it.</p>
<p>I finished the program like a few hours ago. It really did help refresh my memory.</p>
<p>I’m doing it and what adl0816 said is 100% true… just stuck at the elements similarity part >.<</p>
<p>I might need some help from a chem genius once I get on campus…</p>
<p>For that part… they just want you to know that metals are similar to other metals and non-metals are similar to other non-metals. Took me a while to figure that part out LOL.</p>
<p>^And elements in the same group are the most similar.</p>
<p>No its the (formula of a compound formed with another element questions) [most and least similar] that are kicking my butt >.<</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me how to do these^?</p>
<p>It’s the same concept as what I said earlier. Elements in the same group are most similar when combining with elements (like KCl vs. NaCl), and elements that are of a different kind (like metal vs. non-metal) are least similar (like KCl vs. PCl5)</p>
<p>I see…</p>
<p>So a non - metal would be more similar to a metal than a gas would be? (sorry, I took chem as a Junior =S )</p>
<p>Nope, it’s the other way around. A non-metal is more similar to a gas because they’re both non-metals.</p>
<p>I took chemistry junior year too. 
It just took me a while to recall all this stuff.</p>
<p>And metalloids and transition metals would be similar to metals? Man, this topic is barely just coming back to me… =/</p>
<p>^You got it. Yeah, once I started going through a few of the lessons it all came rushing back to me :p</p>