Studying for exams

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Studying for exams should occur every night. Do not wait until the night before the announced exam date.


HOW TO SURVIVE HONORS CHEMISTRY

At Lowell High School, the Honors Chemistry course is the one that causes the most concern among students. With everything going right, chemistry can be a fun but challenging course. Under poor conditions, your first chemistry course can be a real nightmare. The study of chemistry may be different from anything else you have ever done. In fact, there are several different topics in chemistry THAT MAY NEED DIFFERENT TYPES OF STUDYING TAILORED TO THE TOPIC. Basic chemistry is a survey course in chemistry (That is, it covers a little bit of everything.) with emphasis on common chemicals and study techniques. The aim is to give you some chemical and general scientific literacy rather than train you to be a chemist.

Mrs. Eddy's 1st Quarter Advice

  1. The most useful advice is to stay up with or ahead of the class. As the Red Queen said to Alice, “now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! In other words, if you fall significantly behind in honors chemistry, it is hard to catch up, but catching up is the only way to continue. The material "snowballs" in this course. By that I mean that the basic facts that need to be learned or memorized at the beginning are going to be used later in the course. Fluency in the basic material is necessary for you to be able to understand and learn the more complex ideas in the course.
  2. I have found that students do better by having a quiz over a small amount of material. Act as if you will have a quiz every class period. These quizzes would either ask you to memorize some basic material or to use some of the material in a math process or a basic idea about chemistry. Designing and giving yourself quizzes to help you schedule your studying will prepare you for the major tests. If you are studying with someone, teach it to each other. The teacher always learns more than the student. (If you have it together sufficiently well to present it to someone else, you know it a lot better.)
  3. Many students find studying with others from the same class is a lot of help. If you get together in a group of three or four, you will always have someone to study with. If you study with other students, it is easier to call them for missed assignments if you must be out.

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