Useful chem books / websites?

Anro

my chemistry teacher is really bad, all he does is read out of the book and make us write down whats in the book (and other random stuff we don't even need to know for leaving cert chemistry) I don't want to drop chemistry so was wandering if anyone knew what are the best chemistry books and websites that could help me get a good grade?

thanks xxx

Chuchoter

You're teacher sounds exactly like my teacher! I'm working off the revisewise and a set of chem notes I bought from the institute. You should look into the Institute xmas courses, they're meant to be amazing.

Anro

thanks will deffinataly look into that

EverybodyLies

My chemistry teacher recommended chemguide.co.uk for extra notes and the like. It might help you.

lctake2

you can buy the institute notes? well if possible do that then because they're really really good. best place to look is the marking schemes because they repeat stuff all the time so it's well worth learning all the stuff that came up years ago

Chuchoter

lctake2 wrote: »

you can buy the institute notes? well if possible do that then because they're really really good. best place to look is the marking schemes because they repeat stuff all the time so it's well worth learning all the stuff that came up years ago

There were loads of people selling their institute notes on adverts.ie over the summer. They're not really as good as I thought they'd be but they're good for when my teacher (like the OP's) is giving mad PHd level chemistry notes.

lctake2

I hate when teachers decide it's fun to teach you way above leaving cert standard just because it's their specialist subject. I always began to drone off when they said 'this isn't on the syllabys but . . '. The notes may look like they're no good but really they're all you need. cover everything as long as you understand them, I didn't need to use any other books or notes at all

Victoria.

You can find great things online.

I love this guy and it really helped me last year for revision. ChemGuy on youtube. Brilliant for organic chemistry or anything really. He does all of the calculations and explains everything really well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/bannanaiscool

I also found revise wise really good too.

TimeToShine

Join the fúcking club.

I'd say theres about 4 competent chemistry teachers in the country, and 2 work at the IOE.

Coeurdepirate

TimeToShine wrote: »

Join the fúcking club.

I'd say theres about 4 competent chemistry teachers in the country, and 2 work at the IOE.

There are two brilliant chemistry teachers at my school, which is a rural school in Galway. If a school situated in a bog has good teachers, I don't see why others don't.

Anyways, I'd probably suggest grinds.. It's a very hard subject

TimeToShine

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Anyways, I'd probably suggest grinds.. It's a very hard subject

WITH GOOD TEACHERS, IMAGINE IT WITH SHÍT ONES.

rainbowtrout

TimeToShine wrote: »

WITH GOOD TEACHERS, IMAGINE IT WITH SHÍT ONES.

Seriously, change the fcuking record. Just about every one of your posts is along the lines of 'All teachers are shit', it's get a little tedious. Maybe you should spend more time studying and less time whinging online.

There are plenty of good chemistry teachers out there.
There are also bad chemistry teachers out there, but then again there are plenty of students out there with a bad attitude. Swings and Roundabouts.

rainbowtrout

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

There are two brilliant chemistry teachers at my school, which is a rural school in Galway. If a school situated in a bog has good teachers, I don't see why others don't.

Anyways, I'd probably suggest grinds.. It's a very hard subject

Of course there are. There are plenty of good chemistry teachers about

TimeToShine

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Seriously, change the fcuking record. Just about every one of your posts is along the lines of 'All teachers are shit', it's get a little tedious. Maybe you should spend more time studying and less time whinging online.

There are plenty of good chemistry teachers out there.
There are also bad chemistry teachers out there, but then again there are plenty of students out there with a bad attitude. Swings and Roundabouts.

I'll bítch all I want thank you very much, and I did fine in the LC with/without my teachers help. I've posted about 3 times criticizing teachers, how does that constitute "every one" of my posts? and having the sentence "it's get a little tedious" followed by "spend more time studying" is so painfully ironic it shatters my balls.

randylonghorn

TimeToShine wrote: »

I'll bítch all I want thank you very much ...

No, actually, you won't ... users of this forum are expected to be courteous towards each other and in general.

I'm certainly not going to ban all teacher-related rants: people sometimes need to relieve their frustration. I fail to see your need to do so, though, especially in such an OTT way, especially as ...

TimeToShine wrote: »

and
and I did fine in the LC with/without my teachers help.

... you appear to have completed your LC.

TimeToShine wrote: »

I've posted about 3 times criticizing teachers, how does that constitute "every one" of my posts?

You've already had one thread ranting against the users of this forum, and certainly enough OTT posts ranting against teachers as to stick in my mind, and obviously in other minds as well, regardless of the actual number.

TimeToShine wrote: »

and having the sentence "it's get a little tedious" followed by "spend more time studying" is so painfully ironic it shatters my balls.

You should probably find somewhere other than the LC forum to piece them back together.

For the moment, that's advice.

If you continue in this vein, however, I will be insisting that you find somewhere else to frequent.

rainbowtrout

TimeToShine wrote: »

I'll bítch all I want thank you very much, and I did fine in the LC with/without my teachers help. I've posted about 3 times criticizing teachers, how does that constitute "every one" of my posts? and having the sentence "it's get a little tedious" followed by "spend more time studying" is so painfully ironic it shatters my balls.

It would be ironic if I was a student. Which I'm not.

Anro

bump?

Bob the Builder

I did my Leaving Cert last year. I went to an underperforming school and had certain under performing teachers. My poor effort at school meant that I regularly failed tests and exams, and your chemistry teacher reminds me of a lot of my teachers. However, a month before the Leaving Cert, I realised that I was fooling nobody but myself in refusing to work at school and hating my teachers. I pulled 375 out of the hat in the end but it wasn't enough and this year I am repeating on my own, and I've learnt a lot of valuable lessons in relation to both education and life by doing it.

If you have a bad teacher, then it's not your fault, but by all means it is your problem. You have to work more efficiently at that subject, develop stronger notes (not necessarily longer notes) and use revision books more. In this case, you need more self-discipline and going to an institute and revision centres aren't going to do anything for you unless you are willing to work at the subject at home.

Good luck with it! I hope that you do well, despite, the situation you find yourself in..

randylonghorn

This apparently, at least it's been mentioned a couple of times.

Anro, I have changed the title of your thread, as if your real question is about useful books / sites, the old title isn't exactly helping!

Anro

Thanks sorry didn't really think about the title:o

workingstudent

celtic press-peter jackson chemistry notes- very good..only about 7.90

Just Like Heaven

Examedge chemistry is great for doing papers. It's basically just all the questions which require solutions from every paper, answered !with solution! and marking scheme. Even more useful for physics, but there's no biology one

Oh and I have a great chemistry teacher. Albeit my only great teacher.

workingstudent

use the marking schemes aswell to see the best way to get marks..download them from www.examinations.ie

we have the added disadvantage of getting the 5th years in the same class as us this year...we've half the course done and they joined us in the middle of organic chemistry...if we hadnt a good teacher we'd be completely f***ed!