Advanced Higher Chemistry

**kwatt26** · 08-10-2005, 11:58 PM

Anyone else taking it?

I remember Drew and Gill complaining about it last year, and now I can really and truely identify. They claimed that scholar got them through it, but we still haven't received anything scholar related! AHHHH! I blagged my way through Unit 1 already though :-D

**x__gill__x** · 12-10-2005, 09:04 PM

now you believe us...lol

i almost died when i saw parts of AH chem coming up in a lab the other day - all this nonsense about chelating and cleavage of bonds. i thought me and chemistry parted ways in the summer - obviously not.

try and ask your teacher about scholar, or getting it. as the books really do explain it so much simpler. which is what you need before tackling the big printed notes i think. if i hadn't gave my books back i could have sent them to you!

**laura3** · 12-10-2005, 09:25 PM

Hey i'm taking it too this year and it is sooo hard. We've got our scholar stuff and it is quite good. Have yous done your first NAB then?

**kwatt26** · 12-10-2005, 10:10 PM

Yes, i've done my first nab AND I've finally gotten my scholar books (thanks for the thought though gill!)! I can tell already, they're going to be life savers. I don't think I've ever done so poorly on a basic unit test in my life, but I passed! wooo! Hopefully units 2 & 3 will be better. I'm sure that there'll be some interesting chemistry-related mishaps later this year though...

**x__gill__x** · 12-10-2005, 11:37 PM

i personally thought unit 1 was the best (sorry to disappoint lol)

unit 3 should be banned its so bad - so have fun with that one!

**An-can-you-dig-it-drew** · 12-10-2005, 11:47 PM

Ah the memories... Unit 1 is the most interesting, unit 2 is quite easy to learn (lots of writing for not many formulæ) and unit 3 is equivalent to a crime against humanity and natural disater rolled into one.

Scholar was alright, but I preferred the LTS books... I think they were the yellow and blue ones, but they did contain a whole lot of pointless information... which is probably why I liked them...

Good luck and stick with it! Just try not to think about the project just yet...

**kwatt26** · 13-10-2005, 11:16 PM

I may have been slightly melodramatic earlier, and I do deffo prefer AH to higher- but I think it's got a surprisingly large volume of knowledge to cover, considering that it involves problem solving as well. All in the name of medicine though, so it's okay! We're actually doing Units 2 & 3 simultaneously now, and I'm not finding it too bad. I can't help laughing at the thought of myself doing the AH investigation, tehe

WELL DONE both of you on your great marks in august though! How's Glasgow treating you?

**mt94** · 15-10-2005, 03:16 AM

I'm doing Ah Chem this year as well - is not fun at all. Then again, that might be because our teacher is crap - she also said that I "don't have the disposition or academic ability required for medicine" - so I ain't her biggest fan.

We are doing our NAB on the first day back after the holidays :S, so technically I should revise DURING the holidays.

**x__gill__x** · 15-10-2005, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by kwatt26

I may have been slightly melodramatic earlier, and I do deffo prefer AH to higher- but I think it's got a surprisingly large volume of knowledge to cover, considering that it involves problem solving as well. All in the name of medicine though, so it's okay! We're actually doing Units 2 & 3 simultaneously now, and I'm not finding it too bad. I can't help laughing at the thought of myself doing the AH investigation, tehe

WELL DONE both of you on your great marks in august though! How's Glasgow treating you?

well if you prefer it to higher then thats a good start!

i'm loving glasgow at the moment (altho more the sociallife than pbl lol) not that pbl's bad i just dont seem to be remembering anything from the scenarios at the moment...hopefully i'm not the only one.

**heed** · 16-10-2005, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by x__gill__x

i almost died when i saw parts of AH chem coming up in a lab the other day - all this nonsense about chelating and cleavage of bonds. i thought me and chemistry parted ways in the summer - obviously not.

was it just me or did that lab just confuse an issue that could have been (and is - in tortora) explained in a few simple pages?

I could have cried when i saw that diagram of EDTA - horrible PPA memories of tethrahedral complexes came flooding back...