Best Chemistry Textbooks/Guides?

[smushieex]

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I've got the jacaranda one for my own study.
I reckon it's pretty good.
... and it's nice and colourful. lol.

[Fortify]

The New Conquering Chemistry, Jacaranda and Dotpoint.

[MatthewSouw]

is chemistry contexts 2 similar to conquering cause i need to buy both or not?

i mean if there similar then wat the point? wats special bout conquering?
if chemistry context is better theres no reason why i shouldn't buy conq? is it not?
btw chemistry context is the order prescribed text for nxt year by my skool. so do i need conq or other if chem context is really enough? itself possible to band 6? so chem contexts and either conquering chem or jacaranda by thickett
help me out here.

[MatthewSouw]

here r all text/guides that meet the syllabus (new hsc)

- Chemistry Contexts 2/e Irwin
- MacMillan Chemistry Pathways series
- Spotlight Chemistry Heffernan
- Longman Chemistry Context 1/e Irwin
- Excel Chemistry
- Heinemann Chemistry
- Success One HSC Chemistry
- Surfing Chemistry Schell
- Conquering Chemistry 3/e Smith
- Dotpoint Chemistry
- Excel Revise in a month: Chemistry
- Jacaranda Chemistry series Thickett
- Conquering Chemistry 4/e Smith

here r all text/guides that meet the syllabus for physics (new hsc)

- PRACTICAL PHYSICS FOR SENIOR STUDENTS:HSC Course Roberson
- Physics in Context Zealey
- Excel Physics
- Physics in Focus
- Excel Revise in a month: Physics
- PHYSICS: 2 2/e Jacaranda Michael Andriessen
- Spotlight Physics
- Nelson Physics
- Dotpoint Physics
- Surfing Physics
- Physics Contexts Heffernan
- IN2PHYSICS
- PHYSICS: 2 3/e Jacaranda Michael Andriessen
- Success One HSC Physics

so which ones r ur fav n justify ur answer into an argument

[Dragonmaster262]

What's the cheapest?

[sle3pe3bumz]

Originally Posted by Dragonmaster262

What's the cheapest?

I'd say excel. But that's just an assumption. I wouldn't really say it's the best textbook to use, but it suffices.

Macquarie is more a revision textbook. It covers a lot of the content, but the other textbooks are more in-depth and all. So I would expect Macquarie to be relatively cheap as well.

[RoXaH]

Can someone add a poll?

[tomatofaceabc]

Originally Posted by micuzzo

I agree... sometimes it talks about things not in the sylabus for a whole page, but for things that are, it has like one paragraph only.


which excel might this be, i have the older orange 1 printed in 2001 i think... i dont like it.. it does not follow the sylabus layout and for some things just has point for... which excel do u use??

also which macmillan book is every1 talking about above... is it the maquarie revision guide 1....??

i like excel cos its straight to the point and it follows the hsc syllabus dot points unlike conquering chemistry which has a load of crap thats not related to the syllabus.

Then again, excel is only good for going over the basics and theory. For most the calculations and complex stuff i learn with my tutor! xD

[iMAN2]

Jacaranda Chemistry 2
New Excel Chemistry
Dot Point Chemistry
Past Papers

For practicals: Spotligh Chemistry

[Aerath]

I used Jacaranda Chemistry. But I did borrow Chemistry in Contexts from the library, and it was quite awesome.

No need for anything else except past papers.