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3 Nov 2009, 5:41 PM
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19 Nov 2009, 10:37 PM  |  Chemistry Textbook Recommendations You can hide this advertisement by registering. Hey guys, Hope the HSC exam went fantastic!!  I'm doing chem for yr11 next year and i'm not sure which textbooks to buy. I was hoping you guys could recommend some. I want one which goes along with the syllabus, has good layout and provision of information and one that is not too overly detailed, enough detail to do well but not too much. I've heard that Jacaranda is great, but havent really seen what it's like. So please post up any recommendations and reasons for why i should buy the recommended textbook. Any contribution will be great!! Thank you so much in advance!! xD |
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3 Nov 2009, 5:47 PM
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Today, 2:51 PM | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations conquering chem =D i used it for prelim and using it for hsc as well.
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3 Nov 2009, 5:48 PM
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19 Nov 2009, 11:53 PM  | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations CONQUERING CHEMISTRY textbook is pretty good It goes along wit the syllabus, very detail...but the information can be overload  However, i personally think its good
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Today, 2:51 PM | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations i reckon ud be fine by just dling some of the notes from the resources section on this site. e.g ahmad shah's notes are awesome =) save ur money for hsc, dont waste in yr 11.
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3 Nov 2009, 9:25 PM
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15 Nov 2009, 12:49 PM | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations If you d go with Conquering Chemistry you must be careful when reffering to the answers for the excercises in the back of the book. Many of these solutions are wrong as we discovered over our 2 years in chemistry. Aside from that, it is a very good text book.
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20 Nov 2009, 9:03 PM | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations i hardly used my chem text book throughout the year D: but i got conquering chem 4th edition from school and a Jacaranda Textbook on CD, which I got from my tutor. I found that the info for dry cell and button cell to be much better in Jacaranda. |
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Yesterday, 10:43 AM | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations Each book has its highlights and downfalls. We used Chemistry Contexts 2 and Conquering Chemistry. Out of the two I would recommend Conquering Chemistry as it is more in depth and has better information. For a study guide I would definitely recommend the 2009 Excel HSC Chemistry book, which is like a text book except that it has practice HSC papers, tonnes of questions for each topic, covers each dot point in detail and covers most of the options. It also gives links to sites and a glossary at the end of each chapter to make sure you cover the important terms. You may also want to consider getting the Success One HSC book (latest edition is best) as this covers every HSC paper from 2001-2009 with detailed solutions. Hope this helps.
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8 Nov 2009, 11:25 PM | Re: Chemistry Textbook Recommendations HSC Excel Chemistry (latest edition). Absolutely fantastic and concise, exactly how I like my information. For when I didn't understand something, I referred to my Conquering Chemistry book for the detail. I strongly recommend Excel books though, if it weren't for them I'd have failed my HSC lol!
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I definitely agree with this guy and all the people before, Excel books are amazing. saved me in physics chemistry and ext math. Conquering Chemistry is a great book too, and it teaches the course in the correct order too... buy Excel and CC , without at doubt  | |
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