Has anyone taken General Chemistry...

Rionoir, ADN, RN · May 23, 2017

I just took chemistry for the first time in my life at 40, never took it in high school, and managed an A without too much trouble. It seemed like if you are good at math that will pretty much get you through the inorganic half. My class was inorganic and organic combined, not sure what yours is.

Simplistic · May 23, 2017

This STRONGLY depends on your teacher.. I took it and thought it was moderately difficult.

PrereqTaker89 · May 24, 2017

Check out your teacher on rate my professor. Read the chapters before the professor lectures on the material. And sit in the front row with the A students.

WCSU1987 · May 24, 2017

There's only 2 teacher's. Both have a 3.5.

Black Coffee, MSN, NP · May 24, 2017

Chem 1 is college level chemistry course, so I think that it will be challenging. I took it and managed to get an A by reading the book carefully before lecture, taking notes in detail, and paying attention in lab. Chem 1 has both lab and lecture, and I remember that you need to pass both lecture and lab in order to pass the whole class.

Also, going to class regularly is necessary because some teachers like to have pop quiz out of nowhere.

Study hard and you will be fine.

Good luck.

SaltySarcasticSally, LPN, RN · May 24, 2017

This STRONGLY depends on your teacher.. I took it and thought it was moderately difficult.

This is SO true. For every other class I have taken, including nursing classes and A+P, how well the professor taught didn't matter for me because I do best teaching myself. I had a 4.0 pre-requisite GPA so I knew what worked for me and I thought it would be the same for chemistry.

Yeah it's not! My first chem teacher was very nice but not good at explaining things. I studied for hours and was still only managing a C. I withdrew and re-took a few semesters later with a different professor. She was amazing! She really wanted us to just understand it and not memorize the whole periodic table. I passed with an easy A. Talk with students and find out who your best bet is.

Ohm108, MSN, NP, CNM · May 24, 2017

I took Gen Chem at 34 and I agree that it really is about the math and the formulas. If you can do the formulas and the calculations then you will pass without an issue. I actually found it fun since Chemistry wasn't something that I took during my undergrad so I got a chance to learn something new.

KariT · May 25, 2017

I took gen chem 1 for this spring semester and I can say without a doubt it was harder than Organic Chemistry to me personally (I took this class before gen chem and scored an A). I believe this because gen Chen 1 had a lot of math and I wasn't any good at it. So I say to know how to do dimensional analyst and basic algerbra because it will come in handy.

Also your teacher can make or break you. There were 15-17 students at the start of my gen chem class and dwindled down to only 4 towards the end of the semester though 2/4 barely went to class. I passed with a B simple because my teacher liked me and I always went to class on time and did the HW.

WCSU1987 · May 25, 2017

Huh interesting intro to Chem was heavy with dimensional analysis and laws. Think the thing that I struggled with in Intro was balancing the solution.

PrereqTaker89 · May 25, 2017

You mean in solution stochiometry? What text are you using? Is it by Tro? If not, get a cheap used version of the book. I self taught and that book is easy to learn from.