Cracking the SAT Chemistry Subject Test

POINT 1: LEARN CHEMISTRY THE WAY THE SUBJECT TEST TESTS IT ETS says that the SAT Chemistry Subject Test, a ...

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And you’d read text such as this. We may consider free-energy change in a spontaneous reaction much as ...

Questions 1–2 refer to the following. (A) Heat of formation (B) Work (C) Entropy (D) Gibbs free energy (E) Enthalp ...

POINT 2: APPROACH THE TEST STRATEGICALLY It isn’t enough to study chemistry the way the SAT Chemistry Subject T ...

WHAT ABOUT PRACTICE AND PRACTICE TESTS? This book is interactive. Over and over again you show us ...

SHOULD I BUY PRACTICE MATERIAL FROM ETS? It isn’t a bad idea. If you want to take more than the th ...

Chapter 2 Test Strategies The SAT Chemistry Subject Test always examines the same areas of chemistry using t ...

CRACKING THE SAT CHEMISTRY SUBJECT TEST The SAT Chemistry Subject Test is made up of 85 multiple-choice questio ...

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Question 101 Both statements are true, and the “because” belongs there. You get wet in a shower b ...

Question 104 The first statement is false. Lincoln was murdered. The second statement is true. He was president ...

Part C: Five-Choice Completion Questions The remaining 40–50 questions (a majority of the test) are ordinary ...

STRATEGY #1: STUDY THE RIGHT STUFF IN THE RIGHT WAY One important strategy for preparing to take this ...

knowledge in the specific areas that will be important on the test. ...

STRATEGY #2: DO THE EASY ONES FIRST In each of the three sections of the SAT Chemistry Subje ...

STRATEGY #3: TAKE A GUESS! As we told you in the last chapter, in calculating your “raw score” (from ...

STRATEGY #4: MAKING ASSOCIATIONS (TYPE A, B, AND C QUESTIONS) One helpful strategy for learning the key chemist ...

pH less than 7 with: acid pH greater than 7 with: base You’d be able to answer a test question ...