Screw you crazy subject from hell.

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I have decided to just fail this test. It is multiple choice so i can't do too badly. I have been studying the chemistry portion of this subject for 3 days and i just can't get it. It has so much assumed knowledge and it is making my head hurt.

There is 3 portions to the test and i am great with the other 2 parts. just not this one.

So every question about chemistry, i will just answer C!

I would just give the test your best shot. There is no harm in trying.

Which aspects do you considered assumed knowledge by the way? I've never studied chemistry formally but I did read "chemistry for dummies" which helped me gain a basic understanding. "for dummies" books are always easy to understand.

I have it in PDF format if you'd like me to email it to you?

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I'm guessing that by "assumed knowledge" you mean things that are memorized, or not observable, things that you could not verify by your own direct experience. Even now, after getting a Ph.D. in a science-related field, large portions of science falls under the "assumed knowledge" category for me. This includes many ideas that I have used along the way. Many things must be taken as givens because you don't have many lifetimes to replicate every single experiment on your own and you can't spend the one life you have on reinventing the wheel.

One thing I liked about physics, is that we actually did experiments to verify the mass and charge of the electron. Detailed understanding of how electron diffraction could yield complex crystal information seemed like quite a reach, and anything beyond that was just too much of a leap of faith. For that reason, I didn't go into chemistry as my undergrad major or for my Ph.D.

Assumed knowledge is high school chem including senior year. I stopped taking chem in yr 8. Music took up all my time. So it isn't worth doing 5 years of chem for 33% of the marks in this subject which isn't a prerequisite for any other subjects in my course.

I have given it my best shot and i suck at it.

The reason it is in the subject is because it is a joint medicine, pharmacy, nursing, midwifery subject. It splits after this semester.

I'm having chemistry nightmares as well. The subject is evil.

Crazy subject from hell? I thought for sure that was poetry

Don't decide to fail...decide to take a break.
If you say you are going to fail, then you probably will.
If you say you are going to try the best you can and all that knowledge is probably up there somewhere.....then you'll do better.

Good luck for taking it!
(Don't try and fail, that just says that your philosophy is to give up when things get hard. Give your best shot, and at the end, that is all you can do.)

Whats the test on? A good trick for studying I find is to accept that your gonna fail the test by default so every little bit you learn can only help. That way your relaxed and aren't stressed about passing it since your going to fail it. I always end up passing tests when I approach them like that.

Took the test and i think i will get around 70percent. I know i got one question right Thankyou TMBG for this song.

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