Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Review Session #5
Thanks to those who have been regularly attending the review sessions. We have reviewed for a total of TWELVE HOURS so far (if you have participated in all 12 hours, that is 60 points towards your quarterly average in addition to all of the knowledge gained!). We have covered, in detail, four major chemistry units and I know that many of the questions that we did WILL be asked in practically the same way on this year's Regents exam. So, no matter what, make sure that you download these review question files and that you know completely how to answer, in detail, each question.
For tomorrow's review, we will do a COMPLETE Regents exam, August 2006, with full test-taking skills modeled/applied/displayed on screen as well as thoroughly written/drawn/explained answers.
If we have any time left over, we will also do the part B-2 and C from June 2003.
Again, good for you if you've been coming to the reviews and improving your knowledge of chem theory, application, and test-taking skills.
For those who have not yet attended review or are infrequently there (which means that you probably are not ever going to read this), I am still grading your last class exams and the results are very poor. These exams contained REGENTS questions. The last exam WILL impact your quarterly grade. You may want to attend every remaining session to partially undo the damage from: 1. your complete neglect, 2. ignorance (key root= IGNORE) of my last week of in-class review and test-taking advice and 3. apathy, which resulted in your very poor last tests.
So far, according to YOUR test answers, only one person out of ANY of my students knows what "hydrogen-bonding" attractions are or what molecules have them as their intermolecular attractions (hold the FON?). Many tests have no key words circled/underlined/identified and, as a result, have answers to questions that were NOT even asked while the ACTUAL question was ignored! Our test-taking process should be completely ROTE by now and ingrained for the rest of your lives. How many more errors will you make before you adopt this simple technique?
For tomorrow's review, we will do a COMPLETE Regents exam, August 2006, with full test-taking skills modeled/applied/displayed on screen as well as thoroughly written/drawn/explained answers.
If we have any time left over, we will also do the part B-2 and C from June 2003.
Again, good for you if you've been coming to the reviews and improving your knowledge of chem theory, application, and test-taking skills.
For those who have not yet attended review or are infrequently there (which means that you probably are not ever going to read this), I am still grading your last class exams and the results are very poor. These exams contained REGENTS questions. The last exam WILL impact your quarterly grade. You may want to attend every remaining session to partially undo the damage from: 1. your complete neglect, 2. ignorance (key root= IGNORE) of my last week of in-class review and test-taking advice and 3. apathy, which resulted in your very poor last tests.
So far, according to YOUR test answers, only one person out of ANY of my students knows what "hydrogen-bonding" attractions are or what molecules have them as their intermolecular attractions (hold the FON?). Many tests have no key words circled/underlined/identified and, as a result, have answers to questions that were NOT even asked while the ACTUAL question was ignored! Our test-taking process should be completely ROTE by now and ingrained for the rest of your lives. How many more errors will you make before you adopt this simple technique?
# posted by C @ 7:40 PM 
