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Offline wonderkid

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hardest topic
« on: July 11, 2006, 05:43:40 AM »
anyone is welcome to give comment.which topic in chemistry do u think is the hardest and which easiset?

tobe specific,i'm studying in a level now,anyone knows which topic in a level is the hardest?thanks!

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2006, 06:17:13 AM »
that's different from person to person. Personally, easiest for me is biochemistry, hardest is organic chemistry

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2006, 06:38:44 AM »
I don't like having to deal with Nernst equation very much. On the contrary, I find organic chemistry very interesting.

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2006, 07:08:09 AM »
Wonderkid: when are you going to take your A level?
"Say you're in a [chemical] plant and there's a snake on the floor. What are you going to do? Call a consultant? Get a meeting together to talk about which color is the snake? Employees should do one thing: walk over there and you step on the friggin� snake." - Jean-Pierre Garnier, CEO of Glaxosmithkline, June 2006

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2006, 03:44:42 PM »
organic chemistry overall is hardest for me because it can't interest me. Tautomerism, mesomeres, electronconfigurations, reaction mechanisms bleh :-X lol

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2006, 11:24:17 AM »
Stereochemistry for me.  That R and S E and Z stuff is hard for me to figure out.  I still need my model kit sometimes.   ;)

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2006, 04:55:45 PM »
Inorganic chemistries were my lowest marks.  Memorizing structures and getting my head around complex symmetry operations (like screw axes, etc) aren't my cup of tea.  I bet if I was given that kind of this in more mathematical terms, it would work better in my head.

And I LOVE analytical chemistry so much, it's my favorite...and easiest (for me)...a LOT of students have trouble with it though

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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2006, 08:35:13 AM »
im studying in 'a' lvl now too, and i think the organic chemistry thing is getting quite complicated too =o

i've only reached so far up to arenes, so i cant hardly say which is the hardest topic in it though
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Re: hardest topic
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2006, 02:12:04 PM »
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anyone is welcome to give comment.which topic in chemistry do u think is the hardest and which easiset?
Organic chemistry is the easiest for me, I also like analytical chemistry and - my recent new interest: Geochemistry :) , however, I don't like calculations (such as pH calculations or Nernst equation as Albert said). :P

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