How to Use The Lessons

In these tutorials, you “learn by doing.”  If you do the ChemReview lessons and problems first, textbook problems will be much easier.

The steps are

To use the ChemReview lessons,

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Find out the topics on your next graded problem set, quiz, or test.

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Find those topics in the List of Lessons on the ChemReview download page. 

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Download the lessons that include the topics.  Print the lessons.

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Also download any prerequisite lessons for the topic that are listed at the beginning of each module or lesson. 

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For the prerequisite lessons:
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Read the ChemReview lesson;

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Work the examples as you read the lesson;

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Do the practice questions and check your answers. 

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Do those steps on the topics that cover your next graded assignment. 

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Try to do the ChemReview lessons before the lecture on the topic. 

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Do the problems in your textbook after the ChemReview topics and after the lecture on the topic.

A general course will include more complex problems than these lessons.  However, if you review the fundamentals in the lessons first, and attend your lectures, you will master the complex topics quickly.

To retain in your long-term memory what you need to know for future chemistry tests, work on the ChemReview lessons and textbook practice problems least 3 days each week.  Cramming before quizzes and tests may work for one or two initial assignments, but cramming will not put the topics into long-term memory that you will need to recall automatically for the remainder of the course.

In learning chemistry (and most other fields), steady practice builds the retention needed for success.

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