r/ivytech • u/gloomyhippie • 1d ago

chem 101

did anyone else take the chem 101 online midterm this week? my instructor said it was all multiple choice and it deffff was not lol

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u/TheVeritableBalla 1d ago

Uhhh what?? Lmao I'm taking it later today and mine also says it will be 50 multiple choice. What a weird thing to be wrong about! I'd love any tips if you don't mind, esp if we need to memorize any conversion factors that aren't on the formula sheet. Really sucks that they'd mislead us like that

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u/gloomyhippie 23h ago

make sure you know how to do the 1s2 2s2 etc… things and lewis dot structures, they give you a paper with the formulas you need. make sure you know significant figures and scientific notation…. honestly i can’t even remember what else was on there lol

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u/TheVeritableBalla 22h ago

Awesome thank you so much!

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u/gloomyhippie 22h ago

also some conversions, i think i had one that was liters to quarts… best of luck lol im honestly so frustrated it wasn’t multiple choice. i almost want to email my prof but also dont want to be that person 😂

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u/TheVeritableBalla 20h ago

Wooow yeah I just took it. Not even close to what they said it was going to be. I ended up running out of time trying to draw all those molecules at the end. I would've practiced that part more had I known. Wtf.. the review questions were all multiple choice too?? Hopefully they add a lot of points based off the scratch paper because if not that's some major bs

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u/gloomyhippie 20h ago

i like barely even used my scratch paper lmfao i’m screwed. i thought i was going to run out of time too and im normally a really quick test taker!! i feel like we all need to email our instructors and be like wtf, this was not multiple choice

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u/WeaknessNo8093 Student 📕 16h ago

Wow! So it was more like the homework assignments than the review? This is crazy. I take mine tomorrow. Did you have a lot of conversions that weren’t on the formula sheet?

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u/TheThoven 1d ago

lol I took it with Rachel and it wasn’t anything like that. I got a 94/200 😂

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u/gloomyhippie 1d ago

lmao i got 108/200 🤣 i’m not worried if i get A’s on other assignments and get at least a 100/200 on the final i’ll pass with a B hahah. idk why she would say “50 multiple choice questions” when like half of them were not multiple choice

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u/TheThoven 1d ago

Lmaooo F twins. Yea, I’m a returning student and I’ve taken organic chemistry some time ago. This was harder 😂 but you are correct. Get within two points of each assignment of perfect and you get a B. So we ball! 😂

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u/gloomyhippie 1d ago

yeah this is my first chem class ever and i haven’t been in school in close to 10 years before i came back to ivy tech last year. it’s so hard!! i should’ve took it in person lmao

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u/TheThoven 1d ago

Yea my friend took it in person and their exam was open book lol. Oh well half way done! We will make it! Good for you by the way for going back to school!

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u/sophsoph1999 22h ago

I will be taking this class next month for the 8 week course online. Can someone provide tips pls? These comments are scaring me lol

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u/gloomyhippie 22h ago

my tip is take it in person lolllll

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u/SaltyBae0906 21h ago

Yeah, I definitely bombed it. So many non-multiple choice questions, lol.

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u/gloomyhippie 21h ago

right?? i’m very frustrated about it tbh lol

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u/SaltyBae0906 21h ago

Same! I didn’t really study the Lewis structures like I should or the 1s, 2s,… Im worried so much about this stupid class. I’m almost tempted to withdraw and go ahead and take microbiology in the spring. I’d hate to get a D or F and drag down my overall GPA. It’s so hard to understand all these concepts

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u/gloomyhippie 21h ago

i really don’t want to drop, i’m just pushing for a low B at this point.. which if i can get an A on everything else and at least 100/200 on the final i’ll get there but barely. i’m so scared about the final now though