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Hey there folks, My new grad school administers the ACS placement exams to its incoming students to determine what graduate courses they should take. As an international student (and someone who has been out of school for a couple of years) I want to do well in them.but don't really know what to expect!

Has anybody taken these standardised exams? How do they compare with the Chemistry GRE in terms of content/difficulty? Are the ACS official study guides any good?

What other resources are useful? Any experiences & input welcomed, thanks! The standardized ACS exams are actually not that difficult. I think it was easier than the Chem GRE. You probably should brush up on the key concepts for the test(s) you will be taking and can find the information on the website but you can also order study guides:.

I ordered them and the only useful one for me was the physical chemistry guide (I'm an organic chemist). As for inorganic chemistry, the only study guide that isn't available, the questions were totally random. Some questions pulled from basic knowledge you learn in general chemistry, whereas other questions come from moments when professors would tell you random facts you think you will never have to know (ie. How does cisplatin destroy cancer cells). Good luck studying! I've now taken the ACS tests in Organic, Physical & Inorganic Chemistry. To me they were a similar level of difficulty to the Chemistry GRE, except with only 60-80 multiple-choice questions compared to the 130 in the Chem GRE (to me that made the ACS tests harder in that they felt a lot more random.but at the same time I felt less rushed to answer them all, so less stressed).

I ordered the ACS Study Guide for Organic Chemistry.which arrived the day before the exam.BUT was far more useful in terms of guiding me through answering typical MCQs and explaining HOW to apply your science knowledge to them. If I was re-prepping for the Chemistry GRE I think I'd actually use the ACS Study Guides rather than the Princeton Review.

Even better, I got decent marks in all of them. That cheered me up a lot. I didn't use the study guides at all, I just went over my notes from Inorganic/Organic/PChem, and skimmed the books from said classes over the summers. They actually turned out to be pretty easy, even if doing them all back-to-back made for a long day. They're all extremely easy questions but only if you know the material. Based on the study guides, they seem to ask the simplest question of any subject.

As a result (and as St. Andrews Lynx points out), the questions are very random. The study guides seem to provide a good idea of what random facts and phenomena you should know for the exam.

By the way, scanned copies of the physical and organic study guides should be fairly easy to find if you're already used to finding movies/TV shows online.

I understand that in order for your ochem series to be credited at UC Berkeley, you need a 75th percentile or higher on the ACS exam. Does that mean if we get less than 75 (percentile), we have to retake the whole ochem series at Berkeley? Or can we opt to retake the ACS exam? For any of you who have taken the ACS exam for organic chemistry, is it hard to score in the 75th percentile? What kind of raw score is usually needed to get that?

Acs Practice Exam Organic Chemistry

I heard that a good handful of questions are recycled from the ACS study guide. Ahhh I'm so nervous that all my efforts in my ochem class at my CC will have gone to waste by bombing the ACS:(. I'm actually curious about all of this too.

Are you taking it at Cal on 8/22 or are you taking it another time? My Ochem teacher said that in relation to my exam grades in class and his teaching preparation, that I should be perfectly capable scoring in the 75th percentile (which I think has been approximately a 50/70) but I'm going to study over the Summer.

I did read somewhere that the ACS guide is helpful. I would imagine that it's somewhat like an SAT prep-book where you won't see the exact same questions, but there will be some that are comparable. I'm sure you know with ochem that practice is key too.

I found the ACS study guide to be quite helpful. It's sectioned off into different types of reactions (and a couple of other things like spectroscopy and nomenclature/ structure) with 'discussions' of each (pretty much an overview), and each section has study questions and practice questions. For the study questions the answer is explained in detail, whereas the practice questions just have the answers listed at the end. I found it to be indicative of what was on the ACS, but not exactly the same. The ACS really forces you to know your ochem; I found it more challenging than my teacher's tests, but it was certainly doable with enough studying and focus. I wouldn't eschew your textbook/ notes for the ACS study guide or anything, but I think it's good as a supplementary study aid for the ACS. I'm taking it this Thursday 5/19 in my ochem class.

I have the ACS guide and have been studying it but I don't think I will be able to get through the whole book by this Thursday (ahh I procrastinated. Lol) The questions from the ACS guide are a lot different from what I expected though.

Some are really easy, but others caught me completely off guard. Ex: What is the stereochemical relationship between the salts formed by (+)-tartaric acid with racemic 1-phenylethanamine?

A) enantiomers B) diastereomers C) meso compounds D) racemates Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember what the heck tartaric acid looks like. Did you take it this year? Would you say the exam equally covered all areas of organic chem? Or was it skewed to focus on some areas more than others? I don't think I'd mind if the exam was like, 'what are the products?' Or 'what are the reagents?' But questions like 'which would be best?'

Or 'which would be fastest?' Really get to me. Were there also really specific mechanism questions? A lot of chemistry teachers give the ACS exam for finals since they offer tests for almost all chemistry classes so I don't know what you mean by trying to get dumb students to take it. It needs to be proctored by a teacher or official also. Plus they only update it about every 3-4 years and for as long as the test has existed. Receiving about a 50/70 give or take a few points has been the 75th percentile.

Since the very nature of a 'percentile' is taking your score in relation to other students, it's a general consensus as to how prepared you will be for further classes in comparison to where other students place. Hyundai i10 automatic review. It's ridiculous to assume that just because some people do well that there must be dumb people purposely bringing down the percentile. This is almost exactly like the SATs where if you were to get one math question wrong one year, you might get 780 whereas your friend might get one question wrong the next year and get a 790. The scores reflect how difficult the test is and it tests information that you are SUPPOSED to know. So unless you have some information that is relevant to the topic, how about you express your negativity and hatred for the 'budget crisis' and everything else you complain about in EVERY post elsewhere.

I took the ACS exam like 12 hours ago and thought it was hella hard:( I didn't have enough time to go over the latest Ochem II material my professor recently lectured on and definitely did not have time to go over the ACS guide past page. 60 or something. Thankfully, I got an 87 percentile. Didn't tell me my raw but using this: (I took the 2004 form) I think I got a 54 out of 70, which is like a 77%. It was probably b/c I didn't get to finish studying all the material properly so I didn't perform as well as I could.

But my advice to future ACS-examinees is to GO OVER THE ACS STUDY GUIDE. There were like 2 that might've been exactly from the guide and others that were really similar in form.

When I was taking the exam I also got this sheet that included a portion of the periodic table (carbon, oxygen area), some nomenclature keys (like what iso/sec/propyl/butyl/whatever looks like), and molecular structures of reagents. Didn't even use it. Also some questions were like 'what is the product formed' but then they would also provide some IR/NMR spectrum that corresponds with it as well. I didn't get to the end of the ACS guide but I don't remember seeing that in there. I thought that made some questions a lot easier.