High School Chemistry Tutor (High School Tutors Study Guides) [Paperback]

The Editors of REA (Author), Adrian Dingle (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0878915966 | ISBN-13: 978-0878915965 | Publication Date: March 13, 1986 | Edition: 2

Specifically designed to meet the needs of high school students, REA’s High School Chemistry Tutor presents hundreds of solved problems with step-by-step and detailed solutions. Almost any imaginable problem that might be assigned for homework or given on an exam is covered. Included are thorough sections on thermodynamics, electrochemistry, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and nuclear chemistry. Fully indexed for locating specific problems rapidly.

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REA’s High School Tutors is a series of useful and practical study guides. Each High School Tutor provides practice and understanding of various math, science, and history subjects, making them challenging and interesting. Hundreds of solved problems with step-by-step detailed solutions are included to meet the needs of high school students.

REA’s Chemistry High School Tutor study guide helps high school student succeed:

• Covers all the Chemistry topics taught in classrooms
• Makes Chemistry easy to learn, easy to understand, and easy to study
• An essential companion to any high school textbook
• Superb study guide for quizzes and exams
• An excellent aid when working on homework
• Helps students grasp a subject fully
• Indexed for easy topic searches

REA’s High School Tutors make it easy to learn difficult subjects!

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Research & Education Association; 2 edition (March 13, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878915966
• ISBN-13: 978-0878915965
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #611,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, but a primitive type face. Good supplement!, July 15, 2003

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This review is from: High School Chemistry Tutor (High School Tutors Study Guides) (Paperback)

You cannot learn chemistry soiely from this book. But that is not what this book is for. This book is a series of chapters on the topics included in a high school chemistry course. Within each chapter are a series of questions and solutions that are very pertinent to the topic being addressed. However, there is no explication of the topics or discussion of the general principles of chemistry other than those included within the solutions offered. So, if you have a rough familiarity with the topics this can help you flesh out your understanding.

So, as supplementary material to a course you or your child is taking or as a refresher this book is very appropriate and quite useful. However, if you don't have some grounding in the topic you might get lost fairly quickly. Don't get me wrong. It isn't that it dives into the deep end of the pool too quickly. The topics included aren't that esoteric. It is just that if you aren't used to working with formulas and the terms of chemistry you might find it a bit confusing until you get acclimated. Also, there are a few typos - so BE CAREFUL.

The book is printed in a way that it looks like it came from a typewriter which is very odd in 2003. And there is no color. All the diagrams are in black and white. Nowadays, color ink isn't that expensive! And used judiciously, it can help explain some concepts more clearly. Of course, color can be misused as glitz and actually confuse things, but that is not what I am arguing for. I think it wouldn't be that painful to modernize these books to current standards of media presentation and that it could actually help the students using the book.

I do recommend the book. Just realize what it is intended for and I think you can get quite a bit out of it. If you expect a course in high school chemistry, you won't find it here.

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Formatting Makes This Hard to Use, August 14, 2011

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Having had good luck with other study guides by this publisher, I ordered this one unseen. I expected plain formatting on paperback quality paper, and got that. I did not expect "typewriter-style" formatting that was obsolete twenty years ago, and rather poorly done even by those standards. The book is almost impossible to use because of this, and there is absolutely no excuse for it. Do not buy this.

4.0 out of 5 stars High School Chemistry Tutor (High School Tutors), November 12, 2010

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Our 15 yr old son thinks this is a good supplement to his high school text book. It gives in depth reviews of the problems. May offer some helpfull insite that the teacher didn't review in class.