ChemTutor

by Victory Multimedia

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004VVI5
• Item model number: IL10102
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,135 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

If you're looking to prepare for a chemistry exam, ChemTutor will drill you with tons of multiple-choice questions, training you for the most rigorous of tests. However, if you want something more than mere practice, this isn't for you, as the application does little more than provide users with questions and answers.

Installation is simple with a standard Windows setup program, but there's no included manual or online help. The program is simple enough, however, that you shouldn't have much trouble figuring out how to use it.

ChemTutor divides chemistry into 20 topics, covering such key areas as gases, thermodynamics, and organic chemistry--most of the subjects you'd find in a first- or second-year chemistry textbook. When you run the program, you'll select one of these topics for drilling. The program then randomly chooses multiple-choice questions from its database of hundreds, letting you do repeat drilling on the same subject. The questions incorporate graphs and tables, similar to those you'd expect to find on a standardized chemistry test, such as the AP or the SAT II exams.

Drilling comes in two forms. You can challenge yourself in tutorial mode, in which the program tells you after each question whether you answered correctly or not. Test simulation mode waits until the end to tell you your grade. These drills can cover only one subject, or you can self-design a "semester exam" covering multiple areas.

Make no mistake about it, ChemTutor won't teach you chemistry. It's test preparation software, plain and simple. But if you're looking to improve your performance on multiple-choice tests such as the SAT II or AP, it will certainly do the trick. --Ken Feinstein

Amazon.com Product Description

ChemTutor gives students the opportunity to work interactively with the subject of chemistry. ChemTutor promotes higher grades and test scores, can decrease the amount of time that is spent studying, and covers the full curriculum from a typical first or second course in chemistry at the high school or college level. This software offers a choice of taking a tutorial or a practice chapter test in any one of 20 chemistry subject areas, or of taking a practice semester exam, including any combination of the 20 subject areas.

A student who works through the tutorials within ChemTutor is given immediate feedback at each step. This immediate feedback helps to reinforce material from textbooks and classrooms.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ChemTutor, September 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: ChemTutor (CD-ROM)

"At Westtown School we have all three ScienceTutor™ applications on our school's computer network and many of our students also have the software on their own personal computers. My own students have found ChemTutor® to be extremely helpful for studying and preparing for tests. This past spring, for the first time, all of my first-year chemistry students had access to ChemTutor® to help them prepare for the SAT II in Chemistry. I was very pleased with how well those students performed on that exam... better than any previous group of students I have ever taught."

Kurt M. Wicks, Chemistry Teacher, Westtown School

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I was disappointed, December 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: ChemTutor (CD-ROM)

I had purchased this expecting a chemistry tutorial. It is actually just a bunch of test questions. There is no intial instruction. It is not what I was looking for.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ChemTutor Is Great!, September 17, 2000

By 

"tedlutkus" (Westtown, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ChemTutor (CD-ROM)

"BioTutor®, ChemTutor® and PhysicsTutor® are the best educational software packages I have seen for science students. They help students of all ability levels to get better grades with less total studying time. They help students to learn more efficiently and more effectively."

Ted Lutkus , Science Department Chair, Westtown School