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**EXAM III is on Monday 11/9/2009. As of 11/2, you should be able to do OWL through 8.5d.

**Extra office hours in preparation for Exam 3 will be on Tuesday from 12-2 and from 3-5 with Dr. W, on Thursday from 3:30-5:15 with Michelle, and on Friday from 1-3 with Sara. These are in addition to Dr. W's normal hours on Monday and Wednesday from 1:45-4.

**Sample exam 3-1 and 3-2 are posted, along with the mov and m4v files of my commentary on working 3-1.

**Quiz 13 is on OWL. It covers molecular geometry and is 8.6f with 4 questions. The quiz begins Weds. at 2pm and ends Friday at 11:59pm OWL time. Do homework assignments 8.6e BEFORE doing the quiz (8.6a and 8.6b are also helpful). Remember that you only have 3 tries.

**Schedules for Free Tutoring at Hotard Hall, Studio12 at the Commons, and the West Campus Library are now posted under 'help/SI/office hours'

Click here to get to these ON A PROTECTED WEBSITE THAT WILL REQUIRE A USERNAME AND PASSWORD that you were given in class.

Click here for the answers to questions YOU probably meant to ask: Frequently asked questions from e-mail are posted here by topic. There are also practice questions and answers.

How do I calculate my MIDTERM grade??? Click here!
At midterm, we had 144 points possible (E1 = 100pts; Hwk 1- 2 = 20 points, Q1-Q6 = 24 pts) NOTE: clicker points will not be in Midterm grades.

Is there any extra credit? NO EXTRA CREDIT. (This is the policy for most college-level courses.) Only the credit offered on assignments, quizzes, homework, exams is available.

The Student Learning Center (formerly known as the Center for Academic Enhancement) is now located in Hotard Hall. They offer free drop-in tutoring as well as tutoring by appointment. The drop-in tutoring is located on the first floor of Hotard Hall 5-8 pm on Sunday and 5-9pm on Monday through Thursday. Tutoring by appointment is more limited but you may schedule an appointment by calling 845-2724. For details of courses and schedules, please see their web site at: http://slc.tamu.edu/tutoring/

THERE IS ALSO FREE TUTORING AT:

Studio 12 at The Commons West Campus Library
Monday 8-10 pm Sunday 7-9 pm
Tuesday 8-10pm
Wednesday 6-8 pm

You will have 7 sets of OWL homework assignments, worth 10 pts each. OWL will show you when you miss a problem, how to work it. You will be given a similar, but different problem. You will have 20 tries to get the problems correct.

Owl Homework may be labeled as homework, simulations, exercises or tutorials on the OWL program. Each homework set on OWL is broken into instructional units (IU's). Credit is given for the number of IU's or exercises or tutorials or simulations that are mastered by the due date. So if you master all that are assigned, you should receive full credit (12 homework points). For each set, if you did all or at least 95% the IU's, exercises, tutorials, or simulations assigned (got the green cks for the units) you will get 12 pts. If you get 90% of them, you will get 11 pts, 80% = 10pts, 70% = 9 pts, 60% = 8 pts, 50% = 7pt, 40% = 6 pts, below 40% = 0 pts.

Assignments here should match those on OWL; however,
OWL has the most up to date list.

SET#1 is due on 9/14/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following questions or units were assigned as required: intro1 (2), intro2 (6), intro3 (3), math1 (6), math2 (2), math5 (3), LR.1b (1), LR.3d (1), LR.3e (8), LR.3f (3), LR.3i (3), 1.2a (3), 1.2c (2), 1.3-4 (2), 1.5 (3), 1.6a(2), IC 2.1 (2), 2.2a(3), 2.2c(1). It contains 56 Units or questions. (Remember that you must do 95% of the units to receive full credit.) (This means that you must do 53 of the required to get the 12 pts for this set --.95 x 56)

SET #2 is due on 9/28/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following questions or units were assigned as required: 2.3a (1), 2.4b(1), 2.5b(3), 2.5c (2), 7.5b (2), 7.5e (2), 6.1b(1), 6.1c(1), 6.1d(1), 6.2d (2), 6.3c (4), 6.3e(1), 2.6 (1), 2.7d (2), 2.7f(1), 2.7h(1), 2.7i(1), 2.7k(5), 2.8b(1), 2.9b(1), 2.9d(1), 2.9g(4), 2.10b(1), 2.10f(2) It contains 37 (with the 5 from 2.7k moved to assignment #3) Units.

SET #3 is due on 10/12/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following questions or units were assigned as required: 2.11b(1), 2.7e(1), 2.8c(1), 2.7k (6-note there is only 1 new section), 3.7a (2), 3.1 (1), 3.2d(1), 4.1a(3), 4.1c (2), 4.2c(1), 4.2d(1), 4.3b (1), 3.4(1), 4.5e(1) It contains only 23 Units.

SET #4 is due in two parts. Part I is due ON 10/19/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following questions or units were assigned as required: 4.5h(1), 3.5c(1), 3.5f(1), 3.6b(1), 3.6e(2), 3.6f(2), 3.7c(2), 4.7g(3), 4.7h(1), 3.7d(1), 3.8 (1), 3.9a (1), 3.9b(6), 3.10(1). It contains 24 units.

Part II is due ON 10/26/09 at 11:59PM OWL time The following questions or units were assigned as required: 8.7(1), 6.4b(1), 6.6b(3), 8.3c(2). It contains 7 units.

This is a TOTAL OF 31 units for Set #4.

SET #5 is due ON 11/9/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following questions or units were assigned as required: 7.3g(2), 7.3h(1), 7.3e(1), 7.4b(1), 7.4e(1) 7.5i(1), 6.7b(2), 6.5c(1), 7.1(1), 7.2b(1), 8.2a(1), 8.3b(3), 8.3b(3), 8.4b(1), 8.5b(1), 8.5d(2), 8.6a(7), 8.6b(9), 8.6e(1), 8.8b(4), 8.9a(3), 9.2f(3), 9.2g(3), 9.2o(2). It contains xx Units.

SET #6 is due ON 11/23/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following assignments, with their units are required: 1. It contains xx Units.

SET #7 is due in two parts. Part I is due 12/4/09 at 11:59PM OWL time. The following assignments, with their units are required: 2. Part I contains xx Units.

Part II is due ON 12/9/09 at 11:59PM OWL time The following questions or units were assigned as required: 2. Part II contains xx units.

This is a TOTAL OF xx units for OWL set #7.

For the objectives and homework for Exam 1, click here!
For the objectives and homework for Exam 2, click here!
For the objectives and homework for Exam 3, click here!
For the objectives and homework for Exam 4, click here!

You will need acrobat reader to see and print these. These are the same as those passed out in class. If you need acrobat reader click here.

There are 15 points in the syllabus for special assignments. These will be divided between

You will need acrobat reader to see and print these. Both were passed out in class on the first day. If you need acrobat reader click here.

If you think your multiple choice score is wrong, go to 412 HELD, fill out a regrade form, and turn it in. **IF you want to see your exams, come in during office hours or after class.

If you missed an exam and need to sign up for the makeup exam, see or e-mail me. Makeups are granted for university reasons (or VERY good ones). Otherwise, the missed exam is the one you will drop.

Exam I = For 10:20: 61.6/84 pts for the multiple choice and 70.0 pts/100pts for the exam. (click here for the 10:20 key) AND For 12:40: 65.3/84 pts for the multiple choice and 75.5 pts/100 pts for the exam. (click here for the 12:40 key) Most missed included: naming for 10:20, sig figs for 12:40 . Poorly done (59-50% correct) = formula weight for both, trends and evidence/Bohr for 10:20 .

Exam II = (63.1 pts/84 pts for the multiple choice and 73.7/100 for the total exam at 10:20. (click here for the 10:20 key) AND 66.6 pts/84 pts for the multiple choice and 78.9/100 for the total exam at 12:40. (click here for the 12:40 key) most missed included: Dissolving (NaCl) for 10:20; none for 12:40 Poorly done (50-59% correct) included: for both Naming and reasons for trends.

Exam III = (XX/ 84 pts for the multiple choice and XX/100 for the total exam at 10:20. (click here for the 10:20 key) AND XX pts/ 84 pts for the multiple choice and XX/100 for the total exam at 12:40. (click here for the 12:40 key). most missed included: . Poorly done (59-50% correct) included:

Exam IV = (XX/100 pts for the total exam at 10:20. (click here for the 10:20 key) AND XX/100 pts for the total exam at 12:40. (click here for the 12:40 key) Most missed included: . Poorly done (59-50% correct) included: .

FINAL Average = XX pts /165 required pts (xx pts possible) for the instructor part at 10:20. (click here for the 10:20 key) AND XX pts/ 165 required pts (xx pts possible) for the instructor part at 12:40. (click here for the 12:40 key)

**Why is the exam average important??? I am afraid that there is no extra credit. I don't curve, but will lower the points required for each grade at the end of the semester, based in a large part on the averages on the exams. Use the average to let you know both how you are doing compared to the class and how the class is doing. also remember that your exam grades can be a little lower than you want for the course, since your quizzes (36 pts) and homework (70 pts) are more than a test grade, for which you should get close to 100, in addition to the 1 exam grade that you can drop.

**To study for the exam, do:
1) your OWL (at least some of each required section),
2) the two sample exams,
3) go over your objective sheet,
4) practice any objectives that you are weak on by doing more problems on that topic (on OWL click on 'past due assignments' to do any OLD OWL assignments for review).
5) Do a quick read of the sections that are stated on your objective sheet.
6) Finally, go over the sample exams again, this time read the question and say HOW to work the problem, then uncover your answer and see if you know how to work the problem by reading it.
7) Then get a good night's sleep!!

**Register your clickers through elearning, which should be available from Howdy. (NOT ON EINSTRUCTION or OWL). Be sure to allow popup windows. Try to have your clicker set up by Monday. The tech support is at 888-333-7532 .

**You may want to ck out the chemistry visualizations in the arHIVE. There is also easy to download plugins, etc. to view the visualizations. Click here!

**For an interesting 6 min movie about the world you will be living in click here. (Thanks to Dr. Kennicutt)

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