https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/06/23/exam-tip-dont-just-bring-your-model-kit-use-it/ Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/06/23/exam-tip-dont-just-bring-your-model-kit-use-it/#comment-500 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:02:32 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=545#comment-500 Good point – there’s a lot of variation in what people are allowed to bring from school to school. Model kits were always allowed in my courses.
50 minutes seems like a serious constraint on the type of questions that would get asked. It would be enough to cover either a decent number of multiple choice questions or a small number of short-medium answer questions. Being asked to do complicated stereochemistry questions w/o a model kit sounds like it would be tough.

]]> https://www.masterorganicchemistry.com/2010/06/23/exam-tip-dont-just-bring-your-model-kit-use-it/#comment-499 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:01:24 +0000 http://masterorganicchemistry.wordpress.com/?p=545#comment-499 i’m not sure i would have gotten *anywhere* without my model kit but no kits allowed during exams in the classes i took and even if there were there would not have been time to build anything. to this day it baffles me that all the orgo classes at my university were offered (every semester) in 50 minutes slots. I’m not sure why the intense time crunch is necessary for one to demonstrate mastery. i had same complaint about the GREs. More like a video game than a demonstration of understanding.

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