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I’m taking the chemistry regent tomorrow and I’m very nervous…any advice???
Go to sleep early and eat a good breakfast 😉
Advice: Don’t be on Yeshiva World Coffee Room!!! GO STUDY!
notnorm, the year I was supposed to take it, the answer key was on the front cover of the Post. They cancelled it.
mepal, that’s the advice my mother always gave me before big tests (I didn’t take regents, but did take SATs etc). I also used to say tehillim & give tzedaka before a big test.
jothar, you’re that old?
just kidding
My year was the overlap of too many maths and sciences
Hatzlacha. Also remember that they have made it easier recently, and many times you will read a very longwinded problem of which 75% is totally irrelevant to the question that follows (red herring), and you only need one basic piece of info from the whole megillah and a drop of math to solve it. Don’t be intimidated.
Aced it in the 90’s. Probably couldn’t today.
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notnorm, oh man… a whole year ago! aside from going to sleep early, and eating a good breakfast (supposedly natural sugar helps you concentrate) what helped me a lot is that there are a lot, I repeat, a LOT of answers buried on the reference table. If you get stuck start searching. HATZLACHA and of course report back to us here. 🙂
Moish, yup I’m old. If you add up my gilgulim I’m sure I’m in the hundreds…
notnorm37- For tonight: Maximum Strength NoDoz pills
Hatzlacha!
All I can say is GOOD LUCK!!!! Regents sound like torture!!! Hashem loves me He sent my parents to live out of new york wen I was born 🙂 !!!
notnorm37: Maximum Strength NoDoz pills
Mod: No sense of humor?
regents are overrated- they’re not all that bad
Jothar, did you mean to give away your age with that comment? The NY Post answer key to the regents is well known when that happened!
notnorm, last year was supposed to be a hard one, my guess is that you would get an easy one this year because I think they alternate.
I only took the Math I regent and then went to NJ for school. The Math I regent was a joke compared to my finals…
All I can say is hatzlacha raba may u pass wth flying colours
…i think i just lost my “youngest member” status.
Your brother studied? that’s like one in a million. No. Don’t feel bad for him. He’s OVERdoing himself.
what happened with the post and the regents?
someone once told me that every few years the answers were stolen and many times by yeshiva bochurim…
dont take caffeine before you take a test cuz it will make you jittery and then crash when it wears off. thats at least what I was told when i took the SATs. never took regents but many people i know did.
regents seem to be useless cuz you dont learn anything that isnt on the curriculum where if you were not from NY you learn much different stuff. ok, ok, you actually have to learn something. but anything that isnt tested isnt taught and you end up missing out on a lot. like the history one- you learn a lot about a few eras but miss everything in between (especially the stuff that the liberal minded education board doesnt want people to know…)
AOB – You’re older than Jothar?? Oh my, I thought you were much younger 😉
Wasn’t there a similar story with a Math regent in the 90’s, or is that just a product of a befuddled memory?
Since when is age a secret here?
Darling Husband of mine has been very busy recently tutoring for the regents (pro bono).
Is there any way we can have a thread dedicated to different regents exams, letting students post questions and DH or others answering them, so he doesn’t have to answer the same questions to different students over and over again?
notnorm37: welcome to the CR! hatzlacha rabbah on the regent!
Jothar: i highly doubt you knew that we all knew the year when the regent answers were stolen! i thought you were way younger! 😉
aob: seems like you sure did loose that status around here!
youngbutnotstupid: welcome to the Grand CR! join the fun!
BS”D
Hatzlacha. One thing is for sure, stay away from one of the few chemical formulas I still remember, C2H5OH (CH2CH3OH in old notation), until after the exam!
or dihydrogen monoxide, or all those ethel, ester’s….
very funny, squeak 😉
shaatra: yeah, i don’t know, but sometimes the mods don’t let ages through & sometimes they do.
a soap is a fat and a base… I think… 😉
…and an emulsifyer agent.
mepal, not the dihydrogen monoxide, it’s like EVERYWHERE!!!!
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OH NO! you mean that the dihydrogen monoxide has reached that contamination stage? oh no!!!! you know that too much of it is toxic, its been found in vegetable farms, in most foods- yikes! 🙂
uhhh, does anyone know what dihydorgen monoxide is?? Doesn’t sound like it 😉 Go back to 11th grade!!
I once created some Dihydrogen monoxide on an international flight by not closing the cap to the seltzer bottle tight enough.
Luckily it was before 9-11-2001.
now i do. thanks to wikipedia 😉
ummmmm let me seee
dihydorgen == 2 Hydrogen atoms
monoxide == 1 Oxygen atom
oooo oooo ooooo
H2O!
That’s water!
Now do you understand my previous post?
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Good. I’m glad everyone know now.
i can honestly say i don’t remember a thing from my chem regent!
& i heard from some people that the regent wasn’t so bad this year! lucky u all!
the chem regent is over, does the thread go bye bye?!?
mepal- at a ” be green/organic/recycle” event, someone went around asking people to sign a petition against a chemical that has been put into our food supply that can be toxic…. please sign the petition to take away <drumroll please> dihydrogen monoxide! people actually signed!!!
No Jax, now we’re discussing our contaminated food!
actually dihydrogen monoxide can be toxic, even fatal
there have been cases of fatal hyponatremia from ingestion of very large quantities of dihydrogen monoxide over a short period of time.
feivel, that was the point! 😉
this person getting others to sign a petition was reporting the truth, it was just in how you phrase it all. toxicity, farmers use it constantly, in most processed foods ect.
another thing about dihydrogen monoxide
if it is not properly treated before ingestion, it can contain numerous infectious agents.
feivel, this is getting serious. Anything else we should know about?
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