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Understanding CT4 and/or CT6

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Voodoo_Child

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Hi All,

So I sat CT6 yesterday and I have blatantly failed. I really felt I had a grasp on the subject until I saw the exam, and now I feel like a retard. I also sat CT4 last sitting which I annoyingly FA'd on, even though I felt it was a good paper and had passed.

When I was in 6th Form, I didn;t have a clue what chemsitry was about. I just didn;t get it. Then my parents got me a tutor and everything clicked into place and I began to understand it all and was even able to adapt my understanding to other scenarios.

What I'm trying to get at is, what can I do to be able to gain some sort of understanding that allows me to click with these subjects? I know there are people who can do these subjects, and I think its a case of
1) Understanding/Interpreting the situation
2) Methodical working of such situations

Do tutorials really help with such understanding? I've never been to a tutorial, so I don't know.

Does anyone with relative success or knowledge in these subjects have any input?

Thanks
 
Do any of the tutors have any suggestions???????
 
Ignore last comment, just seen all the replies on the other one I have.

This is a class forum, but exams are poo!
 
Rubbish forum

Voodoo Child,

Your original thread is one that is undoubtedly best-answered by students, hence the reason it was left. However, your second one is (arguably ;-) ) more suited for tutors. I apologise for not getting back to you sooner, this must have been annoying. :-( I'm also surprised that no student has given you their opinion on the tutorials.

My honest opinion of tutorials is that they are excellent, they help enormously. I went on one for every CT subject when I was studying the CT's and I found them to be far better than any other learning aid available. They helped me sort out the difficult topics, highlighted my complacency on what I thought were easier topics and, crucially, helped me focus my revision time on exam-style questions. I also enjoyed them and that is why I wanted to become an ActEd tutor

Now I am a tutor, so I am blatantly going to say that tutorials are excellent and you should pay to go on them. But, for what it's worth, I do think this! :)

CT4 and CT6 are both very difficult subjects and the pass rate on CT4 is low so you are being immensely hard on yourself "feeling like a retard". But, I have failed before and I know exactly how you feel - bit of a shock to start failing exams after years of being top of your class? Well, this might be another reason to come on tutorials? I took comfort in spending 1 or 2 days with students in the same position as me. There are 412 students out there who failed CT4 in April 2007 and I imagine quite a few of them feel the same as you do!

Hope this helps and sorry once again about the "rubbish forum"! ;-)
John Potter
 
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