2013

TIPS CEMERLANG KIMIA

Ciri - ciri pelajar berpotensi skor

A+ dalam Peperiksaan KIMIA SPM

(Dari Laman Sup Kimia oleh Mr Ooi)

Berdasarkan pengalaman beliau sebagai

seorang guru kimia, pelajar- pelajar

yang berpotensi skor A1 mempunyai

ciri-ciri:

1.

Menghormati guru kimia.

Pelajar yang berpotensi skor A+ ini

biasanya menghormati saya. Mereka

menghargai apa yang saya lakukan

untuk meningkatkan prestasi

pencapaian KIMIA mereka.

2.

Berminat terhadap KIMIA.

Pelajar ini biasanya suka belajar

KIMIA. Kadang-kadang saya menanya

mereka mengapa suka KIMIA, pelajar-

pelajar ini cuma menjawab : "Tak

taulah Cikgu, I just suka saje".

Beberapa orang pelajar yang skor A+

dalam KIMIA memberitahu saya mereka

ingin memohon kursus Chemical

Engineering selepas mendapat

keputusan mereka.

3.

Membaca sebelum Cikgu mengajar

Daripada tinjauan saya, pelajar

yang berpotensi skor A+ ini

biasanya membaca sesuatu tajuk

kimia sebelum saya mengajar.

Kadang-kadang latihan yang belum

disuruh buat sudah dijawab dengan

lengkapnya. Ada pula meminjam nota

daripada kelas lain yang saya

mengajar lebih awal. Apabila saya

mengajar, dia sudah ada nota dan

hanya menumpukan perhatian terhadap

keterangan saya sahaja.

4.

Selalu berbincang dengan Cikgu

Pelajar ini biasanya akan berjumpa

saya selepas pengajaran. Mereka

akan menanya berbagai soalan yang

mereka tidak faham atau keliru.

5.

Mempunyai pelbagai buku rujukan

Pelajar ini biasanya ada beberapa

buah buku rujukan dan buku latihan

tambahan.

6.

Membuat latihan dengan daya usaha

sendiri

Pelajar ini membuat semua latihan

yang saya berikan dengan daya usaha

sendiri. Mereka tidak pernah

menyalin jawapan daripada rakan-

rakannya.

7.

Membuat persediaan lebih awal

sebelum peperiksaan KIMIA

Pelajar ini biasanya membuat

persediaan yang lebih awal sebelum

ujian atau peperiksaan kimia.

Mereka akan menanya saya skop ujian

atau peperiksaan yang akan

diadakan.

Adakah anda juga menunjukkan ciri-ciri

di atas ?

Jika ya, maka tahniah ! Anda juga

merupakan seorang pelajar yang

berpotensi skor A1 dalam KIMIA SPM

akan datang.

Jika tidak, maka jadikanlah ciri-ciri

di atas sebagai panduan anda untuk

menjadi seorang pelajar yang

berpotensi skor A1 dalam KIMIA SPM

akan datang.....Mr Ooi.

BooNBoX wrote,

(from http://www.malaysia-

students.com/2006/06/scoring-1a-in-spm-

chemistry.html)

You know what, there's an old legend in

secondary school. Normally you hear this

story when you are about to enter Form

4.

"Bio, Physics, Chemistry... the

difference between these three pure

science subjects is that, all three

require different brain usage in a

different percentage... In Biology,

where you need 75% of MEMORIZING skill

and 25% UNDERSTANDING of your text. Mean

while for Physics, it's the other way

round where you need only 25% MEMORIZING

skill (my friend derives the formulae

other than memorizes it!!) and 75%

understanding. Chemistry is some way in

the middle and should be the easy for

all ... ... you need half memory and

half understanding, i.e. you are not

only memorize the formulae and concept,

you need to apply them as well ..."

To be honest, for the first monthly test

in my chemistry, i was about to fail ...

... i did even know how to get the

numbers of atoms in a mole of oxygen gas

... ... becoz I couldn't see the concept

and i did understand it... i could not

imagine the concept... so.. the most

important thing is .. YOU NEED TO

UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THE CONCEPT...

Then... you learn the basic, how to

balance an equation... this is the most

basic AND useful skill in chemistry...,

sometimes you really scratching your

head till bleeding but still couldn't

figure out the meaning and the

question... all you need to do is to

balance the equation and you will get

the concept for that particular

situation/condition... then you are half

way to the answer...

The question is .. HOW TO LEARN TO

BALANCE THE EQUATION ?? Well... ... this

is different for every individual...

it's more or less like Maths... ...

someone good in Maths (and understand

what is Maths) could normally do better

in balancing the equation... ... just

take it as a simple Maths equation and

maybe you will get a clearer picture ...

... break the molecules into simple

element... ... ... take it simple and

think simple .. then it will be...

HOW TO SCORE OK (WELL MAYBE) IN

CHEMISTRY ... the most important key is

... ... go through every chapter and

learn the basic concept... then...

understand its concept but doing some

practice questions ... ... doing

questions will let you know how to apply

this concept ... ...

e.g. : you study about

thermochemistry... you know it's about

heat produced/asorbed in a chemical

reaction... ... but you won't be able to

do the questions if you never done it

before ... ... becoz you don't know how

to apply the concept !

With the concepts in your mind... you

should be able to do most questions ...

but ... what if you want to do ALL

QUESTIONS??

HOW TO SCORE WELL IN CHEMISTRY then

comes in your memorizing skill ... ...

you need to memorize examples... ... you

need to memorize the colours of

elements... ... formulae... ...

You probably know about daniel cell...

how to draw the cell and know which way

the current going around the circuit...

... but if the question ask you to give

an example ??? what if the questions

asking you to build an experiment to

know what element contain in an unknown

substances ??

So to score very well, you will need

this.

That's all I wanted to tell you all

based on my personal experience. Some

might feel not comfortable with my way;

I understand that because I believe

every individual got its own way to

excel. Hopefully you can benefits the

best from my opinion other than

following it blindly.

Posted by Chong

(from http://www.malaysia-

students.com/2006/06/scoring-1a-in-spm-

chemistry.html)

A reader, Lix asked how to score in SPM

Chemistry at Malaysia Students

Forum (powered by Google Groups) so I

write this post with the hope that Lix

and other readers will benefit from it.

I assume her to be a form 5 student this

year since she mentioned the word

‘Kimia’ in her post. For your

information, form five year 2006 is the

last batch of secondary school students

studying Science and Mathematics

subjects in Malay.

Let me start this post with my own

experience in SPM Chemistry from grade

4C to 1A. Last year, I scored 4C in

Chemistry in my midyear examination. I

didn’t even know how to write a correct

chemical equation. I started worrying

that I might get bad result in SPM

Chemistry. From that moment, I studied

very hard and finally scored 1A in SPM

Chemistry. You should start revising

each and every chapter in the

syllabus now. How? Follow these tips:

Master basic but important concepts

Memorize important facts and

processes

Practise past-year SPM papers

Practise all trial papers

Master basic but important concepts –

You must at least know how to write

correct chemical equation, do simple

calculation and understand basic

chemical concept likes Mole Concept.

Note that there are only a few types of

calculations in Chemistry compared to

Physics so please master all the

calculations. Try to learn them

yourselves reading the reference books

first. If you really couldn’t understand

them, you should seek help from your

class or tuition teacher.

Memorize important facts and processes –

Memorize the colours of chemical

substances; understand the salt

preparation process… It works

effectively although some might argue

that memorizing facts is the wrong way

of learning. I personally agree that you

can surely get a 1A in SPM Chemistry if

you could memorize all the facts.

However, I strongly recommend you to

understand each concept and fact before

you start memorizing them. Learning

Chemistry becomes more exciting and

enjoyable using this method.

Practise past-year SPM papers – Past-

year SPM questions will repeat from time

to time because of the limited scope

covered in SPM Chemistry syllabus. This

is no secret that most SPM candidates

realize it. Practice makes perfect. Try

every question and learn from your

mistakes. For essay questions, get the

marking schema from your teachers so

that you can see how the marks are

allocated and which points or keywords

deserve full mark, etc. Learning from

the essay marking schemas is a highly

effective method!

Practise all trial papers – After SPM

trial examinations, try to get other

states’ SPM trial papers and practise

them. Try Maktab Rendah Sains Mara

(MRSM) SPM trial papers too! You can

either exchange SPM trial papers with

your friends from other states or get

them online through certain websites. I

was lucky because my Chemistry teacher

collected other states’ SPM trial papers

for us last year. Sometimes, one or more

exact or similar questions will come out

in the actual SPM Chemistry paper. SPM

question leaks do happen every year.

In conclusion, you have to study and

understand every chapter carefully.

Believe me, you won get 1A if you have

read only a few topics and focus on only

certain chemical concepts. Like it or

not, read-understand-memorize all topics

is the only way to guarantee a A+ in SPM

Chemistry.