Do you have to be good at math to do good in chemistry (1 Viewer)

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[carrotsss]

no

 

[Masaken]

no, the chemistry course is purposely structured so those taking maths standard (or even no maths) should be fine with the quantitative calculations because it's all skills you should have learned in the junior school. you can look to mod 2 for example - it's just subbing in stuff to a formula and looking at ratios - the maths itself isn't hard, it's the application of the maths you need to focus on (when to use it, how to use it when you're given a really wordy problem, etc), which is improved on with practice. there isn't even that much maths imo, and much less than physics

 

[Nedom]

The hardest kind of math you will ever encounter is quadratic equations, which will occur in year 12 chemistry, which I'm pretty sure was taught in junior years, so shouldn't be too much of an issue even if you don't do maths as Masaken explained. Besides the quadratic part, those who don't do any maths may find converting between different rates difficult, whether it be the simple changing of units (e.g. L to mL, kL to mL (have not encountered, just an example of type), etc.) or the switching of the amount/amount (e.g. mols/g to g/L or mols/L (can't think of the more difficult ones where the conversions won't naturally occur just by doing the question)).

 

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Thank you all!

 

[someth1ng]

In HS, it's mostly just algebra. At university, you'll need some basic calculus (advanced is probably in Y12). You can probably get to a PhD in chemistry (not necessarily every subdiscipline though) with just 3U maths (all science students have to learn to this level at university).