This manual's opening section describes every aspect of the test, offers study advice for its several parts, and presents a diagnostic test with answers and explanations. Following chapters review all the major test topics, including atomic structure and the periodic table; bonding; chemical formulas; gases and gas laws; stoichiometry; liquids, solids, and phase changes; chemical reactions and thermo chemistry.; rates of chemical reactions; chemical equilibrium; acids, bases, and salts; oxidation-reduction and electrochemistry; and much more. The manual concludes with four full-length practice tests with answers and explanations, a diagnostic chart of subject area scores, remedial study advice, and a set of helpful appendixes that includes reference pages of tables and important equations, as well as a glossary of more than 300 entries. The enclosed CD-ROM presents two full-length practice tests with answers, explanations, and automatic scoring.
