Rating: 
Summary: All Chemistry, No Nonsense
Review: ChemTutor Excalibur takes a difficult and often confusing subject (college level Chemistry) and manages to pare it down to a readable and engrossing form. Using this program helped me greatly in making my way through an AP Chemistry class, and now in college, I find I still have no difficulty conversing with second year Chemistry majors about their labs. While some might say that the graphical interface is lacking, I think that it has everything it needs. In fact, with none of the bells and whistles that most other Chemistry programs have (unnecessary slides, splash screens, and animations), ChemTutor exposes itself, daring its users to find fault with its content, rather than distracting them with its presentation. Personally, I found it to be as close to perfect as such a program can be. In short, if you are really interested in learning Chemistry, not in playing just another computer game, ChemTutor is the program for you.
Rating:
Summary: ChemTutor saved my chemistry grades.
Review: ChemTutor helped bring my understanding of chemistry to a much higher level. I didn't fully understand what we were doing in class, so I borrowed my roommate's copy of ChemTutor and did a few lessons on it, and I actually understood what we did the next day in class. I also aced the next test, thanks to studying with ChemTutor. It is a program I would highly recommend to any chemistry students who want a little extra help. It is well written and will help you to understand the subject at a higher level.
Rating:
Summary: Chemtutor, It's awesome
Review: Chemtutor is an awesome program. It can help anyone understand chemistry. It always helped me understand material for a test. The final exam would have been impossible if I had not used Chemtutor. Every chemistry student should use it. It's awesome.
Rating:
Summary: Great Product!!!!!
Review: Chemtutor: Excaliber is a perfect tool for use in studying high school and college level general chemistry courses. I found it to exceptional in its ability to simplify complex topics so that they are more easily assimilated. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants better grades in their chemistry classes!
Rating:
Summary: ChemTutor® Excalibur is excellent
Review: ChemTutor® Excalibur is excellent. It teaches with correct, concise, and marvelously clear explanations of everything you need to know in Chemistry. The diagrams, tables, and definitions that ChemTutor® Excalibur provides are so clear, focused, and well written. They get right to the point and explain concepts better than my slick, overpriced textbook did. I recommend ChemTutor® Excalibur to anyone who is currently taking, or plans to take, a chemistry course.
Rating:
Summary: ChemTutor Excalibur is awesome!
Review: ChemTutor® Excalibur covers all major topics covered in college chemistry in good detail. The LEARN and EXPLANATION features are perfect. Having 'learn' and 'explain' as separate features allows the program to cater more precisely to a student's needs.
Rating:
Summary: ChemTutor Excalibur is Outstanding
Review: ChemTutor® Excalibur is an outstanding, interactive tutorial software package that students can use to learn chemistry without ever opening a textbook. I teach three different levels of chemistry at Westtown School in Pennsylvania, and I use ChemTutor® Excalibur as an integral part of each of the three courses that I teach. In fact, instead of reading their textbooks, I often have my students work with the interactive tutorials in ChemTutor® Excalibur on their own at home, and it definitely helps them to develop a strong understanding of all aspects of general and inorganic chemistry. Both my beginning chemistry students and my advanced students find ChemTutor® Excalibur to be very helpful. The tutorials are excellent and students enjoy working with them much more than reading their textbooks.
And the results have been phenomenal. I started teaching Chemistry in 1978. Since then, my AP students have typically averaged a 4 on the College Board Advanced Placement Exam in Chemistry. They'd get an occasional 5 (the highest score possible) and an occasional 3, but most of my students would score a 4, which is considered to be a pretty good score. But then, in the fall of 2002, our school obtained an unlimited site license for ChemTutor® Excalibur, and my students started using it throughout that academic year. When my Advanced Placement students took the AP Chemistry Exam in May of 2003, all of them scored a 5. In May of 2004, all of my AP students once again earned a 5 on the AP Exam. They had the same teacher and the same textbook as my previous students. I have to believe that the improved performance is due to ChemTutor® Excalibur. My first-year students have also shown significant improvement on the SAT II Subject Test in Chemistry now that they have ChemTutor® Excalibur to help them learn chemistry and to help them prepare for the SAT II.
In reading some of the reviews of ChemTutor® Excalibur on Amazon.com, I noticed a couple of reviewers who have obviously based their review on an earlier edition of ChemTutor®. The Standard Edition of ChemTutor® came out in the 1990s (when computer hardware had limited capabilities compared to today's computers) and was intended to be used as a supplement to any good chemistry textbook. Prior to 2002, I used the Standard Edition in my classroom to help students review for tests and especially term exams; however, the Standard Edition was not intended to be used as a standalone tutorial for chemistry. Students definitely had to learn the material from me or from the textbook first before working with the Standard Edition of ChemTutor®. Due to the limited hard drive space that computers had in the mid 1990s, the Standard Edition did not have the LEARN screens or the EXPLANATION screens that the Excalibur Edition has, which are what make ChemTutor® Excalibur so helpful for struggling chemistry students. The unlucky individuals who wrote those reviews apparently bought used software (not a good idea) from someone who sold them the older Standard Edition instead of the Excalibur Edition.
Kurt M. Wicks
Science Faculty
Westtown School
Westtown, PA
Rating:
Summary: Extremely useful for any high school Chem student...
Review: First year Chemistry is a subject that you absolutely have to study for. You can't fake your way through it and expect to pull an A average. Therefore, I have found this an indispensable tool for the course. It is a good feeling going into a chemistry test and knowing that you have already taken several practice tests on that specific area. It is even more helpful when the end of the year comes and you want a good way to refresh your knowledge of everything you have done for your final, to make sure that you still have all your knowledge down. This is an excellent program, and I would recommend it to any chemistry student.
Rating:
Summary: The Holy Grail of Chemistry
Review: Good morning, afternoon, evening, whatever it may be. My name is Rob, although Robert to my chemistry teacher Mr. Wicks; a formality only he is allowed enjoy. I'm an aspiring chemistry student under, very fortunately, Mr. Wicks. Unfortunately however, chemistry is not one of my better subjects. In fact, whether it be from double dissociatioin to organic chemistry, I'm pretty hopeless. But to my, my peer's, and my teddy bear's relucatant astonishment, I seem to manage. Although my success I owe wholeheartedly to this program. It's facility, it's convenience, it's ingenuity; I can't reccommend this program higher. The tutorials prepare you for anything the subject has to offer, and the tests assess your comprehension while offering you the option check back and learn from your mistakes.
If you struggle, stress, or loath chemistry, heed my words:
Chemtutor will change your life, one tutorial at a time. Your fellow Chemist,
Rob
Rating:
Summary: ChemTutuor Excalibur is Wonderful!
Review: High school or college chemistry can be a pretty tough subject. I've found that with ChemTutor Excalibur, though, chemistry is much easier to understand and do well in. ChemTutor provides students with many different kinds of practice problems from twenty different topics that a high school or college chemistry course would cover. These problems have easy-to-understand learn screens and diagrams which explain exactly why an answer is, in fact, true. If you are a high school or college student taking chemistry, and are either struggling, or simply want more practice with chemistry, look no further than ChemTutor Excalibur!
|
