hi,

 

im completely new to science (except for my gcse's two years ago) but i've began to get interested in chemestry and was considering taking it at A level as i have an extra two years before i head off to uni. of course the problem with this is i dont know were to start as i dont know any begginers books covering chemestry and eventually organic chemestry, and i would be much more comfortable entring a corse with basic knowlage of the concepts of chemestry and possibly some experiance of experiments (of course done at home), any ideas for books i should read?

 

oh and the more of them the better as i learn well through reading

Well if your going to take a-level then you only need to make sure you know the stuff from GCSE well,,,and the best place to find this is a good textbook or your notes (if you still have them) .

 

A-level moves smoothly on from GCSE and therefore you could try just getting an a-level textbook and looking through before your course, but it's not necessary.

 

As for experiments, I can't advise you about home-experiments but when you choose your a-level course you may wish to take salters chemistry: this is more experimental than say OCR chemistry. If that's what you like then go for it.

intrestingly enough while i was looking for reminants of my gcse chem course notes i found my old text book so i think ill start with that. thanks for the advice

Start with the English trivium. It's one thing to be a scientist, but it's another thing to effectively communicate your ideas.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivium

very funny. I assume your refering to my grammer and response to that i'd just like to mention that its pretty difficult mastering the english language when you have cerebral paulsy, look that up. but here i am bad grammer or not