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Get the Edge on Organic Chemistry! Kaplan's Organic Edge provides you with an intensive program of practice and review for organic chemistry. It's a perfect complement to any college-level organic chemistry course, plus an excellent way to prepare for the MCAT, DAT, and other medical admissions or licensing exams. Whatever the use, Kaplan's Organic Edge can give you the edge in organic chemistry. Kaplan's Program for Organic Chemistry Success PART 1: Fundamentals
Organic Edge provides you with easy-to-understand explanations of fundamental organic chemistry concepts. Complete with instructor tips, Organic Edge helps you build the strong, basic foundation you need for success in a college-level organic chemistry course.
PART 2: Test Your Skills
Practicing with realistic problems is the most effective way to build organic chemistry skills. With Organic Edge, you'll get a complete review of organic chemistry, practice questions complete with detailed explanations for every answer, plus effective strategies to help you approach even the most difficult organic chemistry questions.
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Kaplan Organic Edge (Kaplan Organic Chemistry Edge)
- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Kaplan; 2000-11-01
- Label: Kaplan
- Studio: Kaplan
- ISBN: 068487346X
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 3 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #1381229
Avg. Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A poorly written text with mistakes and bad illustrations 2007-12-29
Comment: This book starts with about 3-4 mistakes/typos per page and then keeps a
steady pace of 1-2 every page or two, at least for about 50 pages that I have had any patience to read. Not only is the language full
of stylistic problems, omissions etc, but also the key concepts that
are introduced are often mixed up. It looks like this book did not have a careful editor and it definitely was not reviewed by an expert in chemistry or in the English language. The illustrations are so poor that
even if you have managed to decipher the text you are in danger of getting confused again by looking at them.
One example from the beginning of the book is a comparison of interactions between atomic orbitals with productive interference. First of all, is the reader of an introductory chemistry book supposed to know what productive interference is? The bigger problem yet is that there is hardly anything in common between the two concepts, at least the way they are normally defined.
In short, look for a different book. Do not get fooled by the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" label. They promise to give you your money back if you do not like the book. Imagine that this has already happened and you will not go wrong.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Kaplan Organic Chemistry Edge: Second Edition 2006-06-21
Comment: This orgo book includes discussion of the major subtopics that are most likely covered in your Organic Chemistry I course. It has a section on common introductory organic chemistry laboratory techniques, discussion of the major types of reactions that are commonly encountered, functional group discussion, and covers many of the organic aspects of biochem. I think all around, it is better than average for this type of a text. I think it is intended to compliment a formal class, and this is does acceptably. It does have a fairly strange format, which consists of a question being posed to an imaginary class. This is followed by some of the expected student responses to the question, and then the teacher's discussion. The student answers were not what I would have said in the same circumstance, but the format is often used effectively, though not always.
14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Poorly written, confusing, and just not helpful... 2005-09-13
Comment: **Updated, July 2007**
Having completed Organic Chemistry I with an A, in a class of 600, with a class average of 58/100, and no curve...
I support my original review of this book. It is a poorly written book, with a format used in the 60's. The question-answer format of this book does little to set up and support chemical ideas.
I actually think this book is more harmful to the student than helpful.
Many know that Organic chemistry is a difficult course. Hard work, a daily commitment, and study aides are indeed helpful.... On that note, keep this book out of your study aide library :)
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Summary: I originally got this text because it had a good review here on Amazon. Unfortunately, it's not what the review led me to believe.
Cons: The first 10 chapters are the review and basics, the next 10 are just problems, with short undetailed explanations and sometimes no explanations.
This text is poorly written, and often assumes you know more than you do. The explanations are sometimes incomplete and inadequate. Its not a complicated read in its academic content, but it is in it literary content. Organic Chemistry ideas are not hard, they become hard whey they are poorly explained and written.
Very, very, very poorly written. Its frustrating to mull over many of the sentences that literally just don't make any sense(I even had an English instructor look at it and he was amazed that it got published)... and not because its complicated, poor grammar and poor sentence structure make this an unnecessarily difficult read. Its almost embarrassing to have a PhD write so poorly. Kaplan seriously should've had this edited before publishing. Not to my surprise, this book has no editor listed.
The frequent 'conversations' between a teacher and a student seem to be abrupt and forced, and I believe they are intended to pad the book. Though some may find it helpful, these too are poorly written, and you may find yourself rereading it several times just to make sense of it all!
I'm maintaining an A in Orgo I now and I've found the Organic Chemistry for Dummies book to be very helpfull as well as the Standard Deviants Deep Fried World of Organic Chemistry 3VHS set. The text Organic Chemistry by Francis Carey is also a good text or adjunct to this course... very well written for a chemistry text.
I wouldn't recommend this text to next semester's Orgo I class... even as an adjunct, its that bad.
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Kaplan Organic Edge (Kaplan Organic Chemistry Edge)
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