General Chemistry Exam Cheatsheet

This webpage IS allowed during any GenChem exam taken online.

It is recommended that you perform practice problems and general studies with this sheet, to the extent you become familiar and confortable with its use prior to taking an exam.

1. What is not on this cheatsheet
2. Periodic chart
3. Formulas and constants
4. Lewis dot structure — cascade diagram
5. Solubility & Metal Activity Tables
6. Kinetics Formulas
7. Select Equilibrium Constant Values
8. Standard Potential (E⁰) Values
9. Select Molar Masses

WHAT IS NOT ON THIS SHEET   (things to for-sure memorize)

You should have the following put to memory:

• the five alway-soluble ions
• Periodic Chart "family" names for certain Groups and Periods
• metric conversion factors which correspond to the prefixes:
  M  K d c m  μ  n
• periodic chart boundary between metals and non-metals
• the seven diatomic elements
• the seven strong acids & the eight strong bases
• the eight 'memory' polyatomic acids:
  sulfuric, nitric, phosphoric, acetic, carbonic, chloric (and bromic, iodic), chromic, and dichromic
• anything that is not provided below, but which you might need on an exam

PERIODIC CHART

FORMULAS & CONSTANTS

LEWIS DOT STRUCTURE – CASCADE DIAGRAM

SOLUBILITY & METAL ACTIVITY TABLES

KINETICS FORMULAS

EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT VALUES

STANDARD POTENTIAL (E°) VALUES

Some Molar Masses