Chop off the unnecessary, save keywords

After including the “bracket answer” in the definition, you now have a long and exhausting bunch of words. Congratulations! It’s time to chop off some words and make life easier.

Consider the definition of rate of a chemical reaction.

The rate of a chemical reaction is the increase in the concentration of the product per unit time.

Even Einstein will find this difficult to memorize. Chemistry is not you English literature, you don’t need fancy conjunctions and prepositions. Examiners will only look for keywords and forget all the grammatical errors. Therefore, you can chop off all the unnecessary articles. These are shown in red.

If you still find it difficult to memorize, you can also replace a word with a shorter word, or even a symbol. These are shown in green.

Notice how much shorter it is compared to the original definition? Start chopping off the unnecessary words in your definitions. It will definitely save your time and effort. Remember, always save the keywords. You don’t want to cut the keywords (eg. concentration, product etc.) and lose mark. Keywords are your friends in definition questions, so don’t leave them behind!