Sadly there are still many educational programmers who insist upon producing computer packages comprising rote learning better suitedto simple teaching machines or crammers. This is such a package.

The program does not make use of the sophistication available on the BBC and the user of colour is appalling. Green sand! Red palm trees! Poor graphics; no variation of colour in printing; very poor layout; poor programming structure and one facility missing from this package, vital to non-programmers, is a simple method of changing data. Neither is there any protection against young fingers hitting escape or break!

The program has adequate but poorly laid out screen instructions and a total of 100 questions contained in four blocks of data. There is a choice of revision or three types of test on typical 'O' level chemistry exam questions, Answers to wrongly answered questions are displayed at the end of each test and an irrelevant picture is then displayed showing how close the user came to collecting a coconut.

A very unimaginative and tedious program suited to someone desperate to learn limited facts as quickly as possible.