Chem exam 2: which area will be on the exam?

[winter_89]

Hey,

 Wat you guys think the type of questions will be on this year chem exam. I guess there will be question on the production of sodium, cycle of nitrogen/carbon and the relationship between mass and binding energy.

  Any more suggestions?

[principe]

Hopefully there's a lot more theory than calculations. Like proteins, enzymes and the whole food chemistry section. There's definitely a question on protein/carbohydrates. I can sense it ....

[kingmar]

I can categorically confirm, without doubt, that the Chemistry Study Design will be on the exam.

Just learn the course. The trend for VCAA recently has been towards calculations as opposed to theory (which suits me nicely), but you never know...

No-one I know expects the difficulty to exceed that of last year's paper, and considering it's the last year of the study design, they don't usually pull one over our heads (but we don't know that for sure).

[melanie.dee]

Hopefully there's a lot more theory than calculations. Like proteins, enzymes and the whole food chemistry section. There's definitely a question on protein/carbohydrates. I can sense it ....

i effing hope NOT! lol. in my ideal world it would be 90% calculations with some periodic table trends thrown in. this is not going to happen

so lets just hope theres lots of calculations, barely any food chem, nothing on the carbon/nitrogen cycles, and some periodic table stuff and stuff on specific cells is ok.

[winter_89]

Hopefully there's a lot more theory than calculations.

 Yes, agree. I love calculations

[principe]

Lol, yeah calculations are fine, but come on don't u think circling peptide links and explaining tertiary structure of a protein are easier
I guess some calculations are easy too. But knowing VCAA, there might be a trick in there somewhere.

[Collin Li]

Well, it's not about an absolute advantage, it's about the comparative advantage. Maybe melanie.dee reckons she can bust calculations better than state, while the state matches her ability in circling peptide links.

That's often why hard exams are loved by high-end students.

[kingmar]

Well, it's not about an absolute advantage, it's about the comparative advantage. Maybe melanie.dee reckons she can bust calculations better than state, while the state matches her ability in circling peptide links.

That's often why hard exams are loved by high-end students.

QFT

[Jasper]

Quick question...

With primary/secondary/fuel cells, there are a lot, which should we concentrate on?

[principe]

Quick question...

With primary/secondary/fuel cells, there are a lot, which should we concentrate on?

You should know all of them to be safe.

[ninwa]

definitely learn lead-acid battery, that seems to come up a helluva lot. and of course alkaline and acid fuel cells.

haven't seen many specific primary cell questions tho ...

[Ahmad]

Do you have to know all the equations for the batteries and stuff? I seriously don't know any of them. I never thought they'd ask you to write the equations without giving a massive hint which allows you to work it out.

[Collin Li]

Do you have to know all the equations for the batteries and stuff? I seriously don't know any of them. I never thought they'd ask you to write the equations without giving a massive hint which allows you to work it out.

I'm pretty sure you're fine. I went in with no knowledge of them either.

[ninwa]

Do you have to know all the equations for the batteries and stuff? I seriously don't know any of them. I never thought they'd ask you to write the equations without giving a massive hint which allows you to work it out.

It helps, but it's not necessary, cos it's quite possible to figure them out on the spot. I just learn them because I'm insecure