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Title: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: Martoman on August 09, 2010, 05:20:18 pm
Is anyone else finding this unit laughable? Chapter 15 and 16 and (17 to an extent  ::)) are newish. 25 is rebranded chptr 15. 18 is obviously...waste :P. Of the 4 chapters on production we do 1. 23,24 are like 18, filler. That leaves 26,27,28 to round out the course. That means that we have a grand total of 6 chapters that just shouldn't be there  :P

As maccas put it, I'm loving it. What about you guys?
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: Stroodle on August 09, 2010, 05:23:13 pm
Yeah, it's awesome. I've got so much more time to get ahead in my other subjects this semester :)
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: matt123 on August 09, 2010, 05:25:32 pm
yeah chem is actualy a easy joke
i mean
energry .. = learn a few equations
rate/eqm = simple crap
galvanic cells = as long as u dont get confused between oxidant/reductant

and the only thing that anoys me .. is the crappy coal and nuclear energy crap lol
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: m@tty on August 09, 2010, 09:13:40 pm
We've already finished the course in class. That's how thin this unit is in content. Last unit we only finished ~3 weeks before the exam..
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: matt123 on August 09, 2010, 09:15:38 pm
uve finished already?
are u bloody jking?
 ... do u go to a hardcore private skool that do extra lessons?

i mean ,,, the course is small ... but we are like halfway
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: kenhung123 on August 09, 2010, 09:18:36 pm
Yea I laugh at my chemistry book every day.
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: m@tty on August 09, 2010, 09:20:17 pm
We haven't completed any of the three SACs yet, but we have finished the course. I go to a private school, but not a "hardcore" one in terms of studying(never been a 40+ in chem before, for example). There are only 6 of us in the class, and the teacher is alright.
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: vexx on August 09, 2010, 09:35:13 pm
We haven't completed any of the three SACs yet, but we have finished the course. I go to a private school, but not a "hardcore" one in terms of studying(never been a 40+ in chem before, for example). There are only 6 of us in the class, and the teacher is alright.

that's actually amazing.
:o
we are almost finished area of study 1..
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: happyhappyland on August 09, 2010, 09:40:39 pm
We've already finished the course in class. That's how thin this unit is in content. Last unit we only finished ~3 weeks before the exam..

Thats ridiculous to finish the course in class... What school do you go to?

THere is some complexity in some questions to do with pH and ionisation, again theres alot of tricky stuff that they can put in like in the unit 3 exam.
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: Martoman on August 09, 2010, 10:15:51 pm
We've already finished the course in class. That's how thin this unit is in content. Last unit we only finished ~3 weeks before the exam..

Thats ridiculous to finish the course in class... What school do you go to?

THere is some complexity in some questions to do with pH and ionisation, again theres alot of tricky stuff that they can put in like in the unit 3 exam.

Complexity? lawl.
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: InitialDRulz on August 09, 2010, 10:55:57 pm
My class is on chapter 26, yes, even though galvanic is a bit confusing, its actually quite easy when you know what the hell is going on. AoS3 was a cake walk, AoS 4 so far is memory work with the fossil fuels, but is that even relevant much?
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: Abdi on August 10, 2010, 05:08:28 pm
We've already finished the course in class. That's how thin this unit is in content. Last unit we only finished ~3 weeks before the exam..

O_O (WTF)

we've still got 5 chapters left, and I actually thought we were ahead! -.-'
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: 98.40_for_sure on August 10, 2010, 05:10:04 pm
5 chapters left?... you only do like 5 chapters in total
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: appianway on August 10, 2010, 05:22:04 pm
Unit 4's more conceptual, so there's a potential for them to ask hard questions (then again, VCAA doesn't always do this). I wouldn't say what unit 4 - I mean, there's not much to learn, but by covering fields such as equilibrium they could hypothetically ask us some hard problem solving style questions. Unit 3 wasn't conceptual at all - seriously, it was all rote learning, and memorising it all was the hard part.
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: matt123 on August 10, 2010, 05:24:10 pm
Unit 4's more conceptual, so there's a potential for them to ask hard questions (then again, VCAA doesn't always do this). I wouldn't say what unit 4 - I mean, there's not much to learn, but by covering fields such as equilibrium they could hypothetically ask us some hard problem solving style questions. Unit 3 wasn't conceptual at all - seriously, it was all rote learning, and memorising it all was the hard part.

yeh defs
i think the chem exam is going to be ridiculously hard honestly as the unit is so easy and lots of people did well on mid year
hmm thats my opinion but yeah
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: Abdi on August 10, 2010, 05:25:24 pm
5 chapters left?... you only do like 5 chapters in total

no there isn't! is there? LOL I may need to look over the book then! :S
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: 98.40_for_sure on August 10, 2010, 05:27:12 pm
Well isn't there like 10? But you only choose 1 chemical out of 4... and you don't even need to learn 2-3 of them. thus 4 (ish) :)
Title: Re: unit 4... what unit 4?
Post by: masonnnn on August 10, 2010, 06:42:43 pm
Our teacher was away for the first few weeks, so since his return in 2-3 weeks we've finished AOS1 and should have AOS2 done in no time... it's amazing.