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[LeviLamp]

Trevor Smith now takes 2 of 3 lectures for kinetics and has disabled Michelle's lecture recordings.
My soul is crying.

[litaluta]

When I was young, I mean before I start uni I told myself 'Maybe you can even finish the uni in 2 years!!'. And now I am like 'will u finish?r u sure?'

chemistry 2...I do not remember anyyyyything about organic!
Bio...why each plant and animal should have a name that has no familiarity with normal language?
cognitive psyc...god helps me

Something tells me having 4 core subject is recipe for failing. why everything is so hard at uni?? 

[Starlight]

When I was young, I mean before I start uni I told myself 'Maybe you can even finish the uni in 2 years!!'. And now I am like 'will u finish?r u sure?'

chemistry 2...I do not remember anyyyyything about organic!
Bio...why each plant and animal should have a name that has no familiarity with normal language?
cognitive psyc...god helps me

Something tells me having 4 core subject is recipe for failing. why everything is so hard at uni?? 

You've got time to work on organic, I remember from chem 2 there were some reactions that you just had to memorize and others that you needed to draw the curly arrow mechanisms for and required understanding. Try and differentiate which reaction requires which method of learning. Then go back to and do as many revision questions as you can from the tutes, past exams and cals. Our chem 2 exam had stuff on chair conformations and newman projections so understanding that stuff is pretty important.

Trevor Smith now takes 2 of 3 lectures for kinetics and has disabled Michelle's lecture recordings.
My soul is crying.

What an arse.

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

Trevor Smith now takes 2 of 3 lectures for kinetics and has disabled Michelle's lecture recordings.
My soul is crying.

FUARKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK >_<

[Starlight]

The good thing is that kinetics is probably the easiest topic of chem 2 tbh.

[VivaTequila]

Kinetics is definitely the easiest topic of Chem 2.

Trevor Smith isn't the greatest lecturer, so you have my sympathy, but you are still lucky that all of the chem lecturers are normally fantastic.

[Sinner]

Chem 2 difficulties IMO

Organic Chem/Physical Chemistry > Quantum Mechanics > Electrochemistry > Kinetics (if anyone fails this Imma kill a unicorn) 

[LeviLamp]

Where does metal chem fit in there?
I slept through the kinetics lecture today, it was so mind-numbingly boring and I'd only had three and a half hours of sleep the night prior (thanks Pokemon Y  .
Glad to hear organic is the hardest part, since I have a full set of tidily arranged notes written out for it (though I still have to do the question set).

[Starlight]

Where does metal chem fit in there?

Wasn't too bad in my opinion. Very doable if you practice.

[LeviLamp]

Is it worth taking my own notes for quantum onwards or will reading the slides and doing the set questions/looking in the textbook suffice? I feel like notetaking will eat up too much time :s

[nubs]

Yeah I didn't make any notes for chem 2, I just read the slides and then read the relevant stuff in the textbook a couple of times before doing some questions.

[Sinner]

Where does metal chem fit in there?
I slept through the kinetics lecture today, it was so mind-numbingly boring and I'd only had three and a half hours of sleep the night prior (thanks Pokemon Y  .
Glad to hear organic is the hardest part, since I have a full set of tidily arranged notes written out for it (though I still have to do the question set).

Metal Chem is part of Phys Chem, you guys haven't gotten that yet? I'm surprised if you haven't.

Just look through the books and webs a bit for the lecture notes at the minimum, but read through the textbooks about the quantum content if you want to, i found that improved my understanding of the subject a lot.

[crescendo]

Guys sorry to interrupt but just a quick question abt chem...

If someone didn't do chem in high school, they'd have to go with Chem10007 fundamentals first, right?

how hard is achieving really good in fundamentals (for someone whose chem knowledge is only equivalent to year 10 chem) so that he could jump to chem10004?

thanks in advance!!

[hobbitle]

^^ I've asked this same question also on the forum, apparently if you are generally dilligent and do all the tute sheets and worksheet and go to all the lectures etc you should put yourself in a good position for a H1 which is what you need to skip to Chemistry 2.
I am kind of screwed with my study plan if I don't get to skip to Chem 2 so I need that H1 next year!!!
As a bit of a buffer I'm doing the Khan Academy Chemistry course over the holidays.

[hobbitle]

Hey people, with the GAMSAT, I'm in first year now and I was thinking of sitting it next year, but I have basically no chemistry knowledge (I'm not taking it until 2nd year, long story...) , it would be pretty much a waste of $450 to sit it in 2014 right? 
Without Chem there's no way I'd get a score high enough (70+) to kind of guarantee not having to resit in 2015 anyway hey...