A pretty terrible all-round unit, but the content is not hard if you know some high school chemistry and maths. The practical classes are essentially useless for anyone who studies at all, as they're just an hour of repeating the lecture content - but you have to be there to take the online quiz. That's also really bad - it's 8 multiple choice questions, except the questions are worded badly and it's "pick 1 or more" - so it's hard to score well. The lack of communication regarding exams was worst of all - the mid-semester test completely blindsided me as they didn't say what would be given or not, so if this is your first time doing an open-book unit like me, just print out everything, prac class solutions, periodic table etc. (trying to do a mathematics exam without formulas is like skydiving without a parachute!) I've heard that next year may not have a mid-semester exam and the final exam will be 70% of the final grade (instead of 20/50), so good luck!

If you did chemistry in high school and did well, unit will be a breeze and extremely boring. If not… unit is taught poorly. Practical classes are somewhat useful. Quizzes are what ruin it, 15 minutes for 10 questions that are worded poorly…. Horrible

Good unit but weekly quizzes are a bit confusing and writing lab reports takes a lot of time.

Easy and important but rather uninteresting content. Prior knowledge from Year 11/12 Chemistry was very helpful. Assessments are relatively straightforward if you know your stuff. Practical classes were nightmarishly boring and essentially Coles brand repeats of the lectures but you had to be there to do the quiz at the end. Quizzes and multiple choice exam questions were perhaps the most difficult forms of assessment as they were very ambiguous and it was unclear as to what was being asked. Lecturer moved too slowly through the content and had to cut things out, but was very active in responding to questions. Lab reports are given very stingy page limits so be prepared to spend a ton of time working on them, and then even more time cutting down/reformatting to fit with the page requirement. Don't buy the textbook, you can get by without it and the lecture notes are decent. I wouldn't do this unit unless I had to (which I did) :(

Tricky content but a good teaching team which also responds to emails quickly. Callister textbook is not very useful for this course.

Subject has good content but I found the delivery of lectures is pretty horrible. It was very hard to understand the lecturers accent. You'll be lucky if you get your emails answered in one go, usually you have to keep asking until their team can be bothered to answer. Weekly quizzes have many ambiguous questions, be prepared to be left wondering what they want you to think of the questions. Very poorly run unit, I have only enjoyed the content because of self-study through the Callister textbook. I recommend avoiding this unit if you can.