Alright unit if you keep up to date but tips I wish I'd known when I started: 1) DONT TAKE HANDWRITTEN NOTES 2) don't rely on it being an open book exam 3) Print 8 pages per slide 1) I made this mistake for the first 18 lectures only to find out we bring in annotated slides for the exams. You don't want to have to redo the lectures by writing your handwritten notes onto the slide a day before the exam, cuz there's like 100 slides (36 lectures, about 20 slides each) 1) I'd you have a tablet or ipad, use an app to write over the slides, this way you also have more time to listen to the lecture instead of anxiously trying to write everything down. Especially good idea since they go through a lot of diagrams you're gonna wanna look at and focus on. 2) Other than that, only three labs pretty simple, and the exam isn't bad, but do practice questions beforehand, and look over your notes even though it's open book!!! Cuz you will not have time to find the tiniest random definition in amongst 100 highlighted slides. 3) Lastly print your slides at least 8 pages per sheet, yes you can still read it and saves so much printing

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I found this unit quite content heavy, with a lot of content having to be covered throughout the semester. In addition to this, some of the lecture slides were poorly made, having only pictures with no descriptions/words to what you should know, on the slides. In addition, some topics were very dry and I found particular lecturers quite boring to listen too. The labs were satisfactory and doable however it was easy to lose marks for very futile things so make sure what you hand in is tip-top. Despite this, it is easy to get 90%+ for the labs/quizzes. The exam was worth most of the unit grade but was really easy having it open book on LMS (due to COVID) so all the answers were found on the lecture slides. Despite the intensity of the unit, the unit was nonetheless a rather rewarding unit which was relatively easy to HD due to the nature of the exam.

Lecturers were good, content was pretty heavy and exam was moderately hard. Managed to pass without studying too hard. The reason I'm giving it 3 stars is because I felt like there was too much content and an MCQ exam wasn't a fair way to examine us.

I dropped from 96% to 73% after the exam. So it was a tough unit for me, though in my defence I find multiple choice exams really difficult because they word the questions and options in such an odd way. The labs were super easy and there were only 3, the second lab was super interesting and the lecturer for that content was also quite good. Although a practise exam wasn’t provided, the practise questions on LMS were very useful. There was also a partial lab report to write which was a bit confusing, and an assignment on reviewing a lab report which was really easy if you understand the structure of a report well. Some of the content got a bit boring, but not a bad unit considering that it's mostly done as a core unit and so not really much choice but to do it.

very interesting unit and the exam was SO DAMN EASY. watch the lectures and you'll be fine. the textbook is actually very helpful when you don't understand a topic and the topics are actually not hard at all. the labs were a bit pointless and we didnt get to do much but it was all good overall.

Good unit, only have to do 3 labs, assignments are easy if you tune in to the lectures and pay attention :)

This unit is good. It is well structured and quite fluid in the way that it is set out. If you do this with CHEM1004, the two really link up well. The lecturers really know what they're talking about and are nice to talk to. The labs are easy marks. Overall, this is a nice and enjoyable unit.

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It was alright. But often was easily confused with chem1004. some of teh lecturers were not specific about what they wanted us to know, so struggled a bit there. but the unit is actually easy to score well!