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Resources - CHE112 While I was taking this course - especially at the beginning - I really hated it. The professor was, how you say, a bit boring, and the quizzes were damn near impossible. I never really was good at beating around the bush. In any case, I'm sure you, my dear reader, will appreciate my frankness. Now, I know for a fact that almost everyone in first year computer engineering take Materials, or Biology. I, quite honestly, dislike Biology, and I really wasn't sure what Materials was about. So, I took Chemistry, being the only course that I'm even remotely familiar. I would have much rather taken Materials. They covered some material that I found very interesting in high school which would have been just as interesting to cover in uni. In retrospect however, I am glad that I took chemistry. The professor turned out to be a "nice guy", and the labs that we did were far more interesting and involved a lot more first hand experience than either the bio or the materials labs. We had MANY quizzes during the year. Many of which I burned as soon as I walked out of the door. But the quizzes were all fairly straightforward. The key to doing well in this course, or more specifically, the quizzes, is to READ THE TEXTBOOK BEFORE GOING TO CLASS. I cannot stress this enough. The professor teaches the material that is going to be on the quiz, the day of the quiz. So, you have to learn the material by at least the day before you go to class, because honestly, have you ever managed to study during your spare, with all your friends talking about, well, nothing? With that said, don't worry too much about the quizzes. The labs are easy marks compared to the quizzes, nevertheless you have to work hard. One lab in particular, the Chromium Lab is quite difficult, as you have to design your own method to perform the experiment, which can take as much as a week to do if you don't know what you're doing. I will post the lab that our class had to do. The labs for other classes will undoubtedly be slightly different, however the underlying principle of any other equivalent lab will be the same. Please keep in mind that I didn't get a very good mark on this chromium lab, so don't use mine as your template, just use it as a guide. Finally, I do have a copy of the exam which turned out to be doable, despite my weakness in this course. You will be given a practice exam though, and this one that I have posted might simply be redundant. Many of you will find this course to be pretty easy. I didn't. It is perhaps however, due to my constant vigilance that I passed. I wish you lots of luck and patience if you are indeed taking this course. |
