Uni chem questions (1 Viewer)

[keko]

can one cope with chem 1A at uni without any prior knowledge to chem (no prelim or hsc chem) or doing a bridging course?

 

[strawberrye]

Yes you can, but you probably need to put in twice the amount of work.

 

[Flop21]

I'm doing intro chem because I didn't do HSC chem (it's suppose to be for those with 0 chem knowledge). I'm finding it very very hard lol.

Probably because I haven't done any chemistry since year 10 at the latest. And even then I didn't concentrate on it at all since I knew I wasn't doing it in the future.


You can always do what I did, or you can just do chem 1A (especially since they seem to revise a lot of HSC things briefly, but they do expect a year 11 knowledge of chem at the minimum / assumed knowledge).

Chem 1B is offered in the summer, so I can do it then or just do it next year.

If I didn't do the math bridging course, I probably would have done the chem bridging course and gone into chem 1A.

 

[keko]

so the bridging course would be sufficient for chem 1A? and also what aspects of the preilim/hsc course would the bridging course cover

 

[Flop21]

so the bridging course would be sufficient for chem 1A? and also what aspects of the preilim/hsc course would the bridging course cover

The parts needed. I know in my math bridging course they skipped stuff that wasn't needed.

Yep of course the bridging course would be sufficient, it's what its there for

You could probably go in without a bridging course (if you trust yourself to really get stuck into it) but why not if you're not doing any other bridging courses??

 

[Silly Sausage]

That would normally depend on which uni Chem 1A is offered at. There are several courses called Chem 1A across NSW unis alone.

Generally, first semester chemistry involves a significant amount of physical chemistry, so it is important to get your math levels up to scratch (2U is sufficient). They will most likely go over some important high-school concepts beforehand.

I would highly recommend going over high-school chemistry especially for second semester chem - organic chemistry - as there are many concepts which are assumed from high-school.