I found the practice problems the most useful. If you can do them, there’s almost no need to go over the lecture slides. However, some definitions will be thrown into the exam, and the lecture slides will be your saving grace for these. You need to know enough about everything in the physical part to define it. Some possible examples are Boyle’s temperature, the triple point, and some others that I can’t think of right now, sorry.

The organic part is easy enough. If you’ve done fine in the online tests, you will do fine in the exam. Review the practice problems for those, and everything will be fine.

I’m sorry you feel that way, Anon. I’m assuming that by the “physical part”, you’re meaning the first half, with all the thermodynamics and stuff? And the calculations assignment? CHEM3001 and that lecturer don’t get too much better, I’m sorry to tell you. I’m struggling to think how to study for that exam...

The calculations assignment is your best friend for studying that section of the unit. If you can do all the calculations, you will be fine for the exam. Also study all the definitions, he likes to throw some of those in as the first question.

I coped just fine, but that’s who I am.

Sorry if I sound cliche, but you have to keep up to date as much as possible, and study styles differ between people; it depends on what works for them. Your professors are there to help you and will answer questions that you have. Approach them after a lecture, or email and set up an appointment to talk to them about certain topics you’re struggling with.

Allan’s calculation assignment is a brilliant study tool for the exam. Pretty much all of his half of the exam is a re-hash of the assignment. You’ll need to know a few definitions as well, but those are easy.

The spectroscopy half of the unit is relatively easy when you get up to it. You’ll need to do all of the practice problems that you’re given if you’re struggling with it. I don’t know who you have for this half of the unit, because I had Murray, but I know he’s on sabbatical this semester, so I don’t know if you’ll get the same problems as I did, but I think you will get either the same or similar problems.

For the infinity point method, you are trying to find K (conductance) at time intervals. By plotting the natural log of K2-K1, you will get a negative graph in Linplot (have fun with that stupid program…). This gradient is the opposite of rate constant k (sorry about using two K/ks. Conductance is meant to be kappa, but you can’t easily do that in Tumblr). Rate constant will be different for each temperature. Hope I’ve helped a little. If not, maybe try Khan Academy or something similar. It has been a year since I’ve done this specific experiment.

Keep up to date with the lectures. Do your lab reports over the week, don’t try and do them the night before they’re due. Find a tutor willing to take you on. Read through the textbook (if you don’t have it, tell me your student number and I can email it to you).

I known it doesn’t feel worth it doing your lab reports and knowing that they’re only worth 3% each, but if you do them well, that’s some marks you don’t need to get in the exam.

When you get to the spectroscopy half of the unit, do all the practice problems that you can. Once you get the hang of how to interpret NMR and IR and mass spec, it’s relatively easy. You also need to know this stuff for later units, no matter if you’re going into analytical or synthetic.

Allan’s calculation assignment is literally his section of the exam. If you do the assignment well, you will do well in the exam. I know that the lecture slides are confusing as hell for some of those questions, but you will get through it.