Btw I didn't realise this blog has so many readers, even when my results were really far from perfect. Rmb if you want any notes can email me and I will send them, sadly I don't have any senior lab reports and I don't share my reports cos they would probably worsen your grades HAHA.
AED23C | CRITICAL REASONING SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING | 2AU | UE | A-
Group presentation (30%)
Class participation (10%)
Individual assignment (10%)
Individual Essay (50%)
There is a weekly 3 hour lesson for this course but lessons ended at around week 9, so you would have more time to study for your other courses yay xD. The best thing is that there is no exam!! The lessons are very interactive and fun and relaxing, would definitely recommend this course! The only 2 drawbacks I can think of are that NIE is quite a long walk from the NTU campus, and you have to write a 1500 words essay with proper citations. I shall not spoil the fun by describing the details of the lessons, but I assure you that it would be fun. :D
For group presentation, we had to conduct a 1 hour lesson to teach students about critical thinking. We were required to design our lesson to suit a particular age group, with the students in the class acting as our participants. I think our group was hilarious HAHA thanks to my group mates, but I didn't talk much during the presentation (in fact, I'm not sure if I even spoke), but I did contribute in other areas okayyyy. ><
For class participation, I don't know how we were graded, but again I didn't talk much. The lessons taught some philosophy which may overlap with HY0001, and we also learnt about fallacies and other skills that helped us to think critically.
The individual assignment was interesting as we were asked to imagine ourselves as an old person writing an email to our younger self.
And the main thing of the course is the individual essay, the topic was quite broad as it required us to discuss the critical thinking strategies or applications of critical thinking. But I had fun writing the essay too, oh and the course instructor speaks very well and his lessons are very engaging.
CM2031 | ORGANIC AND BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 1 | 3AU | CORE | :3
Mid term 1 (20%) 47%, average: ~60
Mid term 2 (20%) 52%, average: ~60 (average before moderation was 32/100 HAHA)
Final exam (60%)
I thought CM1031 was scary, but CM2031 was 10 times worse! (In terms of the amount of content taught) Also mainly cos I didn't study/ wrong study method. Oh and I wil try to upload all my notes with filled blanks by July as I'm still busy with work. Take note that for CM2021 and CM2031, the way the content are being taught and tested are different for different sems, I only realised that recently HAHA
Something different about the 2nd part of the semester was that we were able to choose whether we want to attend the real lectures or just view the e-lectures online via LAMS. There were different sets of notes for the different types of lectures too.
For mid term 1 and 2, around 50% of the test required us to draw the structures of the product when the reactant and reagents are given. I guess that means there is less emphasis on memorising the reagents and conditions?? BUT the other 50% required us to provide the synthesis and retrosynthesis routes of the product and reactants, so we still had to know the reagent and conditions. Mechanisms would also be tested but not as much.
For the final exam, I thought I was well prepared and the questions seemed manageable but I still managed to flunk it real badly. That's what I got for being too complacent.
CM2041 | PHYSICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY 1 | 3AU | CORE | -_-
Midterm 1(20%)
Midterm 2(20%)
Final Exam(60%)
The course has a lot of math HAHA, a bit of differentiation and integration which were required to determine the rates of change. There are also some "show that..." questions which reminds me of simultaneous equations in o level math. I dunno how to describe HAHA you can look at the pyp for more info.
For midterms 1 and 2, I noticed that many of the questions were exactly the same as the ones given in the notes, so study the notes and practice questions carefully. ESPECIALLY for midterm 2, where the proving questions contributed to a big part of the test(the questions and answers were exactly the same as the ones given in the practice questions).
For final exam, the questions actually looked more straightforward than the previous years, do we seem less smart than the previous batches? HAHA But I guess I didn't do well too, which I somewhat expected since I only started studying the content for the whole sem in 2 days. SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT HAIZ. TOO COMPLACENT ALR
CM2062 | CHEMISTRY AND BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY LABORATORY 2 | 3AU | CORE | ._.
Labs (50%)
Final exam (50%)
This semester's labs were mostly group work, and we usually ended early yay. But I still did badly for lab reports, mainly because I did them only a day before submission. Most people got As for their lab reports but I got a wide variety of grades for them HAHA. So don't ask me for lab reports.
Here are some differences between CM2061 and CM2062
- we had to buy and use a lab notebook
- 6 precautions instead of 3
- pre-labs were not checked at the beginning of each lab
For the final exam, there were around 35 MCQs(?) and some short answer questions. Some MCQs required us to plot graph and do lots of calculations so don't underestimate them. We had to really understand the formulas given in the lab manual to do the questions. Some questions are tricky so it would be good to take note of the units given in the questions.
ET0001 | ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATION | 1 AU | GER-CORE | PASSED
Compulsory GER course, I took it this sem because I can HAHA. There are quizzes at the end of every module and you have to get at least 11/15 to proceed to the next module. Unlimited attempts are allow so just relax~
HY0001 | ETHICS AND MORAL REASONING | 1 AU | GER-CORE | PASSED
This course is about ethics and some philosophy, I usually just read the slides and answer the questions without viewing the videos. There is a 300 word reflection to be submitted by a certain deadline in order to pass this course.
ML0002 | CAREER POWER UP! | 1 AU | GER-CORE | PASSED
This course taught us about how to dress for different situations and also some dining etiquette which I found quite interesting. There is a compulsory assignment which we had to film an elevator pitch of ourselves speaking and upload it to youtube for grading. You can search for some of the examples online.
HG8011 | DETECTING MEANING WITH SHERLOCK HOLMES | 3 AU | GERPE-LA | B+
Project 1 (20%)
Project 2 (20%)
Project 3 (20%)
Quiz (40%)
I actually couldn't understand much about the first part of the course but the second part was fun as we looked at Sherlock Holmes films during lectures. For more details about the course, just google HG8011 and click on the first link as all contents are posted there. :D
PS8001 | DEFENCE SCIENCE | 3 AU | GER-CORE | PASSED
Quiz 1 (20%)
Quiz 2 (20%)
Final exam (60%)
I heard that this course is going to be replaced by another course next year so this review is probably useless HAHA. The 2 quizzes are online so I googled for the answers xD. The final exam is 100% MCQs.
UPDATE: FINALLY SCANNED THE 3 CHAPTERS THAT NEED SCANNING
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1j8AplqIJOUB4aPBC2OBoJbBtsNvkCKnN
