[LGrosvenor101]

Hey,

I have just finished my A Levels and am hoping to be studying Chemistry this September. I am getting incredibly excited at the thought of university, and was just wondering what the general typical timetable for lectures etc are for a first year Chemistry student? My firm is at Warwick and my insurance is Birmingham, so those specifically would be nice, but it would also be really good to find a general Chemistry timetable?

Thank you!!!

[Nirgilis]

(Original post by LGrosvenor101)
Hey,

I have just finished my A Levels and am hoping to be studying Chemistry this September. I am getting incredibly excited at the thought of university, and was just wondering what the general typical timetable for lectures etc are for a first year Chemistry student? My firm is at Warwick and my insurance is Birmingham, so those specifically would be nice, but it would also be really good to find a general Chemistry timetable?

Thank you!!!

As a chemistry student at Warwick, I can get you the actual timetable for this year

Just wait a tick while I dig it up

[LGrosvenor101]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
As a chemistry student at Warwick, I can get you the actual timetable for this year

Just wait a tick while I dig it up

oooo thank you sooo much!

[LGrosvenor101]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
As a chemistry student at Warwick, I can get you the actual timetable for this year

Just wait a tick while I dig it up

Sorry would I be able to ask one more thing?

I got an email a few weeks ago saying that they will soon be sending me guidance about my pre-course reading lists. Do you know when you got yours? and what types of things were on it? Someone already said to me to enjoy my summer and not do anything, but I'm not doing anything for ages, I'm interested already and I think I am just quite eager :P Thanks xD

[Noodlzzz]

UCL have all of their timetables online:

https://cmis.adcom.ucl.ac.uk:4443/ti...ng/homePage.do

Simply choose the degree and the year you want to see. Then on the timetable page you can filter by term

[Nirgilis]

(Original post by LGrosvenor101)
Sorry would I be able to ask one more thing?

I got an email a few weeks ago saying that they will soon be sending me guidance about my pre-course reading lists. Do you know when you got yours? and what types of things were on it? Someone already said to me to enjoy my summer and not do anything, but I'm not doing anything for ages, I'm interested already and I think I am just quite eager :P Thanks xD

Right, unless you want 91 pages of PDF timetable, I can give you a typical week (attached). In term 2, keep the amount of lectures the same, but add another 6 hours of labs on Thursday too (You'll be the envy of all the arts students .. Or the other way around ) . Term 3, take out all labs and take out physical chemistry lectures.

As for summer reading, don't worry about it. The first 3/4/5 weeks is getting everybody up to speed on A-level/IB stuff. Organic chemistry has simple stuff up to Christmas, Inorganic chemistry has simple stuff for the first 5/6 weeks, and Physical chemistry... Well, nothing's easy in physical chemistry ever! But that doesn't start till week 5 or so. I can link you to the books you'll be expected to buy, but last year we got a voucher so we could get them free from the university bookshop. It arrived end of August/beginning of September, and you'll be expected to have your books by the end of week 1.

Labs are evil just so you know. You have to know what you're doing and why you're doing it (every step) before you go into the labs, otherwise you'll get ripped apart by our own resident Professor Snape

[LGrosvenor101]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
Right, unless you want 91 pages of PDF timetable, I can give you a typical week (attached). In term 2, keep the amount of lectures the same, but add another 6 hours of labs on Thursday too (You'll be the envy of all the arts students .. Or the other way around ) . Term 3, take out all labs and take out physical chemistry lectures.

As for summer reading, don't worry about it. The first 3/4/5 weeks is getting everybody up to speed on A-level/IB stuff. Organic chemistry has simple stuff up to Christmas, Inorganic chemistry has simple stuff for the first 5/6 weeks, and Physical chemistry... Well, nothing's easy in physical chemistry ever! But that doesn't start till week 5 or so. I can link you to the books you'll be expected to buy, but last year we got a voucher so we could get them free from the university bookshop. It arrived end of August/beginning of September, and you'll be expected to have your books by the end of week 1.

Labs are evil just so you know. You have to know what you're doing and why you're doing it (every step) before you go into the labs, otherwise you'll get ripped apart by our own resident Professor Snape

Lol I won't expect 91 pages, but thanks a lot! and oooo evil labs but more in term 2 o_____0 I prefer to have more hours in lectures etc than more independent working hours to be honest, so I think it suits! :P Thats good that they allow you to get the books for free, not looking forward to labs I think then, although a Snape sounds interesting and I've also heard that there is a compulsory Maths test - again, that sounds scary :P

Again, thank you so much! xD


Edit: I don't get why someone negged me

[The Cornerstone]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
Right, unless you want 91 pages of PDF timetable, I can give you a typical week (attached). In term 2, keep the amount of lectures the same, but add another 6 hours of labs on Thursday too (You'll be the envy of all the arts students .. Or the other way around ) . Term 3, take out all labs and take out physical chemistry lectures.

As for summer reading, don't worry about it. The first 3/4/5 weeks is getting everybody up to speed on A-level/IB stuff. Organic chemistry has simple stuff up to Christmas, Inorganic chemistry has simple stuff for the first 5/6 weeks, and Physical chemistry... Well, nothing's easy in physical chemistry ever! But that doesn't start till week 5 or so. I can link you to the books you'll be expected to buy, but last year we got a voucher so we could get them free from the university bookshop. It arrived end of August/beginning of September, and you'll be expected to have your books by the end of week 1.

Labs are evil just so you know. You have to know what you're doing and why you're doing it (every step) before you go into the labs, otherwise you'll get ripped apart by our own resident Professor Snape

Ah I'm glad to hear it, I have just finished a foundation year, which I barely passed and I thought I was going to be out of my depth here (which I still probably will since I'm not good on the A2 level stuff). Is the maths taught at pure maths level from the start?

[Nirgilis]

(Original post by LGrosvenor101)
Lol I won't expect 91 pages, but thanks a lot! and oooo evil labs but more in term 2 o_____0 I prefer to have more hours in lectures etc than more independent working hours to be honest, so I think it suits! :P Thats good that they allow you to get the books for free, not looking forward to labs I think then, although a Snape sounds interesting and I've also heard that there is a compulsory Maths test - again, that sounds scary :P

Again, thank you so much! xD

Don't worry about it. I genuinely believe Snape was trying to turn things around by the end of term 2. Also, if you play your cards right and disappear to talk to a friend/wash up whenever he's around, you never actually have to speak to him . I managed a whole year without talking to him, but this year I'm gonna be prepared . However, labs are really good fun. The demonstrators are really nice and willing to have a chat and you're around your lab group - the people you'll spend most of your time with! Don't worry about it, seriously.

Compulsory maths test x2, yes. First one is A-level maths. Rearranging and manipulating equations, differentials and integrals. Need to pass with 80%, though you have 4 attempts. Part 2 is the beginning of further maths (I took biology options, so didn't have to take this), which you need to pass with 60%

[Nirgilis]

(Original post by The Cornerstone)
Ah I'm glad to hear it, I have just finished a foundation year, which I barely passed and I thought I was going to be out of my depth here (which I still probably will since I'm not good on the A2 level stuff). Is the maths taught at pure maths level from the start?

Then I would say put in some work (even if it's an hour a day) from the start. First year isn't particularly taxing, but you need to understand term 1 to get term 2. It's possible to cram the course in 6 weeks and come out with high 50s, but I found sticking in a heck of a lot of hours over each holiday and copying out each lecture into neat really helped. When it came to proper revision, I could skip right to the difficult stuff as I'd already revised the easy stuff over the year

As for the maths, there are maths lessons. You will be taught maths from how to add fractions together, right up to the differentiation and integration. So if you have absolutely no maths in your background (which a fair few don't), you'll be fine. Again, it does require some amount of work to be put in though

[The Cornerstone]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
Then I would say put in some work (even if it's an hour a day) from the start. First year isn't particularly taxing, but you need to understand term 1 to get term 2. It's possible to cram the course in 6 weeks and come out with high 50s, but I found sticking in a heck of a lot of hours over each holiday and copying out each lecture into neat really helped. When it came to proper revision, I could skip right to the difficult stuff as I'd already revised the easy stuff over the year

As for the maths, there are maths lessons. You will be taught maths from how to add fractions together, right up to the differentiation and integration. So if you have absolutely no maths in your background (which a fair few don't), you'll be fine. Again, it does require some amount of work to be put in though

Ah I see, I plan to do that from day one (I always tell myself that ) so I don't have difficulties when revising uni level stuff.

I don't think it's gonna be a problem for me if they start from fractions (although it might be slightly different for my uni) since the highest level I have learned is AS maths.

[LGrosvenor101]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
Don't worry about it. I genuinely believe Snape was trying to turn things around by the end of term 2. Also, if you play your cards right and disappear to talk to a friend/wash up whenever he's around, you never actually have to speak to him . I managed a whole year without talking to him, but this year I'm gonna be prepared . However, labs are really good fun. The demonstrators are really nice and willing to have a chat and you're around your lab group - the people you'll spend most of your time with! Don't worry about it, seriously.

Compulsory maths test x2, yes. First one is A-level maths. Rearranging and manipulating equations, differentials and integrals. Need to pass with 80%, though you have 4 attempts. Part 2 is the beginning of further maths (I took biology options, so didn't have to take this), which you need to pass with 60%

Oh ok thats good, might have to try that :P and thats good for the first test - not too bad? basic integrals or stuff like integrating by parts, substitution or implicit differentiation? The 2nd one sounds like fun as well, luckily i did AS Further Maths - so that shall hopefully come in handy xD Thanks :P

[mahdishariff]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
Right, unless you want 91 pages of PDF timetable, I can give you a typical week (attached). In term 2, keep the amount of lectures the same, but add another 6 hours of labs on Thursday too (You'll be the envy of all the arts students .. Or the other way around ) . Term 3, take out all labs and take out physical chemistry lectures.

As for summer reading, don't worry about it. The first 3/4/5 weeks is getting everybody up to speed on A-level/IB stuff. Organic chemistry has simple stuff up to Christmas, Inorganic chemistry has simple stuff for the first 5/6 weeks, and Physical chemistry... Well, nothing's easy in physical chemistry ever! But that doesn't start till week 5 or so. I can link you to the books you'll be expected to buy, but last year we got a voucher so we could get them free from the university bookshop. It arrived end of August/beginning of September, and you'll be expected to have your books by the end of week 1.

Labs are evil just so you know. You have to know what you're doing and why you're doing it (every step) before you go into the labs, otherwise you'll get ripped apart by our own resident Professor Snape

Wait - you guys got a voucher for the core text books?
Surely not the Atkins Phys Chem, Shriver & Atkins Inorganic, and the Clayden Organic Chem? I had to pay £150 for them D: !!!
X

[Nirgilis]

(Original post by mahdishariff)
Wait - you guys got a voucher for the core text books?
Surely not the Atkins Phys Chem, Shriver & Atkins Inorganic, and the Clayden Organic Chem? I had to pay £150 for them D: !!!
X

Yep!

It was the first time the chemistry department had the funds for it, and the price came up a fair amount in the SSLC meetings, so they decided to give them to us One of the lecturers apparently did a hands-up survey on who was annoyed in the 2nd year about this. I think you can guess what the outcome was

[LGrosvenor101]

(Original post by Nirgilis)
Yep!

It was the first time the chemistry department had the funds for it, and the price came up a fair amount in the SSLC meetings, so they decided to give them to us One of the lecturers apparently did a hands-up survey on who was annoyed in the 2nd year about this. I think you can guess what the outcome was

Do you think that they will allow the new fresher's the books for free? I hope

[.snowflake.]

(Original post by mahdishariff)
Wait - you guys got a voucher for the core text books?
Surely not the Atkins Phys Chem, Shriver & Atkins Inorganic, and the Clayden Organic Chem? I had to pay £150 for them D: !!!
X

O_O. Thank god I firmed Sheffield. By the looks of it, we get given them for free as well...