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The course was somewhat interesting to me, even though I don't plan on majoring in chemistry. However, enjoyment of the course and ease of understanding heavily depends on how good your professor is and how much effort you put in to reading and doing the ChIRP problems. Midterm 1 is a canon event for all first-year science students taking this course but midterm 2 is better. The labs are kind of fun but tedious to prepare for. They started doing in-class tests before each of the midterms as a low-stakes assessment for students to gauge how well they knew the material. Just put in effort to studying the ChIRP, don't skip lectures, and go to office hours.

Lots of bonding theories - VSEPR, molecular orbital theory, hybridization, etc.

Dr. Kil was one of the reasons I was able to do well in this course. He is always open to questions after class and during office hours and tries his best to support his students. His lectures are never boring and he incorporates great analogies to help his students understand the material. He also has a humorous personality and throws in jokes mid-lecture, and a loud voice that can project to the back of the lecture hall. He often uses models and visual simulators to explain concepts, which I found particularly helpful as a visual learner.

The labs are not as hard as you think, but prepare well for them so you know what to do during it. If you are unlucky and end up with a bad professor, see if you can crash another professor's lectures. Although, each professor does have their own participation portion (iClickers, surveys, etc.). Go to office hours if you don't understand something!! If you don't like your professor's explanations, try another professor's office hours, but you might have to ask around for their office hour times. Do ALL of the ChIRP exercises and additional problems and take advantage of ALL RESOURCES available to you. If you are in the Faculty of Science, SUS hosts CHEM midterm and final review sessions, and so does AMS. So go to those! AMS tends to use more exam-like questions and SUS reviews more basic a...read more

Useful and relatively interesting but difficult

Useless, and tests you on useless memorized topics

Terribly coordinated course. Grades aren't released in a timely manner making it difficult to know your standing in the course. Very assessment heavy. It's like they simply dump information on you, expect you to learn it yourself within a day and then test you on it.

It's a very important class as it teaches basics but it's very rushed and has a heavy workload especially if you're planning on taking other courses along with it.

Prof did not teach much. We were expected to watch old videos of a guy who used to once teach the course before the lecture. Then during the lecture we were tested on the videos and what we learnt from it regardless of whether the videos made any sense or not. Also, the videos are so old that certain formatting is very different, and the thing is, they never bothered to update the videos. Instead, they made a separate page listing the differences which is now your responsibility to check and make sure you won't lose any marks by using old formatting.

The workload and terrible course coordination. I would HIGHLY recommend taking 107 and 103 instead. It's much better to score well in two courses rather than to take a rushed one, learn nothing from it, and score terribly. While taking 110 does help with starting co-op early, it was not worth the stress it caused in my opinion.