Chemistry 1 vs Fundamentals of Chemistry

[mostmagicalmuggle]

Hi fellow unimelb students 

I'm a first year doing Bsc, and I need to do chem as a prerequisite for next year. I'm currently enrolled in chemistry fundamentals, and although I did do VCE chemistry, just thought I'd pick the easier chem because I didn't do so well last year and have always struggled with it.

I was wondering whether it would be easier to pass the chemistry 1 exam (50%) or to get 80% on the chem fundamentals exam, which is what is required to progress straight into chem 2 in semester 2. I really don't want to have to do chem 2 in the summer term   

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[pippulup]

I did some chemistry study back in high school in year 10 but dropped out in the middle because my chem teacher sucked. So I had to start with fundamentals, and it was insanely easy. I scored 95 without effort or extra study (I did go to lectures, tutorials etc) and was offered to take chemistry 2 but unfortunately needed that extra credit from chemistry 1 after withdrawing from my other (physics) class.

Chemistry 1 wasn't too bad, a bit of new concepts / formula but most of the things I learnt in high school were repeated in that course. So if you did a VCE chemistry, I'm pretty sure you'll find it just fine. Doing chemistry 2 in the summer sucks a lot, so if you have the prerequisite, I'll say doing chem 1 will be a better option as it's not too hard compared to fundamentals.