Daryl Thanks! CHM3922 is probably my favourite CHM unit (tied with CHM3930), I'm writing a unit review for it at the moment. What I can tell you is that it will be very similar to CHM2911 in content and the lecturers you get explain everything in a crystal clear, no rote learning manner. The labs are criminally easy because they're all worksheets (no full reports), you don't get assessed on quality of results and there's a lab quiz worth 40% of each report that's so easy. You literally just watch the lab video, copy down the transcript ad verbatim then control + F for the quiz (which was on lab techniques as opposed to theory). The midsem was really easy with only 1 trick question, but it was on Monday of week 5 examining weeks 1-4 so you can't afford to be behind in the 1st 4 weeks of the unit. The final was very reasonable since it was very similar to the mock exam they give you. The mock was slightly harder than the actual thing, nonetheless it was very indicative and I'd suggest going through worked solutions very carefully even more so than for mock exams in other CHM units.
BTW CHM3941 was the worst CHM unit I've taken and I've taken 10 CHM units, so I'd proceed with caution if I were you or your mates. It would destroy any love of inorganic chem you may have cultivated in CHM2911. The midsem had so many typos that prohibited simplified assumptions, which meant you can't do the questions in the allocated 50 min. There were so many questions with ambiguous wording as well. In the end, about half the cohort failed the midsem with 40% scores even after scaling was applied. I was gossiping with a 2nd year doing a research project in Dave's lab and he admitted to him that he f*cked up when writing the midsem for us and that it won't happen in 2024. Phil's lecture block on organometallics (last 4 weeks) was a trainwreck. His section used to be 6 weeks long a few years ago and he still made us learn 6 weeks of content in 4 weeks. That would've been ok, but he waffles so much during his lectures and assigns many intimidating readings that you don't know what's examinable and you only end up going through 3 weeks of actual content with him due to his tangents. His lecture notes were uninformative. This meant you had to study the other 3 weeks of lecture content by yourself (he had Zoom recordings from 2021). He also didn't pace the lectures very well, with the first 3 weeks being slow and repetitive, while you're bombarded by info in the last week when he realised he can't finish teaching everything in time. The final was mostly reasonable, except there was a heavy focus on stuff he got us to essentially teach ourselves. Also my lab reports were marked really harshly with minimal feedback, but I suspect that's just cuz my TA was strict. Due to all these shenanigans, the top mark in CHM3941 this year was apparently 91, so it's definitely not very WAM friendly
Full CHM3941 review: https://discussion.atarnotes.com/d/8233-monash-university-subject-reviews-thread-20/3
Consider yourselves warned from CHM3941
As for CHM3980, everyone who went enjoyed it, but I was too broke to do it
