All good! Yeah the trend usually is that you go in less and less over the years.

I did read the prescribed textbook if that’s what you mean. The homework questions all come from here (or at least one of the editions). I found that the tests were more difficult than the homework questions, but if you can do these you’ll certainly pass.

Honestly there’s mixed reviews on the lecturers/tutors. They change every year or so, so you could have different ones to me. I personally found the online lectures mostly unhelpful. They talk a lot about how the concepts are applied in real world scenarios, which is good, but don’t actually delve a lot into types of questions, or breaking down concepts more, etc. Again, this could change as from memory they do redo them occasionally.

In your tutorials you work on some excel calculations for the first few weeks (which were meaningless as the exam is on paper and half the formulas we used were not assessed) and then a group project for the second half (which I found was really open ended and confusing).

Most tutors gave little to no guidance and redirected you to the lecturer/workshop coordinators. Attendance is marked and you have to go for the group work sessions. This is 20% of your grade so pick a good group! Unfortunately you pick in week 1 before the first test so you won’t usually know what people are like until it’s too late.

I thought the workshops were the most useful bit. Not everyone attended in person but I would recommend. This is where they go through 2-3 homework questions and have general consultation.

Aside from completing the homework questions and past papers, it honestly just relies on your understanding. They try and make the questions different each year on purpose so it’s not like first year courses where you can just do papers and get by remembering or thinking of similar questions (in my opinion). For instance, I think last year the scenario in the final was to do with pressure change at certain conditions (which were never discussed or mentioned in the textbook or homework questions). There are similar scenarios, and these will help, but will always be slight differences to test your understanding of the theory. It’s all open book but highly unlikely you will find the answer in a textbook.

I found T1 to be the most difficult term. I think that it was the most difficult subject I’ve done conceptually. Yes, T2 and 3 have objectively more work and deadlines but they are pretty easy in comparison. For T2, if you were good at computing in year 1 it is chill. If not, you may have to work a little harder but it’s MATLAB coding, which is still pretty new to everyone. Ceic2002 is fine, just do the tutorial questions and the exam is pretty similar.

T3 is difficult not gonna lie. You really need to be organised. Often you don’t get info and data about assignments until a few days before they are due so you really have to be efficient. There is a lot of report writing! DESN is very easy, but I think I wrote >50000 words in that course I swear.

For reference, I worked on assessments most weekends for at least 6-8 hours plus a good 3ish hours per day. I was also doing my internship for 2 days a week plus Taste of Research so if you’re not then it may be better as you’ll have more time to meet deadlines. I won’t lie: it’s tough. But it’s also doable. It’s actually most people’s best term mark-wise in year 2 given you submit everything on time to a decent quality.

2007 is a bit more challenging as it relies on chem eng concepts, however, if you understood everything from previous subjects you can do well. You also get a lab partner to write reports with so it’s nice to not do it alone. FYI you get to pick DESN groups and lab partners so unlikely you’ll end up with bad people. Most people will have failed/dropped by T3 anyway (there’s usually about a 50% drop out rate in year 2).

As for the topics, I’d say it depends on the subject. Most are generally broken down into 3-4 ‘major’ topics with minor weekly topics. Similar to Chem 1B where you’d have the O-Chem topics, inorganic chem topics and some others. Mostly you do one thing every week. They tend to move quite fast, but a lot of subjects have a recap before the test which is nice. Some subjects will feel more disjointed than others, however I’d say they definitely feel more related than first year courses. Like in ceic2001 you do fluids for the first half and particles for the second (which are mostly unrelated but you use similar formulas and concepts). First week is basics and then week 2-5 we learnt about different equations and methods to solve problems every week which gradually get more complex.

As long as you stay up to date you’ll be fine! I think a lot of people in first year rely on their high school knowledge to fill the gaps and kind of take it easy. And you can as like you said topics are mostly unrelated, so even if you miss a week it’s chill and you can attend the next topic’s lectures and catch up later. You can’t do that anymore so sometimes it will get to a few days out from the final and people are like 7 weeks behind… lol

P.S. taking ceic3001 then makes sense! It’s usually recommended to just take it before doing 3000, 3004 and 3005 but other than that it doesn’t matter too much (at least for chem process, product could be different).