Any tips for UNE organic chem final?

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I'm hoping someone here has some advice they might be able to share with me. I'm planning on applying to school in the fall. Unfortunately, my sciences are now over 10 years old so I decided to do UNE's online organic chemistry class. I've never had much trouble with chemistry before so I thought it would be fine. I was wrong. I am having such a difficult time in this course. I feel like it's too abstract for my brain (I do much better when I'm able to visualize). At the rate I am going, I'll end up with a C in the course. I've been doing well on the labs, but averaging Cs on the quizzes. I only have 4 more weeks to go, and I know the final counts for most of the grade. I feel like a lot of the quiz questions are coming out of left field. I can't find the answers in the book or in his lecture. The prof has been very helpful when I've emailed him after the quizzes, but that's obviously a little too late. I really want to try to pull my grade up on the final. I would be so grateful to anyone who took this course who can give me some tips. Thank you so much.

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Hi Jen0575,

Could you please send me any advice on UNE's Organic Chemistry I course as I start PA School in May and start the course in February. My email is: [email protected].

Can you help me, please?

Thank you!

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Hi everyone,

I will be starting the Organic Chem 1 course online with UNE in a week. Any suggestions and advice before I start. These posts are somewhat worrying me and hope I do well. Also, any specific professors I should take? Thanks.

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Hey there! I'm in the same boat- wondering if you're still offering assistance. Thanks!

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Dear figureskate91,

I was considering taking Organic Chemistry I thru UNE. As a student who had enrolled in the course, I was hoping that you could provide some first hand perspective on the course. Are the quizzes multiple choice? Also were the module quizzes and the textbook problems, comparable to the level of difficulty for the final exam?

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Hey guys,

Just started this course and after reading all these comments I'm glad I've just begun. I have a month and a half to finish it and just need a C in the class. I just signed up for a Khan academy account and also will be buying Ochem for dummies. From what I can see I shouldn't be buying the actual books so I'll just avoid those. Anybody wanna exchange emails so we can help eachother out?

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Hey guys!

I'm planning on taking the course and was wondering if I actually needed the book. And also how the class was in general? Thanks in advance :D

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I just finished the final exam for UNE Organic Chemistry I. Here is a bit insight regarding the class and final exam:

First off, I was given an extension to finish the class, because I just didn't feel confident enough to take the final exam by the end of the semester. This gave me an extra month of studying to focus solely on the final exam. That being said, I encountered the same hurdles that others have mentioned, including the inadequacy of the textbook material and depth of knowledge required to answer quiz/exam questions. I was a nervous wreck throughout the process, but I managed to pass the course with a B (which was very surprising to me).

So this is an honest assessment of what I think I did wrong and what I did right:

  • Allowing Chegg to answer waaay too many of my quiz questions.

  • Not taking the time to answer EVERY practice problem.

  • Too much time reading too many basic organic chemistry resources. Focus on the textbook and practice problems. (Supplement fundamental understanding of the material with Organic Chemistry Resources and Study Tips | Master Organic Chemistry. The website isn't as dry as the textbook and helps things click in your head. Read every link and download the summary sheets for organic chemistry 1 and 2.)
  • Khan, Ochem for Dummies, etc are all different reiterations of the fundamentals, but won't help too much with exam questions that focus on synthesis/reactions.
  • I read the entire textbook and highlighted what I felt was important
  • Learn how to recognize a reaction (Organic Chemistry Resources and Study Tips | Master Organic Chemistry helps with this), how to differentiate between SN1/SN2/E1/E2, what reagents are involved in certain reactions, what reactions involve carbocations.
  • Get familiar with Table 6.3 (Substituents in electrophilic substitution reactions). You'll come back to it quite a bit.
  • Take the practice final and try to limit yourself to a 4 hour window. Before submitting, save all your information and use it to study up on your missed questions.

The final is very difficult. It took me every bit of 4 hours. The majority of the questions involve knowing the best product from a particular reaction (ie which is the product from this reaction type stuff), which is why I stated to know how to spot and eliminate certain reactions. There is some resonance (carbocation stability, conjugation), chirality, stereochemistry, questions on structure of lipids, sugars, amino acids, DNA/RNA. These are what I can think of off the top of my head.

My particular final was curved 9 points, but I assume that number varies. I hope this info helps. I know there is a limited amount of info out there helping people prepare to finish this class. I'd be glad to help in any way with questions.

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Hey rcash,

I am about to take my final in a week. I have all of the quizzes and practice final saved to my computers. Are there a lot of the same questions on the final as there w. ere on the quizzes? Did you see you any familiar questions from the book? AHHH I am so nervous!

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also, r cash please feel free to email me at [email protected]. I would love to ask you more questions. This is soooo scary haha

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Hi RCash. I am Planning to take O chem I with UNE. So I was wondering do you have same professor mention and can you please email me on [email protected]. I have some insight question for you

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Hi Donovank730. I have email you so please reply.

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Just a caution here guys: please don't post anything that could be construed as asking for test questions, getting an unfair advantage or cheating.

The internet is not anonymous and IP addresses can be traced easily.

Exchanging emails to "ask more questions" might get you more emails (ie from your school) than you want.

Just a caution!

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