Chemistry Elective (1 Viewer)

[Mohit7]

Which is better to do for the HSC

Forensic chemistry or industrial chemistry?

 

[gaoOO]

Which is better to do for the HSC

Forensic chemistry or industrial chemistry?

majority do industrial chem, i know for sure that's what we are doing...
but forensic chem definitely sounds more interesting

 

[Mohit7]

But which is better?

 

[Forbidden.]

Shipwrecks, Corrosion and Conservations

 

[Riviet]

Forensic chemistry was one of those options that I was interested in when I first started. Shipwrecks is apparently more interesting and popular than industrial.

 

[Jono_2007]

But in terms of competition with other students across the state, industrial chemistry is more popular THAN forensic and is therefore harder to gain marks in the HSC, since you have more cadidates, who are competing for the same marks and the HSC markers only give the ''top'' marks to those who can demonstrate that their answer is the best in the state. Whereas in forensic chemistry, you will have less competition, and it is therefore ''easier'' to gain marks. But you still need to know the work.

JONO

 

[Nodice]

But in terms of competition with other students across the state, industrial chemistry is more popular THAN forensic and is therefore harder to gain marks in the HSC, since you have more cadidates, who are competing for the same marks and the HSC markers only give the ''top'' marks to those who can demonstrate that their answer is the best in the state. Whereas in forensic chemistry, you will have less competition, and it is therefore ''easier'' to gain marks. But you still need to know the work.

JONO

Don't really like that logic. What if, for instance, all the smart people in the state did Forensic Chemistry and industrial chemistry was devoid of these people. Would it not be more beneficial, according to your thoughts, that industrial chemistry would be the way to go?

On another note, I did industrial chemistry and that was pretty good, althought I think the chemistry of art is THE BEST topic to do - you actually learn some decent theory of chem rather than having to memorise industrial operations...

 

[Martyno1]

We're doing forensics, I really wanted to do industrial or shipwrecks though. The chemistry of art one looks good as well.

 

[toadstooltown]

I did forensics and it was really boring in my opinion. You didn't have to know a thing about chemistry to talk about MS, HPLC, G-LC, DNA electrophoresis etc. There's some good theory about proteins and more indepth sugars. But I would've prefered to do chemistry of art, even if it does have that hisorical use of pigments dot-point.