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Thursday, October 28, 2004
4:18 PM

had chem practical today.zzz. i LIVE. it was another weird paper, just like the bio paper.

first question was on titration. dual titration, wtf?? it was some weird thing which we've never done before. anyways it wasn't that tough.. i'm just concerned that i'll lose some accuracy marks....zzz. damn that burette. the clip was so damn hard to use, and i ended up having an air bubble in the burette. whats the volume of an air bubble in the burette? 0.05cm³? lol. i didn't bother to correct the error.

second question was on kinetics. man. just like everyone predicted. i'm quite confident of my results, i didn't fake any, they were all quite accurate. but my graph was kinda weird? not starting from the origin and all. and i stupidly wrote 1.47 (3sf) for the order of reaction, instead of rounding it off to 1..zz. lol.

third question was on QA, lame la. they set some weird shit. first thing i noticed, there was no deduction column. so, were we supposed to write deductions in the observations column, or not make any deductions at all? then i noticed familiar reagents, like thiocyanate and all, so i assumed there'd be a nice blood-red complex and i could contentedly deduce Fe(III) ion and all. fat hope la, there was some blue complex formed. and my dichromate and manganate all didn't decolourise, athough they were supposed to. so my QA results were totally faked..lol?

fourth and last question was the design question, surprise surprise, it was physical design. so there was no QA design...sian. its 10marks? i'm not very confident of the crap i wrote. perhaps i'll get 5? or less.

so there goes the two practs. supposedly to our advantage, but i feel disavantaged after the two exams. this means i'll have to study extra hard for the theory papers? and there's like one week plus left only...... omgomgomgomg i'm getting stressed.

gg. i LIVE.