<p>They do a lot of advanced chemistry/physics derivations in lecture, but you won't have to do that kind of work on the exams. The exams will be a written out deal (not multiple choice like 2045/2046) and the problems will not be straightforward. I didn't take it (I hate chemistry), but a good friend of mine did and he got an A although not being that good at math. It's more about your chemistry reasoning skills than anything else. The homework they give you is pretty tough. My friend said they are pretty difficult to do by yourself, so make friends in the class and do the problems together. Some of the problems required 3 or 4 heads to figure out. Exams are comparatively much easier than the homework sets. They also curve the class pretty well -- my friend failed 2 of the exams (I believe you get one drop) and did mediocre on a few others and still got the A. According to him, most of the class gets an A , but you have to put in the work. I would review your chemistry a bit before taking it. After the first week alone, they gave an exam on the first 6 chapters of the text when he took it. To give you a perspective of how fast they move, the CHM1025 course only covers the first 5 chapters the whole semester. So it is a serious time commitment and you have to keep up.</p>
<p>You have to write lab reports for your labs, which take time. You do get to play with more expensive equipment since you use a different lab room from 2045/2046. After the first 3 or 4 labs, your labs get short (he was sometimes out of lab in 20 minutes), but they require you to put in the time outside of lab analyzing data and writing the report. So it's a tradeoff. </p>
<p>Taking CHM2047 and PHY2060 is a pretty tough load. I know people who have done it and made it out just fine, but they definitely didn't cruise.</p>