Incredibly time consuming and a cruel unit overall. As the other reviewer says, there's 3 lab reports, but now there's just one big group report (50+ pages for our final report) - so hours and hours is spent just working on those projects which is only 40% of the total grade. The work required for the projects seems disproportionately high, especially when compared to other units of the same level. The last 60% goes towards the final exam. There is no form of assessment before this to gauge your performance which coupled with the large amount of content makes it a stressful unit. As mentioned by others, the content isn't super difficult, but there's a lot of it. Brett is an awful lecturer - he often foregoing slides in favour of annotating his lecture notes (i.e. his textbook basically), which is incredibly dense and hard to digest for a first-time learner. Our final exam did have questions very similar to the tutorial questions (in the notes - search "final exam") so try and get familiar with that. Brett is also unresponsive to emails and doesn't seem to care about the unit in general - and when he does, he comes off as incredibly hostile. Also, going into the exam, only my Lab 1 had been marked and returned (7% of the grade). So you'll have no idea how you're performing in the unit going into the exam :D

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2026

Be prepared to spend a lot of time on this unit. There are 3 assignments, each writing 3 essays as well as 3 lab reports. There is a lot of data for lab reports so they are very time-consuming. They are not overly hard to score high in the only downside is that the 3 assignments are group tasks and if you don't have a reliable group(which you don't get to pick so it's completely based on luck) it can make your life very difficult. I scored above 75 for all mine and I didn't write amazing essays, some I didn't even have time to edit. There is so so so so much content to cover. I would start revising for this exam very early so you have time to cover everything. The exam didn't have a very broad test of concepts so it felt like I wasted a lot of my study on irrelevant stuff. There is an optional mid sem that I could not recommend enough. It can be worth 10% if you do well in it and it is very easy to do well in even if you don't study. Do yourself a favour and go sit it even if you didn't study for it, you have nothing to lose, if you do badly in it, it won't be counted towards your final grade. The final exam was very daunting and hard, study for it. The content is not hard there is just a lot of it and there's a tonne of youtube videos about it that explains everything very visually which I would recommend.

Anonymous, Semester 1, 2021