Most of our conclusions from the articles included: "Not many measurements have been done yet, so we can't really such much about this." Every group had this. No, I can't say I find it interesting, but it's less work than most other subjects, so it's okay.
Each of the practicals I've had has a completely different style than the others. Chemical Analysis was mainly solving a mixture, diluting it, analyzing with UV/VIS spectroscopy, plotting results and determining the original mass as accurately as possible. Project Biochemistry had things like analyzing protein fractions in different parts of a liver and pieces of DNA by PCR and electrophoresis. Project Reactions and Kinetics was more varied, separating substances and performing reactions like substitution, addition and elimination. Hereafter the products had to be analyzed on purity by IR spectroscopy, NMR, gas chromatography or thin layer chromatography. Current practicum is thermodynamics in which we have to prove the Nernst equation for example. We measure things like voltage caused by a different salt concentrations, melting trajectories of mixtures and internal energy and enthalpy of an acid/base reaction.
I have no idea how much of the part mentioned above is familiar to you, so feel free to ask if you want an explanation.
Well... it looks like I've been using both. I'm pretty sure my teachers use both words, but I decided to check it. Google Translate recognizes 'practicum' as 'a practical section of a course of study', so it's definitely a word, but 'practical' works too. I'm Dutch, so it's not like English is my mother tongue. Where are you from then?