Well that will take ages to answer...
At the mo we are not doing any hands-on chemical study, we are doing theory papers like maths and psychics (thermodynamics etc...) until the end of the year then next year we start on molecule electrolysis (passing a direct current into a molecule to break a atom bond).
It's not all about chemicals, you have to learn a lot about how science works as a whole -if you get my drift.