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University of Toronto Mississauga

CHM242H5

Introductory Organic Chemistry I

Credit0.5
InstructorR. Akel
Prerequisite1 requirement, 1 options
Total contact hours36 lecture · 12 tutorial
Evidence3 terms · 1 syllabus · 2 papers
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CHM242H5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
%

You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

B-

2.67 GPA across 3 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2023.

How is it graded?

40% final

From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 12 graded components.

How confident is this?

Med

A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

This course covers the fundamentals of organic chemistry, emphasizing the reactions of alkanes and alkenes. It is the first half of a two-course sequence required for Chemistry major and specialist programs.

Exclusions
CHMB41H3CHMB43Y3
Contact hours
36 lecture · 12 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

CHM110H5 and CHM120H5 and MAT132H5 and MAT134H5 and MAT135H5 and MAT136H5 and MAT137H5 and MAT139H5 and MAT157H5 and MAT159H5 and MAT134Y5 and MAT135Y5 and MAT137Y5

What people actually got

Last observed Winter 2023
B-

2.67 GPA

3 terms observed

n = 3student contributedMississauga offerings only

This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.

The newest observation is from Winter 2023. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.

Per-term figures stay hidden until each term clears five contributors. 3 observations can support one honest number; they cannot support 3.

Where the marks come from

Fall 2026 syllabus
Final Exam · 40%Term Test 1 · 18%Term Test 2 · 18%Quiz 1 · 6%Quiz 2 · 6%Quiz 3 · 6%Self Quiz 1 · 1%Self Quiz 2 · 1%Self Quiz 3 · 1%Self Quiz 4 · 1%Self Quiz 5 · 1%Self Quiz 6 · 1%

40% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.

Extracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

  • must score >= 45% on the exam to pass

How well we know this course

2022–2025

Pyko’s archive holds 3 documents for CHM242H5, across 3 years between 2022 and 2025.

2
Final exams
1
Syllabi

Counts, not a library. Pyko does not host or distribute course files, and this page is not an offer to supply one — the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

What we don’t have yet

A current averageThe newest verified observation is from Winter 2023. Later terms have no confirmed result yet.
Per-term breakdownHeld back deliberately. Splitting 3 observations across terms would be false precision.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

Source ledger

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Sources behind every claim on this page
ClaimSourceCapturedStatus
Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
Historical average across 3 termsStudent contributions, consented2026-07-25user contributed aggregate
3 archived documents, 2022-2025Pyko archive2026-07-25index only
Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: R. Akel)Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga)2026-09-05official syllabus

Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

What this opens up

5 courses list CHM242H5 as a prerequisite

Listing a course here means it names CHM242H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what CHM242H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.

Around this course

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