<p>I took Chem like two years ago and I dont even remember the basics of Chemistry....
does that mean that I'm screwed for chem 6a???????
Do they offer any kind of tutor help in UCSD for classes like chem and calc?</p>
<p>I didn’t have any Chemistry background from high school, and I got A’s throughout the whole Chem 6 Series, it’s doable, you just have to catch up & work hard in the beginning (:</p>
<p>They offer something called Oasis, where they have workshops for Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. I’ve never done it before, but a few of my suitemates have and they last like two hours each? I think it’s twice a week, and you HAVE to go to all of them, or you’ll be dropped. You can sign up for them the first week of school, I think.</p>
<p>OASIS takes up a LOT of your time, and it’s mandatory to attend once you sign up for it.</p>
<p>a better bet is the chemistry helproom. every M-Th and Sun night in York Hall, there’s a chem 6A TA assigned to cover half-hour shifts to answer questions. those are supposed to replace each TA’s traditional office hours so that anyone who needs 6A help can wander in as well.</p>
<p>I used the Chem helproom a few times, and unfortunately, a lot of the Chem TA’s suck now. I found them either unhelpful, or that there were too many people wanting help from the single TA on duty :/</p>
<p>As Radiance said, work hard in the beginning. It makes a HUGE difference.</p>
<p>You guys can’t be any more less prepared for chem6 than I was haha. My only chem background was chem1 in like High School. I didn’t bother taking the chem AP, although I wish I did. </p>
<p>I studied my *** off for the class. Hw was a big factor and for the tests you just have to THINK. if you don’t THINK the questions will seem completely foreign from the lectures. I ended with A’s in chem6A, B, and C. I thought B was the most difficult of the 3 just FYI. Also note that the classes WERE on a curve so that ~14% got A’s, 35% got B’s, 35% got C’s and 16% got D’s amd F’s.</p>
<p>Teachers: Czworkowski for chem6A, Johnson for chem6B, Hoeger for chem6C.</p>
<p>well from experience, i can tell you that the undergrads are generally much better than the grad students, having usually taken the classes themselves. </p>
<p>grad students, on the other hand, aren’t required to be GOOD teachers to keep their jobs – and being older, it’s harder for them to relate to the freshmen and how new everything still is.</p>
<p>case in point: i used to be a patient and awesome TA who went the extra mile for her students, often preparing to section while disregarding my own work. now, i’m known to answer students’ questions with google links if i feel that they’re being lazy.</p>
<p>^ I completely agree with Astrina. My undergrad TA’s knew all about the professor and the class and was able to level with us while the one grad student I had (chem6A) sort of just regurgitated the book and threw us quizzes.
Hopefully, I can become one of those undergrad TA’s for chem6B or C winter or spring quarter so I may have some of you :D.</p>
<p>Umm, I didn’t even take Chem at all in high school. I took the lowest level Chem at my local community college over the summer before my senior year and barely managed a B.</p>
<p>Should I take Chem 4 instead?</p>
<p>I thought Chem 6B was the easiest 
I LOVED 6B so much.</p>
<p>^ The reason I thought chem6B was the biggest toll was because of its spinoff from chem6A. Chem6A was more about the concepts and so that is what I pretty much thought I should be taking chem as. </p>
<p>However, in chem6B it was introducing full on math applied to the concepts with that spinoff into enthalpy/entropy which seemed like a different branch from what chem6A was about. The thermodynamics chapters are usually what hit ppl the most in chem6B because it doesn’t seem as relative at first, however when Gibbs is introduced, that is when it starts making more sense. </p>
<p>Aside from the electrochemistry/kinetics/nuclear chem, Chem6C seemed more relative to chem6A and the overall concepts on general chemistry instead of just playing plug and chug with your cheatsheets. </p>
<p>BTW radiance who was your 6B prof?</p>
<p>^ I actually thought 6B was the easiest … for the same reasons that you seemed to dislike it, haha. Everything was plug-and-chug so even if you didn’t really understand what was going on, you could usually manage to BS your way to the correct answer =)</p>
<p>I had Crowell – he, Kummel, and Hoeger have been teaching it the longest … and in my opinion, he and Kummel teach it the best. Crowell’s exams are undisputably the easiest, though.</p>
<p>^ Never really disliked it ;). Just thought it took the biggest toll on me because of its changeup. I think equilibria is the most useful concept in General Chemistry. Chem6A was the easiest, yet the least interesting one. </p>
<p>I agree with Astrina’s statement about being able to plug and chug in chem6B, but that was only useful for the multiple choice. Johnson’s final was more Free Response which was why the average on that exam was in the mid 40%'s. She may have gone a bit overboard that quarter.</p>
<p>In my opinion, I believe Hoeger is, hands down, the best lecturer in the General Chemistry department.</p>