<p>i got owned pretty badly on that test, i thought a lot of it was difficult. i didn't know how to do one of the synthesis problems at all (the one with Br at the sides of the chain). </p>
<p>multiple choice went pretty badly as well, i left a significant amount blank.</p>
<p>how did you guys do? </p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>I did like EXTREMELY bad and feel like total ****. I left like 2 synthesis problems blank which is like 25 points right there!!! Damn and I spent like a week studying easy questions and these beastly questions come along!!! Why does he have to make it so hard and long!!</p>
<p>It was pretty brutal… I barely finished in time. </p>
<p>I feel like if I had 30 more minutes, things would have gone a LOT better.</p>
<p>some of those multiple choice questions were ****ing ■■■■■■■■. i heard frechet is the professor who puts most useless “fact” questions on the test. pederson supposedly just tests on content alone.</p>
<p>i walked out of Midterm #1 feeling pretty good and got a good grade, but i walked out of MT#2 feeling really bad, so i probably did pretty badly as well. freakin a.</p>
<p>Walked in stoned. Walked out. Stoned.</p>
<p>anyone out there think they actually did good?</p>
<p>Yeah, it seems like we just didn’t have enough time to figure out some of the synthesis problems. And i don’t think Frechet realized how much time we would have to spend on the multiple choice, a lot of those problems required you to write out the synthesis and mechanisms anyway. </p>
<p>I guess we’ll wait till next week to see what the average is. I’m hope there’s a nice curve, last year the midterm was 45% i heard, so if it stays around there, it should be pretty fair.</p>
<p>screw 45. I’m hoping for 35.</p>
<p>avg was 45? wow. </p>
<p>wut was the avg of the 1st midterm from this year again? wasn’t it a lot higher than 45?</p>
<p>btw did you guys get 3 as the answer to the number of bonds between the H and the leaving halide for that 1 multiple choice question?</p>
<p>i left that blank… lol i didn’t know :<(</p>
<p>Yeah, 3, that was probably one of the easier ones. I did not get how to make Br Ch2 ch2 S ch2 ch2 Br out of oxacyclopropane though.</p>
<p>lol i was looking for a “zero” (no direct bonding between the H and the leaving halide lol) option for that multiple choice question cuz it was worded confusingly.</p>
<p>y is it 3…??</p>
<p>yeah my first thought on that question was “where is the 0?”. i ended up not answering it at all.</p>
<p>did frechet say this was the hardest test he ever written?</p>
<p>did he? i think it’s implied. -_-</p>
<p>i think the multiple choice actually made it harder</p>
<p>i put 1…cuz it was as close to zero as i could get. doh.</p>
<p>lol thanks guys, i feel better knowing other people thought the exam was hard</p>
<p>^…
this is only like 4/5 students out of a class of 1000+… LOL not a good sample size</p>