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<li><p>What is the difference between chem lecture and chem lab? </p></li>
<li><p>Do you guys recommend engineering students (im actually thinking about going in as CS major) take chem first or physics first in the fall semester?</p></li>
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<p>Take whichever was the last science you took before college. If you took Physics your senior year, take Physics. If you took Chem senior year, take Chem. If neither, take Chem, just because that seems to be more popular. </p>
<p>I think when you sign up for Gen Chem you sign up for like 5 different things. </p>
<p>Chem 130 Lecture: - This is the class… What you think of as a class, this is it.
Chem 130 Discussion: - This is the discussion. Lectures are giant, so this is a place where you could come ask questions and such.
Chem 125 Lecture: - This is the lab lecture. This is where they tell you about what you have to do in the lab.
Chem 125 Lab: - This is the lab, this is where you do experiments.
Chem 126: - This is a fake class which UMich designed to help people get into grad school. Lots of places want 2 credits of lab here, but UMich thinks 1 is enough to they use this to fill in that other credit.</p>
<p>If you sign up for Orgo it works the same way except there’s nothing like 126.</p>
<p>125 is a horrible class. I think my semester the average ended up being a C+ (2.7)</p>
<p>125 is bad when you end up with a bunch of lazy ass teammates and a harsh GSI. The exams are straightforward though. </p>
<p>Chem lecture and chem lab are two different classes; there’s a very small overlap, but they’re pretty different.</p>
<p>thank you for the explanations everyone. So if chem 125 lab and chem 130 lecture are two completely different classes, I assume you get 2 grades for them? Or is there individual grades for all 4 chem classes?</p>
<p>There is one grade for 125, and one grade for 130.</p>
<p>whatever you get in 125 is copied for 126.</p>
<p>Wait, so most people just sign up for Chem 125/126/130 all in one semester, right?</p>
<p>yea…its better than splitting the two, which will only make matter worse</p>