<p>Does anyone know the difference in difficulty level in these two courses.</p>
<p>I’m going to assume 1045 is a little more difficult that 1032.
Average GPA for 1045 is less than a 3.0for that course, for 1032 the average GPA for that course is at a 3.0.
I just looked at myedu.com. Check out that site, it’s quite helpful.</p>
<p>CHM1045 is Chem 1, typically for bio and chem majors, etc. CHM1032 is more a survey of chemistry mainly for nursing majors (I’m pretty sure). I’ve taken both. I got a B+ in CHM1045 my freshman year when I was a bio major, but changed to nursing…so in order to raise my science GPA I took the chemistry class required for nursing (CHM1032) and got an A in it. In my experience, we covered the same material…but in CHM1045 my grade was basically tests only, whereas in CHM1032 there were a lot of homework points which boosted my grade a LOT.</p>
<p>I am also a nursing major. Didnt know that 1032 was required, I figured if I took the higher level course I would be covered. What Im trying to accomplish is having the prerequisites to get into a PA program once I have my bsn. Any thoughts on this.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can totally take CHM1045. Like I said I got a B+ in it my first semester of freshman year, and the way the nursing program worked before freshman admissions was that whoever had the highest science and overall GPAs got in, so I took CHM1032 in my sophomore year as a boost for my science GPA (they replaced CHM1032 as my chem grade, but CHM1045 was still factored into my overall GPA). </p>
<p>As long as you are pretty decent at math and chemistry, I’d say go for it. Otherwise you can always take 1032 first (to get a feel for the material) then take 1045 and it’d be a lot easier to get an A in, if that’s what you want!</p>