Chemistry 1A Final 2011. I now strongly dislike Amino Acids. Forever.

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<p>Thank you Stacy for ruining amino acids for me. Forever. </p>

<p>Thoughts on that final?</p>

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<p>Don’t worry, you’ll find it in ochem 3a AND 3b. it never ends.</p>

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<p>and then biochem!</p>

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<p>in 3a and b? You won’t find too much information about amino acids there. You’ll find it in mcb102. lulz.</p>

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<p>Chem 1A Final was terrible :/</p>

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<p>We spent 8 hours grading and sorting out Chem 1a tests yesterday.</p>

<p>But needless to say, SUCK IT UP. It wasn’t bad at all. If you found that portion of Chem 1a to be difficult, you wont last in upper division biochemistry courses.</p>

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<p>I’m assuming most of the Chem 1A people took AP Chem in high school? For those of you who did, how would you compare Chem 1A to AP Chem?</p>

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<p>Well as my AP Chem class was a joke (played ping pong over the lab counter which suffered only one lab), but by self studying Chem 1A is harder as it requires you to actively use what you learn and not just regurgitate facts about Chem.</p>

<p>Chem Final = I did ):. Dropped my A grade to a B and dropped my percentage by 6% but it’s okay b/c it was pretty fun. I never would have thought to apply chem concepts to amino acids even though its logical you can. Cool. :D</p>

<p>Summary: AP Chem you don’t use chem concepts for amino acids; Chem 1A does. Harder but more fulfilling.</p>

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<p>I never took chemistry in high school, and I did just fine.
82% average right now, and I’m just hoping that’s an A-.</p>

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<p>I was looking at the course policies page on bspace, just cause I was curious about the grading procedure and it looks like you add up all your scores (also considering bonus points) on the midterms and final, which is out of a possible perfect 500. The 85% for an A benchmark basically seems to mean if you got perfectly 85% on JUST the tests you will get an A. However, one quarter of the value of the OWL+iClicker+Discussion quizzes are also added to this test score and from this final number the grades are given. This seems to indicate that depending on your owl/clicker/discussion score (assuming you didn’t skip it all) you could get anywhere from 20 to 27 points added on, meaning you only have to get 81ish or above percent on tests to get an A. Hope this helps, I’m just a student, not a prof or GSI (shout out to Mr. Kun Zhu if you’re on here, you rock)</p>