<p>Vollhardt doesn’t care which lecture you go to. You can get into either in Phase II.</p>
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I’m kinda scared of taking Volldardt cause he’s the author of the book… >< lol</p>
<p>should IB 135 lecture be phase 1 priority? or can will I be safe for to enroll in phase 2?</p>
<p>I want to use Phase 1 to enroll in Chem 3B + 3BL, PH 116, IB 131 = 10 units</p>
<p>Phase 1:
CS 61CL
History of Art R1B</p>
<p>Phase 2:
CS 188
Some easy-ass course for units. </p>
<p>I really hate L&S’s 13 unit minimum requirement. Should’ve done engineering…</p>
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<p>Bio 1B professors in the Spring are pretty awful from what I’ve heard as a UGSI.</p>
<p>Feldman is decent. People thought his midterm was ruthless.
Huelsenbeck is apparently new to teaching. Nobody likes his section thus far.
I heard Resh is downright awful from my GSI who’s taught the course before with Resh. Something about being arrogant. Ratemyprof seems to agree.</p>
<p>though they aren’t as hated as Power (and to a lesser extent Mishler) are.</p>
<p>In Fall, you have two horrible sections (evolution and ecology) and one easy (plants).</p>
<p>In spring. you have one hard section (plants), one easy section (evolution), and one section somewhere in between (ecology). </p>
<p>In the end, in spring the grade cut offs tend to be more favorable; they tend to following something along the lines of the Chem 1A cut offs</p>
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<p>It’s Huelsenbeck’s first time teaching this class. How do you know students won’t dislike him as much as they dislike Mishler? And Mishler isn’t hated at all. His section is easy, it’s just that, let’s face it, most Berkeley biology students are ■■■■■■■■. Berkeley admits a bunch of students who all aspire to major in biology, but few of them actually have the aptitude to do so. The number of ■■■■■■■■ questions during labs are both impressive and depressing at the same time. These students tend to be the ones who like to complain about how hard tests are even though it has to do with their own poor test taking and studying abilities</p>
<p>By the way, ecology is a hard section for professors to teach and for students to care about. Very few students like the ecology section, whether it is in the Fall or Spring.</p>
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<p>In the Fall, about 17% get above an A- and 45% get the B range. It’s pretty much the same distribution for the Spring. The difference for the top grades (A and A-) isn’t really significant. The only significant difference is in the distribution of B’s. And if you’re stuck in the B or below range for this class, then you need help studying. This class is one of the easiest classes in terms of material for bio majors. If you can’t even crack this class, then good luck in the future.</p>
<p>85% is the B+/A- boundary for Spring Biology 1B like in Chem 1A; it generally somewhere around 88% to 90% based off what I was told my a friend who took it Fall 2007. It isn’t a curved course, so the cutoffs are not supposed to be based on how people do.</p>
<p>Huelsenbeck has taught the equivalent class at UCSD in the past. My prior messages were mostly meant to describe Slatkin. Slatkin is supposed to be Huelsenbeck’s mentor, so I assume Huelsenbeck has been guided by Slatkin and will test his students by roughly the same means.</p>
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<p>Any time you have arbitrary cutoffs that are not based on the traditional percentage-to-grade scale, that is called a curve. If you didn’t know, at the end of the semester, all the GSI’s graph their sections grades on a huge poster board outside of Moser’s office. Then the prof’s come in and decide the cutoff. If there wasn’t a curve, then anything below 90% would not be an A or A-. So, this class IS curved.</p>
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<p>Why don’t we just wait and see, instead of throwing out purely hypothetical assumptions.</p>