<p>I had 2 mid-terms, got a B+ and an A, the class averge is 41/80 and 57/100. Letter grades are assigned on an absolute scale based on score, no curves of any kind. However I feel that my grade is not a rigid representation of how much and how well I learned of chemistry. I think it's partially due to my inexperience with chemistry (first chem class ever) and the format of the class overall. Lectures are just too short to cover all the material and many important things are only briefly introduced. But on the other hand, this is a good test of the students' study habit. I think if the students in my class would just follow the syllabus and do what they are told which isn't all that impossible, the average won't be anywhere near that ridiculousness. It's really the work ethic that got a lot of them. In terms of materials, we just finished doing molecular orbital and all that fun stuff. I still have trouble understanding them though I got lucky on the second midterm.</p>