<p>Honestly, how much do professors expect you to remember from the previous semester? During Orgo I last semester, for instance, I could barely remember what I learned 3 weeks before.... and now for Orgo II (after having 6 weeks off), I'm wondering how much they generally expect you to remember from the previous semester.... Do they spend a week or so reviewing? Or do you just hop right in where you left off?</p>
<p>What's your general take on the situation?</p>
<p>How much do you expect your doctor to remember about biology and anatomy?
What about your lawyer?</p>
<p>well we usually just hop right in where we left off…but for year-long classes with part I and II, we use the same textbook so you can just look back at the book or in your notes. you must’ve taken gen chem last year; did your profs review gen chem I when you took II? I don’t remember everything I did in pchem I last semester, but I know in order to do the problems in pchem II, we’re going to build on stuff we’ve already learned and if you learned the problems the first time around, it should come back to you eventually (maybe not in detail, but the basics)
math and sci classes usually build on what you’ve already learned…if you don’t get the basic problems then it’s hard to figure out the more advanced stuff. but you don’t need to remember every detail from first semester. </p>
<p>don’t worry, i’m sure everyone else forgot stuff too</p>
<p>You’re generally expected to relearn it on your own if you forgot it. Forgetting material during the same course is pretty inexcusable from a professor’s point of view. Learning the rules of significant figures for Exam 1 and then asking if you’re expected to still know them for Exam 2 will not endear your prof to you, but people do it anyway.</p>
<p>when i was in third grade i forgot my multiplication tables from second grade. was i supposed to remember it?</p>
<p>At the very least you should remember where to look something up.</p>