<p>Hey everybody! I am going to be a Bio Eng-Premed for fall 08.
So excited!</p>
<p>So I took the chemistry placement test and it seems like I got a 93 out of 100 and they recommended me to the highest Chem 4AH.</p>
<p>However, I think that since I am premed, Chem 4A will suit me better (amount of time + Grades)</p>
<p>I have no experience in Chemistry except for taking a year of honors chemistry in school. (no ap's or sat II)</p>
<p>So what do you guys think? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>honors classes aren't like they were in high school. i don't see a significant advantage of you taking honors 6AH considering that your final target is medical school. if you were a chemistry major things might be different, but even then you're bound to get more out of an upper-division elective than general chemistry.</p>
<p>take chem 6a. </p>
<p>PS - there's no such thing as chem 4a or 4ah. there's chem 4 and chem 6a-6c.</p>
<p>i gotta say though, the 6 honors series were pretty interesting. especially 6CH (last in the series), you learn about forensics and stuff :D BUT, depends on what you want and what you can handle, the regular series may be better.</p>
<p>I took the 6H sequence... I didn't think it was particularly useful. The last quarter is kinda more interesting, but it is extremely useless in my opinion since you learn (mostly) everything AGAIN in a more in-depth and significantly more meaningful way in ochem.</p>
<p>You don't relearn anything in 140. You start learning organic chemistry, no reviewing or brushing up on general chemistry at all.</p>
<p>some profs (like mine) take time to go over fundamentals like nomenclature and lewis dot structures .... so maybe just a <em>tiny</em> bit of review. :)</p>
<p>If you take Chem 6CH and then Chem 140A, you will pretty much know everything taught in the first half of the course already :)</p>
<p>Well, in 6CH we went over... functional groups, chirality, IR spectroscopy and chromatography... All topics that are discussed in 140! Oh, we also did kinetics in 6CH...</p>
<p>Wait...so that means that we don't necessarily have to listen to the recommendation from the chemistry placement exam? </p>
<p>I took the placement test about a month ago and was recommended to take Chem 6AH. Am I allowed to take Chem 6A instead?</p>
<p>the chem placement exam is a RECOMMENDATION.</p>
<p>if you already have CC credit/appropriate AP scores, you'll know what you have to take. if you've got a blank slate, you can pick chem from chem 4/11/6a/6ah (ranked loosely from easy to not easy)</p>