<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 
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>