<p>Going to be a mechanical engineer major in Revelle, and I qualified to take Chem 6AH. I've heard that class is really hard and the last chem class I took was AP Chem my sophomore year in high school. Will Chem 6AH really help me in my future classes as a mech e major, or will Chem 6A be fine?</p>
<p>If you are a non-chem major, taking regular gen. chem would be sufficient. Otherwise, you would be competing in the class against a bunch of chem. majors who are preparing themselves for organic chemistry.</p>
<p>I’m an undeclared- social science major and the chem placement test recommended me to take chem 6A, but the newstudent website recommended me to take chem 11 (the periodic table). Should i follow the newstudent website or take chem 6A? Or even chem 4, since that would sort of be in between?</p>
<p>It depends on what you’re using the chem class for. I’m guessing you mean for your college’s natural science GE which means you can probably take something other than CHEM 4 or the 6 series. Those classes are for natural science majors and the chem placement test is really for natural science majors too. CHEM 11 and pretty much all the other lower div chem classes are for non-natural science majors and are therefor easier.</p>
<p>@loreep17</p>
<p>How comfortable are you with chemistry? When was the last time that you took chemistry?</p>
<p>The last time I took chemistry was freshmen year haha… So I should probably just go ahead and take Chem 11, since I’m not a science major? And it would be better because it would probably help my GPA more right?</p>
<p>Yeah it isn’t necessary to take the science major specific science classes. What exactly are you taking the class for though? Because I’m guessing you have a lot more options just than CHEM 11, unless you really just wanted to take CHEM 11 which is perfectly fine.</p>
<p>Yeah… if the last time that you took chemistry was freshman year, it probably isn’t a very good idea to take the 6 series. If you’re a non-science major, what is the reason that you are taking chemistry? Is it for a G.E. sequence, or just for fun?</p>
<p>@adl0816
Thanks for the reply. So I guess the non honors 3 quarter sequence of chemistry will be good enough for me, a mechanical engineering major. I just don’t want to be put in a class thats very tough/difficult and won’t be that much beneficial for me personally (But I also don’t want a super easy, boring class)</p>
<p>Do not take Chem 6ah. I took AP chem my senior year and wanted to be premed so I took the first two quarters of honors chem. Worst idea ever. Unless you really like chem and really understand it already there is no point of the honors series. The first quarter is not really chemistry, but rather the background of it. Weare was talking about eigenvalues and stuff I didn’t have a clue about until I took linear algebra. If you really want to take chem take the general chem series. Or if you passed out of it, just skip it because it’s probably not worth all the work you put in.</p>
<p>hey guys.
i dont mean to hijack this thread, but it’s kinda related to the OP’s topic.
Which teacher would you suggest one taking for chem 6a?
I’m not sure how UCSD professors are, but in my HS experience, the easy teacher isn’t always the brightest teacher.</p>
<p>@spatel23</p>
<p>I took Prof. Magde for 6A. He wasn’t that difficult, but he can get a little boring sometimes as he just basically reads off his PowerPoint slides. (Plus it was an 8AM class, so it was kind of hard to focus sometimes). If you read the book, study his slides, go to discussion, you’ll do decent. I ended up getting an A-.</p>
<p>Alright thanks for replies guys, I think I will go with the 6A route.</p>