<p>I'm asking just becausing I want a good GPA freshman year and I don't want to Take Chem for the fall if its gonna be very diffuclt.</p>
<p>I also don't want to take it With Calc 2,Physics 1 and so random gen ed course, so I've been considering the three semester sequence but then I realized I might be a little behind the rest of engineering students by doing that.</p>
<p>I took Calc 2, Chem 2 and Physics 1 all in the same semester. You will be fine. You have to take it eventually anyway, so what does it matter if you have a bad GPA now or in the spring?</p>
<p>It really isn’t that bad of a class though.</p>
<p>Meh, depends on your professor. The guy I had was too easy I thought. I’m now in Gen Chem part deux, so it could come back and bite me, we’ll see. You should be fine.</p>
<p>I’m not yet in the Engineering School and if I want to transfer they say I need a 3.3 -3.5. My advisor recommended that I don’t take two lab courses within the same semester. I’m sure Physics is hard since its for engineering, Calc 2 which I heard is the hardest Calc out of the Calc three within the Calc sequence, Foundations of engineering I’m not sure of, and then Chem which the curriculum says should be taken in the Fall.</p>
<p>I can’t take it now in the Fall because my advisor told me exams for Calc are held at 8:00 the exactly same time my perfect Chem class would’ve went.</p>
<p>Well exams shouldn’t be an issue because if you have another class or exam, the professor will be required to hold a conflict exam. The thought about keeping grades up so you can transfer into the engineering college is a valid point, though. If you don’t think you can handle chemistry on top of that schedule, then I suppose you shouldn’t.</p>
<p>From my experience I don’t feel like Gen Chem is very hard, it is simple math, simple set ups, ect. But that there is little to no room for error. An A in my Gen Chem class was 92%, and there was no curve, so if you messed up on a midterm or a couple of labs you were pretty much dead in the water for an A. Our midterms were 25 MC questions, and it required a lot of concentration as it is really easy to make a stupid mistake. I ended up with an A with minimal studying as I had taken AP Chem (and got a 5, but even with AP credit you have to take one Gen Chem Class) before and most of the information was review.</p>
<p>I thought Gen Chem was really hard. The first one was super easy because of the professor I had. Chem 2… that was a different story. Had the worst professor who showed no mercy. </p>
<p>Averages on exams were in the 40 percentile, being a B-.</p>
<p>You know, by definition, the average cannot be the 40th percentile. It is, by definition, the 50th percentile. Just saying…</p>
<p>hi i also have a question on general chem. are you usually allowed to use periodic table on tests? just wondering since this will be my first chem class i take this fall.</p>
<p>Our professors allowed to us to use the periodic table, yes. But it only had the abbreviations of the elements, not their full names, so you’d have to memorize those if you haven’t already.</p>
<p>As for me, I completely hated Gen Chem and am so glad I wasn’t required to take it second semester last year. It’s just not how my brain works I guess.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether your chem courses at your school are hard or easy and often it depends on the individual – many breeze through it, many struggle. However, you mention you are not in the engineering school yet and that you are taking classes with intent to transfer. Don’t know which college you are referring to but you should check carefully to see exactly what you need to be able to transfer. For example, many engineering schools, if you are transfering after first year, consider completion of two chem courses (plus applicable labs) to be a prerequisite to being condered for transfer into most engineering majors.</p>
<p>karabee, did the periodic tables have the element #s and the atomic number?</p>
<p>boneh3ad, the averages on exams were in the mid 40’s without curves. </p>
<p>For example, exam one had an average of 46% without a curve. One person got a low 90 without the curve, everyone else floated between good, bad, real bad, and crap…that’s bad. 46% became average, which was B-/C+.</p>
<p>Yeah, the table was mostly used for calculations that required the mass/atomic number/etc.</p>
<p>I can only speak from our school Ohio State but it’s all in your professor. I had terrible professors that couldn’t teach. Avg in the 60% for the first gen chem class 50% for the second chem class but I found that at the end it was easy? Why I don’t know. Usually people struggle at the end but I beat the avg in the class by 30% and got an A-. Don’t mess up that’s all i can say.</p>
<p>The avg. would still be the 50th percentile… that’s how it’s defined.</p>
<p>The 50th percentile might be a 46% on a the test though…</p>
<p>@boneh3ad </p>
<p>Well I’ll email my schools math department to see if they have those Conflict exams because
Calc exams are held at 8-10PM while my Chem Lab was held at 6-9PM so you see the conflict there.</p>
<p>Well, How hard are two LAB classes in one semester?</p>
<p>I’m not a science guy but I had a good chemistry teacher and I did pretty well. It’s not a walk throughout the park, but it isn’t THAT hard. I took geometry, Spanish 2, Chemistry, Global History, English Literature, advanced foreign language, Art and Music History age I did awesome sophomore year. Just practice, practice, practice and you’ll do great it’s a lot of fun when you get the hang of it</p>