<p>I just got raped. or hopefully just molested. by 10 sheets of paper.
=(</p>
<p>3A? i didn't do as well as i could have, i think i could have done a lot better if i had just twenty extra minutes. sigh..</p>
<p>anyways, does anyone know when we get these back? Karen said the GSIs spend all Friday grading them? does that mean they should be up on bSpace by Saturday???</p>
<p>i REALLY wanna know how i did on this..</p>
<p>3A's was today. I didn't think it was that bad. There was a lot of free radical/halogenation stuff, which I figured was going to happen, so I studied that more intensely.</p>
<p>i hate how frechet tests on random stuff from his Lectures, like names of scientists, etc. </p>
<p>makes the studying so much longer.</p>
<p>^
dood seriously. I could have used an extra half hour... couldn't finish. The 1,3, dichlorocyclodecane problem was a @#<em>( spent like 20 mins. trying to draw that piece of @</em>&$. i had like 20 erase marks..</p>
<p>LOL yeah, same here.</p>
<p>i can't believe they put that on there. it's gonna be a pain for them to grade.</p>
<p>Seriously.. i was like drawing octane..and all these other weird structures..at the end i was like @*#$ this draw a circle and just number it.. Lawls.</p>
<p>talk about 3a. It was so long and I left page 2 completely blank because I had absolutely no clue about synthetic gas other than that it was syngas. blah.
I mean, in general, it wasn't as bad as I thought it could be, but some of the minor stuff that he tested on just really bothered me. (That and I was doing the alpha calculation by hand in the very end b/c my calc died and then time was up......)</p>
<p>anyone know how long it takes for these Midterms to be graded? and will the grades be on bSpace?</p>
<p>It was okay in my opinion (3A) and I do agree that I would have done much better If I had 20-30 minutes, but other than that it wasn't was I was expecting. I kind of fell into that mind set that this midterm would be super bad, but in my opinion it was easier than both the practice and mock midterm.....how ever I was upset about the steroid question.</p>
<p>the steroid was just 3 hexanes together and 1 pentane wasn't it? I coulda sworn I remember seeing something like that in the book while I was flipping through it...</p>
<p>i ****ed up on that steroid one, i drew the 3 hexanes and 1 pentane, but i misplaced the pentane.</p>
<p>Damn, this brings me back two years ago when I took 3A with frechet. Second midterm certainly wasn't easier, quite a bit of retrosynthetic problems.</p>
<p>I agree... 2nd midterm was harder than 1st... but he gives a really nice curve in the end so don't worry too much if you scored 70/100 or so on each midterm</p>
<p>So im assuming he curves at the end?
what does like a 70% usually curve out to be..? a maybe b-?</p>
<p>I think it curved out to be an A...my ~80% avg for 2 MTs was an A+</p>
<p>i remember how frechet was quite upset with our class for performing so poorly in our second 3A midterm (average was 43% or something). i can still recall those words in the lecture after exam "I am verrry unhappy with you guys"</p>
<p>^
I'm effing scared now.</p>
<p>^ ah don't worry about it too much, i heard in spring '08 he made the second 3A midterm lot easier (that year's second mt average was 75% or so). also his cumulative curve after final is generous, so study hard, keep up w/ all problems, and don't get behind.</p>