<p>In your opinion, which is the hardest course? When I say chemistry I just mean the regular, general chemistry w/ lab, not orgo.</p>
<p>I think it might depend by school. At my school gen chem is the weed out course but I’ve heard from other posters that Bio is meant to weed out people</p>
<p>Intro bio and gen chem were no problem for me but physics, while certainly not an issue, was the most annoying of the three.</p>
<p>Agree, physics was very annoying because of the homework. First semester, for me, was a bunch of long handed problems that took hours to do because you had to show every step, even unit conversions and individual cancellations, and second semester was an online program that gave you 2-3 tries to get the right answer in the exactly right format. Then, when you fail to do that you see that you had some minor difference in formatting.</p>
<p>Bio is by far the hardest. Gen. Chem is very easy, Physics require understanding, when people try to memorize it, then it might get way too much.</p>
<p>As you can see, it depends on the individual & the school (teacher).</p>
<p>In general, gen chem probably won’t be the hardest (if it’s hard to you, then physics is likely to be harder). If you like to read a lot & learn by memorization, then bio will likely be the easier one. If you like math and enjoy working out problems + learning by theory, then physics will be the easier one. All in all, physics will likely require the most homework/assignments (problem sets), while bio will require a lot more self-studying (reading).</p>
<p>^^Engineer is absolutely correct. It ALL depends on the student. If you are an Engineer-type geek and love to problem solve, physics & then chem will seem “easier” to YOU. If you love to memorize stuff, and come equipped with a photographic memory, Bio will tend to be “easier.”</p>
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<p>Perhaps at your kid’s school and for your kid, but such a blanket statement is suspect. Each student has a different learning style, and to do well in all three courses, the student must be able to bridge those differences.</p>
<p>One more data point. For my D it would have been (on an easy to hard scale) Chem-Bio-Physics.</p>
<p>"and to do well in all three courses, the student must be able to bridge those differences. "</p>
<p>-Agree 100 %. Kids have to neglect their personal preferences and find out how they need to approach studying in each class. Bio has been the hardest for my D. but she loves it very much. The subjects that she does not care much about like Math and Physics have not been hardest. She realized that all concepts need to be understood from the start, not memorized. While working as Supplemental Instuctor for Gen. Chem prof for couple years, she discovered that most kids who have a problem with Gen. Chem. approach it from the wrong angle, they try to memorize it.</p>
<p>hey wakka guess you must be on SDN too since the post is exactly the same</p>
<p>oh yeah, i post on sdn along with cc. :)</p>