<p>This is my first quarter of sophomore year. (I am on the quarter system) I tried very hard this part quarter, yet all that effort doesn't seem to pay off.</p>
<p>What I am wondering is if Chemical Engineering would be much easier in UC Riverside than it is at UC Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>Here's my grade for this quarter:
PHYS 3 (Electricity/Magnetism): C+
CHEM 109B (Organic Chemistry): B
CHEM 6AL (Organic Chemistry lab+lecture): C+
CH E 10 (Mass & energy balance and multiphase processes): F</p>
<p>Since CH E 10 is my very first Chemical Engineering class and I badly failed it, unlike all other classes where I do at least as well as the average.</p>
<p>The class covers Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes (Felder & Rousseau) chapter 1 to chapter 7.</p>
<p>There's homework every week for the class and I've received 90+% for every homework assignment.</p>
<p>The problem is that the exams are extreme difficult and looks nothing like the easy homework problems from the book. My professor said that the exams are suppose to be more difficult than the homework since the point is to show him that I can apply previously learned concept to things that I have never seen before.</p>
<p>Personally, I do not agree at all. My physics exams also contain many problems that I've never seen before. The different is that in Physics, the homework is also very difficult so I am be able to nail down the material and know what is expected of me on the exam.</p>
<p>Back to the topic of CH E 10. My professor said that the exams are written to be very difficult and he doesn't expect anyone to be able to get 105% (the full score), yet 3 person managed to get 105% and 4 person managed to get 90%.</p>
<p>This means that somebody like myself who gets ~55% of the exam simply cannot get a C in the class. BTW, the standard deviation of the exam score is extremely large.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it looks like the college of engineering will give me the boot. (I was previously on probation because I took CHEM 109A - organic chemistry and failed it, but I retook it during the summer and got an A).</p>
<p>I will likely go to the College of Letter and Science to complete the rest of the prerequisite for Chemical Engineering and transfer to a different engineering college (UCR?) to complete my chemical engineering degree.</p>
<p>Please provide your thoughts on the matter.</p>