<p>I'm a senior in high school and from experience I'm going with Chemistry.</p>
<p>chemistry. It's not even close.</p>
<p>Seconded .</p>
<p>Depends entirely on the class and teacher. General chem was pretty easy, organic chem was pretty hard. Genetics was easy, but cell bio and animal physiology were hard because the professors wrote questions that really forced you to think and understand the material.</p>
<p>I took animal physiology. It was the easiest class (well, easiest curve) ever because it was full of bio majors that rely on their memorization and don't even know how to apply concepts.</p>
<p>That said, organic chem was 100x conceptually harder than animal physiology. I also took genetics, which didn't have hardly any conceptual material. Never took cell bio, but my sister did and it still looked like memorization to me.</p>
<p>I think that you'd have a hard time finding a bio course conceptually harder than organic or physical chem.</p>
<p>Chemistry, of course. Physical chemistry has been my second most difficult class so far. My bio classes were some of the easiest.</p>
<p>My grades:
Organic I- A
Gen Chem- A-
Bio I- A-</p>
<p>Bio I got the A- without any curve, Organic had a pretty big curve. I'm pretty sure genchem didn't have a curve either. So basically it all goes by teacher/class/grading scale.</p>
<p>Chemistry no doubt. Biology wasn't easy, but Chem kicked my butt! failed the second part like no tomorrow.</p>
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Organic chem required a lot of work, for sure, but at some point, it got easy because it was applying the same concepts to more and more new reactions.</p>
<p>And then it gets hard again once you get into advanced organic chemistry (which only chemistry majors really take) and have to learn the in depth theory behind each step of a reaction.</p>
<p>As far as the material goes, Chemistry is harder. For me though, Bio II was awful. Chem's exams were pretty straight forward, I'd learn the material and I'd do well on exams. In bio, no matter how well I knew that material, I just couldn't do very well, the exams were ridiculous. </p>
<p>I also just liked chem more. I could not care less about plants and animals, 4 months of memorizing fungi characteristics or the anatomy and physiology of arthropods felt like a massive waste of time.</p>
<p>I thought Intro Bio was more difficult than Intro chemistry- hands down</p>
<p>I havn't taken upper level biology just yet to compare with organic chem.</p>
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<p>the more work you do in o-chem at the beginning, essentially the less work you have to do at the end. If you start out weak you will probably not finish :D</p>
<p>If we're talking Gen Chem vs. Bio, then Bio was harder. Just had to do way more memorization, so it was much more time consuming.</p>
<p>CHEMISTRY. God I hate it so much.</p>
<p>Chemistry, hands down. However, as a Bio major, I found Gen Chem MUCH more interesting than Bio. My teacher was truly one of a kind and made the course very enjoyable, though also very hard.</p>
<p>chemistry is harder. it's funner though.</p>
<p>it really depends on what level i think. the bio/microbiology classes i am taking now are way harder than the chem/ochem i had to take freshman and sophomore year</p>
<p>Chemistry majors are the cool ones of the school, basically if you are in the chem field you are guranteed women and friends... bio on the other hand.. well chances are you will be an outcast, bascially at parties no one will want to talk to you.</p>
<p>I enjoyed biology more, because I failed chemistry freshman year, while I easily passed biology. I passed later when I retook it, but still, chemistry was the only class I overslept half the exam for and arrived late, out of breath running into the auditorium.</p>
<p>Also, I think that bio involves more memorization while chem involves more interpretation.</p>