<p>is the material just harder in general? or is it something else?</p>
<p>fyi i will be taking it with pedersen in the coming spring.</p>
<p>man i wanted to know the same thing.</p>
<p>mechrocket, what was considered a good score (as in in the A range) on this first midterm for 3A with pederson?</p>
<p>^ what if we never even tried to study while taking 3a? I’m takig 3b next spring.</p>
<p>@w4c: i’m taking 3b in a semester, not taking it right now</p>
<p>edit:</p>
<p>thanks LH, helpful response</p>
<p>lol details on roommate?</p>
<p>3B is easier than 3A. 3B exams are more like puzzles whereas 3A exams are more like bullsh1ts.</p>
<p>I’ve met a lot of people this semester telling me i should have taken it with vollhardt now i think about it they’re right. They say vollhardt has a curve. and his tests really differentiates the contenders and pretenders, unlike pedersen, where the avg is really high, you have to do well get the A. </p>
<p>i think the only reason why i did alright in 3a was frechet. there was massive curve.</p>
<p>what are the averages on Pedersen midterms/finals? i sort of assumed they were really low…</p>
<p>yeah, Frechet’s curve was awesome lol</p>
<p>frechet’s curves were the reason i passed. they were so big.
yes! double entendre for the win.</p>
<p>thanks LH :)…if you dont mind, what was the mean and SD when you took it for each of the two midterms if you remember them</p>
<p>i doubt LH remembers exactly what they are</p>
<p>hey W4C, can you tell us the mean when you get your first MT back? i’m curious</p>
<p>edit: wait, oops, nevermind lol</p>
<p>you mean for 3A right? yeah mean was 110/150. i got a 120…im trying to figure out what this translates to in terms of my grade since every body did so great on the midterm…</p>
<p>Waiting4College, the standard deviation was 29, so you scored roughly 1/3 of the standard deviation above average. Assuming the average is set at a B-, and that one standard deviation above the average is the cutoff for some kind of A, then you’re probably around the B range. But you shouldn’t put too much store into this particular midterm as it’s not really indicative of what organic chemistry is all about (and hence isn’t a very good measuring tool for how “well” you’re doing); it was very formulaic, but there was a lot to know which is why the distribution had such a huge disparity (i.e. people who studied scored relatively high, people who didn’t bombed it). The next midterm’s mean will be much lower, as Pedersen said, and I except the standard deviation to be normalized as well.</p>
<p>ok thanks! man i really did study off my ass for this one and i can’t even with all that only a B. maybe i should try taking the next one without studying-i could probably pull of an equal if not higher grade.</p>
<p>well a normalized sd is always good</p>
<p>what are some tips to get an A in 3b?</p>
<p>The key to doing well in ochem: do lots of practice problems.</p>