Have you ever gotten an A in a class but felt like you didnt learn very much ?

[SelfObsessedMik]

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Have you ever gotten an A in a class but felt like you didnt learn very much ? That is the case for me concerning Gen Chem. I worked my ass off in that class. In our chem dept that is the weeder-killer class. They make Gen Chem as hard as humanly possible. It required literally two to three times more work than Orgo I. After doing all the work I still feel like I didnt learn anything in that class. Part of the problem was our prof gave us exams focusing on very very hard word problems. Our exams were 11 extremely difficult word problems and no theory. So I taught myself to solve all the damn word problems but felt like I never learned the actual material in Gen Chem. Anyone else ever work hard in a class, get an A and feel like you didnt learn much ?

 

[shiraz84]

Yes, on more than one occasion; although my situation was a little different. It wasn't because the professor made the tests difficult, it was either because the material that the professor chose to teach was worthless or because the professor did a horrible job of teaching (sometimes a combination of both).

One example - a sociology class I took this past semester called Sociology of Racism. I learned almost nothing in that class; instead of learning about racism, every class turned into various people telling anecdotes about their experiences with racism (or what they perceived to be racism). The class before each exam (there were only 2), the professor would give us a "review sheet" which essentially had all of the test questions on it; she would then proceed to answer almost all of those questions. Whether or not I read the actual material for the class didn't seem to matter much.

 

[getunconcsious]

Uhm...Duh? You don't learn much of any importance in most undergrad classes! Jeez, when did people become so naive? Don't worry about it. Medical schools don't really care what you do or don't learn, only what grade you make. As long as you can do the stuff on the MCAT it's not that important. I can't decide if you're the most paranoid applicant ever (which would be really saying something, btw) or if I'm just feeding a troll here. 🙄

 

[Docstrange]

Uhm...Duh? You don't learn much of any importance in most undergrad classes! Jeez, when did people become so naive? Don't worry about it. Medical schools don't really care what you do or don't learn, only what grade you make. As long as you can do the stuff on the MCAT it's not that important. I can't decide if you're the most paranoid applicant ever (which would be really saying something, btw) or if I'm just feeding a troll here. 🙄

What's that gay little avitar of yours?

 

[AznDoc]

I definitely felt that I should have learned more this past year in Bio and Chem. For example, I am interning for Pfizer this summer and my lab sup says to dilute 120mM of Tris, 50mM NaCl, and 2 mM of TCEP into a 0.5 L solution, and then to dilute the protein down to 0.2um. It took me freakin' 10 minutes to figure it all out.
Do you sometimes feel that the exams you take are almost too easy (yet somehow people still find a way to fail)? I have a sinking feeling that the MCAT is going to be significantly harder than what I took this past year.

 

[DrHopeless]

haha I have a hate/love relationship with those classes.

You know a class is extremely easy when you go through the entire semester without missing a single question on any exam . 400/400 pts and it was a genetic class, which was at the 300 level.

 

[xSTALLiONx]

Have you ever gotten an A in a class but felt like you didnt learn very much ? That is the case for me concerning Gen Chem. I worked my ass off in that class. In our chem dept that is the weeder-killer class. They make Gen Chem as hard as humanly possible. It required literally two to three times more work than Orgo I. After doing all the work I still feel like I didnt learn anything in that class. Part of the problem was our prof gave us exams focusing on very very hard word problems. Our exams were 11 extremely difficult word problems and no theory. So I taught myself to solve all the damn word problems but felt like I never learned the actual material in Gen Chem. Anyone else ever work hard in a class, get an A and feel like you didnt learn much ?

teach yourself what you want to learn then...
god your posts are anal..

 

[getunconcsious]

What's that gay little avitar of yours?

My avatar is of Xandir, a character from the Comedy Central show Drawn Together

For future reference, asking someone a question in that particular manner is generallly considered impolite. God, the people here have NO social skills whatsoever.

 

[DrBowtie]

Hey stallion look up user:
OrganicMLover
Many similarities in analness and posting habits.

 

[sick of waiting]

Yes, happened to me several times. Mostly in classes that I took because they were "easy A's." So I kind of had the mentality that I wouldn't learn much anyways. On the flipside, I've also had classes where I got Bs and B-s but I learned a heck of a lot.

 

[45408]

Sure. My last poli sci class was like that. I did fine in the class, but I can barely say I learned a thing from it.

 

[aumed22]

Honestly, out of any class, I learned maybe 10 to 15 percent of ANY material. No worries though, the all important A is all that matters.