Pchem Final

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Like I just pushed the staples button.... "that was easy".
 
solo75 said:
Like I just pushed the staples button.... "that was easy".
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Lucky. I aced the entire semester and just tanked. There was an isothermal compression problem that required derivations of A,G,S,U,q,w using a non-ideal equation of state. I got w...
 
JSU said:
Lucky. I aced the entire semester and just tanked. There was an isothermal compression problem that required derivations of A,G,S,U,q,w using a non-ideal equation of state. I got w...
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Ouch, thats rough.
 
I took my pchem "for the life sciences" (aka easy version) final last week. I rescheduled the final to take it early because I was going on an interview the original test date. He told me on Monday night that I would be taking the final Wednesday morning, and due to other work I only studied for about 30 minutes the morning of.

The result? A 77. Nice.
 
s1lver said:
Is it true what they say about PChem being the hardest Chem class? :scared:
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IMHO. Though it depends on the professor. I had an excellent professor though she is harsh when it comes to final grades (ie. even though i'm probably at the top of the class, I may not get an A).
 
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ColeOnTheRoll said:
I took my pchem "for the life sciences" (aka easy version) final last week. I rescheduled the final to take it early because I was going on an interview the original test date. He told me on Monday night that I would be taking the final Wednesday morning, and due to other work I only studied for about 30 minutes the morning of.

The result? A 77. Nice.
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How is pchem part of life sciences?
 
JSU said:
How is pchem part of life sciences?
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My school offers two pchem class types (not anymore actually). One they called it the macro version which is more oriented towards biology folks that requires less calculus (but still has a lot of calculus) that starts thermo -> quantum -> stat mech ( which seems weird ), and the other is a micro version that starts with quantum -> stat mech-> thermo and is more calculus intensive. Maybe cole's school offers something like that?
 
hiyaman said:
My school offers two pchem class types (not anymore actually). One they called it the macro version which is more oriented towards biology folks that requires less calculus (but still has a lot of calculus) that starts thermo -> quantum -> stat mech ( which seems weird ), and the other is a micro version that starts with quantum -> stat mech-> thermo and is more calculus intensive. Maybe cole's school offers something like that?
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Interesting. I guess it makes sense as a lot of the info is useful. Though, I wouldn't expect bio majors to need so much chemistry.
 
Thank God I didn't major in chemistry 😎
 
JSU said:
I was just RickRoll'D... 👍
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Yeah we got time extended, it is 3 officially but there were 3 parts with part 1 having 20 questions, part 2 with about 4 longer ones, and part 3 with extra long multistep problems (4)
 
I just had my P-Chem final this Thursday. It was easily the most difficult test I've ever taken. I had somehow managed to go into the final with a high A and now I'm praying to keep an A in the class. The one positive was that everyone I talked to thinks they failed it so we're all hoping for a huge curve.
 
kb1990 said:
I just had my P-Chem final this Thursday. It was easily the most difficult test I've ever taken. I had somehow managed to go into the final with a high A and now I'm praying to keep an A in the class. The one positive was that everyone I talked to thinks they failed it so we're all hoping for a huge curve.
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Very similar experience: I managed to get an A in PChem this quarter, but I did so poorly on the final I was extremely surprised when the grades came out. I was depressed all week waiting for them to post.

I even missed a handful of the "easy" questions that you're not supposed to miss. There was one about a biphasic liquid-liquid system and we had to figure out what the composition of each substance was in each phase. Easiest question on the test, and I totally missed it.

I guess it all worked out in the end, though. I hope it works out for you too 🙂

Edit: I take it back; the easiest question on the test involved calculating enthalpy for an ideal gas undergoing isothermal expansion.
 
I ended up with an A. Not too sure how but I'm not complaining 😀 .
 
JSU said:
I ended up with an A. Not too sure how but I'm not complaining 😀 .
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I loved p-chem! I still have to do p-chem lab and a polymers elective class and I'm finished with a chemistry degree, hooray!!!
 
I took pchem for life sciences and it was awful. I had trouble staying awake because it was early for me and my prof was terribly uninteresting. Final was tough because it was all definitions but I think I did alright because the chem majors at my school are *****s ... I got a 69 and 74 on the first 2 tests which were A- after the curve when avgs were in the high 40s
 
I somehow managed an A as well. Our grades on the final exam were never released so I imagine that the professor just made it difficult so he could set the curve where he would like. I'll take it though.
 
Just took pChem this semester and it's been quite rough.
I bombed the final with a 66 and ended up with an A in the class still 😀
 
LoL my tests were in the A range early on in the semester, but dropped as I went to more and more interviews and missed more class..by the end I was missing more than half the classes and barely finished problem sets.

I managed a 75ish on the final - I think my grade in the end will be a B or B-, let's hope for the former!
 
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