summer classes: grading policy harder? easier?

[PREMEDWOAHS]

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are the grading policies for summer session classes like chem or physics easier or harder because of the fact that they squeeze everything into a shorter period of time?

thanks



((taking classes at stonybrook if you needed to know to help answer))

 

[PREMEDWOAHS]

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[Captain Fantastic]

Grading policies were the same for my summer classes.

 

[NERDY]

I can't say if your class with be easier or harder than a regular semester class since I don't know. However, you'll have probably have tests/quizzes more frequently since there is less time to cover the material. Also, you won't have as much time between lectures to study/review the material. good luck.

 

[PREMEDWOAHS]

thanks

 

[vincikai]

the same. Just so you know form observation stony's science is crazy harder than anywhere i have seem, maybe even harder than MIT! 😱

 

[UBC-Guy]

I have never taken a summer course but from what I am told it is easier in the sense that you only have one academic thing on your plate at one time (assuming that you are only taking on course at a time). Every person that I know has done better in summer courses than in regular courses. That being said I would imagine the marking scheme would have to be the same.

 

[thedelicatessen]

It depends. You may cover slightly less material than in the regular school year but at a faster rate. As for the competition, there may be more slackers or people who failed during the school year, which would make for less competition, or a whole lot of gunners, which would make for more competition. I took a lot of summer classes, and it worked out just fine.

 

[Merissa87]

grading is MUCH easier during summer school!!

 

[notdeadyet]

Varies completely from school to school, and often subject to subject.

 

[A Tree]

Varies completely from school to school, and often subject to subject.

...professor to professor

 

[theunremarkable]

generally easier.

 

[staticsoliloquy]

Classes in the summer are a joke. If you're taking organic chemistry or physics, you don't have much to compete against. I audit one of the Bio core during the summer and the material was below that of my AP Biology class in High School. BELOW. How was that even possible?! This was how he covered mendelian genetics. He had one slide on punnet square. Hello. What about recombination? Genetic mapping? Epistasis?

It's a bit pitiful.

 

[Cmercury1]

I know quite a few people who took and are going to take summer O. Chem. at Harvard. I have heard it is easier, and from the responses on this thread, it seems like it might be true (at least as hard, definitely not harder). I should have done that, but instead, I listened to my pride and took an ass-beating at my home school. 😡

 

[MedStudentWanna]

It totally depends on the professor. At my school, a small percentage of people failed Gen Chem I over the summer when I took it and of those who didn't fail, most got a C. There were only three A's in a class of 50 people. During the regular term, students tend to do better in that class.