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Ochem doable so far, physics is a mission. Gen bio was cake.
I think Orgo 2 is the more difficult class because it is cumulative (including everything you learned in Orgo 1). I'm not sure why Orgo 1 is more difficult for people -- I suspect it is because it differs from the chemistry we came to know and love in high school (i.e., AP Chemistry).
Orgo was a killer for most people at my school too, although a huge chunk of people failed Bio-101. I think it's because people expect biology to be really interesting, but, in fact, biology is mostly just a ton of work.
Nice 9 year necrobump to add that insightful thought.
Biochem will become the new most difficult prereq.
But verbatim recall is the crux of almost all anatomy and physiology courses. I'm confused, did you think the class was going to be strictly comprehension of physiological effects on the anatomy of humans?My organismic physiology course was so hard it was laughable. Tests required 200 pages of reading and verbatim recall.
A test question would show a graph, with no labels or caption or title, and you would need to say what the graph represented. Hundreds of graphs.But verbatim recall is the crux of almost all anatomy and physiology courses. I'm confused, did you think the class was going to be strictly comprehension of physiological effects on the anatomy of humans?
None of the above.
Many of my students have told me that their worst fear (grade-wise) is taking a "subjective" class, where they cannot "prove" that they deserve an A.