undergrads help...failing/GPA question

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I recieved my grades for fall quarter. Everything is good excpet my General Chemistry grades (the lab and lecture are separate at my school). I recieved a 1.5 lecture and 2.8 in lab...not good...my grades starting falling after the last test.

I left an email for my instructor, since they are in their offices a few days before the start of the next quarter. "A 2.0 in General Chemistry I is needed to proceed further..." im not sure if it is a 2.0 in the lecture portion or an average of the two. Does anyone have any experience like this to know??

I have also considered retaking it, but next fall classes are already full...there usually are openings in the begining though.

Any repsonses would be helpful.

 

[dgroulx]

If the lecture is a separate class from the lab, then the GPAs won't be combined. You need to take Gen Chem I over. It's important that you learn the basic concepts taught in that class and understand them. Gen Chem II is a more difficult class.

 

[ButlerPharm.D.]

I know that in most schools the lecture and lab are given two separate “grades”. At Butler (Gen chem. is a while ago) for example you are graded on lab questions/lab write-ups and you're given points for showing up to lab. Labs at Butler are non-graded components but you earn points for coming to lab, and completing the pre-lab/post-lab questions, the two are then combined and the points from lab are added to your lecture component. Having said that I also know it's the policy of most schools that in order to pass the lecture of a bio/chem. you need to pass the lab. Just some information I thought might be helpful.

If the lecture is a separate class from the lab, then the GPAs won't be combined. You need to take Gen Chem I over. It's important that you learn the basic concepts taught in that class and understand them. Gen Chem II is a more difficult class.

 

[Lexian]

Hm, I would make sure. When I took Gen Chem the lab and lecture grades were combined in the end, however, your lab grade had to be 70% or above or else you couldn't pass the class. So if you had a 100% in lecture and a 50% in lab, even though combined that's a passing grade, you still fail because you didn't pass lab. But I would make sure, and it probably should say on the syllabus that you received at the beginning of the semester I would think. It would be odd if they didn't post how the grading breakdown works.

Also, I agree that you really shouldn't scoot by Gen Chem I, so if you don't pass I wouldn't worry because you want to have a solid foundation before moving on anyways. And this has been noted before in previous topics, but one grade won't kill you, especially if its this early in your academics (GChem I), as long as you show improvement.