B in honors or A in regular

tetrahedr0n
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:30 +0000

rkbgt,

I saw you post in the Michigan forums - sorry if it seemed like I was stalking you or something like that.

I can tell you what I thought about my class, but of course how your class works depends on who is teaching it. My homework for 160 was pretty difficult, and I didn’t always do well (especially on the web component.) The exams, however, were pretty straightforward. There would be a mixture of multiple choice and long answer problems, and this was pretty good because you would always get partial credit on the latter. The final exam was particularly easy. We also had review sessions with the professor a day or two before the test - often certain problems would be hinted at or even fully solved that would appear on the exam. At the end, a great deal of the students in the class received As. This is, in my experience with honors classes, pretty typical.

The following semester I took 240, the regular version of e&m. There was a strict curve in place. The exams were all multiple choice, and they were more difficult than any in class problems, such that only the people with a great deal of experience actaully did well. As a result, I did a decent bit worse in this class than in the honors class.

Take all of this with a grain of salt though - I’m just one guy. Maybe your prof is different, and honors really will be harder, grading and work wise. But I don’t think you can be doing that bad quite yet, since there haven’t been really any huge grades I’d think.