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<p>As others have mentioned, it’s the competition/curve that makes the difference. The difference, in my experience, is that you can’t cram a whole term worth of material the night before a UCLA exam. On the other hand, I’ve been able to do all nighters for math, science, etc. and get A’s at my CC.</p>
<p>A UCLA exam is designed to fail you, thus leaving you to compete with your classmates, provided it’s a curved course. Whereas a CC exam is made to be do-able. Does that make sense?</p>
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<p>Well, that depends on you and your community college. Most transfers do really well because they are motivated enough. Others not so well. However, most would agree that community college is way easier. Some even feel that they were cheated out of some knowledge or difficulty. Some CC professors don’t really care, and they just make tests easy just to avoid complaining. For example, a transfer has said that his calculus III professor made the exams from examples from the book and slightly modified homework problems. He never really had the need to actually learn the material, and he ended up suffering in EE 101, which involves a lot of vector calculus. </p>
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<p>You’re welcome!</p>