Chem 2080 vs. Chem 2070 - significant difference?

AnbuItachi
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:37:22 +0000

They are about the same in terms of difficulty, I did worse in 208 but that’s not really because of the difficulty… I got the flu and pneumonia and skipped a week of lecture right after a week of school. Then after i recovered I just decided to skip the rest of the semester of Chem lectures as well and went straight to lunch lol… Ended up with a A- in 208 cause of a screw up on the acid/base exam… only got 1/3 SD above mean.

But yea the difficulty is definitely similar… if you have the 5 on AP you can take 208 I believe. People think that 207 might be easier in terms of getting higher grades because it’s filled with non science majors like AEM while 208 includes both engineers and science majors… but the engineers didnt really do much to change the curve…

in my year the first prelim of 207 was the hardest one cause of the elctromagnetism stuff. I dont remember the mean though, like 120s? in 208 the hardest was the acid/base one with mean in the 50s… i actually saw a lot of people just walk out of that exam lol