<p>Ilikepizza: Weinschenk doesn’t do bonus points. Soria does. Weinschenk curves. I honestly think bonus points give you a better chance for an A, especially first semester where Soria makes at least two of the exams easy. You also get to go into Soria’s first semester final (way more difficult than W’s. There are no fluff questions and it’s all applications. Mechanisms and explanations).</p>
<p>Also don’t worry about AP. Soria specifically designs exam 1 and 2 with that in mind. They are really to see what you know/remember from AP and how to apply. These are the weeder tests. Anyone not passing those will probably not pass exam 3 and 4. In Weinschenk’s first semester, you get no buffer period. As you saw, even the first exam is challenging (since Soria only has 50 people to begin with, I imagine he wouldn’t want to start attrition at the first exam, it would look bad. W has 180 people to play around with). Soria’s class will give you some time to adjust before he really slams you if you are concerned about the AP background. He’ll reteach the AP material important to orgo. and have 1-2 tests on it and then get really serious and show no mercy, especially second semester as you see. He believes in a gradual progression of difficulty (except that the jump between exam 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 is huge first semester.).</p>
<p>In will post Weinschenk’s corresponding 221/222 material from the past year if I can. It seems as if Weinschenk got easier this year (but still really challenging) and Soria gets harder (in general).</p>