How hard really is Chemical Engineering at Berkeley?

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@Jweinst1

2. Most engineering courses have sharp curves, with about only the top 10-15% of the class getting A’s, and the next 30% of the class getting B’s.

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<p>Curves are more generous than that. If that were the case, the average grade would be more like a C+, rather than the more common B or B- listed at <a href=“https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/department/FL/2013/27”>https://schedulebuilder.berkeley.edu/explore/department/FL/2013/27&lt;/a&gt; .</p>

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@Jweinst1

Also, you should be advised that many tests in Berkeley do not intend for the majority of students to score highly, e.g, 3 years ago the average on one of the physics 7A midterms was 25/100.

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<p>They are unlikely to target that low a test average (and such a low test average would be curved to a B or so after the fact), since it is generally desirable in curve-graded courses to have well distributed scores (probably centered around 50/100) rather than most of the scores compressed at either the top or bottom.</p>