<p>The students in the inquiry based section class adore it. You kind of have to, or else you’ll fall apart. The non-inquiry based sections are difficult enough.</p>
<p>And as far as the “easy A” classes, Cesare, corranged and I discussed following your comment how a class like Nat Sci (heard it’s being discontinued?) or Core Bio is not intentionally difficult, but how many still find it challenging.</p>
<p>The “data” I provided from course evaluations earlier in this thread attempted to show what I think is a pretty accurate distributions of grades earned and average time spent on homework. As you can see from the information, demands and grading curves vary from class to class and from professor to professor:</p>
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<p>A good deal of ABD grad students teach in core, and it’s my impression that grad students tend to be more lenient graders than professors. Of course, that isn’t that consistent either, as when I get back a paper with comments and grades from both my discussion section leader grad student and my “hard grader” professor, the prof grade is sometimes higher than the grad student grade.</p>