Question about Chem 6BL course.

astrina
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:31:08 +0000

if you did a considerable amount of labs in AP chem and have an organized and well-kept notebook to record your efforts, you can try to petition out of chem 6BL. basically show them the notebook and demonstrate that you’ve learned everything and there’s no point in you taking chem 6BL again.

it was much easier to get the petition through in previous years (as in all the people i knew who attempted it got their petition approved), but lately they’ve started to crack down and discourage people from doing it. i didn’t know i could petition out of it until it was too late (like, a week before my 6BL final) but it would have been a good idea – i wouldn’t have had to spend 60 hours rotting in a lab, learning nothing except how to “reword” old lab reports. and my classmates probably would have appreciated my absence from the class as well, since people who already know the material only serve to screw up the curve for everyone else.