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Old 02-11-2011 at 12:42 PM   #1
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Why does organic chem have to be unreasonably and deceptively difficult?
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I got 10s in ordinary chem and much worse in orgo.. just my 2 cents..
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If you're talking about the 2OB3 Midterm 1 Multiple Choice, I agree it was tougher than it looked.

Overall I think that Organic Chemistry has a bad reputation. I don't think it is any harder than General Chem, but it draws on a different skill set and covers material that is completely new (while in Chem 1A03/1AA3, students from some high schools have covered huge amounts of the material).

There also seems to be a "get it/don't get it" dichotomy with the course. While the overall midterm distribution was fairly flat, the MC and Written Answer sections individually showed bimodal distributions.
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