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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reminds me of one of my classes. None of the questions in the tests matched what was covered in the lectures or textbook. It was the most interesting class but grade wise it was the worst. To this day I remember her lectures, she was brilliant. And a terrible test writer. [/quote]

It's definitely possible that this is what's happening, just like it's possible that the kids are complaining about tests that are appropriately difficult. It's really hard to say without having taken the class and taken the exams, so it becomes this Rorschach test that reveals whatever you already think about what's happening in colleges, but nothing else.[/quote]

Absolutely agree with this.  Orgo is a grind—my mom too it 70 years ago and is still complaining about it.  But the job of the professor is to teach and if the majority of students are not learning the material, it does raise questions  about whether the teaching is effective.  Seems like NYU decided it wasn’t.  Sometimes the proof is in the pudding.  [/quote]

My dad had a Masters in Organic Chemistry and worked in the field for 37 years. He could not for the life of him figure out why I thought it was a hard class.  Truthfully, analytical chem was even worse.  I was a Bio major.  Biochem was ok, but that is the extent of what I wanted out of chem.[/quote]

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