Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think 22 is an interesting class," says Peter J. Dong '02. "It's not to the level of the higher courses, but it's significantly harder than 21. I like it because it doesn't require too much work but still presents good material...
...prerequisite for medical school, and most for most science concentrations, nearly 550 undergraduates--primarily first-years--took introductory level chemistry courses this past semester. The two largest are Chemistry 5 and Chemistry 10, "Accelerated Course, Foundations of Chemistry...
While student opinion always varies within a given course, the level of dissatisfaction with chemistry classes seems to be higher than most. Over the past six years, an average of 65 students took Chem 5 but did not enroll in Chem 7, its companion course...
According to Davis, first-year students are often discouraged by the qualitative change in course expectations between high school and college chemistry courses. Students used to doing problems by rote find college-level exams a rude awakening...
Unlike high school-level exams, which seldom ask students to do more than regurgitate memorized formulas, most Harvard math and science courses force students to apply their understanding to problems they may have never seen before...