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Students in many Harvard science courses are often shocked to find that their grades are much lower than "large-scale grade inflation" would have indicated. Chemistry 20a's first semester median grade was a C+. In Natural Sciences 3, the lowest-level chemistry course at Harvard, students were promised "a substantial percentage of grades above B+," What many failed to anticipate was the equally substantial percentage of grades below...
Assistant professor James D. Wuest and professor Jeremy R. Knowles, who teach Chemistry 20a and 20b respectively, said yesterday they plan to allow students in the organic chemistry courses to view their graded finals in June...
When Frank H. Westheimer, Loeb Professor of Chemistry, found out the Faculty Council had turned down his request for a four-hour exam in Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry," he became upset and wrote the council a letter asking it to reconsider. The council did this week-and decided firmly once again to limit the Chem 20 exam to three hours...
...Faculty Council yesterday turned down a petition from the teaching staff of Chemistry 20a, "Organic Chemistry", seeking approval for a final exam lasting four instead of the normal three hours...
Organic Chemistry is traditionally the most rigorous of the courses in the pre-med sequence. Chem 20a is the first half of a full courses in the subject and its final exam assumes great importance because students who do poorly on it are not allowed to complete the course, and may thus be unable to gain admission to a medical school...