Do the majority of the people who take Organic Chem fail?

Answer 1

No. Nearly all teachers and profs realize that grades have to follow a Gaussian distribution. If the mean starts straying too far from average, they are not doing a good job for any number of reasons. That is why, when the class mean slips to far away from the mid-70s, they have to grade "on a curve".

Most school administrators would know something was very wrong with any teacher who failed more than the small percentage who would normally not make a D. At that point, either the teacher or the teacher's method would take an abrupt hit.

Answer 2

Of course not. The majority pass. Some ace the course. I myself thought that I wanted to be a doctor of medicine. I was depressed because I kept taking chemistry courses with the realization that with each course, I was leaving all that unlearned material behind. Finally, I took the sophomore organic chemistry course and realized that I was never in this world going to leave that behind. So I changed my major from pre-med to chemistry, went on for a BS, MS, and PhD in organic chemistry, and I have spent my life there ever since.

Answer 3

It depends on several factors, including the student, the instructor, and the institution. I'm a hard-working student who took it at a community college, and the class was taught by an excellent instructor. I got a B both semesters with no curves. My other friends got B's at a university, but the instructors were usually poor and their real grades would have been C's and D's. Hope this helps.