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Same here, graduate standards are higher. I think that all schools have similar grading standards. We fail if you get 2 Cs or get a C in an anesthesia, physiology etc class. Basically your only C can be in research, biochem or statistics maybe physics.

Our didactic classes at the college such as phys, chem, stats, research, anatomy are easier to deal with and score well on because they have the same instructers for the entire semester. The anesthesia classes are taught by different CRNAs and Docs. so there may be 6-10 lecturers per test and the test questions are not neccessarily writen by the one lecturing and certainly not the one grading. Just another challenge. BTW, our classes and clinicals all started the first semester. None of the first class then clinical. 2 weeks in we were in the OR. YMMV