UL vs LL difficulty

[cookderosa]

I do think the *intent* of an UL course is to be "harder" or require more work, however, this is not always the case. As for UL vs LL exams, I can't say since I didn't attempt any, but for classroom, my very general opinion is that you'll have a little more writing in some subjects for UL vs LL.

Something I observed that I found interesting, is several of my LL courses (my prenursing and premed sciences all came in as LL) were "bigger" in content than the more specialized UL version (or in my case graduate level). I have taken 16 or 17 graduate level courses, a handful with BIO prefix, 6 I think, and I always thought the content was much easier to learn than my Intro Bio or General bios which I found to be "huge" subjects to learn well.
I also can use psychology as an example, I took the 3 psychology CLEPs and the sociology CLEP (self-study) and then took a handful of upper level psych and sociology courses for my degree, as well as one grad level psych class - and I still think the grad level/ upper level were easier to learn than the very wide intro classes. Maybe that's just me, maybe it's the difference of coming to a subject with no knowledge vs having already done the intros, but I'd take a grad level class over an intro 100 any day.