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Our electrical engineering program had a "weed out" class in sophomore year, Linear Circuit Threory.
An older student warned me about it in advance, saying that the professor would get the mid-term in before the drop out deadline to give everyone their current standings and what they'd need to pass the class on the remaining tests. He said half the class would opt to drop out right then, and half of those who stayed would go on to fail.
He predicted it correctly (I opted to drop out along w/ 1/2 the class, and 1/2 that stayed failed).
The professor would give exams that'd take an hour but only had 4 problems, working out values for resistors, current, etc... for complex circuits. If you got the wrong answer, he did not give partial credit, b/c "if you had double checked your work, you would've noticed your error," and usually it boiled down to not doing all the problems and trying to focus on just 2-3 of them and make sure you get them completed, b/c incomplete was the same as never even bothering, and you needed to manage your time. He'd sit behind us while we struggled and panicked, with a sadistic smile.

Most people went to the community college during summer break to take a much easier version of the class and transfer the credits over. Or in a lot of cases...decided to drop the engineering major completely and do something easier.
I re-enrolled the next semester and scraped by w/ a C. I wonder how many actually passed that damn class on the first try....