Maybe the mindset has shifted but I'm unclear why that's a bad thing. The pass rate at my university was similar. If this has been constant (that so many people

Maybe the mindset has shifted but I'm unclear why that's a bad thing. The pass rate at my university was similar. If this has been constant (that so many people have to fail and retake) why does the curriculum stay the same? The goal is to learn the material. If you're training for a marathon you don't sign up for a marathon, fail, then sign up for another. You slow down and work up to it in successful chunks. Organic chem seems like the defacto class that people struggle with, but the same was true at my institution for physics and other classes. Maybe instead we should be looking at a different or longer track for that material, or even earlier education that is producing students that might not have the math and science foundation out of high school?