A majority of students met most of the learning goals. Most of the students were able to interpret the NMR and IR spectroscopy results to correctly extract rate constants for anhydride hydrolysis (learning goals 1 and 2). A smaller majority was then able to reasonably compare the rate constants (learning goal 3). Responses were judged to meet this learning goal if they concluded that the two methods were in agreement. Responses were judged to exceed this learning goal if they provided a reasonable explanation based on experimental uncertainty (10% of the students), or if they concluded that the techniques did not agree but provided a thoughtful explanation, such as variations in temperature (14%). For example, the following answer was judged to exceed the learning objectives: