Professor Reilly is probably the nicest and most caring professor at UCLA. She genuinely cares about her students and she is always willing to help. Her class is very tough and challenging, and you must be prepared to grind. I took her for 30A and 30B during COVID. For 30B, I did all the suggested textbook problems, read the textbook, and did all the material she provided, and I was able to ace midterm 1 and the final (something I normally don't do). If you really apply yourself, the class is manageable. I hope I can take 30C with her, and I recommend taking chem with her.

Professor Reilly is one of the best professors that I have had. She emphasizes learning the material rather than simply trying to get a good grade which is really useful for a first time orgo student. There are very few grades in the class (and only 1 midterm) which means that it is important to do well on those assignments. She was extremely accommodating throughout the quarter and has recorded answer keys to homework and discussion worksheets where she walks through the thought process we should have while solving problems. She genuinely cares about her students' success and has very organized lectures. Highly recommend taking her if you have the chance.

I took Professor Reilly for granted in the Spring 2020 quarter. Ok so I basically stopped showing up to lecture and started watching her lectures on my own time. She was always helpful and held workshops for her problem sets that are due a week after it was assigned (but most of the time she would extend the due date.) Her midterm and final were fair. She always has practice problems for her students to master the material. If you get the chance to take 30A with Professor Reilly, please take her! She is very understanding and accommodating to her students. She cares a lot for her students, wants them to do well, and is very engaging during her lectures. Plus, she shows pictures of her dog during lecture.

She is the only person I trust in the Chem/Biochem Department.

Dr. Reilly is truly a great professor. Though her lectures are on the quicker pace, she has the notes pre-uploaded with blank spots that you can fill in during lecture. She also supplies a lot of great resources including chapter summaries, practice problems, optional homework assignments from the textbook, and step-by-step solution videos to the discussion worksheets.
Discussion section is not mandatory but it is extremely helpful! It gave me a chance to practice the material we learned since I'm personally not motivated enough to do the optional hw problems.
The only things that were mandatory were problem sets which she usually had an office hour dedicated to going through it with students before it was due (given about a week to complete, but only take a few hours at most) and BACON assignments which are pretty much free points.
Ngl I failed the midterm even though it was 24 hours and open note, but it was bc of my lack of preparation and practice. The final ended up being no-harm due to the circumstances regarding covid and the BLM movement, and is why I managed to still get a B+.
Overall, Dr. Reilly is extremely accommodating and focuses on student's learning and understanding the material. She knows how stressful grades can be for us and does her best to help. I really enjoyed her class and hope I can take 30B with her as well.

For the spring 2020 online quarter our grade was made up of lecture quizzes (on CCLE), pre-labs and post-labs worksheets, lab participation (had to watch a video on CCLE of the lab and it would show who watched it), final presentation, and final. The final presentation was very easy. We were paired up in groups of 2 and just had to present on one of the labs we did in class (basically just a summary recap, groups and experiment were assigned by TA's). The final ended up being optional, no-harm. The only real complaint I had were the lecture quizzes which were oddly difficult. I would assume that these quizzes are implemented to ensure you watched the lectures, but they were imo way too complex. Overall, Reilly is not my favorite professor. She's not a terrible person and really does car for her students (she would stay for OH's way past the designated time just to answer every students' questions and would not hesitate to add more OH's if needed). However, I just never really clicked with her teaching style. Of course, that might just be a preference issue.

Took class during the summer of 2020 and was my only class which was a plus. The key to success in doing well in chem30B is to study and be prepared. I enjoyed Reilly's class. And would retake her.

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Professor Reilly clearly cares about her students, which includes on making sure her students material. I didn't find her class easy, but with her lectures, notes, and office hours it made the class enjoyable and she took the time to help me personally when I told her I was struggling with the material. Her assessments are hard but a fair judge of how well you are understanding the material. When she gives you specific study tips, like make flashcards of all the reactions and memorize and then retake the practice problems as tests, do it. Her study tips are incredibly helpful to learning the material and succeeding in this class. She is extremely kind so contact her with issues because she understands this isn't an easy subject and will work with you through it. Also no need to buy the textbook, find the PDF. Definitely one of the best professors I've had at UCLA.

I would avoid taking 14C with Dr. Reilly. She was a good lecturer and made the concepts pretty clear during class, but the tests were not at all made to demonstrate our understanding. It felt like she just put the hardest/trickiest questions possible on the exams to throw us off instead of making them fair. Exams were always much more difficult than the practice she gave us and she gave very little partial credit. I thought that having questions that are worth 15-20 points be all or nothing (despite there being a clear possibility of them having partial credit!!) is very unfair, as getting only one or two questions wrong drops you 1-2 letter grades and it belittles what you did learn and take away. Reilly also isn't very open to class suggestions. On the first midterm, nearly everyone missed one question that was worth 21 points (my TA said that only about 1/20 people got it correct) without any partial credit and instead of throwing it out, she just said sorry then put the exact same type of question on the final. The class averages for the midterm and final were in the 60s but she still did not scale up and extra credit doesn't really make that much of a difference unless your grade is borderline. It honestly felt like this class was made to make us fail the exams sometimes. I put several hours of studying into each of the exams, but my scores still did not reflect the time put in or my understanding, which was pretty disheartening. Call me a radicalist, but I don't think that you should have to be a perfectionist who can pick up on every minuscule detail to work out trick questions or score practically perfectly on exams to get an A in a class...

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY LEARN OCHEM. Honestly I am SO disappointed with Dr. Reilly. She truly does not care about teaching or her students. First of all her grading breakdown was insane and I nearly dropped the class during the first week because of it. 10% BACON, 30% Exam 1, 30% Exam 2, 30% Exam 3. It was very clear the breakdown was like this because she is lazy and did not want to grade any more assignments than she wanted to. She also went on random ochem tangents in class which might have been fine in a normal quarter but a 6 week summer class??? no. One time she spent 40mins showing us pictures of her dog. The most frustrating part of this quarter was the last week. We were slightly behind on material and only had 3 lectures until our scheduled final. Monday she cancelled lecture due to "technical difficulties" and said she'd post a lecture later that day. Monday went, no lecture. She was also not responding on piazza or her email. She did not upload a worksheet for our Tuesday discussion and our poor TA had no idea what was going on either. Wednesday comes, still no makeup lecture. Dr. Reilly shows up and starts teaching like normal and announced she is canceling the lecture so "we don't have to rush material" although it is very clear now she just did not want to make a final. Thursday comes, once again no worksheet and still MIA on all platforms. Friday comes and she emails everyone saying lecture will start late since she is stuck at the DMV. SHE NEVER SHOWS AND DOESNT RESPOND ON PIAZZA, EMAIL, NOTHING. Mind you we still had 2 of the hardest chapters left to do. In the end she ends up posting lectures for those 2 chapters FROM LAST SUMMER. Doesn't even bother to record one. She is so unhelpful and lazy and does not care about your learning. I am praying for the kids who have to take chem 30c because this class definitely did not prepare us for that.