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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.
Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.
Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.
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Professor Russell is a decent professor, but Chemistry 14BL SUCKS in general. Here is why
1. The units indicated and the course workload do not add up. Students come in expecting a lighter amount of work compared to other courses such as LS, but this is rarely the feeling for most students once they take the course. A typical science course comprises of just reading, testing, and sometimes homework. However in Chem 14BL, you have pre labs, study questions, post labs, cpr writing assignment, and reading about lab experiments. Most of which are WEEKLY assignments. Add the usual midterms and final. Does that sound like a 3 unit course? Seriously? The time I commit to this course is about equal to the time I commit to my two other 5 unit courses. So there is disparity between the amount of work that students expect and what they actually get.
2. The structure of the course is pathetic. The formatting of assignments in this course is new to most students. However, the course ignores this fact. It immediately puts students to work with no transitioning assignments or anything. Plus there is no dropping assignments so if you make a huge mistake in the beginning, it might come back and bite in the end. There's also not much learning going on in this course. There's so much time consuming assignments. Students are pretty much just trying to finish these gruesomely long assignments without really thinking about the material.
3. Due to the length and unfamiliarity of the assignments, having old lab reports as a "guide" seems like a necessity. This essentially screws over people who do not have old lab reports.
4. The grading is a real (fill in the blank)
Russell is a professor who tries really really hard to please her students, but just... fails at it. It's really confusing why because she's always willing to help, she has supplementary materials online, she prints out lecture notes for students, and she has all the handouts ready to go.
But for some reason it just doesn't cut it. I was lucky because I hung out with some smart kids in the class, but her lectures are terrible and I didn't learn a thing. I went to lecture just to satisfy my own guilt, but it is true that her tests aren't that much alike to the lectures. Just get some old tests from the test bank and use those.
Also, the way she assigned us stuff was confusing too. Everything was scattered all over the website and it took time to piece everything together.
Labs are time consuming and study questions are even harder in my opinion, but realize that study questions are the requisites for knowing how to analyze the lab afterwards. IT SHOULD BE REALLY EASY IF YOU COPY OLD LABS so please try to get your hands on some old labs! You will be so thankful for it once you're too loaded with other assignments.
There is only one midterm and one final, but they aren't worth that much of your grade. Everyone failed the midterm so she added the option of dropping it or combining it with the final, whichever one was better.
Also the stupid CPR assignments that you have to do are worth a lot of points, so PLEASE BE REALLY CAREFUL WITH THOSE because it's easy to slip and get a B or lower.
Basically she sucks as a lecturer and I had to learn everything myself or with friends, but I had labs to copy off of so I was okay for 90% of the quarter.
Good luck, but know that ~95% of the class also has no idea what is going on either. She really doesn't teach anything.
Russell is undoubtedly one of the worst professors I've had here at UCLA. She is unwilling to help her students, is incredibly condescending in her responses to questions, and cannot even solve her own examples (the very, very few she actually chooses to do) in class. Her lectures are unrelated to anything she tests on and her notes are inconsistent with what she says. I taught myself everything and she was of absolutely no help. She's a sad excuse for a professor at such an esteemed university.
Professor Russell is a decent professor, but Chemistry 14BL SUCKS in general. Here is why
1. The units indicated and the course workload do not add up. Students come in expecting a lighter amount of work compared to other courses such as LS, but this is rarely the feeling for most students once they take the course. A typical science course comprises of just reading, testing, and sometimes homework. However in Chem 14BL, you have pre labs, study questions, post labs, cpr writing assignment, and reading about lab experiments. Most of which are WEEKLY assignments. Add the usual midterms and final. Does that sound like a 3 unit course? Seriously? The time I commit to this course is about equal to the time I commit to my two other 5 unit courses. So there is disparity between the amount of work that students expect and what they actually get.
2. The structure of the course is pathetic. The formatting of assignments in this course is new to most students. However, the course ignores this fact. It immediately puts students to work with no transitioning assignments or anything. Plus there is no dropping assignments so if you make a huge mistake in the beginning, it might come back and bite in the end. There's also not much learning going on in this course. There's so much time consuming assignments. Students are pretty much just trying to finish these gruesomely long assignments without really thinking about the material.
3. Due to the length and unfamiliarity of the assignments, having old lab reports as a "guide" seems like a necessity. This essentially screws over people who do not have old lab reports.
4. The grading is a real (fill in the blank)
Russell is a professor who tries really really hard to please her students, but just... fails at it. It's really confusing why because she's always willing to help, she has supplementary materials online, she prints out lecture notes for students, and she has all the handouts ready to go.
But for some reason it just doesn't cut it. I was lucky because I hung out with some smart kids in the class, but her lectures are terrible and I didn't learn a thing. I went to lecture just to satisfy my own guilt, but it is true that her tests aren't that much alike to the lectures. Just get some old tests from the test bank and use those.
Also, the way she assigned us stuff was confusing too. Everything was scattered all over the website and it took time to piece everything together.
Labs are time consuming and study questions are even harder in my opinion, but realize that study questions are the requisites for knowing how to analyze the lab afterwards. IT SHOULD BE REALLY EASY IF YOU COPY OLD LABS so please try to get your hands on some old labs! You will be so thankful for it once you're too loaded with other assignments.
There is only one midterm and one final, but they aren't worth that much of your grade. Everyone failed the midterm so she added the option of dropping it or combining it with the final, whichever one was better.
Also the stupid CPR assignments that you have to do are worth a lot of points, so PLEASE BE REALLY CAREFUL WITH THOSE because it's easy to slip and get a B or lower.
Basically she sucks as a lecturer and I had to learn everything myself or with friends, but I had labs to copy off of so I was okay for 90% of the quarter.
Good luck, but know that ~95% of the class also has no idea what is going on either. She really doesn't teach anything.
Russell is undoubtedly one of the worst professors I've had here at UCLA. She is unwilling to help her students, is incredibly condescending in her responses to questions, and cannot even solve her own examples (the very, very few she actually chooses to do) in class. Her lectures are unrelated to anything she tests on and her notes are inconsistent with what she says. I taught myself everything and she was of absolutely no help. She's a sad excuse for a professor at such an esteemed university.
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