This might be the worst class I have ever taken. Baugh is incoherent, and I only did well in the course because of the legendary TAs (they saved us on the exams by telling us exactly what chapters/concepts to study). The survival strategy for this class is simple: READ THE BOOK! The exams are literally the homework problems, with an occasional question or two similar to example problems covered within the book. Lecture is extremely overrated, and I stopped attending them after week 4.

Good luck!

Took this class in Fall 2018. Do not understand why a lot of people are complaining about this class. While the professor may be a bit unclear at times in the lectures, this could be easily remedied by reading the textbook and learning from that. The tests were also very fair and very straightforward, and there were a lot of people who finished within the first hour and a half or so of the final. Overall, would definitely recommend this class to anyone looking for a GPA boost.

Baugh may be a bad professor, but here’s the thing. This isn’t personal evaluations we submit at the end of each quarter, this is supposed to help people choose whether to take this class. Well,
TAKE IT!
It’s such an easy A I miss it every day, it does wonders for your GPA. Also Rosie is an amazing TA so if you can snatch her class you’ve hit jackpot. He allows huge cheat sheets and the tests are super easy.

Quality of Lecture: meh (for the first four weeks that I did show up)
Quality of humor: insufficient (sometimes it's soo bad that it's good)
Quality of test: insanely hard
Quality of curve: insanely good

Unlike for the other classes, it's interesting how many students went out of their way just to write this professor a review for Chem 20A. You could be reading all 14-15 pages of reviews for this class, but they all pretty much say the same thing (excluding the few who are masochistic).

The worst class you could ever take. Do not expect to learn anything, if you want to try learning concepts head over to Beren's class.

Really easy class. If you understood high school chemistry this should be a breeze. Cheat sheets allowed on exams allowed pretty much everyone to get an A. No need to go to lectures. I would take again not because he is a great teacher but because it was an easy A.

Honestly the class isn't hard at all. The content of the class is pretty easy, especially if you have a solid foundation in physics and chemistry from IB or AP, since about 40% of the content is repeated and another 20% is a mathematical or conceptual elaboration on prior knowledge. That, and the fact that we get 2 pages of cheat sheets on the midterms and 4 pages on the final, as well as Baugh's weird grading curves means that it's honestly not that hard to score well in the class. For the midterm and finals, once you actually understood what the question was asking, they weren't THAT hard.
That being said, his lectures are absolutely wack and confusing even when you already know the content. Even my TA had no clue what was happening in the class. If you take this class be prepared to do a lot of reading on your own.

Baugh's teaching style is simply terrible and confusing. The grading previously for Baugh was notoriously easy, but something changed (I think the Chem department got mad at him for giving all A's) and it is pretty brutal. The class consisted to unintelligible lectures that made you more confused about the subject than when you reviewed it in the textbook, two midterms, two quizzes, and the final. The only saving grace was being able to use a cheat sheet of your equations on the midterms and final. Avoid Baugh if you can, because its not an easy as the previous reviews say.

This class was an absolute train wreck. Without the help of my amazing TA Derek (who was the only competent TA for this course), I don't know what I would've done. The teacher would spew random crap during the lectures, and Derek would teach us everything we needed to know in his 50 minute discussion section and office hours. The tests were relatively easy, with a few curveballs that were (in my opinion) impossible to answer with the information we were given. A lot of the concepts tested are from his extremely messy and incomprehensible lecture slides. Try your best to avoid this class, the teacher was a MESS.

The lectures were almost completely useless. He was constantly off topic and he occasionally tested things that were not in the textbook.