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Professor Scerri's class will leave you wondering if you can apply some of the material at all. The class begins with an introduction to Scerri's specially, the Periodic Table. So, expect to spend the first week or so learning about that. To get a good grade, buy a course reader and study it. Take it to lecture and fill in any notes Scerri may have left out or any material that he highlights. Often times, things that are empathized in lecture show up exactly on the exams. As well, in the back of the course reader are plenty of old exam questions that are very similar to his exams. Overall, this class wasn't hard, there are maybe 2-3 home works and one midterm.
I've always been the kind of student that reads almost EVERY SINGLE Bruinwalk review for ALL the possible professors I could take before signing up for a class. When I read the reviews for Scerri, some of them weren't very great. After taking his 14A class and enrolling in his 14B class, I can say that Scerri is a fair professor. He might be snarky and somewhat intimidating, but he's not trying to make people feel bad--he's just kind of blunt sometimes. And it's clear that he enjoys what he teaches. He always makes sure to tell everyone that he sticks around for a while after each lecture to answer any questions. Also, his course reader/past exams pretty much cover everything you need to know for the exams. It also helps that he Bruincasts his lectures. I can see that he doesn't go into very much detail about the material, but I don't regret taking his class.
Also, if Lisa P. is TAing for him, try to sign up for her discussion section! She's absolutely wonderful!! She explains things clearly and really cares about making sure that the students are getting the most out of the discussions.
P.S. If you took AP Chem, you will have an easy time in this class.
Scerri is an awesome person but a hard professor. Go to all lectures, office hours, discussions, and study the course reader throughout the whole quarter. Also study old exams. I really enjoyed this class but the exams were difficult.
Scerri isn't too bad, especially 14A. This is a pretty dense class but it was pretty straightforward. I had an AMAZING TA Blanton(he graduated) which helped a lot. Scerri passes stuff over so quickly, like all of stoichiometry in one lecture. He looovveess the periodic table and he also focuses less on calculation and more about the backgrounf information, processes and experiments. He also makes you create a Thinkwell account(like aleks or khan academy) which he so happens to do presentations for that website. It's only $15, and you basically taken open note online quizzes once a week with 3 tries.He gives out homework, but its basically specific questions from the back of the course reader.If you've taken chemistry in High School you'll be fine as long as you go to lecture, discussion, and know the key words for his short answers. Also good luck having one on one time during office hours because he usually has them in lectures halls.
Looking back, he was not a terrible professor but still I would rather not take him again. Compared to Lavelle however, he IS indeed easier. I found that you will do well in Lavelle in you are really adept at plug in chug, apply the correct formula, math type learner. Scerri's test are very conceptual and you can just use his answers from his course reader practice exams. You can even get free points for questions that ask for definitions. Lavelle rarely has those. Take Scerri for 14A if you can but general chem is basically a weeder course for the pre-meds who weren't serious from the start.
Professor Scerri's class will leave you wondering if you can apply some of the material at all. The class begins with an introduction to Scerri's specially, the Periodic Table. So, expect to spend the first week or so learning about that. To get a good grade, buy a course reader and study it. Take it to lecture and fill in any notes Scerri may have left out or any material that he highlights. Often times, things that are empathized in lecture show up exactly on the exams. As well, in the back of the course reader are plenty of old exam questions that are very similar to his exams. Overall, this class wasn't hard, there are maybe 2-3 home works and one midterm.
I've always been the kind of student that reads almost EVERY SINGLE Bruinwalk review for ALL the possible professors I could take before signing up for a class. When I read the reviews for Scerri, some of them weren't very great. After taking his 14A class and enrolling in his 14B class, I can say that Scerri is a fair professor. He might be snarky and somewhat intimidating, but he's not trying to make people feel bad--he's just kind of blunt sometimes. And it's clear that he enjoys what he teaches. He always makes sure to tell everyone that he sticks around for a while after each lecture to answer any questions. Also, his course reader/past exams pretty much cover everything you need to know for the exams. It also helps that he Bruincasts his lectures. I can see that he doesn't go into very much detail about the material, but I don't regret taking his class.
Also, if Lisa P. is TAing for him, try to sign up for her discussion section! She's absolutely wonderful!! She explains things clearly and really cares about making sure that the students are getting the most out of the discussions.
P.S. If you took AP Chem, you will have an easy time in this class.
Scerri is an awesome person but a hard professor. Go to all lectures, office hours, discussions, and study the course reader throughout the whole quarter. Also study old exams. I really enjoyed this class but the exams were difficult.
Scerri isn't too bad, especially 14A. This is a pretty dense class but it was pretty straightforward. I had an AMAZING TA Blanton(he graduated) which helped a lot. Scerri passes stuff over so quickly, like all of stoichiometry in one lecture. He looovveess the periodic table and he also focuses less on calculation and more about the backgrounf information, processes and experiments. He also makes you create a Thinkwell account(like aleks or khan academy) which he so happens to do presentations for that website. It's only $15, and you basically taken open note online quizzes once a week with 3 tries.He gives out homework, but its basically specific questions from the back of the course reader.If you've taken chemistry in High School you'll be fine as long as you go to lecture, discussion, and know the key words for his short answers. Also good luck having one on one time during office hours because he usually has them in lectures halls.
Looking back, he was not a terrible professor but still I would rather not take him again. Compared to Lavelle however, he IS indeed easier. I found that you will do well in Lavelle in you are really adept at plug in chug, apply the correct formula, math type learner. Scerri's test are very conceptual and you can just use his answers from his course reader practice exams. You can even get free points for questions that ask for definitions. Lavelle rarely has those. Take Scerri for 14A if you can but general chem is basically a weeder course for the pre-meds who weren't serious from the start.
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