Professor Ow’s 14C course was honestly one of my favorite courses I took this year. It was also the only lecture I didn’t fall asleep in during spring quarter. He presents the material in a very clear and engaging way. Although difficult, the exams are an accurate representation of the material covered in the slides. He also gives ample time to complete both the midterms and the final. I finished both in about half the time given and was able to review my answers before submitting. The material is definitely pretty difficult (it’s ochem so that’s not really a surprise), so a lot of studying is required to understand the material. However, Dr. Ow provides practice problem sets and homework assignments that help with this process (do all of them!). I would definitely take another chemistry course with Professor Ow.

I was a little nervous going into this class because Dr. Ow's bruinwalk reviews. However, I was pleasantly surprised at how wrong I was. He is a really engaging lecturer. I have a reputation for falling asleep in my chem classes, but Dr. Ow makes it pretty difficult to fall asleep. You can tell that he is very passionate and knowledgeable about the content. OChem has a lot of content and it doesn't really help that we only have 10 weeks to learn everything. It will be hard to catch up if you fall behind on lectures. But I think Dr. Ow provides a good number of resources to help you understand and master the content. He understands that some content is harder to grasp than others and tries his best to spend more time on those topics in lectures. I felt that his exams were pretty fair at evaluating our understanding of the course material.

I was scared coming into this class knowing organic chem is extremely difficult, especially because I found general chemistry to be incredibly hard. I was pleasantly surprised by Dr. Ow because he made his class extremely engaging and I actually found myself enjoying the lectures (the bar was low from 14A and B though). I did have to study a lot to get 80's on the midterms and the final, but due to his generous grading scale I ended with an A-, because he gives out participation for discussions (completion only/just show up), homework (canvas quizzes with unlimited attempts) and quizzes (harder than he made it sound like they would be, frequently got 20/25 on them) and offered 0.25% extra credit (not sure what that was supposed to help with considering it's such a small percentage but glad it was there, could be the thing that got me past a B+).

Overall I would 100% take this class with Dr. Ow again. He was super accommodating, made the material interesting, and while it did require around 3 hours of studying per day to get by I would say it taught me to be a more productive student. If you're taking this class with Dr. Ow I suggest to go to every lecture even though they are Bruincasted. The minute you get behind in this class it is IMPOSSIBLE to catch up again, but it's easy to get ahead because Dr. Ow posts his slides in advance.

I was super intimidated by the bruinwalk ratings before I took this class, but DO NOT LISTEN TO THOSE. Dr Ow was one of the most passionate and straightforward professors I've met at UCLA. One main aspect that I liked was that he is very clear about what is going to be on the test and what is not. The midterms are very doable if you use the materials that he gives you. Final was a bit more challenging, but regardless it was not bad at all. I would honestly take a class again with Dr Ow, and shoutout to him for making ochem not so intimidating and more enjoyable than 14A and 14B.

Seeing all the bad bruinwalk reviews made me scared for this class; however Ow turned out to be a great lecturer in my opinion and his tests were fair. There were two midterms, I got a 77 on the first one(the concepts on that midterm were hard for me for some reason) but on the second one I got 100. And then there's the final which I got a 90 on, so I was able to end with an A. He is an engaging lecturer and my one big tip is to make sure you do his practice exams and review your exams once they're graded because he will put questions from those onto the next test or final so those should be easy points. Homework is easy you get unlimited tries but make sure to try your best on the weekly quizzes because those are easy ways to lose points. Overall, thought his class was very fair and although the textbook was literally so bad his study guides were very helpful.

Personally, I thought the professor was really cool. He's a good lecturer and is very engaging. However, that's probably the only good thing I can say about this class.

The exams were brutal. By brutal, I mean it makes you question whether or not you belong in STEM. The midterms and final were extremely hard because I essentially had no way of preparing for it. The worksheets, quizzes, and practice exams he gives us are much easier than the actual exams, so you have no way of knowing whether or not you're actually prepared for it. I found it extremely unfair that we had no actual way of preparing for it.

If you're a god at chem/a good test taker, then you should take this class.

DO NOT take this class with Ow unless you literally don't have a choice. He is such a poor lecturer and inconsistent with his test questions. I only passed because I had access to all of Hardinger's lectures (take it with him!). I got a 40/100 on my first midterm and still got a B+ in the class (which wasn't supposed to be curved at all) because Ow was so bad at writing tests. The practice material is nothing like the actual test so don't rely on it.

I thought the amount of assigned work was very manageable and he gave a lot of practice problems. I liked that he printed out the power point slides to take notes on during lecture. He seems very understanding of how difficult the content is and your grade doesn't completely rely on how you do on midterms and finals

If he is available for whatever class you are trying to take, you are the dumbest person on Earth. HE is really good.

Currently taking him for the summer. He's a pretty good professor and he relates to students well since he was recently a UCLA undergrad himself. The course had two midterms which are 25% each and the final is worth 50%. He gives 5% worth of extra credit. In my course he is trying a straight scale as an experiment, but he says he usually does a curve. He also assigns optional homework, but I personally don't do it because I think his lectures suffice to do well on the exam. He also does bruincast which is a great resource. Overall, I think the class is fair in terms of difficulty and grading