If you're a north campus major, please please don't take this class. I thought it was going to be relatively manageable, but the midterm and final were super difficult (even when you study lol). Stay away from this class if you're only good at north campus major things!!! Your GPA will thank you.

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Please do NOT take this class if you're not a science/south campus major. I'm a political science major and I thought this would be a relatively easy science GE but I was wrong. This class is pretty hard and the professor is really funny but really doesn't help with the material. The tests are extremely hard and he only gives 2 percentage points as extra credit. This class is designed for non-majors but the material taught in class definitely requires prior knowledge about neuroscience and biology. The material is also super dense.
I think most people in my class found the midterm pretty hard because the average was 66%. Overall I think this class is unnecessarily hard especially since it's only a GE!!
I think the professor is cool but the material is pretty difficult. I would definitely not recommend this class to anyone, especially north campus majors.

His midterms are much harder than you think you definitley need to study for them. Lectures are not that intersting but paying attention is much better than being totally underprepared for the tests.

Jared Wong is hilarious and he's very competent, diligent, and punctual with uploading notes, starting lectures, etc.

The class grade is composed of 42.5% midterm, 42.5% final, and 15% study questions.
He gives out extra credit up to 2%.

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I got a C- but that's because I was too pre-occupied with my boyfriend who goes to Santa Barbara.

I'm so glad that I was able to take this class with Professor Wong. He's sooo nice and funny! He gives out extra credit too, which is really nice of him. There was one midterm and one final with 10 multiple choice questions that were due online each week. Overall, workload was not heavy at all. The 10 multiple choice questions took at most 30min to complete in one sitting. Midterm and final both had 50 questions. I didn't buy the textbook in the class and I was fine. I took notes for the first few weeks, but then stopped because you just memorize his lecture slides. I didn't go to class a few times, too and I was fine. It is a lot of memorization and his slides for each ppt are sometimes 50 slides long, so if you are good at memorizing a lot of information then this is a good GE class to take! Oh also the review session for the midterm and final that were held by our TA weren't helpful at all. I went to the review for the midterm but left early and didn't bother going to the final review.

Great professor, though lectures could be a bit boring. Minimal work is required outside of class (just a few online quizzes on CCLE, and you only need to get a 50% to get full credit). Exams are fairly straightforward and Professor Wong is very generous with extra credit (go to class!), which is very useful in his straight-scale grading scheme. You do need to put in the effort to memorize the material to do well, though.

This class was so easy. Barely ever went to lecture because he just reads off the slides. The weekly quizzes you can use your notes for since its online but I never had to because they were super simple. The midterm and final are 50 multiple choice questions and took me about 20 minutes.

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This class was really great. I would definitely recommend this as your life science GE. The professor always had jokes and his classes were super lively. The topics were super engaging. The workload was pretty light. There was just one midterm and a non-cumulative exam, both multiple-choice. There were ten sets of "study questions". I saw them as homework, but our professor didn't like to call it that. You get full credit for getting 50% and above. He was always down for extra credit (super fun and easy). For an extra credit point he made us watch a scene from the Big Bang Theory (my favorite show!) and answer a couple of questions.

This class is a good GE if you're into memorization. His tests are all multiple choice and based entirely off of his lecture slides. There's a lot of information in each lecture, but he posts all of his slides online so if you skip class you can just find all the material there.
There's no discussion so it's a pretty low commitment class, you just need to be able to memorize information for the tests (and if you took AP Psych then you'll already have learned a lot of it).
Overall, not the best class I've taken at UCLA but interesting and not a bad GE to take.
Recommend if you've taken AP Psych and are good at straight memorization.