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I absolutely loved Casey, but too bad she won't be teaching anymore.
The class itself, I wish I could say that studying the homework problems will give you a good grade, but that is not the case. While the teaching team is amazing and are always willing to help you (extra office hours during midterm or finals week), the tests often didn't match the homework. They required you to think beyond the problem and really apply chemistry concepts to new situations, so people were wrecked for the midterms (especially midterm 2). Thankfully, Casey was a god and replaced our lower midterm score with our final if it helped us. For reference, I got a B on midterm 1 and a D on midterm 2, but I got an A on the final and clutched an A in the class (my midterm scores were similar to the class average, but my final was 20% higher than average).
I definitely recommend this class if you like highly-structured learning and are willingly to put in the work. Also all of the TAs and LAs were amazing.
Unfortunately, I believe Dr. Casey has moved and will no longer be a professor at UCLA. However, if she does ever come back to teach CHEM14AE again, PLEASE take it with her! She is a wonderful woman who genuinely cares about her students. She made it clear at the beginning of the class that she believes in everyone and thinks that everyone has the capability of getting an A in the class.
There are a few quizzes; your score on the quiz is the average of two attempts (you'll almost always get 100% on the last attempt because it's open note/open instructor so you can get help). They're timed and sometimes felt a bit too short, but you get used to it eventually. The lowest quiz grade is dropped.
There are weekly assignments that go through the content of the lecture before you attend. You get three attempts for these and the lowest score is dropped (they're really easy though, I didn't get below 100% on any of them).
Weekly homework is also easy and hardly counts for any of your grade, but doing the practice problems is important because you need the practice for exams.
There were two midterms and a final. All of the exams focused both on calculations as well as conceptual explanations. I feel that the exams were fair but challenging; I got 100% on the first exam and a 78% on the second. I got an 89% on the final exam. Dr. Casey said that if we got a good score on the final exam, she would replace our lowest midterm grade with our final exam grade (so my second midterm grade was replaced with an 89%, which brought up my grade). She offered about 9 extra credit points, which was really helpful.
Overall, the class is manageable as long as you're willing to put a significant amount of effort into studying for the exams. If she comes back to teach again, please take her class!
Great class, I really enjoyed it. Email me if you need previous midterms & labs to help you study and complete the labs. J*************
Would totally recommend over 14A. Professor Casey was extremely helpful and made sure that everyone understood the content to the fullest extent. The workload was very manageable as well as the exams.
Selling lab coat (medium) + goggles
And chemistry experiments for life science majors 4th edition by Russell and Pang
btw they're changing all the labs, you might waste your money buying old labs.
text **********
Lab reports are hard if you don't have some old ones like most of the class will have. Exams were fair but long so pay attention and keep up with the work.
Selling all old graded CL lab materials (A grades), lab book pdf, and old exams:
Contact me at **********
Selling graded labs (A grade) for this class. Also have sets of practice questions for the midterms and final, as well as 2 actual past midterms that I'll include
Email me at ************* for price and other questions
Still sellin'em --> SP2017
Professor Casey is an amazing lecturer in that she teaches you the concepts very well. However, her exams are very conceptual. The good thing is the majority of the class points come from lab, which is just a ton of busy work. If you need all the newest (fall 2018) A graded labs, text me @ **********. I will sell them for 5 dollars.
I absolutely loved Casey, but too bad she won't be teaching anymore.
The class itself, I wish I could say that studying the homework problems will give you a good grade, but that is not the case. While the teaching team is amazing and are always willing to help you (extra office hours during midterm or finals week), the tests often didn't match the homework. They required you to think beyond the problem and really apply chemistry concepts to new situations, so people were wrecked for the midterms (especially midterm 2). Thankfully, Casey was a god and replaced our lower midterm score with our final if it helped us. For reference, I got a B on midterm 1 and a D on midterm 2, but I got an A on the final and clutched an A in the class (my midterm scores were similar to the class average, but my final was 20% higher than average).
I definitely recommend this class if you like highly-structured learning and are willingly to put in the work. Also all of the TAs and LAs were amazing.
Unfortunately, I believe Dr. Casey has moved and will no longer be a professor at UCLA. However, if she does ever come back to teach CHEM14AE again, PLEASE take it with her! She is a wonderful woman who genuinely cares about her students. She made it clear at the beginning of the class that she believes in everyone and thinks that everyone has the capability of getting an A in the class.
There are a few quizzes; your score on the quiz is the average of two attempts (you'll almost always get 100% on the last attempt because it's open note/open instructor so you can get help). They're timed and sometimes felt a bit too short, but you get used to it eventually. The lowest quiz grade is dropped.
There are weekly assignments that go through the content of the lecture before you attend. You get three attempts for these and the lowest score is dropped (they're really easy though, I didn't get below 100% on any of them).
Weekly homework is also easy and hardly counts for any of your grade, but doing the practice problems is important because you need the practice for exams.
There were two midterms and a final. All of the exams focused both on calculations as well as conceptual explanations. I feel that the exams were fair but challenging; I got 100% on the first exam and a 78% on the second. I got an 89% on the final exam. Dr. Casey said that if we got a good score on the final exam, she would replace our lowest midterm grade with our final exam grade (so my second midterm grade was replaced with an 89%, which brought up my grade). She offered about 9 extra credit points, which was really helpful.
Overall, the class is manageable as long as you're willing to put a significant amount of effort into studying for the exams. If she comes back to teach again, please take her class!
Great class, I really enjoyed it. Email me if you need previous midterms & labs to help you study and complete the labs. J*************
Would totally recommend over 14A. Professor Casey was extremely helpful and made sure that everyone understood the content to the fullest extent. The workload was very manageable as well as the exams.
Selling lab coat (medium) + goggles
And chemistry experiments for life science majors 4th edition by Russell and Pang
btw they're changing all the labs, you might waste your money buying old labs.
text **********
Lab reports are hard if you don't have some old ones like most of the class will have. Exams were fair but long so pay attention and keep up with the work.
Selling all old graded CL lab materials (A grades), lab book pdf, and old exams:
Contact me at **********
Selling graded labs (A grade) for this class. Also have sets of practice questions for the midterms and final, as well as 2 actual past midterms that I'll include
Email me at ************* for price and other questions
Still sellin'em --> SP2017
Professor Casey is an amazing lecturer in that she teaches you the concepts very well. However, her exams are very conceptual. The good thing is the majority of the class points come from lab, which is just a ton of busy work. If you need all the newest (fall 2018) A graded labs, text me @ **********. I will sell them for 5 dollars.