I really enjoyed this class. Professor Prado taught this class along with Professor Caram and Casey, but she was the main one who lectured and taught the class. She took on the class last minute as our initial professor could no longer do so (she began teaching Friday of week 1).
She uses slides that are posted on CCLE, but she writes on the slides during lecture, so I'd recommend attending class. There are clicker questions during lecture and it's hard not to get full credit; there are bunch of opportunities and you get half a point just for participating. There are weekly quizzes (Friday during lecture) which aren't too bad. I didn't read the textbook too much but used it more as a reference if I didn't understand something. There are HWs for every lecture but they don't have to be turned in.
I really like Dr. Prado and the class overall. She's really nice and very approachable. She is one my favorite professors here at UCLA and I think the class overall was appropriately paced. Definitely recommend.
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Dr. Prado was a great lecture with really through and easy to understand slides that I've been referencing through the rest of the 14 series. Midterm and final were open note and on Gradescope, they were pretty fair and she offers lots of extra practice material. She said she used to use iClicker, but decided to stop this quarter (rip participation points), so attendance was only mandatory for discussion where you would work on a worksheet in a group. Would take again, and probably study more this time.

She didn't use iclicker which was nice, but she was pretty inflexible, strict grader, sees regrade requests as arguing for points when it's over something so small

If I could describe Dr. Prado in one words, it's inflexible. She doesn't accommodate outside of office hours, so if you have a job or internship, it'll probably be difficult to meet with her for help. She's the first professor I've had to not even propose extra times. You're just supposed to save your lunch break for the evening so you can accommodate her and make her office hours, I guess.

Also, super strict with regrade requests. I requested a regrade request for literally 1 point and she scolded me for "arguing for points" and being unprofessional, and I'm definitely not the type of person to be rude to a professor. So that felt kinda patronizing, like she just wanted me to shut up lol. Also, I don't think regrade requests are anonymous, so beware.

Now for the midterm and final. I survived 31B with Pablo with an A, and after everyone telling me that was the hardest class, I thought this would be fine. But I got a 73% on the midterm (I had Covid she couldn't accommodate for), and I studied super hard for the final and even took two days of work off just to study and got a 96%. With 100% in every other category (homework, discussion), a 96% on the final wasn't enough to make up for the midterm. There is no grading scheme, so the class is super unforgiving. Not only that, but she's super unforgiving and refuses to round up your grade if you're less than half a percent away from an A- in the class, considering you took the midterm at the height of having Covid, were unable to make office hours for extra help, and got a 96% on the final when the average was an 81.

Taking a subject like Chemistry in a 6 week summer class is not going to be easy for anybody. However, Dr. Prado simplified the material in her lectures and I thought the examples she went over were really similar as some problems for exams. Her exams aren't as difficult as you would expect because if you take time out of your day to do the homework step-by-step, especially the stoichiometry section and Acid/Bases, and reviewing slides, you will be fine. The first half of the session felt like I was back in General Chem in high school as I found it helpful to remember the basics that would carry over during the second half. Our discussion sections consisted of practice sheets that were very similar to the practice problems from class and these helped me see where I was comfortable in and other questions where I wasn't. Overall, a solid class and I wish she would be a Chem professor year round at UCLA, but she only teaches summers. If you have the opportunity to take her for Chem 14a, do yourself a favor and TAKE HER! I could've easily passed with an A if I applied myself earlier in the session.

Excellent class and Dr. Prado is extremely sweet and has tons of extra credits to offer. Definitely take her if she's teaching!
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Dr. Prado is a great professor if you have absolutely no idea what you're doing. She painstakingly goes through the smallest details and repeats things until absolutely everyone gets it. If you have a chemistry background or just have an aptitude for learning things by the 2nd time, Dr. Prado might not be for you. I don't know if it's just me, but spending hours on stoichiometry, which is arguably rather easy and something you just need to practice because there's not a lot of conceptual theory to learn, is a catastrophic waste of time (especially when the final exam barely covers it). Why couldn't we have dedicated more time to figuring out the strength of acids and bases when that was literally the entire final? She really holds your hand through the most basic things but then you're on your own for the stuff that's actually relevant on the exam. The midterm was pretty easy (in my opinion, average was a B), but the final was way harder than anything we ever did in class, homework, or discussion. I also found that Dr. Prado wasted a lot of time. She spent 10 minutes complaining about a spider, which I get can be rough especially if you're scared of them, but for a summer session, 10 minutes is a lot of time. Attendance is also mandatory/graded, which sucks for summer classes. One thing I really liked was that she gives you previous exams to study from, and they were actually helpful. Overall, by no means the worst professor, and she definitely has strengths, but I was thoroughly annoyed by the end of the class.

Having taken AP Chemistry before, this class was basically a breeze. Since it was online all the exams were open note, canvas, and internet. The lectures are long but definitely understandable and she gives good examples to practice. There was a slight disconnect between homework problems and the exams but if you just brush up using the slides you should be fine.

If you know what equation to use and when, then you'll do well in the class. I wouldn't say that Prado is a tough professor, but sometimes she was unclear about some things and it was a bit frustrating. If you take notes on readings, then the readings take FOREVER, but I realized that as long as I paid attention in class, knew the learning objectives, clicker questions, homework problems, and worksheets, then the readings aren't really necessary except for occasional clarification. Office hours are packed and not very helpful because there are so many people and it's really cramped. The LAs in discussion answered my questions the best. Prado is really kind and cares about her students and listens to them.

Yeah, I agree with the review before me that Prado's the best (she's so so so cute), but grade-wise, the class is pretty harsh (idk where they got those numbers for A's, let alone A+). I mean the tests are so quick that it's easy to mess up and the point total adds up pretty quickly. I'm praying for an A, but I heard organic chemistry was supposed to have a slight curve but her grading scale's tougher than my 14B class. I do all the work, but I'm still pretty frustrated that I lost so many little points on the tests. Hopefully after she sees how so many of us are losing points she'll add in a curve later on in the quarter. Gosh I feel like such a whiner, 'cuz she's like the best teacher ever. I totally recommend her class to anyone who's scared of organic chemistry. She'll totally change your mind.