To do well in this class, you need to put in the work. There is a lot of material but, it isn't Prado's fault, she has to teach all of it because of the department's policies. Overall, she was very helpful and knowledgable. My advice: You will get a lot of mechanisms and it will be overwhelming at first, but break it down into smaller sections and memorize them. Once you get past memorization, you will be able to apply them and everything is downhill from there. Overall, the class is not bad as long as you keep up the material and pay attention to detail! That's where you will lose all the points. Practice all of her office hour worksheets (they are really crucial to doing well) and practice exams ahead of time and if you notice a minor detail that you don't think is important, it probably is important and you should go ask her about it in office hours. As for the 95% cutoff to get an A, don't worry about it. She will give you extra credit from going to discussion section which really makes a difference, and the class usually gets curved a little in the end so you will be fine. When I took it, the cutoff for an A was moved down to 93% which is standard.

Rest of the reviews are accurate. Just wanted to add that I found it really helpful to just watch the bruincasts. I was able to condense that hour of lecture to 30 minutes by watching at a higher speed, and bruincast was helpful as I was able to pause and figure out the mechanism, then watch how she did it.

Prado really cared about students and teaching and explained concepts pretty well. Compared to other 14C professors, Prado is definitely a better choice as exams are pretty fair and she doesn't try to trick you up or anything. I would recommend taking it with Prado if you can

I loved Professor Prado. I had her Chem 14A SIS class. She is a clear lecturer, and the textbook she uses is clear and useful. She's the only professor I've had that reaches out to the students before the beginning of the quarter to see if they need any particular accommodations. Overall, the class was great and I recommend Professor Prado if you can get her.

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.

Dr. Prado was the best professor for a summer sessions chem class. While the class moved in a quick pace and some of the material was challenging, her extensive office hours, plus helpful TAs were always helping and explaining concepts. It is very easy to get a good grade in the class and at the same time, absorb a lot of information about chem for future classes. For the final, she takes the highest score and adds the points it would take to get to 100 to everyone. For example, if the highest score in the class was a 92, everyone would get 8 points ec. Definitely the nicest, most informative teacher I've had.