The class isn't extremely difficult, just time-consuming with two lab writeups a week. Pang wasn't as bad as I heard he was either. He talks a little fast in his lectures, but what he says is directly related to the weekly labs. The concepts are the same as you've learned from 14A and he expects you to either remember or review them. The hard thing about the class is the grading system. Don't take your labs lightly, make sure you know how to do the problems, and understand the concepts.

Listen to the post, posted before me!

You might hear rumors that Pang is a horrible teacher, but I personally think he teaches quite well. Yes, he does speak fast, but he knows exactly what he is talking about and his handouts are very helpful. Just make sure that you pay attention to what he says in class because what he talks about is exactly the material that he tests on. I received a 73% on his midterm when the average on the midterm was around a 63%, and I received a 62% on my final, but ended up with an A in the class. Pang says he doesn't curve at the beginning of the year, but it is pretty obvious that he does. I wouldn't mind having him again as a lab teacher.

Pang is a HORRIBLE TEACHER.
His midterms and finals are nothing like what he talks about or what is on his study guide, so that makes it pretty useless to go through his study guide in the first place.

He expects you to read your old 14A/14B textbook and be able to do a problem that he did not teach how to do in class. Granted you should be able to do it since you took 14A/B, it is still kind of unfair for him to expect to practice doing every single problems related to the class. You don't even really know what chapters to read in the darn textbook.

His lectures are also pretty useless in themselves. You end up trying to teach yourself the material by going to other resources such as wikipedia.

The labs are nothing but a waste of time. Pre-labs and Post-labs every week. Handwritten. In a carbon copy notebook. The TA's grading is all about the smallest errors (sig figs, an answer written down but seemingly not accounted for?)
If you want a perfect score on those reports, you pretty much have to check every single line or else you can be sure that the TA will just deduct points here and there for trivial reasons.

His exams are hard not in the sense that the concepts are hard but the way he presents it. There are a bunch of grammatical errors in his writing, and at least on the final, it seemed that he was trying more to test if you could read his test rather than actually test chemistry. There is barely enough time to finish, 65 mins for 27 questions, and it is on a COMPUTER. I don't really understand why he would want to make us take a final on a computer, other than the fact that he is too lazy to grade the exams himself.

Overall, a really bad teacher. Stay away from him if you want to keep your GPA up. Take the class at a local UC during the summer or pray that he won't be teaching one quarter.

WORST PROFESSOR EVER. he doesn't know how to teach and his only goal is to fail students.
been to his office hours a couple times and he is just a cold, mean, and uncaring person.
SHOULD NOT BE TEACHING

The worst professor I have ever had. He does not explain things. He presents them to you and essentially asks you to teach yourself. You DO need people's old labs simply for this reason. You must scrape together solutions to problems from what varied fragments people know and hope to do well in the class. He will put problems on his midterm/final review packets that have never been discussed in class, thereby nullifying the term "review". Professor Pang needs to re-structure this "course" and make it into a class intended for learning, not a fight for survival.

Professor Pang is a fine professor. It's the course that's extremely difficult and time consuming. Not curving the class makes it that much more difficult to get the grade you want in the class, but the class is only 3 units. I got an A in the class, but for me lab was nerveracking. 3 hours really isn't enough to set up your station and to run your experiment (especially when half of your materials keep disappearing from your drawer). But lab doesn't end there. You will be up all night doing lab reports that must be hand written on carbon paper. Try to get a lab section near the end of the week, because you will most likely put off the work until the night before, and the last thing you want is an 8AM lecture for lab the next day (equals all-nighter).

Pang is a fair professor. The truth is that Chemistry Lab will be one of the hardest classes you take in college. Take it seriously. PS: learn how to convert molarity to normality the CORRECT way or you WILL get it wrong and you WON'T get points back on your regrade.

I had heard a lot of bad things about Pang before I took this class, but I have no idea what everyone was going on about. Pang is an extremely thorough lecturer. Since this is an 8 am, not a lot of people want to come to class. To encourage students to show up, he prints out lecture guides for class for you to follow along and fill in the blanks. While it's true he doesn't curve tests, it's because it is very easy to get a good grade in every other aspect of the class. So suck it up and study.

People also told me that you can only do well in the lab portion of the class if you have someone else's notes, but that's not really true. You can do fine if you understand the goal of the labs and read the in class notes. Comparing answers with your lab partners is also a good idea. The final is pretty easy if you review everything and understand the concepts and how to do some basic calculations used in lab. It is multiple choice and on a computer. Some people didn't like it because there was a timer in the corner.

Overall, I enjoyed this class. Pang is an effective teacher.

I was scared to take him because of all these bad stuff I heard about him but I actually think he was not bad. He does talk fast but it's not to the point you won't understand him. You should know a lot of the stuff anyway because a lot of the stuff he goes over is from 14A and 14B. As for the labs, just get a hold of those old lab reports from previous students because they'll save your butt and time. But don't rely on them too much because you'll need to actually know the material to do well on the midterm and final. His midterm was easy if you did his study guide. His final was reasonable as well. I actually enjoyed labs too!

Pang is the bane of my existence. Really, really obviously doesn't care about student learning. He's been on probation TWICE for failing too many students! If you can avoid him, avoid him.