This class is literally the easiest class you'll take.

You receive full credit when you have old pre- and post- labs going years back, old cpr printouts for calibrations and essays,and past exams from the test bank and friends and frats

From there you're given full credit for 66% of the class: 9% for CPR freebie, 30% post lab freebie, 20% pre lab freebie, and 7% technique freebie,

the midterm at 13% and the final at 21%

If you can score 50% on any of these then you're good, and if you can't i have to say youre retarded as 1 question was reused and another was phrased differently from a past exam, another was a freebie and straightforward, so that's only one and half questions you need to think about

And the final was mostly written with one calculation and one multiple choice

You have to earn at least a B+ from this, and I have secured my A as I scored well above the average on the midterm to possibly fail if or if there isnt a curve

I don't understand the ratings here.

Don't rely on the curve because there isnt one, just get ahead and do your work. There was this one asian kid asking the TA for more points on a lab,

I have to say you're stupid to do this as most people have the labs and if you don't and you're doing bad, you should just drop out already or be my vacuum cleaner, as I don't thin the TAs have any power over your labs as I got full credit on mine

If I ever see that Asian again, I'll be be rough, but overall Pang was really gentle

and following that last rating,nice pants and annoying TA's that tick points off like crazy, i had all the setup right but didn't even get partial credit while other students did

He doesnt curve the class so 90% of the people get A's or B's like in Russell's class or Henary's, but he does give good lectures i guess

Pang talks waaaaay too fast. He prints out the slides for you and you have to follow along as quickly as you can. But he only skims over what you need to know. You have to do all the studying on your own. The materials are technically not too hard. They are just topics that you have learned in 14A and 14B like kinetics and acid-base equilibrium. So the lab itself isn't that hard. The pre-labs and post-labs can be a little tricky but TAs can help you with them. If your TA isn't that good, go to another one's OH. One of them bound to be decent and helpful.

You really really really have to understand the concept behind each experiment. The midterm and final are very conceptual. He says he does not curve. But if the class does really bad on the midterm, he does this scaling that makes your final score count more (0.5 of your midterm score and 1.5 of your final score).

All in all, the class is definitely the hardest one I have taken here. But its doable, since I somehow got an A-.

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This class is NOT difficult as long as you do your own work, think about the responses you put on tests, and take interest in the subject. Sure you might be thinking when am I ever going to use a pipet and why does this matter? What is accuracy or precision, if a get an A on the lab it doesn't matter right? NO. Take interest, read the lab manual, listen in lecture, go over his midterm and final study guides, as questions, and first and foremost this is lab. This isn't something you can look up in the book and copy a graph onto a test, its analytical and thinking is required. Pang is one of my favorite professors, yes he might not be easy, but this isn't kindergarden its UCLA and if you made it here, you should be able to pipet, do basic algebra, and do your own work.
I didn't know anyone who could give me their old lab book, nor did I want it and As a result I got an A because everytime I struggled with something I HAD to ask.
Do it, This class is very doable for those who are willing to take it seriously.

Professor is decent. He is helpful; the class isn't too difficult. The labs are the problem. If you have a sucky TA get ready to fail no matter how hard you work. Don't take Belinda--she sucks. I don't know what her deal is, she'll tell you not to worry and the labs don't count that much. And than you'll get screwed. 14BL sucks, but you can't blame the professor much. Get old labs--though they didn't help in my case. I still got marked off, though my answers were correct. Midterm and final come directly from lab questions--so do them. Try to do what you can to get a good TA. Belinda blows--pray you don't get her.

Pang is no doubt one of the worst professors you will ever have at UCLA as a science major. He is incredibly ineffective during lecture, partially due to his accent, partially due to his lack of organization, partially due to his inability to explain anything fully. He makes going to lecture important by requiring us to write down notes on the packets he gives us, which I think is a good idea. But nothing he says is in order with the packet, and nothing in the packet is ever fully explained. He is so old-fashioned and strict. He allows no leeway in switching labs for one week if there's any kind of conflict. It seems as though he really doesn't care at all about students and their needs. The one and only thing I give him credit for is that he doesn't fail students but gives them C's, because he knows how devastating a C is to med school on its own. Other than that, he's a jerk who doesn't care about students and likes to make them feel stupid and insignificant. The lab write-ups and procedures are understandable, and it's very relieving to know that he makes his tests worth very little in the overall class picture. But then again he makes it almost impossible to get an A with his tricky tests. I got points off for questions that I answered as completely as I could but he doesn't give partial credit even if you're missing one key word. The final was a fair, online multiple choice test and I was a little more pleased with how that went, because the questions seemed quite fair. But his class is pretty much one of those classes you have to just endure and get through, hoping you get a decent grade. Good luck.