Dr. Lavelle is an amazing professor!!! He genuinely cares about his students and wants them to succeed. He has a multitude of resources to assist all of his students. With all his TAs, UAs, and himself, there are 40-50 hours of office hours each week for students to attend and ask questions on homework, lecture, or online material. Even if you are studying chemistry in the evening and have a question, Dr. Lavelle’s online chemistry forum, Chemistry Community, allows you to ask your questions, answer other students’ questions, or even read previous posts at any time of the day. They are virtual 24/7 office hours. Before the midterm and final exams, there are over 24 hours of review sessions! Dr. Lavelle wants everyone to excel in his class and it shows through his numerous resources and his videocasts and podcasts of all his lectures. He has 3 quizzes per quarter, but believes in second chances. If you do the graded practice quizzes in his workbook, you can use the totaled score to replace your lowest quiz score. Bottom line…if you see Dr. Lavelle is teaching Chem14A or Chem14B, TAKE HIM!

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Coming from absolutely no prior chemistry background I thought this class was not that difficult. Of course it was a very challenging class but hearing all of the rumors of Lavelle I was scared to take him. I ended up loving him and wish I could of taken him for 14B . Also, during the summer since there is only one "Midterm" and "Final" I think it made it that much easier as well. You can find the PDF for the book online, you would just need to buy the course reader ( which honestly you can live without since all of the slides he lectures with is exactly what is written in the course reader, but there are practice midterms and finals that do come with the course reader. ((But honestly you will survive if you do not have it))). If I had some prior chemistry knowledge I think I could of done better but hey I'm fine with my B-. It's lit.

I took Lavelle over the summer and his grading curve is waaay easier, especially if you have a background in chemistry, you'll definitely be ahead of the curve.

His exams are incredibly difficult, but he provides his students with a PLETHORA of resources inclung 4 undergraduate assistants (who are amazing), 3 TA's, himself, and 24/7 access to chemistry community.

He gave us 10 hours worth of review sessions for the midterm/final, that were incredibly helpful. The hw he assigns is unfortunately not given credit but I highly recommend doing all of it, as many of his quiz/test questions are based off of questions in the book.

Also purchase his course reader as his lecture notes are straight off the CR. I usually took extra notes on them and didn't have to write at lightspeed to keep up with his lectures.

Definitely not an easy professor, but he gives you plenty of opportunities to ask for help as he does care about his students.

Ok for the person two comments below I can tell you're a bitter student who took Chem last year with lavelle and did not do well. This is the first time Li will be teaching 14a so you can't know what you claim to know about her exams and teaching method in that class. She's an award winning instructor who got a job at UCLA right after her PH.D. I'm sure she's qualified. You just want people to go into lavelles class so their gpa can take a hit like yours so transparently did. I personally had lavelle and he is not great his exams are very difficult often combining different concepts per question he says himself he has trick questions to separate A from B and B's from C's. Please stop trying to steer new freshmen away from Li just cause they'll have an easier time than you and I did with lavelle. Having taken lavelle I would choose Li in a heartbeat. I mean look at the percent of A's in lavelles class SO FEW !

I took both 14A and 14B with Dr Lavelle. Overall he is a good professor. I'd say that his lectures are well organized and he teaches well. And he often pull some fun chemistry jokes after his Friday lectures.

He breaks down your grades into not only a midterm and a final, but also quizzes and weekly discussion on Chemistry Community online. On one hand this reduces your stress on the midterm and final, but on the other hand, with the fact that those quizzes are often very hard, you need to study for chem quite regularly, which can be kind of stressful when you have other assignments or when all the midterms come together.

However, I have to say that his exams are difficult. After having both 14A and 14B with him, it seems that either his midterm or his final will be very very hard, and you will find yourself lost in his questions because some of his questions may be weird. Compared to this his other exam seems pretty easy, but that also gives a high average expected.

So in short, this class is useful and Dr Lavelle is a nice professor and this is a useful class, but this class is by no means an easy one.

Good luck studying :)

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Lavelle preps you for MCAT and has countless resources; just make sure to use them. Chem Comm, TAs, UAs, Review Sessions, etc. so much stuff.

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Incoming freshman: do not take Lavelle!!!! He is the hardest chemistry professor for general chemistry. Yes he is a sweet man and tries to give a lot of resources, but at the end of the day his quizzes screw you over since you will not be prepared for them at all, and his final scarred me for life. Please chose another professor if you can!! This professor ruined my first 2 quarters of college.