Professor Randa Reslan is the best choice for taking 14A with. Her lecture was thrice a week MWF, but attendance isn't mandatory and I'd honestly recommend just rewatching the lectures back at 2x speed. We had "weekly" problem sets on Achieve that kept getting extended that were anywhere from 8-20+ problems that were based on the textbook and lectures. The grading scheme is as follows.
10% Homework
5% discussion section worksheets (you just show up for attendance)
35% midterm exam
50% final exam
There was a bonus LA survey that added 0.5% to your final grade. For the exams, I would recommend going back through the problem sets and making sure that you understand each problem and how to get the correct solution. She records decently long review sessions (two 2 hour review sessions for the midterm and four 2 hour review sessions for the final) and also uploads practice exams that are similar to the actual tests. She is a very accommodating and nice professor (during the midterm, because of the unrest going on on campus, she decided to curve the midterm). Reslan added 6 bonus points on the final (126/120). She truly cares about her students and is an amazing professor, and I would never have taken 14A with anyone else.

Professor Reslan is an awesome professor who truly cares about her students. The review sessions she hosted were very helpful. Tough material but Professor Reslan's teaching makes it bearable and easily understandable.Cannot recommend this class enough!

When I took 14A with Reslan, it was her first time teaching at ucla. So of course, she's not gonna be perfect, and at times she was a bit disorganized and made few errors since it was her first time teaching the quarter system. Many students would hate on her and wouldn't appreciate what she did for the class which pissed me off. However, from her growth and quality as a professor, I would say she is an amazing professor and the majority of the students with a brain would agree. If she is teaching this class again, take it with her! After the first few weeks, she assimilated into the class, became way more organized, and more helpful in our learning. The exams were so fair and similar to the practice in the class. She provides so many practice problems and wanted us to get an A. She tried her best to simplify complex topics and would try to answer as many questions as possible. She was also extremely nice and accommodating (even though she had to deal with some annoying ungrateful students so I felt bad for her throughout the quarter). She might have changed her class structure from when I took it, but overall, she is goated, so take the class with her!

I loved this class. I am not a chemistry person in the slightest and have always detested it in the past, and by no means did she dumb the class down, but she made it very approachable and frequently said she wanted everyone to succeed. She is a good, clear lecturer, and provides very good practice exams. She provides outlines for her lectures printed to write on, and would provide a filled version later so you could make sure you had the math worked out right. The content on the exams was never a surprise and never a trick, and matched the difficulty of the practice problems very well. The exams are forgiving in that there were sometimes two long questions worth the same amount where you needed only to choose whichever one you preferred to answer. The final was all multiple choice so did not have that, but it did have extra credit questions to pad the grade. I don't think I've ever learned more from a chemistry course, nor have I ever taken one so low stress.

I am not a fan of chemistry, but if you have to take 14A, I recommend professor Reslan. She was slightly disorganized at the beginning of the quarter, but everything was running smoothly by the end. She is very caring, will always admit to and remedy her mistakes, and often sides with students' wishes. I struggled initially, but she took time to hold helpful office hours, which I highly recommended attending. She also curved the final grades, which I believe helped many people.

Reslan is a sweetheart. Listen in class and do the hw problems, you'll be fine.

"Help me Randa": the beach boys said it best: randa is a very kind and helpful lecturer!
----Dr. Reslan was not the most engaging lecturer, and her lectures sometimes felt kind of irrelevant because we would spend 30 mins doing derivations. It actually felt like the same level of our textbook, Principles of Modern Chemistry, which is heavy on the math proofs. However, Reslan made it very clear that the exams were based on the discussion worksheets, lectures, and sometimes homework.

----I think the scariest thing to me about this class was the grading scheme. The first and only midterm was worth 35%, and the final was worth 50%. I got a B on the midterm (not her fault, I just studied badly), slightly less than average, and I needed like a literal 99 on the final to get an A.
----But, Dr. Reslan is the most empathetic person ever, and she knew we were all struggling due to the protests. Therefore, she lowered the difficulty of the final, dropped the final to 45%, dropped another homework I believe, and made sure the content covered during the protest weeks mirrored what we did in lecture. Dr. Reslan and her TAs wanted to make sure we would have a good experience coming out of her class and worry as little as possible. I was able to do well on the final by redoing every single discussion worksheet. The final was all multiple choice due to the TA strikes, so future Reslan people, my guess is your final will go back to being short answer. However, it was still pretty comprehensive of every unit. There are some people complaining about how she would not curve the final- she literally did and that reviewer admitted it. Due to the strikes, my grade was like 3% higher for exams that were really really fair. Dr. Reslan's kindness will not be forgotten and I felt bad for everyone in piazza begging her for more points when she already was like a billion times more lenient than any other professor in the stem department.
---thanks dr. reslan!

Definitely love Reslan, she taught chem in a way that made it pretty easy to understand, and this is coming from someone who definitely dreaded starting this series. The way I approached the class was to do the textbook readings, which was overly difficult to understand, and then attend her lectures where she taught them in a more understandable way that helped solidify it and make it seem easier. She was very accommodating for the students and ended up giving so many extensions for the homework (in my opinion they were even unnecessary tbh). She curves the exams depending on the class average, so they ended up curving the midterm but not the final. My only issue with her is that she is pretty slow; we ended cutting out 2 topics we were supposed to cover, and the second half of the class definitely felt faster than the first half. Otherwise, she is definitely a great professor to take chem with.
Grading breakdown:
10% homework (8 Achieve practice sets, the first half were like 15-20 questions each, the second half were like 5-10 questions each; you have unlimited attempts to get each problem right)
5% discussion (just based on attendance)
35% midterm
50% final

This class is relatively easy. Weekly homework with 10 questions each and mandatory discussion attendance. But other than that, it's pretty free. The midterm and final were easier than the homeworks. Reslan is kind of boring in my opinion, so I just read the lecture notes and never showed up to lecture.

reslan is a little bit everywhere when she teaches, but i loved the fact she had physical packets of her lecture slides so you can follow along and I found it super helpful since it was on paper. the midterm wasn’t terrible but the final was pure multiple choice and practically a bunch of conceptual questions and it hurt me because i practiced on the questions we go over in homework and discussion and it didn’t appear anywhere. also the final was mc because of the strikes. MY BIGGEST COMPLAINT IS THAT THYE SAID THEY WOULD CURVE THE FINAL DUE TO THE STRIKES AND PROTESTS NO MATTER WHAT THE AVERAGE AND THEN THEY DECIDED TO NOT CURVE IT BECAUSE THE AVERAGE WAS AROUND 80%. they basically ignored piazza questions regarding this and then “curved” it by adding a point. overall, they were probably the most accommodating regarding the protests that happened but it just got really jumbled and difficult towards the end.