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!

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!

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.

Dr. Reslan is amazing, take her if you can! Chem has always been one of my better subjects, so I can't speak too much to the difficulty of the class, although I will say that the majority of it is just knowing when to use which equation (and you're provided an extensive equation sheet on exams). As far as lectures go, I will concede that Dr. Reslan isn't the best at explaining and spends most of the time doing derivations that we don't need to know, but she does want everyone to succeed and is more than happy to go over concepts multiple times if people are confused. She is also extremely accomodating. In a quarter with weeks of online class, cancelled discussions due to the TA strike, and a general sense of unease due to campus conflicts, she was the ONLY stem teacher I had that made any effort to help. She changed our final to multiple choice, lowered its weight, and gave us three free questions. She even switched the weighting of the midterm and final if it helped your grade. She held multiple review sessions in which she went over problems similar to exam questions. She also seems to be taking feedback seriously (since she removed derivations from exams). The TAs were also amazing, and I was able to master the majority of the material just from attending discussion and doing the worksheet. Homework is on OWL and has 10 attempts per problem, so you're basically gauranteed full points. OWL was an amazing resource to study for the tests since the test questions were very similar to the homework problems, and the website had a practice option that made studying super conveneint. All in all, the class might seem scary since exams are worth so much, but the exams are reasonable and and A is definitely achievable if you put in the effort.

This class is not necessarily easy by any means but Dr. Reslan understands her students and strives to put in her best effort to make sure everyone understands the material. She is incredibly helpful during office hours and goes to great lengths to explain a concept. One time I told her I was struggling to understand adiabatic vs isothermal processes and she drew an entire diagram on the whiteboard spending like 20 minutes explaining both concepts until I understood. This says a lot about how much she cares about her students. She will also help out with the homework which was not easy by any means (the homework tended to be harder than the exams) but are definitely doable and can be completed within 2 hours (I procrastinated at times so sometimes it took me around 4-5 hours). She assigns a homework assignment per chapter which is every week but allows for one drop and will extend a deadline if needed. As per the content, the class material is a bit challenging and can be similar to AP Chem, though some material is not covered (such as titrations or solubility equilibrium) and other is expanded on (such as pressure-volume work). If you've taken AP Chem in high school this class should be a breeze; If not, don't worry this class is definitely still doable. The midterm, I heard, was about average difficulty with an average of 82%. It had a balanced amount of multiple choice, short answer, and free response questions. The final was straightforward but a bit excessive with 50 multiple choice questions. The average score was an 80%. I think the best strategy to study for this class is to do the homework consistently while also doing extra practice on Owl. Make sure to complete your discussion worksheets too since these were not graded but were very similar to the exam questions. If you're taking this class then you'll be fine as long as you study and do your homework. Either way, good luck Charlie.

Professor nice as a person but not the class. Requires online module for hw. Records lectures. Records review sessions but there are 3 and they are all over an hour and a half.

One midterm 35%
One final 50%

pretty easy. similar to music 15

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.

I want to preface that the finals really screwed my grades this quarter, but that I was doing relatively well before. I think a lot of positive reviews on Reslan stem from the fact that she genuinely cares about her students and their success. She is also witty and kind which not all teachers are. However, Reslan's lectures can be very confusing. She often is disorganized not knowing where she left off or how to refollow her work. She is also sometimes very slow in explaining content. This was really nice because she ended up knocking off a lot of content that we didn't have time to cover from midterms and the final. Also she often gave extensions on the homework, so that was never too overwhelming to complete. That being said it also made for extremely long review sessions. I remember she had more than 10 hours of review sessions for the final which was great but a little excessive. I really do think her review sessions are helpful in succeeding in her class, but I think she could find ways to make them more concise. I also found her tests to be a time crunch. Especially our second midterm. Overall I would say Reslan is a pretty professor (especially compared to Scerri who I had last quarter), but I would definitely watch out for the disorganized and somewhat confusing lecturing style.