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Sharon Neufeldt
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She was a good teacher I enjoyed her. I recommend studying the problem sets and the reaction list. Take notes of the mechanisms and know them. You can memorize the reaction list and still do fair on all her tests. Those are most important and actually going to lass for the extra credit points.
She was a good teacher I enjoyed her. I recommend studying the problem sets and the reaction list. Take notes of the mechanisms and know them. You can memorize the reaction list and still do fair on all her tests. Those are most important and actually going to lass for the extra credit points.
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Materials You didn't need anything for this class besides the textbook. You could only get that in a bundle at the UCLA Store for near $200 and it includes a solutions manual, Pushing Electrons supplementary book, and a model kit. To save money, get the textbook another way and find a buddy with the solutions manual to do homework with. You should probably buy a model kit off of Amazon. Grading Scheme Midterm 1 25% Midterm 2 25% Final 45% BACON 4% Class Evaluation 1% Grading Scale 99.0 = A+ (lol) 95.0 - 98.9 = A 90.0 - 94.9 = A- 86.0 - 89.9 = B+ 82.0 - 85.9 = B 82.0 - 85.9 = B 78.0 - 81.9 = B- 74.0 - 77.9 = C+ 69.0 - 73.9 = C 63.0 - 68.9 = C- 55.0 - 62.9 = D+ 45.0 - 54.9 = D 35.0 - 44.9 = D- At the end of the class, she curved down a little by adjusting the grade breaks (lower the barrier to get a certain grade), depending on how the class did overall. After that, she added in extra credit. By a little, I mean a little, like 5% at most. Lectures Her lectures were all right. They were interesting and she had a cute sense of humor. My only complaint is that they were too trite. There weren't enough examples given, so I had a hard time doing the homework and had to resort to the textbook for some basic stuff. But that's a rather petty complaint. She held good review sessions. Discussions Not mandatory. The TA would go over the week's material and do practice problems. TAs with beginning of the week discussions tended to preview the week's material and TAs with end of the week discussions tended to review. I thought it better to go to end of the week discussions. Homework Simple. We didn't have any assigned, but it existed. She would write down a ton of problems on the board each day. You had to do these in order to get practice for the clicker questions the following class. She also had weekly problem sets and their answer keys made available, and these were the ones you wanted to master in order to do well on the exams. Simply put, she provided us a lot of resources, not to mention those of the TAs. Exams Midterm 1 Median: 80 Midterm 2 Median: 58 Her practice exams were a good indication of the format of her exams, but they're hard regardless, especially because they're 50 minute ones. I got a D+ on the first one, a C- on the second, and an 80% on the final to end with a C+ in the class. BACON This was easy. We had six tutorials, of which the four best scores would be taken, so once you finished four, you were essentially done. Extra Credit Her extra credit came in the form of two clicker questions at the start of every class. If you were late, you would miss the questions. 55 questions were offered, and you would get 0.5% extra credit for every five questions, with up to 5% total extra credit possible, so you had a five-question leeway. But even that was not enough, because these questions were hard. It wasn't really the material, since you would know it if you did the homework, but rather the time. She would give us a minute to do each question. You just needed to stay calm. Office Hours She held two 1.5 office hours per week and was super helpful during them. Everyone went, so you didn't have one-on-one answering time, but everyone got their chance to ask a question. Pro-Tips - Study everything from the problem sets. - Keep up with everything. You don't get any second chances in this class. That's how I ended up with a C+. - Use your model kit, especially to understand stereochemistry! Dashes and wedges are tricky little buggers. tl;dr Take Neufeldt. She provides you a lot of resources to succeed, but you're not going to be spoonfed an A if you don't do well on your exams.
Materials You didn't need anything for this class besides the textbook. You could only get that in a bundle at the UCLA Store for near $200 and it includes a solutions manual, Pushing Electrons supplementary book, and a model kit. To save money, get the textbook another way and find a buddy with the solutions manual to do homework with. You should probably buy a model kit off of Amazon. Grading Scheme Midterm 1 25% Midterm 2 25% Final 45% BACON 4% Class Evaluation 1% Grading Scale 99.0 = A+ (lol) 95.0 - 98.9 = A 90.0 - 94.9 = A- 86.0 - 89.9 = B+ 82.0 - 85.9 = B 82.0 - 85.9 = B 78.0 - 81.9 = B- 74.0 - 77.9 = C+ 69.0 - 73.9 = C 63.0 - 68.9 = C- 55.0 - 62.9 = D+ 45.0 - 54.9 = D 35.0 - 44.9 = D- At the end of the class, she curved down a little by adjusting the grade breaks (lower the barrier to get a certain grade), depending on how the class did overall. After that, she added in extra credit. By a little, I mean a little, like 5% at most. Lectures Her lectures were all right. They were interesting and she had a cute sense of humor. My only complaint is that they were too trite. There weren't enough examples given, so I had a hard time doing the homework and had to resort to the textbook for some basic stuff. But that's a rather petty complaint. She held good review sessions. Discussions Not mandatory. The TA would go over the week's material and do practice problems. TAs with beginning of the week discussions tended to preview the week's material and TAs with end of the week discussions tended to review. I thought it better to go to end of the week discussions. Homework Simple. We didn't have any assigned, but it existed. She would write down a ton of problems on the board each day. You had to do these in order to get practice for the clicker questions the following class. She also had weekly problem sets and their answer keys made available, and these were the ones you wanted to master in order to do well on the exams. Simply put, she provided us a lot of resources, not to mention those of the TAs. Exams Midterm 1 Median: 80 Midterm 2 Median: 58 Her practice exams were a good indication of the format of her exams, but they're hard regardless, especially because they're 50 minute ones. I got a D+ on the first one, a C- on the second, and an 80% on the final to end with a C+ in the class. BACON This was easy. We had six tutorials, of which the four best scores would be taken, so once you finished four, you were essentially done. Extra Credit Her extra credit came in the form of two clicker questions at the start of every class. If you were late, you would miss the questions. 55 questions were offered, and you would get 0.5% extra credit for every five questions, with up to 5% total extra credit possible, so you had a five-question leeway. But even that was not enough, because these questions were hard. It wasn't really the material, since you would know it if you did the homework, but rather the time. She would give us a minute to do each question. You just needed to stay calm. Office Hours She held two 1.5 office hours per week and was super helpful during them. Everyone went, so you didn't have one-on-one answering time, but everyone got their chance to ask a question. Pro-Tips - Study everything from the problem sets. - Keep up with everything. You don't get any second chances in this class. That's how I ended up with a C+. - Use your model kit, especially to understand stereochemistry! Dashes and wedges are tricky little buggers. tl;dr Take Neufeldt. She provides you a lot of resources to succeed, but you're not going to be spoonfed an A if you don't do well on your exams.
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hands down one of the best professors i've had at ucla. her lectures are pretty clear, explains concepts well, organized with her review session notes as well. if you do her assigned problem sets, which are difficult but prepare you well for her exams, as well as assigned book problems and look over her review session notes before a major exam, you're gonna do fine. speaking of exams, they are very fair, anything from lecture is fair game, not too easy but not too hard( average is mid 60 to low 70). also she is extremely helpful! offers extra office hours, almost every day of a midterm or final week, definitely recommend her for the 30 series, youll learn so much
hands down one of the best professors i've had at ucla. her lectures are pretty clear, explains concepts well, organized with her review session notes as well. if you do her assigned problem sets, which are difficult but prepare you well for her exams, as well as assigned book problems and look over her review session notes before a major exam, you're gonna do fine. speaking of exams, they are very fair, anything from lecture is fair game, not too easy but not too hard( average is mid 60 to low 70). also she is extremely helpful! offers extra office hours, almost every day of a midterm or final week, definitely recommend her for the 30 series, youll learn so much
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