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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.

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.

The best professor I've had here at UCLA. To the point, detailed, succinct, nuanced, awesome teacher. Course is organized well, tests are clear, massive amount of supplementary material (which is optional) and office hours to help. Truly a great teacher of 30A, take her if you really want to learn OChem.

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

Omg. So lucky to have her as a professor. Her lecture is super organized. Office hour is helpful. Extra credit is at the beginning of class so make sure you're on time.

Chem 30B

I'm debating who is more awesome for organic chemistry: Chang or Neufeldt? I'll go with Professor Neufeldt.

She makes the class very doable with her clicker questions and the problem sets she hands out. These problems are not homework but you might as well treat them as if they were. You do these problems and there should be no surprises on the exams. The biggest difference I felt on the exams were that the problems were a bit longer than on the problem set. This could just be her idea of fitting every reaction/mechanism discussed during lecture onto the exam. Also she has review sessions which go over everything.

Nice, straightforward, helpful, smart, funny, all the positive adjectives

Take this professor. It's a shame I don't need to take Chem 30C because she was teaching it the following quarter I took Chem 30B.

I had Professor Neufeldt in what I believe was her first year teaching at UCLA, and I thought it was pretty good considering it was her first time. Her lectures were pretty clear, although it was mostly by the book. So if you feel a need to skip class, then reading the book will actually fill you in basically.

Her grading scheme was 25% each midterm for two of them, 49% final, and 1% for submitting the teacher's evaluation, although I think she doesn't do this anymore. She also had "extra credit" for participating in discussion, but my TA said they weren't giving extra credit to anyone so I don't know about that.

Her midterms were okay. They weren't too difficult but not that easy. She gives out problem sets for each chapter, and assigns recommended homework problems. If you do all those and understand them, you're in pretty good shape for the midterms. The final was the same way, but she tested a lot on past material. Her exams also had an extra credit question worth a couple of points, so it was possible to get over 100% on the tests.

The quarter I took it was filled with people who had failed 30A the quarter before, therefore the average was incredibly high for both midterms. The first midterm had an average of 83%, and the second one was about a 75%.

All in all, her class wasn't as bad as other professors that I've heard about, but the grade you get is reflected in how much work and time you put in, so study hard, and it's definitely possible to get an A+ in her class.

Professor Neufeldt is definitely one of the best professors that I have had at UCLA. She is definitely concerned with my learning as a student while making sure i enjoyed the class. Strengths include having many supplementary materials that are relevant for understanding the class (fundamentals workshop, the slides from class), having very thorough materials (study guides, problem sets, reaction lists, extra midterms). I also enjoyed how she gave the assigned readings and homework problems daily, so that we could consistently catch up with the material. Even the clicker quizzes were made so that they challenged us from past information, making retention a lot easier.

The only weakness I would give Professor Neufeldt is that the clicker quizzes were sometimes difficult to understand and overwhelming with over 0 options to choose for answers.

Otherwise, Neufeldt is a fantastic and fair teacher. I really enjoyed 30B because of her. By keeping up with the material and studying daily, it doable to get an A.

Hands down, Neufeldt is a fantastic teacher. She truly cares about her students and their learning, and on top of it all she has a great sense of humor. Her lectures are very well organized, and she gets through an impressive amount of material in a lecture.

She has clicker questions every lecutre for extra credit. It's a great incentive to keep up with the voluntary hw she gives, but it also makes it really depressing if you forget your clicker that day haha. It's also a good opportunity to see how the material learned in lecture relate to actual problems you might encounter in exams/homework.

This class is the only class so far where I haven't fallen asleep haha. 30B is definitely hard, but it is also definitely doable. Keep up with the homework, study hard, and don't go to football games right before the midterms (oops) and you should be fine. I thoroughly enjoyed this class and this teacher, and I definitely recommend my woman crush Neufeldt.