Maher M Henary
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
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Dec. 23, 2020

Terrible, terrible required class. The UCLA chem department needs to revamp it. Or at least get Henary to stop teaching. He's often abrasive and doesn't answer questions well. Glad it is online and lecture isn't mandatory.

This was my last STEM class at UCLA after being an LS major, where I loved the rest of my classes. You can learn some stuff about chemistry, but mostly the class focuses on doing stupid lab reports and getting assignments in. Really bad. This class kills learning.

Anyways, that's my rant. You probably have to take this class for med/grad school, so good luck. Get your hand on previous exams and lab reports for practice and examples and you'll be fine. My TA was Yuting Miao and she was chill. Just kept us really long for some of the labs.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: N/A
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Dec. 9, 2021

It's best if you avoid taking the class with Henary. He is not a great lecturer and runs through his lecture slides relatively quickly. While some of the topics are not too difficult, Henary's explanations make them confusing and difficult to follow. I would suggest taking the class with another professor who gives clearer explanations. Henary does a poor job at preparing students for exams because he does not provide sufficient practice material. At most, you get a practice midterm exam and practice final exam. Even then, numerous answers to the practice exams were wrong. If you do take the class with Henary, I suggest joining the class group chats so you can find the correct answers to practice materials or taking another professor.

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Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: B
Dec. 17, 2023

I have honestly no clue how this man even got hired by ucla chem department to teach ochem lab concepts (and gen chem lab concepts) to undergrad students. Ive gotten a's in most of the weeder courses for stem at ucla, so this isnt coming from a lazy or "stupid" perspective. Some of his lectures, for both 14BL and 14CL conceptually made sense and I was able to grasp the concept and point of the lecture and apply it to problems, I will fully acknowledge that. However like 30% of the time, I honestly did not understand what he would be trying to say and I also could not connect ideas together. I had a difficult time deciphering what the point of what he was saying was. So he is a semi decent lecturer, he is okay but also not that great. However, the main issue with prof henary is in my opinion his final exam. although im writing this review for 14cl, i also took 14bl with him, and interestingly enough i had the same exact terrible experience regarding the final exam with him for both courses, so to me it makes sense to blame this guy for the reason i didnt have a decent time with either course. in prep for the exam, i studied the lectures, most of it made sense to me and i would say i learned the concept to a very sufficient level, the same way i have studied for all of my other classes. i also made sure to practice a decent amount of problems for the course too. idk what planet this man is on but i opened the final exam, i was confounded to another level. the problems were extremely difficult and for some problems i highly believe he did not even teach the material to us!!!!! he quite literally pulled questions out of his ass and then sent an email covering himself claiming everything was from the study guide. i checked the study guide multiple times, no it was not. i remember taking the final exam winter 2023, it took me the full 3 hours to do my best despite the fact that it was truly one of the hardest exams i have ever taken. most of the students were still in there if not all which even made the ta's crack up. long story short, his exams suck idk why he chooses to give the hardest questions, a level of difficulty i never encountered in 14B and C.

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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
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Dec. 10, 2023

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Quarter: Summer 2023
Grade: A
Sept. 16, 2023

Dr. Henary is an incredibly caring, funny, and knowledgable professor. His lectures were very clear and encompassed everything that we needed to know in order to succeed in the lab reports and exams. His office hours were the best! He was incredibly helpful, guiding us through the questions in the lab reports, as well as answering other questions about the content and helping us review for the exams. I would highly recommend attending his office hours and engaging with the material and Dr. Henary as it helps to succeed in the class and understand the material deeply.
This class was time intensive, especially in the summer session, because we had four 3-hour labs every week. The labs were quite interesting, as most of them involved applications of concepts that we have learned in general chemistry and organic chemistry in a lab environment. Some of the experiments involved titrations, redox reactions, and extractions. The pre-lab and postlab reports do take time and effort, but they are graded fairly by the TAs, and you are always welcome to ask both Dr. Henary and the TA for help via office hours or email.
In this class, there was one midterm exam and one final. The midterm was not at all worth much of the overall class grade, while the final exam was worth more. Both exams were definitely written with appropriate difficulty, with challenging questions as well as easier questions. However, if you engage with the material, they were all fair and doable; Dr. Henary often suggests what is important to know/study during his lectures and office hours, so he is very clear and explicit with his expectations. Additionally, the practice problems on Bruinlearn are great practice for both the midterm and final.
Overall, Dr. Henary is an incredibly sweet guy and an extremely knowledgable professor. He cares deeply for his students and always welcomes questions and other conversation during his office hours. While his tests are difficult, the class is still doable because the grading emphasis is on the lab reports, and Dr. Henary is also accommodative with partial credit and regrades. I would highly recommend Dr. Henary for Chem 14CL! It's a class where you will learn a lot, be challenged, and retain the material!

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Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: A
July 15, 2023

This class is so tedious and annoying LOL and Henary is not a good lecturer nor that helpful HOWEVER i would take again bc he curves the tests so astronomically it's kinda insane so most ppl end up with As somehow

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Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A
June 22, 2023

If you have the choice to take another professor for this class, definitely do. However, if you're like me and don't have the luxury of waiting for another Professor, Henary isn't the worst option but don't expect the journey to be easy. His accent is very hard to understand initially (but you pick up on it after a while), his slides are EXTREMELY unorganized, his practice tests (especially for amino acid titration questions) are full of errors.... so many issues with this class. However, it is still possible to do well by doing the best you can in other areas like pre labs + post labs, lab technique, etc. which are areas where you can easily score 100s. The midterm was very fair imo, and weighs less than 10% of your grade. If you do well in those areas, you can afford to mess up significantly on the final without impacting your grade much.

The final was HARD. It takes the entire 3 hours to finish and the questions are a lot more difficult than the ones on his slides. Go to his review lecture + sessions as he drops a lot of hints about what can be expected on the final, which did turn up. Also maximize the use of the cheat sheet that he allows you to use for the final.

Overall, not a terrible class, and I definitely enjoyed it and learnt more from it than 14BL. Just don't underestimate it, and you'll do fine.

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Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: S
June 20, 2023

Strange class. Your labs depend on how harsh of a grader your TA is (they’re usually chill), but the lecture component of class is basically just midterm and final. Professor Henary is a very sweet guy but difficult to understand at times. His PowerPoints aren’t very easy to understand on their own so definitely go to lecture or watch the recording. He goes over examples that will likely be on the exams so he’s a G for that. However, the exams were still challenging.

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Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A-
May 16, 2023

Had no choice but to take henary. Im not sure how he's been able to remain a professor so long seeing as he is clearly not the best at his job

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Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A-
May 16, 2023

Chem 14CL is a class nobody takes willingly, much less with Henary. While he is very knowledgeable on the subject, he is also very unorganized. The post and prelab guidelines often have missing information and the wrong instructions. Any practice problems he gives also have typos or the wrong answer. I don't know if he means to come off this way, but he is often rude and abrasive to students asking questions. The material itself is not hard, just tedious and lots of busy work. Prelabs are due twice a week and postlabs due once a week. There was one midterm and final. There were also no lecture recordings for this quarter. Not sure why he is still teaching this class given student's horrible ratings. Take it with someone else if you can. Unless you already know the material and it's fresh in your mind from a previous class, be prepared to re-teach yourself things as he is of no help. My TAS was the only saving grace

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Quarter: Fall 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 23, 2020

Terrible, terrible required class. The UCLA chem department needs to revamp it. Or at least get Henary to stop teaching. He's often abrasive and doesn't answer questions well. Glad it is online and lecture isn't mandatory.

This was my last STEM class at UCLA after being an LS major, where I loved the rest of my classes. You can learn some stuff about chemistry, but mostly the class focuses on doing stupid lab reports and getting assignments in. Really bad. This class kills learning.

Anyways, that's my rant. You probably have to take this class for med/grad school, so good luck. Get your hand on previous exams and lab reports for practice and examples and you'll be fine. My TA was Yuting Miao and she was chill. Just kept us really long for some of the labs.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: N/A
Dec. 9, 2021

It's best if you avoid taking the class with Henary. He is not a great lecturer and runs through his lecture slides relatively quickly. While some of the topics are not too difficult, Henary's explanations make them confusing and difficult to follow. I would suggest taking the class with another professor who gives clearer explanations. Henary does a poor job at preparing students for exams because he does not provide sufficient practice material. At most, you get a practice midterm exam and practice final exam. Even then, numerous answers to the practice exams were wrong. If you do take the class with Henary, I suggest joining the class group chats so you can find the correct answers to practice materials or taking another professor.

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Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: B
Dec. 17, 2023

I have honestly no clue how this man even got hired by ucla chem department to teach ochem lab concepts (and gen chem lab concepts) to undergrad students. Ive gotten a's in most of the weeder courses for stem at ucla, so this isnt coming from a lazy or "stupid" perspective. Some of his lectures, for both 14BL and 14CL conceptually made sense and I was able to grasp the concept and point of the lecture and apply it to problems, I will fully acknowledge that. However like 30% of the time, I honestly did not understand what he would be trying to say and I also could not connect ideas together. I had a difficult time deciphering what the point of what he was saying was. So he is a semi decent lecturer, he is okay but also not that great. However, the main issue with prof henary is in my opinion his final exam. although im writing this review for 14cl, i also took 14bl with him, and interestingly enough i had the same exact terrible experience regarding the final exam with him for both courses, so to me it makes sense to blame this guy for the reason i didnt have a decent time with either course. in prep for the exam, i studied the lectures, most of it made sense to me and i would say i learned the concept to a very sufficient level, the same way i have studied for all of my other classes. i also made sure to practice a decent amount of problems for the course too. idk what planet this man is on but i opened the final exam, i was confounded to another level. the problems were extremely difficult and for some problems i highly believe he did not even teach the material to us!!!!! he quite literally pulled questions out of his ass and then sent an email covering himself claiming everything was from the study guide. i checked the study guide multiple times, no it was not. i remember taking the final exam winter 2023, it took me the full 3 hours to do my best despite the fact that it was truly one of the hardest exams i have ever taken. most of the students were still in there if not all which even made the ta's crack up. long story short, his exams suck idk why he chooses to give the hardest questions, a level of difficulty i never encountered in 14B and C.

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Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
Dec. 10, 2023

Selling XL Bulwark lab coat for $20.00. Text ********** if interested!

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Quarter: Summer 2023
Grade: A
Sept. 16, 2023

Dr. Henary is an incredibly caring, funny, and knowledgable professor. His lectures were very clear and encompassed everything that we needed to know in order to succeed in the lab reports and exams. His office hours were the best! He was incredibly helpful, guiding us through the questions in the lab reports, as well as answering other questions about the content and helping us review for the exams. I would highly recommend attending his office hours and engaging with the material and Dr. Henary as it helps to succeed in the class and understand the material deeply.
This class was time intensive, especially in the summer session, because we had four 3-hour labs every week. The labs were quite interesting, as most of them involved applications of concepts that we have learned in general chemistry and organic chemistry in a lab environment. Some of the experiments involved titrations, redox reactions, and extractions. The pre-lab and postlab reports do take time and effort, but they are graded fairly by the TAs, and you are always welcome to ask both Dr. Henary and the TA for help via office hours or email.
In this class, there was one midterm exam and one final. The midterm was not at all worth much of the overall class grade, while the final exam was worth more. Both exams were definitely written with appropriate difficulty, with challenging questions as well as easier questions. However, if you engage with the material, they were all fair and doable; Dr. Henary often suggests what is important to know/study during his lectures and office hours, so he is very clear and explicit with his expectations. Additionally, the practice problems on Bruinlearn are great practice for both the midterm and final.
Overall, Dr. Henary is an incredibly sweet guy and an extremely knowledgable professor. He cares deeply for his students and always welcomes questions and other conversation during his office hours. While his tests are difficult, the class is still doable because the grading emphasis is on the lab reports, and Dr. Henary is also accommodative with partial credit and regrades. I would highly recommend Dr. Henary for Chem 14CL! It's a class where you will learn a lot, be challenged, and retain the material!

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Quarter: Winter 2023
Grade: A
July 15, 2023

This class is so tedious and annoying LOL and Henary is not a good lecturer nor that helpful HOWEVER i would take again bc he curves the tests so astronomically it's kinda insane so most ppl end up with As somehow

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Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A
June 22, 2023

If you have the choice to take another professor for this class, definitely do. However, if you're like me and don't have the luxury of waiting for another Professor, Henary isn't the worst option but don't expect the journey to be easy. His accent is very hard to understand initially (but you pick up on it after a while), his slides are EXTREMELY unorganized, his practice tests (especially for amino acid titration questions) are full of errors.... so many issues with this class. However, it is still possible to do well by doing the best you can in other areas like pre labs + post labs, lab technique, etc. which are areas where you can easily score 100s. The midterm was very fair imo, and weighs less than 10% of your grade. If you do well in those areas, you can afford to mess up significantly on the final without impacting your grade much.

The final was HARD. It takes the entire 3 hours to finish and the questions are a lot more difficult than the ones on his slides. Go to his review lecture + sessions as he drops a lot of hints about what can be expected on the final, which did turn up. Also maximize the use of the cheat sheet that he allows you to use for the final.

Overall, not a terrible class, and I definitely enjoyed it and learnt more from it than 14BL. Just don't underestimate it, and you'll do fine.

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Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: S
June 20, 2023

Strange class. Your labs depend on how harsh of a grader your TA is (they’re usually chill), but the lecture component of class is basically just midterm and final. Professor Henary is a very sweet guy but difficult to understand at times. His PowerPoints aren’t very easy to understand on their own so definitely go to lecture or watch the recording. He goes over examples that will likely be on the exams so he’s a G for that. However, the exams were still challenging.

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Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A-
May 16, 2023

Had no choice but to take henary. Im not sure how he's been able to remain a professor so long seeing as he is clearly not the best at his job

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Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: A-
May 16, 2023

Chem 14CL is a class nobody takes willingly, much less with Henary. While he is very knowledgeable on the subject, he is also very unorganized. The post and prelab guidelines often have missing information and the wrong instructions. Any practice problems he gives also have typos or the wrong answer. I don't know if he means to come off this way, but he is often rude and abrasive to students asking questions. The material itself is not hard, just tedious and lots of busy work. Prelabs are due twice a week and postlabs due once a week. There was one midterm and final. There were also no lecture recordings for this quarter. Not sure why he is still teaching this class given student's horrible ratings. Take it with someone else if you can. Unless you already know the material and it's fresh in your mind from a previous class, be prepared to re-teach yourself things as he is of no help. My TAS was the only saving grace

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Overall Rating
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Easiness 2.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 2.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.4 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.7 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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