Professor
Arman Toumari
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Fall 2022 - Arman is the sweetest cutest man ever. He is down to earth but kinda not approachable as he is quite awkward. But he tests exactly from the slides and is very clear in his lectures going point by point. His quizzes were tough at first but got easier. Homework was graded but incorrect answers were very very small penalty. The TA sessions were kinda useless but that was during the strike. Overall, I really liked the class and wish every chem class was like him
Fall 2022 - Arman is the sweetest cutest man ever. He is down to earth but kinda not approachable as he is quite awkward. But he tests exactly from the slides and is very clear in his lectures going point by point. His quizzes were tough at first but got easier. Homework was graded but incorrect answers were very very small penalty. The TA sessions were kinda useless but that was during the strike. Overall, I really liked the class and wish every chem class was like him
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Fall 2022 - He honestly doesn't teach, just reads the slides. My class was his first time ever teaching chem at UCLA so I understand he just needs more practice. As the year went on, he became significantly better at teaching us brand new concepts. However, he was absolutely unwilling to listen to students' feedback. The first midterm was insanely unfair (it contained all the exception problems and nothing that was reasonably taught yet, because he taught us the stuff AFTER the exam). The final was much clearer and I don't have complaints about that. However, we did have weekly quizzes which were only 10 minutes long. The problems contained in these quizzes take a long time (he took 1 hour and 40 minutes to explain two problems), and we had both of these types of problems as well as 8 more to do in just 10 minutes. When we voiced our concern with the time, he said "it is what it is" and that was that.... lol.
Fall 2022 - He honestly doesn't teach, just reads the slides. My class was his first time ever teaching chem at UCLA so I understand he just needs more practice. As the year went on, he became significantly better at teaching us brand new concepts. However, he was absolutely unwilling to listen to students' feedback. The first midterm was insanely unfair (it contained all the exception problems and nothing that was reasonably taught yet, because he taught us the stuff AFTER the exam). The final was much clearer and I don't have complaints about that. However, we did have weekly quizzes which were only 10 minutes long. The problems contained in these quizzes take a long time (he took 1 hour and 40 minutes to explain two problems), and we had both of these types of problems as well as 8 more to do in just 10 minutes. When we voiced our concern with the time, he said "it is what it is" and that was that.... lol.
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