DO NOT take this class with Ow unless you literally don't have a choice. He is such a poor lecturer and inconsistent with his test questions. I only passed because I had access to all of Hardinger's lectures (take it with him!). I got a 40/100 on my first midterm and still got a B+ in the class (which wasn't supposed to be curved at all) because Ow was so bad at writing tests. The practice material is nothing like the actual test so don't rely on it.

I thought the amount of assigned work was very manageable and he gave a lot of practice problems. I liked that he printed out the power point slides to take notes on during lecture. He seems very understanding of how difficult the content is and your grade doesn't completely rely on how you do on midterms and finals

If he is available for whatever class you are trying to take, you are the dumbest person on Earth. HE is really good.

Currently taking him for the summer. He's a pretty good professor and he relates to students well since he was recently a UCLA undergrad himself. The course had two midterms which are 25% each and the final is worth 50%. He gives 5% worth of extra credit. In my course he is trying a straight scale as an experiment, but he says he usually does a curve. He also assigns optional homework, but I personally don't do it because I think his lectures suffice to do well on the exam. He also does bruincast which is a great resource. Overall, I think the class is fair in terms of difficulty and grading

EASY TO CHEAT IN THIS CLASS!

Take it, easiest chem upper division class, such a fucking easy professor, a joke! :D

His class was a joke... easy A, no studying needed. Easiest chemistry upper division class offered.

Lots of studying and challenging professor! Take with Maynard!

Grade: B-

My UCLA GPA is 3.83, this class was the most useless class (for biochem majors). You learn irrelevant information like Molecular orbital theory of metals, and semiconductors that you will not use the rest of your life. Prof. OW has extremely hard tests (avg. 60%) and curves to a B-. I would take it with Prof. Maynard, who won the Chem teacher award! But, Dr. OW is cute.......

He shouldnt give only one midterm and one final. Too much material. I would gladly be studying for two midterms instead of one. Not fair. Plus material is hard. I have to figure stuff out by myself. He stresses out every week when the midterm is coming and its just puts more stress on me. I have had much better teachers before.

I don't think the below comment was very accurate. Just because you got a bad grade doesn't mean the course materil is useless. It's an elective for biochemistry and you only have to take one class. If you are so bitter about it, then you shouldn't have taken it and swtiched to other chemistry electives. I am not a chemistry major but I found the class material very interesting. Dr. Ow tends to go slow but make things really clear during the class. But you definitely need to do a lot of problems to really understand the concept. The midterm was ridiculously easy but I bombed it. The final was chanllenging but doable. It wasn't an easy class per se but neither a hard one. You just have to reallly understand the concepts.