I really enjoyed this class. Professor Prado taught this class along with Professor Caram and Casey, but she was the main one who lectured and taught the class. She took on the class last minute as our initial professor could no longer do so (she began teaching Friday of week 1).
She uses slides that are posted on CCLE, but she writes on the slides during lecture, so I'd recommend attending class. There are clicker questions during lecture and it's hard not to get full credit; there are bunch of opportunities and you get half a point just for participating. There are weekly quizzes (Friday during lecture) which aren't too bad. I didn't read the textbook too much but used it more as a reference if I didn't understand something. There are HWs for every lecture but they don't have to be turned in.
I really like Dr. Prado and the class overall. She's really nice and very approachable. She is one my favorite professors here at UCLA and I think the class overall was appropriately paced. Definitely recommend.
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Dr. Prado was the best professor I had at UCLA, her class was so fun and she is incredible at teaching. She makes learning fun and makes all the topics make sense. After her class i really felt like I was putting my best foot forward for 14D. If you get the chance to take her class, you absolutely should.

Because the class is intensive and crammed into six weeks, there was a lot of content for each slide set but i thought it was completely okay because lectures are recorded, meaning you can take as much time as you need to understand content. Professor Prado also had awesome clarity and explained concepts very thoroughly. She made it easy for me to grasp with no chemistry background. For the summer class, there was only homework, discussion, midterm and final. Discussion was very easy and could usually be completed in under 20 minutes.

My experience is certainly different because I took the class in the summer (6 week session) so it was easier to do well given it was my only class. Prado recommends that you read the textbook before lecture to have a a basic understanding, i think I did that for the first 2 or 3 chapters then stopped and fully relied on her slides. Her slides are very helpful, and I never woke up for class so I would later watch and pause the lecture recordings as I went taking detailed notes. Doing that made me get an A with no huge difficulty and no chemistry background, just make sure you know how to do every practice problem in the slides. Homework is also useful for practice. Prado did not scare us with any new types of problems on the midterm or final so just make sure you prepare with all resources given and you will not be surprised.

Dr. Prado was a great lecture with really through and easy to understand slides that I've been referencing through the rest of the 14 series. Midterm and final were open note and on Gradescope, they were pretty fair and she offers lots of extra practice material. She said she used to use iClicker, but decided to stop this quarter (rip participation points), so attendance was only mandatory for discussion where you would work on a worksheet in a group. Would take again, and probably study more this time.

She didn't use iclicker which was nice, but she was pretty inflexible, strict grader, sees regrade requests as arguing for points when it's over something so small

If I could describe Dr. Prado in one words, it's inflexible. She doesn't accommodate outside of office hours, so if you have a job or internship, it'll probably be difficult to meet with her for help. She's the first professor I've had to not even propose extra times. You're just supposed to save your lunch break for the evening so you can accommodate her and make her office hours, I guess.

Also, super strict with regrade requests. I requested a regrade request for literally 1 point and she scolded me for "arguing for points" and being unprofessional, and I'm definitely not the type of person to be rude to a professor. So that felt kinda patronizing, like she just wanted me to shut up lol. Also, I don't think regrade requests are anonymous, so beware.

Now for the midterm and final. I survived 31B with Pablo with an A, and after everyone telling me that was the hardest class, I thought this would be fine. But I got a 73% on the midterm (I had Covid she couldn't accommodate for), and I studied super hard for the final and even took two days of work off just to study and got a 96%. With 100% in every other category (homework, discussion), a 96% on the final wasn't enough to make up for the midterm. There is no grading scheme, so the class is super unforgiving. Not only that, but she's super unforgiving and refuses to round up your grade if you're less than half a percent away from an A- in the class, considering you took the midterm at the height of having Covid, were unable to make office hours for extra help, and got a 96% on the final when the average was an 81.

Excellent class and Dr. Prado is extremely sweet and has tons of extra credits to offer. Definitely take her if she's teaching!
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Dr. Prado is a great professor if you have absolutely no idea what you're doing. She painstakingly goes through the smallest details and repeats things until absolutely everyone gets it. If you have a chemistry background or just have an aptitude for learning things by the 2nd time, Dr. Prado might not be for you. I don't know if it's just me, but spending hours on stoichiometry, which is arguably rather easy and something you just need to practice because there's not a lot of conceptual theory to learn, is a catastrophic waste of time (especially when the final exam barely covers it). Why couldn't we have dedicated more time to figuring out the strength of acids and bases when that was literally the entire final? She really holds your hand through the most basic things but then you're on your own for the stuff that's actually relevant on the exam. The midterm was pretty easy (in my opinion, average was a B), but the final was way harder than anything we ever did in class, homework, or discussion. I also found that Dr. Prado wasted a lot of time. She spent 10 minutes complaining about a spider, which I get can be rough especially if you're scared of them, but for a summer session, 10 minutes is a lot of time. Attendance is also mandatory/graded, which sucks for summer classes. One thing I really liked was that she gives you previous exams to study from, and they were actually helpful. Overall, by no means the worst professor, and she definitely has strengths, but I was thoroughly annoyed by the end of the class.

Having taken AP Chemistry before, this class was basically a breeze. Since it was online all the exams were open note, canvas, and internet. The lectures are long but definitely understandable and she gives good examples to practice. There was a slight disconnect between homework problems and the exams but if you just brush up using the slides you should be fine.

If you know what equation to use and when, then you'll do well in the class. I wouldn't say that Prado is a tough professor, but sometimes she was unclear about some things and it was a bit frustrating. If you take notes on readings, then the readings take FOREVER, but I realized that as long as I paid attention in class, knew the learning objectives, clicker questions, homework problems, and worksheets, then the readings aren't really necessary except for occasional clarification. Office hours are packed and not very helpful because there are so many people and it's really cramped. The LAs in discussion answered my questions the best. Prado is really kind and cares about her students and listens to them.