Professor Lavelle is legit. I am not joking dude. He is incredibly concise and very helpful. I love his accent, and his first midterm wasn't amazingly hard; He has SO many resources dude. Dude, another thing, you will find that he actually takes the textbook and makes it sound easier than what it actually says.

anyways, that's just me. but i'm only one little booger out of the 26,000 that go here. peace

Lavelle is very competent and his teaching style is easy to follow and predictable. The course is not easy but if you work hard you will get A LOT out of it. Do all the HW problems, all the practice problems and read the book! The class is a combination of self teaching and lectures so do both if you can! Great professor!

He was very clear in his lecture and doesn't mind taking the time to address every student's question. Yes, even dumb questions and repetitive questions. And he's always around on VOH, which I don't think people take advantage of enough. and he provides a ridiculous amount of review hours. And the course reader is a good study guide. Tests are very fair. I did all the homework problems, some of which are much harder than his test questions, and I did have a decent AP Chem teacher in high school. I look forward to taking him again for 14B. Hopefully this helps.

I took Lavelle for chem 14A, and i thought he did a pretty good job. He was a VOH site where u can post questions and he usually answers them pretty quickly, which is very helpful. I thot his tests were fair. As of now, hes the only chem 14a professor, so u kind of dont have a choice of whether u wanna take another professor unless u take the 20 series. Otherwise, i thought he did a fairly good job w/ the class.

To get anything better than a C in his class you have to make love to the chem book day and night, sit at your desk while everyone else is outside and having fun and definelty dissapear for a week before all midterms and test...his class is HARD...and you do have to work HARD...SO START stuDYING!!!

I thought Lavelle was a good professor. He was probably the best professor out of the three that I had this quarter. The only thing is that the class requires a lot of work if you want an A. You have to buy the lecture notes and follow along during the lectures, read the book, and DO THE HOMEWORK PROBLEMS. Also, I thought covel tutoring was really helpful for this class so sign up for it if you have this class next quarter. All in all, Lavelle's class is pretty easy if you put enough effort and work into it. I spent a lot of time reading the chapters and doing the homework problems and I got an A.

Pr. Lavelle has a friendly face and a nice little Irish accent but don't let that fool you. He may be sweet and funny but this course is no joke. You gotta work hard in this class. I know all of you are used to get that "A" with no hassle in high school but I really had to fix my priorities to get a good grade in this class. Go to lectures (very important), buy the lectures notes as you won't be able to listen to the prof. talking and write down the lecture at the same time, go to the TA's office hours (the pr.'s o.hours haven't helped me at all) and practice, practice, practice problems over and over and over until you know them by heart:)...well that's my advice, welcome to the world of chemistry and do not let chem take over your life as it is a simple subject that can be mastered.

Lavelle is really nice and is a pretty good lecturer. he always kept me interested. the material is not that difficult, but it is a little hard to do well just because there are 350 students that you are competing against. Lavelle does his best to make things clear and usually in very concise in the way he presents the material. i recommend him as a teacher. just beware that the class itself is not too easy just because it is so competitive, but that is what science majors are.

Lavelle is such a nice professor. His lectures can eventually get a big boring but paying attention can really help once you start to read the text. His tests are pretty fair, 2 MTs, 1 final, couple quizzes, all curved. Sometimes he'll throw in a couple tricky questions tho on minor topics that he barely touched on, not too hard tho. A lot of practice tests are availabe on the course webpage, do them! they are very very helpful especially since some of the test q's will be very similar or even exactly the same if yure lucky.

Professor Lavelle, however intelligent he may be, was incapable of teaching chemistry. Though his accent was entertaining for the first week or so, nothing could make up for his lack of covering material properly. He went over material fast, would often times go off on tangents and though he was organized, he lacked the ability to communicate his knowledge to students effectively. Not only this, but his midterms are ridiculously difficult and do not test your knowledge gained from the class, but rather how closely you read the lecture notes. If I had the chance, I would avoid this class like the plague, but if you must take it, make sure you get Frank as your TA, he is a better teacher than Professor Lavelle.