Very humorous professor. Asked us to make Kung pao chicken as extra credit.
善于使用中国成语解释化学模型 比如盲人摸象

This is a review for Yike Zou and Aneta Turlik.

For Fall 2021, the first half of classes was taught by Zou. The other half was taught by Turlik.

CLASS STRUCTURE:
- Midterm 1 (20%)
- Midterm 2 (20%)
- Final Exam (35%)
- Problem Sets (10%)
- BACON (8%)
- Discussion Section (7%)

This class is a lot of studying and memorizing. I believe it's the hardest of the 14 series, and the A cutoff was a 94%. However, getting an A is doable, and an A- is very doable (88%-94%). The problem sets were graded for completion, the BACON is like a bootleg Launchpad (easy 100), and discussion section was graded for attendance.
The tests were fair if you studied for them, and they gave plenty of practice material for preparation. Make sure to complete the practice final and the discussion worksheets because they are pretty close to what you can expect on the test. The average for both midterms was around 75%.

Both professors were excellent in my view. Yike was a great professor. He was very funny, and he made a 9am class feel tolerable to go to. I would totally take this class again with either professor, but if I had to pick one, I would rather go with Turlik. I thought Turlik was the clearer one out of the two because she was more thorough with her explanations of the reaction mechanisms, compared to Yike. The also offered about 8-10 points worth of extra credit, which was very nice.

TLDR: Overall, a great, but challenging class. You can't go wrong with either professor. 25% of your grade is essentially completion.

Great guy, very caring, and understanding of students. He and Turlik gave lots of extra credit and their exams were straightforward.

There is an extremely ridiculous amount of memorizing you have to do for this class. There is no amount of warning that will prepare you for how many reactions and mechanisms you have to know. Zou taught the first half of the quarter and his lectures were not helpful. Instead, I had to learn everything from Khan Academy. Turlik taught the second half of the lectures and she was more helpful. I think I could've done better if I kept up with the problems sets and material as we went. I was very confused during discussion because I didn't keep up with the material, so try your best to stay ahead. A lot of this class is a crazy amount of self-studying and practicing. It is a matter of getting yourself to study chemistry every chance you have, which I was not motivated enough to do.