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Abby Kavner
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Fall 2022 - Abby Kavner is a wonderful woman. Abby Kavner is kind, generous, and supportive. Abby Kavner loves to see her students succeed. Abby Kavner should NEVER teach Chem 20A. She would introduce each lecture saying "here's what I want to cover today" then proceed to not cover a single thing mentioned. We were somehow both always behind and completely off topic. Her midterms are so easy, but only if you've taken AP Chemistry or some other chemistry class, because you sure as hell won't be gaining any new information in this class. Enjoy three lectures deriving the particle in a box model, which you will never be asked to remember.
Fall 2022 - Abby Kavner is a wonderful woman. Abby Kavner is kind, generous, and supportive. Abby Kavner loves to see her students succeed. Abby Kavner should NEVER teach Chem 20A. She would introduce each lecture saying "here's what I want to cover today" then proceed to not cover a single thing mentioned. We were somehow both always behind and completely off topic. Her midterms are so easy, but only if you've taken AP Chemistry or some other chemistry class, because you sure as hell won't be gaining any new information in this class. Enjoy three lectures deriving the particle in a box model, which you will never be asked to remember.
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Fall 2020 - I love Professor Kavner, she is the sweetest and really cares about her students! However, this was such an unclear and confusing class. She graded none of our work before she submitted our final grades, which was A LOT of work, and then arbitrarily assigned 95% of the class B's with 1 or 2 A's and C's. I did a lot of hard work for this class so I was very disappointed to never receive any feedback and then get a poor grade.
Fall 2020 - I love Professor Kavner, she is the sweetest and really cares about her students! However, this was such an unclear and confusing class. She graded none of our work before she submitted our final grades, which was A LOT of work, and then arbitrarily assigned 95% of the class B's with 1 or 2 A's and C's. I did a lot of hard work for this class so I was very disappointed to never receive any feedback and then get a poor grade.
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I took plate tectonics with Kavner. She's great! It was her first time teaching the class so many of the concepts were simplified but we still learned a lot. She is extremely willing to help with the homework and really wants everyone to understand the concepts and get a good grade. The textbooks didn't really help too much but there were some concepts in them that showed up on the exams. The midterm and final weren't tricky as long as you went to all of the lectures. The final paper and presentation wasn't difficult at all- just make sure you pick something that interests you.
I took plate tectonics with Kavner. She's great! It was her first time teaching the class so many of the concepts were simplified but we still learned a lot. She is extremely willing to help with the homework and really wants everyone to understand the concepts and get a good grade. The textbooks didn't really help too much but there were some concepts in them that showed up on the exams. The midterm and final weren't tricky as long as you went to all of the lectures. The final paper and presentation wasn't difficult at all- just make sure you pick something that interests you.
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