Overall this class was so much work and the quizzes were crazy hard. But the midterms and final were VERY reasonable, especially if you studied. Definitely rely on your TAs for help

Let me lead with, this class was hard. The content is simply challenging and confusing. I went through the class fearing lecture, but it got better every day. Even though the class was hard, it's fun and it is interesting. Courey sometimes goes too fast and sometimes goes too slow, but he very clearly cares about the students understanding material. I would sometimes stay with him after class and ask him questions, and he made an effort to learn people's names so he can address them with their names. You can obviously tell he is very knowledgeable, but sometimes it takes asking questions and outside-of-class work to actually get what he's saying. You will definitely have to put in work for this class-- there's no way you can get by without putting in work. But as long as you do put in the work, there's no way you won't pass. Getting an A was def hard-- I was 0.1% higher than the minimum you need for an A at the end of the quarter, but I got a 98% on the final and that got me a 95% in the class. So, my point is, you can most definitely do very well on the exams (which will be hard), but you have to study. The tests are not misleading-- they are very, very fair. Courey is a very very nice ol' man.

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Dr. Courey was helpful and provided a lot of resources, but I did struggle to find time with him due to the nature of Zoom and number of people in our class. Throughout the quarter, I felt I was understanding the content well and performed above average on most exams and quizzes.

The final exam was ridiculous and too long. I did not even complete it in the given time and struggled to even understand what some of the questions were asking. I studied a great deal for the exam and felt incredibly frustrated with Dr. Courey after the exam. I felt he was fair in compensating final exam and overall final grades based on the response to the exam.

Overall, an ok lecturer. Not sure I would seek out taking a class with him again, but I would not be against it.

This professor was very reasonable except for the final. The final was extremely long and almost nobody finished; however he did curve upwards after the final which was good. He also is very good at explaining things, and although the course material is extremely dense, his office hours are helpful in clarifying everything. Overall, I think I learned a decent amount.

Dr. Courey is an incredible professor. point blank. He is VERY accommodating and understanding to say the least. Personally, I loved the enhanced series. I thought the structure was very similar to high school in that you have assignments throughout the week and tests every couple of weeks, unlike other classes like Chem 14A, where essentially your test scores are what determine your grade.

Overall, if you are good at keeping track of your assignments, communicating and asking for help, and don't like the idea of a couple of test grades determining your overall grade, I definitely recommend this class.

General chemistry is not supposed to be easy by no means, and there is not an easy way out, so you have to expect that you are going to be doing assignments and putting in many hours outside of class studying the material. However, this professor is very clear and easy to understand and engage with.

Take most of these reviews with a grain of salt—in my opinion, to be successful in this course, besides learning the content, you really have to get used to the types of questions that are asked on exams vs. quizzes. For me, the quizzes (CMC's) and exam multiple choice questions were harder than the free response portions. This is because they are very conceptual and REALLY try to trick you. This sounds stupid but you kind of have to ask yourself "what concept is the professor trying to test me about?"/"how is this question trying to trick me?". I think a lot of people get confused by the terminology, so you just have to read carefully and check your work. Free response questions were super straightforward if you're allowed to reference your notes—they were mainly plug-and-chug type problems, you just have to recognize what equation to use. To study, I'd suggest focusing on the discussion worksheets especially, slides, learning catalytics, and maybe the PRWA's. I was too lazy to do the LA worksheets and I was fine. For the PRWA's, just make sure you hit all the rubric points and be nice when grading others. The final was a bit of a time crunch, but what helped me was creating an equations sheet with everything on it and the TA's giving partial credit. I took AP chem in high school, so I do know my experience might be different from others, but I don't think anyone should be discouraged from taking this class. I really would suggest this class if you have the time for it!

I loved Dr. Courey!!!! He was great at lecturing and you can really tell he cared so much about his students. His midterms were very doable if you studied the learning objectives and POGIL worksheets. I highly recommend taking this class with him. Most of these bad reviews are just because of the final. However, everything else went smoothly in his class and he curved the test so much and also curved the grading score to make a 91% an A. He is super considerate and listens to his students. TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HIM HE’S THE SWEETEST PERSON EVER!!!

Honestly, this class was pretty fair for the most part and I did very very well on all of the tests since I was keeping up with the work and really understanding things.

Like most people said already, the final was really something else. It was so different and so much harder than any test we had previously and I thank Dr. Courey for all he did to remedy that, but a lot of people were still screwed over.

This class is do-able you just gotta put in tons of effort and time. I never paid attention to live lectures because he would be covering new topics when there was a quiz coming up covering previous topics. I only participated for the learning catalytics, which are based on participation and not accuracy. I only started learning the material a few days before a quiz/test. He has TONS of materials and practice for you. I made sure to utilize everything he gave us.

1. Read over textbook for a general understanding, take notes
2. Watch lecture recordings and annotate on his slides
3. Make notes for each learning objective
4. Re-do his POGIL worksheets on your own
5. GO TO OFFICE HOURS
6. Do LA worksheets
7. Review PTL and Learning Catalytics
8. Do practice exams if there are any

Make sure you understand literally everything he says, all the questions asked in worksheets. Office hours are so so so important for that. I'm so thankful that his curve at the end bumped my final and overall grade up. He's very approachable as well, and Piazza helps so much. Generally, I don't feel comfortable asking questions but piazza came in clutch for me.