Dr. Reilly is the best professor I have had at UCLA so far. She is very receptive of students facing difficulties and genuinely goes the extra mile to ensure their success. I greatly appreciated the formatting of assessments: 5 one-hour exams, each held on the Monday of every even week. It substituted the stresses of high volumes of content on one or two midterms with consistent, relatively lower-weighted checkpoints of learning with somewhat difficult problems on a slimmer volume of content. This format allows students to more clearly monitor their progress, however amidst other classes also with frequent assessments, I can certainly see how this could be a drawback. The final exam was notoriously difficult, perhaps twice as hard as any previous assessment (we had a 50% average), in my opinion, so make sure you are very well prepared. However, and I can't stress this enough: try to not worry about your grade too much. Your worst assessment score will be dropped and there are three extra-credit opportunities. On top of this, the completion-based assignments were very helpful and comprised a good ~40% of the grade. As for lectures, I found her pace to be pretty fast to get through a lot of content (since five lecture slots are devoted to the aforementioned assessments), so recordings are your best friend. Also, reading the free textbook PDF is very useful for additional practice problems and reinforcing concepts. If there is one thing to take away from this post: if you can, GO TO OFFICE HOURS. Dr. Reilly is incredibly responsive to any questions you may have and does not finish answering until she ensures that you understand. I learned several useful clarifications and approaches to problems for tests. There are so many office hours during the week along with weekend sessions before each test and workshops for each take-home completion-based problem set. Overall, if you see Dr. Reilly's name for any Chemistry class you are considering, I highly recommend you take her.

Reilly is an amazing professor and clearly knows how to teach. However, her exams were so incredibly difficult and I didn't think they reflected what she taught us in class or on the worksheets she provided. Our first midterm and final average scores were around 50-60, which should be a clear sign that something is off. There is little to no partial credit awarded (aka one of the questions was worth 21 points out of a 100 point exam) and many students lost all credit on that question. If you want to actually learn 14C, I would take this class with her. If you want something that won't wreck your grade, take it with someone else!

I LOVE THIS WOMAN AND HER DOG!!! Those tests kinda killed me, but I think it was worth it for all of the doggo pictures.

Reilly's extremely good at explaining things, passionate about the material, and overall a super hard-working professor. However, Ochem is by no means easy, and it's true that her exams are sometimes more difficult than the practice questions. I recommend knowing the concepts 100%, because knowing any less will give you significant amount of difficulty. I'm not sure how other professors are, but Reilly definitely made 14C concepts easy to understand. Lectures are fast-paced, but that keeps things interesting in my opinion. Good luck!

This class is by no means easy, and I definitely struggled despite putting in a lot of effort, but I still enjoyed the course, and I absolutely adore this woman and HER DOG KACEY, who plays a huge role in this class :)

Course Breakdown:
Problem Sets: 100 points
Discussion Participation: 50 points
BACON quizzes: 50 points
Midterm 1: 100 points
Midterm 2: 100 Points
Final Exam: 100 points
Total: 500 Points

Lectures: Reilly's lectures are super clear and detailed - she does go pretty fast but you'll get used to it **note: about halfway through the quarter she switched the Zoom chat settings so that you can only message her and the TAs, so if someone asks a question in the chat and she answers it, you don't know what the question is - it can be a bit frustrating sometimes but if you ask her to clarify she will! She also uploads all of her lecture notes both pre- and post-annotation, as well as lecture recordings for each lecture time/section

Discussion: discussion attendance is part of the participation grade, you work in the same breakout room groups all quarter and there's a discussion worksheet every week - you work at your own pace and you usually don't have to submit them for grading, but sometimes she'll have you submit one of the discussion worksheets as a problem set -- TAs and LAs were super helpful during discussion

Workload: not really difficult or time consuming -- 5 problem sets & a few online quizzes on a platform called BACON -- most of the time she released the answer keys for the problem sets before the due date and graded them on completion, but it wasn't stated as such on the syllabus so it's definitely subject to change

Communication: She's very clear about expectations, due dates, etc, and sends out a bunch of email announcements, so the course structure is very clear -- as someone else mentioned, she's pretty hard to get in touch with over email, but she's VERY active on campuswire, so if you have a general content or logistical question, she'll answer it within a few hours (sometimes minutes), and if it's something more personal/specific, direct messaging her on campuswire should yield a response!

Resources: She gives a lot of practice problems and resources from other websites and platforms for you to get some practice in with the topics, and posts optional homework problems from the textbook; for the first midterm she also made a practice exam -- she makes video answer keys for almost every discussion worksheet/exam/problem set, which is SUPER helpful because she walks through the reasoning for the answer rather than just writing the answer on a pdf

Exams: These were the real grade killers unfortunately - I always started studying about a week in advance for each midterm and the final, I did every single practice problem, re-did every single worksheet, re-watched every single lecture, and went into the exam feeling really confident about the course material, and I still scored below average on the first midterm and only a few points above average on the second midterm and final -- the general consensus seemed to be that the exam questions were often harder than the practice problems we had worked on, and unfortunately there's no really getting around that, so I would recommend doing ALL of the practice problems and then some -- it takes a lot of effort to score well on these -- HOWEVER she makes both midterms and the final all worth the same amount of points, so they all carry the same weight

Extra Credit: Reilly does offer a few points of extra credit for things like course evaluations, LA feedback, and a few surveys, and at the end of the quarter she offers extra credit for drawing her dog Kacey, which is a nice change of pace from the misery of week 10 and finals

TLDR: Overall, Reilly is a really great professor and teaches really well, she's really engaging and understanding, and just a really nice person overall, she gives a lot of resources, example problems for practice, and a few extra credit opportunities, but her exams are unfortunately still really difficult -- ochem is a tough class, but it's not impossible, and even though I didn't do as well as I wished I had grade-wise, I do feel like I came out of the class with a decent understanding of the concepts and it was worth it

Professor Reilly is such an amazing teacher and person! She's very sweet and understanding, has a devoted love to her greyhound Kacey, and is super approachable for questions and help. BUT her tests are extremely difficult (for my quarter the mean and medians for the first midterm and final were both in the 62 range). it's definitely a passable class, but very difficult to get an A. She does offer extra credit opportunities, but the exams don't always give partial credit in the way that you think? For many problems she doesn't ask you to show work, so for those you don't get partial credit because they don't look at your work only your answer.

Her exams are extremely difficult, our class average was below passing for our first midterm and our final. Professor Riley is a good lecturer and explains the material very well, but she makes the tests so much harder than what we're taught in lecture or in the discussion worksheets. However, she does offer a bit of extra credit which helped raise my grade.

Professor Reilly does absolutely everything to make sure you have what you need to do well. She posts sooooo many resources. What you get out of this class is a direct result of what you put in, and Dr. Reilly is incredible at helping you out and making sure everything is clear. She pretty much lives on Campuswire (she answers questions within seconds!!) and she posts video solutions to all homework and practice problems. Take with Reilly!!

HI Ya'll, I know you guys are on here because you're curious about professor Reilly so I'll give my honest review.
Professor Reilly is great, she does soo much for her students to pass the class and I highly recommend going to office hours, especially over the summer if that's when you decide to take the class. I've taken her for both 30A and 30B over the summer. It's great because you definitely get to have more one on one time with her, as opposed to a regular academic quarter where theres over 200 students that require attention for such a tough course. For anyone who is taking her for the first time, please do not worry if you didn't do so well on the first exam. Focus on the average and try to go above that, only because her grading scale will be adjusted. So for example, if the average to her 2nd exam is a 55%, then anyone who received a 55% got a B- on the exam and anyone who received lets say a 75% or higher would because considered an A. Don't worry guys, my first time around I cried because I did not understand her scale adjustment, but you'll be fine as long as you put in your best foot forward. Please enjoy the class and appreciate the time you have with professor Reilly, because I honestly believe there's not too many professors like her. She's awesome, but don't forget its Organic Chemistry!

Prof. Reilly is an amazing lecturer. Everything in the lectures is extremely clear and I know I'll be using the notes from her class in the future. However, her tests are unfortunately unclear/unexpected/unfair. They have some problems that we either didn't cover at all or are 5 times harder than the hardest problem she had us do. The averages on her tests are very low for this reason. She is a very sweet professor and you will leave feeling like you have a good understanding of ochem, however, beware her tests! Your understanding will not always be reflected on your score.