Everything you have heard about ochem is true and this class proved no different. Coming into this class, I thought it was going to be relatively easy and something I wouldn't have to struggle too hard at because the professor was sympathetic and understood that ochem was a tough subject. However, it was hard, draining, painful, and has made me have a dislike for chemistry. For some reason I passed even after failing both midterms and completely bombing the final (which I think everyone did). I would say that she is a relatable and funny person and gives thorough lectures but ochem is such a difficult subject because there are many details and exceptions to the rules. Although she gave practice midterms that replicated the format of the actual midterm, there was a huge discrepancy in the content from both and I often found myself doing fine on the practice but completely bombing the actual midterm. The discussion was also no help because my section just did their work individually without any interactions and I usually learned nothing and sat in silence. The final was also horrible because we all felt like we were prepared but it crushed me and any fiber of confidence I had. Overall, if you take this class, heavily concentrate on the practice midterms/final she offers and understand every question on there, do the discussion worksheets, additional problems, spend time understanding hard chapters on your own, do extra credit, and befriend people who are smarter than you.

she is so disorganized and she makes her tests ridiculously hard. her disorganization affects your grade and she's lazy. i'm not kidding

I would avoid taking 14C with Dr. Reilly. She was a good lecturer and made the concepts pretty clear during class, but the tests were not at all made to demonstrate our understanding. It felt like she just put the hardest/trickiest questions possible on the exams to throw us off instead of making them fair. Exams were always much more difficult than the practice she gave us and she gave very little partial credit. I thought that having questions that are worth 15-20 points be all or nothing (despite there being a clear possibility of them having partial credit!!) is very unfair, as getting only one or two questions wrong drops you 1-2 letter grades and it belittles what you did learn and take away. Reilly also isn't very open to class suggestions. On the first midterm, nearly everyone missed one question that was worth 21 points (my TA said that only about 1/20 people got it correct) without any partial credit and instead of throwing it out, she just said sorry then put the exact same type of question on the final. The class averages for the midterm and final were in the 60s but she still did not scale up and extra credit doesn't really make that much of a difference unless your grade is borderline. It honestly felt like this class was made to make us fail the exams sometimes. I put several hours of studying into each of the exams, but my scores still did not reflect the time put in or my understanding, which was pretty disheartening. Call me a radicalist, but I don't think that you should have to be a perfectionist who can pick up on every minuscule detail to work out trick questions or score practically perfectly on exams to get an A in a class...

for the **times she showed up** professor reilly was a splendid instructor!!!!!! she is good at explaining stuff and good at teaching with examples, her lecture notes are very helpful. and this is where the good stuff ends. is my saltiness abt my grade the main driver that drove me to write this review? yes

firstly there was BARELY ANY partial credit in either midterm (besides like one mechanism question per midterm if im right). there's only a few choices for a specific question, and the questions often feature some of the exceptioniest exceptions, so your score doesn't really reflect how much you studied, i.e. it is possible to do really good or really bad with or without knowing (since it's kind of just guessing). i did above avg (mid 80s) for the first midterm with 2ish days of studying. for the second midterm, i studied for a week and did below avg.

the avg. for the first midterm was 71% and the second 66%, neither were curved (they i.e. Reilly+ Ow said if the class avg. at the end is below a B- they will curve but the average ended up being an 84 so they didn't)

secondly the final was EIGHTEEN MULTIPLE CHOICE questions. was it light work and basic? yes! but the amount of points you would lose per question was just so high and for what? i think literally everyone finished the final in 30 minutes...

thirdly and most importantly, everything was so insanely last minute....I'm grateful that she promised us stuff and then delivered some of it but it was just so so late like a day before the exam kinda late....

at the end, some grading adjustments were made: we all got 0.25% for filling out the la feedback (they gave it to everyone cos hard to check, tumultuous times blah blah, the grading scheme that applied was whatever gave you the best grade out of these three: a. original (50 points both midterms, 100 points final, 25 points hw), b. 50 points less from final (no other change) c. one midterm drop (no other change)

my problem with everything is that yes, the class avg. is decently "high (84)"... but i genuinely don't think the scores reflect anything...

firstly it was all highkey just guessing...there was no explanation or anything involved in any of her exams...ig the final had some reasoning mcqs so that was nice but you can always just guess...

secondly because the individual midterms weren't curved, so say you did really bad on the first one (which had a higher class avg., and is the main class avg. booster) and decently good on the second one (with a lower class avg.), since neither midterm was individually curved and the overall curve depends on the overall class grade (which was high so the curve doesn't exist), you are now fucked.

what's even more fucked up is that an A in this class was a 94 not a 93..like what do u want from me dawg....the grade i got was higher than what i thought i would get but i guess the grass is never green in the present

Dr. Reilly has very very good intentions as a professor, and it was clear very early that she was passionate about both the students and the subject. Her lectures were all on Zoom and recorded and she was generally good at explaining concepts, making it clear what we needed to know, and responding to questions. However, she was also regularly disorganized and missed lectures without warning. I'd like to be understanding because there's a good possibility that she had some sort of prior commitment or larger events happening in her life, but it really did affect our class significantly because we were behind on the material by the end of the class and there was a lot of added stress over the way she would handle her absences. She'd often say that she'd post a supplemental lecture and just not do it or send in a week later, and she was pretty much always tardy in posting midterm or final review material. The review material would have definitely be helpful, but I will also say that the actual exams were significantly harder and additional study is recommended even if you did well on the practice test. The partial credit is also very unforgiving. In all, I think Dr. Reilly is a great person, but a bit of a gamble as a professor. I'd probably retake the class but given Dr. Ow as an alternative I'd definitely go there

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY LEARN OCHEM. Honestly I am SO disappointed with Dr. Reilly. She truly does not care about teaching or her students. First of all her grading breakdown was insane and I nearly dropped the class during the first week because of it. 10% BACON, 30% Exam 1, 30% Exam 2, 30% Exam 3. It was very clear the breakdown was like this because she is lazy and did not want to grade any more assignments than she wanted to. She also went on random ochem tangents in class which might have been fine in a normal quarter but a 6 week summer class??? no. One time she spent 40mins showing us pictures of her dog. The most frustrating part of this quarter was the last week. We were slightly behind on material and only had 3 lectures until our scheduled final. Monday she cancelled lecture due to "technical difficulties" and said she'd post a lecture later that day. Monday went, no lecture. She was also not responding on piazza or her email. She did not upload a worksheet for our Tuesday discussion and our poor TA had no idea what was going on either. Wednesday comes, still no makeup lecture. Dr. Reilly shows up and starts teaching like normal and announced she is canceling the lecture so "we don't have to rush material" although it is very clear now she just did not want to make a final. Thursday comes, once again no worksheet and still MIA on all platforms. Friday comes and she emails everyone saying lecture will start late since she is stuck at the DMV. SHE NEVER SHOWS AND DOESNT RESPOND ON PIAZZA, EMAIL, NOTHING. Mind you we still had 2 of the hardest chapters left to do. In the end she ends up posting lectures for those 2 chapters FROM LAST SUMMER. Doesn't even bother to record one. She is so unhelpful and lazy and does not care about your learning. I am praying for the kids who have to take chem 30c because this class definitely did not prepare us for that.

Prof. Reilly disappeared on us in the last two weeks of the quarter. No communication, nothing. I assume that this was already accounted for by the department, when they added Prof. Ow as a secondary professor. We had the classic two hard midterms, but there was none to be found for the third. Prof. Ow wrote the final, but because it was so last minute it was stupid easy, and messed up the curve for the final grade. If it had been Prof. Reilly, it probably would've gone better, but the really easy final skewed the average and thus a curve wasn't deserved apparently. So yeah. I hope she gets it together or leaves, it's unfair she screws students over like this.

Ok honestly Dr. Reilly was goin' through it this quarter BUT STILL managed to deliver insanely engaging and cool lectures and was SELF AWARE that she was not doing well and actively made that class easier- a mark of someone who honestly really cares about her students. She cancelled our final presentation for a more goofy type chemistry related video, provided tons of extra credit, extended deadlines etc. Final was still a little bit rough as most Reilly finals go but she provided some funny questions on it to balance it out and provided 3 practice finals as well to help you study for it. My only complaint ig which is more for the department is that there is very little practice for the types of questions on the final given throughout the quarter so you really need to grind- it's not studyable in one day. You really had to know your experiments and learn applications as she pulls reactions from papers and expects you to know what modifying certain things does. However, I love all the experiments and it was insanely cool stuff that you learn throughout the quarter- highly recommend this class and Dr. Reilly :)

I loved taking this class with Reilly so much. She is such a friendly and thoughtful professor. She was super flexible with everything (especially because it was the return to in person classes) and I would recommend her to anyone. She gave us extra credit for turning in a drawing of her dog!

Reilly was kinda inconsistent this quarter. She's usually known for being super responsive and quick to update students with any changes, but this quarter seemed to be the opposite. Replying to most messages at the end of the week all at once with an update email, delaying deadlines (which was not necessarily a bad thing, just added onto the inconsistency), and having the class weighed heavily on the final. Again, this is a lab class so a majority of the points were TA dependent, but the labs were definitely forgiving. However, having 40% of your grade depending on the final seemed pretty unreasonable, considering that there is no midterm to bump it up and many were calling for an online exam. Class was good but could've been much better.