Baugh is an effective professor. As freshmen, most people taking this class and 20A anticipate class to involve primarily problem solving. However, Baugh tends to focus on concepts and leaves students to find solutions to problems on their own. The midterms are ridiculous. I don't think anyone scored perfect on either but the final consists primarily of midterm questions. He also curves the class. I had a 75% A+.

Baugh was not a very good lecturer. I spent the first half of the quarter straining to understand main concepts, and I finally gave in and read the textbook. That turned out to be a really good idea, and after reading the text, Baugh's lectures made so much more sense. He actually does a decent job of following the format of the book. It's also a really good idea to attend discussion/section. Kenny did a really good job at filling in the details that Baugh never ever mentioned. I missed some lectures but made sure to read all of the chapters in the book... Don't procrastinate on this part! He covers a lot of chapters in one quarter. I also did so many practice problems from the end of each chapter, and that helped so much for the final, because they were mostly the same type of problem.
I spent a decent amount of time reviewing for his tests and freaking out about them. The cheat sheet was a lifesaver for me, because I filled it with formulas and broader concepts too. I ended up with an A in the class after doing above average on the midterms.
If you can get Kenny or Jenny as your TA, do it. They are both amazing.

After taking Baugh's class, I can't believe how many people are saying to avoid this man at all costs. He was nowhere near as bad as I expected his class to be. I took 20B with Felker and got a D, and I admit I didn't put enough effort into doing well in that class. But Felker's tests were much much harder than Baugh's and and as far as lectures go, Felker is pretty much a talking textbook, doing nothing but derivations of equations. On the other hand, though Baugh does not really follow the structure of the book, he does a good job of linking all of the concepts of the class together. His tests were certainly reasonable, nothing too time-consuming or complicated, but he does throw the occasional conceptual problems in there (i.e. explain three ways a molecule can store energy), so make sure to listen in during lectures about conceptual ideas that he talks about. Basically, Delroy Baugh is decent and a reasonable option if you go to class and listen.

Baugh was great. I thoroughly enjoyed his class and thought he taught and tied together the material well. If you read the book (yes, we are in college, and we read books) in addition to his lectures everything is crystal clear. After having failed chem a quarter before with Scerri, Baugh taught me much more than he ever did. I really enjoyed this course with Baugh and left feeling like I really understood chemistry. I would highly recommend him to other chem 20b students.

Forget the haters, I really like Baugh. First off, he's a really nice, funny guy (as opposed to Scerri and Felker, who are both pricks). He laughs a lot in class and it's clear that he actually enjoys teaching (again, unlike Felker. I took 20B with Felker before retaking it with Baugh, so there'll be a lot of comparisons). In his lectures he doesn't cover as much material as Felker, but what he does cover he explains very well. After leaving his class, I feel that I really understand all of the major topics. He's somewhat scatterbrained in his lectures, but if you pay attention, you'll learn a lot from him.

Baugh does his grading somewhat differently from all the other professors I've had. There are two midterms worth 25% and a final worth 50%, but whatever points you miss on the midterms get added into the total possible for the final. Basically, this means that you can afford to mess up on the midterms a bit, but the final's more important. I don't feel like it really affected my grade in the class either way, but the final is a bit harder than the midterms, so you definitely can't slack off. As for the tests themselves, they were kind of hard, but totally fair. There was nothing on any of the tests that we didn't cover in detail in the lecture. He tends to have a lot of conceptual questions on his tests, although there are still plenty of problems to solve, too.

I don't know if they're still going to working for him, but the TAs for my class were really great. In particular, try to get Kenny Mayoral's section if you can. He's really helpful in section, and he sends out practice tests that helped me study a lot.

I just want to start off by saying that I got a B in Chem 20A with Scerri (decent lecturer, even though he's a complete douche and doesn't really understand what he's talking about) and an A- in Chem 20B with Baugh. Anyways, Baugh was a pretty unorganized professor who really didn't care about the students. However, he does know what he's talking about and he does understand the material and concepts, unlike Scerri.

I must have missed half of the lectures, and during the last few days of the quarter he crammed acids/bases/buffer solutions/titrations into the material for the final exam. That's just an example of how disorganized he is. I was never ever the best student in school. But for this class, I had to read the book 3 or 4 times by myself to understand the material, and I was taking 20 other units that quarter. The point is that you can be a mediocre student with a really busy schedule like myself, but if you put in the effort and time like I did and also DO THE PRACTICE PROBLEMS IN THE BOOK, the class (Chem 20B) is not really all too bad. He might be a bad lecturer, but his tests were fair and it wasn't like the class was impossible. I would probably rather take him than Scerri, because then you would end up forcing yourself to learn the material. As mentioned above, Final Grade: A-

no need to go to class. tutor was the real teacher of that course. one of the worse prof. in UCLA.

From day one, I knew that Baugh was going to be bad. His response to one of my questions 2nd week confirmed and eliminated any doubts that he is a terrible professor. In response to an unfair TA quiz relation question, Baugh says, "I've never even met with the TAs yet", and this is 2nd week. In addition, his lectures are riddled with corny jokes, unimportant derivations, and several mistakes, which students have to correct him on. His symbols and letters are hard to distinguish especially when he uses the letter "k", "K", and R". He often covers what he's writing on the board with his body and causes the class to have to play catchup throughout the entire lecture to understand what is going on.

In addition, his office hours were the same particular time during the day, meaning if you had a class during that time, you'd never be able to make it to his office hours. He complains that student's don't come to his OH, but seriously who can make it, when 4/5 of the class has Physics during that time and the other 1/5 has some other class? Surprisingly, he didn't really even bother listen to some of the student's suggestions to change the OH time.

But if you are unfortunate to have him in the future. Here's what you do to do well.
1. READ the book (Take notes)
Reading the book will help make Baugh's lectures make more sense and it'll be easier to see what's going on in his lectures. The book does a better job of getting to the point and does not go unnecessarily deep into derivations, but connects important concepts in a fairly concise manner.
2. Attend Covel Tutoring
Seriously, this was a godsend. Ed's practice problems are great practice for the exams. Having exposure to Baugh-level problems before going into a Baugh test helps alot. Also, the outlines are helpful to lookover that Ed gives you.
3. Don't sweat the midterm
If you see yourself failing or getting below average on a midterm. don't worry, they're not worth much anyway. This doesn't mean you shouldn't show up and take the midterm though and I guess they are decent practice for the final.
Likewise, if you're doing extremely well on midterms, don't get too confident, finals are still worth pretty much everything
4. Make a good cheatsheet
A good cheatsheet will make the difference between failing the thermochem related questions and solving them 100%.

I think he probably is a great chem researcher and does great research work, but as a teacher, I don't really approve.

Baugh is a fair professor compared to other Chem professors especially in o-chem. Lectures aren't good but tests are very doable. Just ask TA's for help and you'll have a good chance at an A.

Oh god, are you kidding me? Baugh is so ridiculous. Not only is he a bore/snore in class, in which he talks to the board and to himself, his tests are completely unrelated to 75% of what he lectures on. His homework problems do almost nothing when it comes to the final and sometimes the midterm. The only good that they do is for the quizzes which the TAs make! He is very abstract in what he teaches and likes to go off on tangents that lead to dead ends. Some of the interesting facts like diamond turning into graphite or other bizzare things may end up on tests, but they don't, they just clutter up your mind and notes for finals. I did well above average (and "A") for the first midterm, about average for the second, and I don't even know how well for the final (he didn't post averages at all) and ended up getting a "B" in the class. For the amount of work I put in, I think I should have received a better grade, but thanks to Baugh's bizzare teaching methods and far-out and confusing exams, the past is beyond my control. I attended nearly all of his office hours and it amounted to next to nothing. He seems sluggish in OH and just goes off on questions raised by the students which are usually so ridiculously unrelated, that it just manages to confuse you more when you come out. None of his elaborations in OH that I heard was on exams, either. If you can avoid taking Baugh, please do. I didn't believe my lab partner when she warned me about him, and paid the price. I've heard that Scerri is much better because he has a lecture guide book which you have to purchase, but in the long run, it will help in studying. Scerri is apparently also more straight-forward in his testing and won't twist and convolute the chemistry to something more than it should. Avoid taking Baugh, otherwise you'll be in for some mental agony.