Easiness – 3 – Its Organic chemistry, so by nature its going to be really hard, but to make it easier practice it every day, you have to if you want to keep up, otherwise you get will get swallowed just by how much content there is. I will say on the midterms there isn’t much space to mess up since they are only 50 points, although he does offer a lot of extra credit, (not as much as the 14 series) there is still so many easy ways to lose small points.

Clarity – 5 – he is excellent at explaining the concepts and tries to relate it to a concept we might be more familiar with

Workload -4 – the workload in terms of what you actually have to do is pretty low, a BACON usually once every 2 weeks, a problem set which you have 2 weeks to do. But like I said you have to practice every single day to make sure you understand because the content will always build up on itself.

Helpfulness -4 – he is very helpful and very smart, but I feel like he has low patience to questions he feels are stupid. To be fair some of the questions asked are things he literally just talked about, and I’ve heard he has less patience with the premeds and the 14 series (Tbf premeds can be kind of annoying about grades, coming from a premed) but overall he tries his hardest to help you understand the content, he really wants you to actually understand organic chemistry and make an effort to learn your name, which I greatly appreciated.

Overall – 5 – I loved this class, organic chemistry was very fun, Pham was an excellent professor both at explaining the content and being very understanding towards the students.

Hands down the best Chemistry class I've taken at UCLA. While the class is not easy, Dr. Pham delivers the content clearly and gives us all of the resources necessary to excel in the class. He is also pretty funny. It's important to note that you should probably stay up to date with lectures. He covers the bulk of the important material in lecture, and all of the problem set/exam questions are based off of concepts discussed in lecture. The added flexibility of recorded lectures is nice as well.

Coming into organic chemistry, I was really scared because it's known to be an extremely hard class, especially since it's the physical science series. Although it was definitely hard, the problem sets that he provided as homework were extremely similar to the midterm and finals so it's important to understand them extremely well. Also, I would highly recommend working with others on the problem sets and going to office hours to work on them so you can really understand the reactions. They can be unforgiving when grading the problem sets since they are graded on correctness and he did not drop homework grades. I found his lecture slides really helpful and would definitely recommend using online resources as an online pdf of Ochem as a second language. Side note, if you can, I would opt out of the textbook that the course provides because it isn't needed and wasn't helpful for me personally.

One of the best classes I have taken! If offered to take the class with Dr. Pham, definitely jump at the chance. The class is overall very enjoyable and professor breaks down the concepts in a way that is easy to understand and provides a lot of good advice and cool knowledge during fun Fridays. Just don't fall behind and use your molecule kit well during the learning process. You get out what you put in and don't forget to have fun because it is easy to do so.