I really enjoyed this class. Professor Prado taught this class along with Professor Caram and Casey, but she was the main one who lectured and taught the class. She took on the class last minute as our initial professor could no longer do so (she began teaching Friday of week 1).
She uses slides that are posted on CCLE, but she writes on the slides during lecture, so I'd recommend attending class. There are clicker questions during lecture and it's hard not to get full credit; there are bunch of opportunities and you get half a point just for participating. There are weekly quizzes (Friday during lecture) which aren't too bad. I didn't read the textbook too much but used it more as a reference if I didn't understand something. There are HWs for every lecture but they don't have to be turned in.
I really like Dr. Prado and the class overall. She's really nice and very approachable. She is one my favorite professors here at UCLA and I think the class overall was appropriately paced. Definitely recommend.
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Professor Prado is very nice and shows that she cares about students wellbeing. She is very understanding about stress and work, so she makes sure to assign things with time to complete them. In the summer, the course is fast but she gives practice tests that are VERY similar to the actual tests. The tests are a bit hard to finish in time in my opinion, BUT they are open note and stuff so its chill. She kinda of goes off topic a lot during the class, so i found it easier to just watch the recordings on my own time. If you want to take this class in the summer, pick her for sure.

Dr. Prado is an AMAZING professor, definitely one of the best I've had. She makes her lectures really engaging and has slides + recorded lectures so its easy to follow. Her explanations help a lot and she breaks everything down into really simple terms as well. I was worried before this class because I didn't do so well in ochem, but Dr. Prado made me love this class.

tbh shes chill! its rly nice ngl chem is so hard and im so bad at it but lwk she got me thru!! + I think she will get better at teaching this course over time since this was her first time having to teach 14c!

Dr. Prado was the best professor I had at UCLA, her class was so fun and she is incredible at teaching. She makes learning fun and makes all the topics make sense. After her class i really felt like I was putting my best foot forward for 14D. If you get the chance to take her class, you absolutely should.

Because the class is intensive and crammed into six weeks, there was a lot of content for each slide set but i thought it was completely okay because lectures are recorded, meaning you can take as much time as you need to understand content. Professor Prado also had awesome clarity and explained concepts very thoroughly. She made it easy for me to grasp with no chemistry background. For the summer class, there was only homework, discussion, midterm and final. Discussion was very easy and could usually be completed in under 20 minutes.

My experience is certainly different because I took the class in the summer (6 week session) so it was easier to do well given it was my only class. Prado recommends that you read the textbook before lecture to have a a basic understanding, i think I did that for the first 2 or 3 chapters then stopped and fully relied on her slides. Her slides are very helpful, and I never woke up for class so I would later watch and pause the lecture recordings as I went taking detailed notes. Doing that made me get an A with no huge difficulty and no chemistry background, just make sure you know how to do every practice problem in the slides. Homework is also useful for practice. Prado did not scare us with any new types of problems on the midterm or final so just make sure you prepare with all resources given and you will not be surprised.

Dr. Prado was a great lecture with really through and easy to understand slides that I've been referencing through the rest of the 14 series. Midterm and final were open note and on Gradescope, they were pretty fair and she offers lots of extra practice material. She said she used to use iClicker, but decided to stop this quarter (rip participation points), so attendance was only mandatory for discussion where you would work on a worksheet in a group. Would take again, and probably study more this time.

She didn't use iclicker which was nice, but she was pretty inflexible, strict grader, sees regrade requests as arguing for points when it's over something so small

If I could describe Dr. Prado in one words, it's inflexible. She doesn't accommodate outside of office hours, so if you have a job or internship, it'll probably be difficult to meet with her for help. She's the first professor I've had to not even propose extra times. You're just supposed to save your lunch break for the evening so you can accommodate her and make her office hours, I guess.

Also, super strict with regrade requests. I requested a regrade request for literally 1 point and she scolded me for "arguing for points" and being unprofessional, and I'm definitely not the type of person to be rude to a professor. So that felt kinda patronizing, like she just wanted me to shut up lol. Also, I don't think regrade requests are anonymous, so beware.

Now for the midterm and final. I survived 31B with Pablo with an A, and after everyone telling me that was the hardest class, I thought this would be fine. But I got a 73% on the midterm (I had Covid she couldn't accommodate for), and I studied super hard for the final and even took two days of work off just to study and got a 96%. With 100% in every other category (homework, discussion), a 96% on the final wasn't enough to make up for the midterm. There is no grading scheme, so the class is super unforgiving. Not only that, but she's super unforgiving and refuses to round up your grade if you're less than half a percent away from an A- in the class, considering you took the midterm at the height of having Covid, were unable to make office hours for extra help, and got a 96% on the final when the average was an 81.

Excellent class and Dr. Prado is extremely sweet and has tons of extra credits to offer. Definitely take her if she's teaching!
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