Don't believe the grade distribution! There's no way 22.5% of the class got over 99%. This class is hard! Even though Prado is the clearest lecturer and really helpful, the tests are always a time crunch and you end up missing so many points on small details. I know a lot of my friends are struggling also with the workload that this class gives, as organic chemistry is a ton of practice! The grading scale is really tough too! I expected a grading scale more lenient for organic chemistry, like A- is is 89% to 92.9%, but her current grading scale has A- at a 90%! Like, A+ is 99% and above, which is the highest I've ever heard of and it's killing my overachiever friends! So yeah, I love Prado so much; she's the most helpful teacher you could get for this subject, but the grading scale's way tougher than is shown on this site...I'm expecting like a B after the final. Crossing my fingers she'll make the grading scale a bit more lenient during our quarter!

I enjoyed Prado's class so much! Unlike the reviewer before me, I felt this class was really challenging, as I had no background in organic chemistry at all. Though I struggled to get down the many new concepts, Prado was definitely the best teacher to guide me through them. Her pacing through the material was perfect, and I had time to understand what I was learning through the many Khan Acadmey videos, Sapling homework assignments and readings she posted! She gives super helpful tips that she used as a student, and I still use them in 14D! It is true that this class relies heavily on memorization, but a lot of organic chemistry bases itself in rules that must be memorized. That is just the nature of this course, and as a person who sucks at memorization, I had to practice and practice and practice to get this stuff down! Though 14D is a whole new level as it has to do more with reaction mechanisms, I do feel Prado has given me a solid grasp of the fundamentals necessary to understand and do well in the class. I never knew such a helpful, knowledgeable, and compassionate teacher existed at UCLA!!!

This class was too easy and did not encourage any critical thinking. It focuses on memorization. The final wasn’t cumulative and you leave the class not remembering anything from the beginning, which made 14D hard.