Johnny Pang
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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4.6
Overall Rating
Based on 199 Users
Easiness 3.9 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.6 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.2 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.6 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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51.8%
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87.9%
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75.1%
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44.6%
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26.7%
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40.9%
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35.4%
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33.3%
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30.4%
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32.9%
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36.4%
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35.4%
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40.0%
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28.7%
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34.9%
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44.1%
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29.9%
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39.8%
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42.7%
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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 19, 2021

Lectures: Clear and to the point. Doesn't waste your time. You download some powerpoint and listen. Talks about everything you need to know for this class and does a really good job.

Homework: Does a good job checking for comprehension.

Virtual Lab Rooms: Given the online environment, these do quite a good job of introducing students to various techniques. It's obviously not doing the experiments yourself, but the quality of the assignments are really high and trains students not only how to do experiments, but also to use various experimental and analysis tools effectively.

Weekly Workshops: MyUCLA advertises a 2 and a half hour session. In reality, it takes about 45 to 60 minutes and we can leave when we're done. The worksheets are very relevant to the lectures and homework.

Exams: Really fair and comprehensive of lecture and lab information. Good level of difficulty. Computation and experimental application based questions mostly.

Overall: Really cool class. Too bad I couldn't take it in person. I never feel like I'm wasting time in this class even though I usually don't like chemistry.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
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March 19, 2021

this man's a g, he will literally do whatever you need to do well and he really cares about his students a lot.

take him without a second doubt in your mind as this is the easiest and most fun class I've ever taken

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
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March 18, 2021

There is literally no reason for you to not take this class with this man. Lectures are clear and concise, homework and labs were always straightforward and Pang himself is such a great person. A lot of us were taking both chem 20B and 20L at the same time, and the 20B midterm date often coincided with the 20L lab due dates. WITHOUT ANY OF US ASKING, Pang moved up his lab due dates both times the 20B midterms conflicted. If that doesn't convince you that Pang genuinely cares about us, I don't know what will.

As for the class itself, we have weekly homework and a weekly lab report, which never took more than like four hours in total. I'd definitely recommend taking 20B with 20L, as studying for 20B will basically make it so you won't have to study at all for 20L. The concepts overlap quite a bit and Pang never made his homework very difficult anyway.

Like I said - literally no reason to not like this man.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
March 14, 2021

If you listen closely to your TA, none of the labs should be too difficult. I thought the exams were somewhat tough though. You need to buy a lab notebook, lab coat, and goggles for this course.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 13, 2021

Taken during quarantine. This class is actually a fair bit of work for a lab. Its not hard, but its probably about 5-6 hours per week. All the assignments are super clear in their requirements and its pretty easy to get full points. The lab reports are a little boring cuz its literally watching a video of someone doing the lab and then writing a report off that. It requires effort to get an A, but if you dont try you could easily get a B+ at lowest. Homie Johnny Pang would give extensions on homework if there was an exam going on in 20B on the same day. I wasnt even in 20B but everyone got the extentions which was just a cool move by my man. It Covers mainly acids and bases with a few other simple topics sprinkled in.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Feb. 16, 2021

During Winter 2021, this class was virtual and I felt like his class was pretty good. The lectures were asynchronous and pretty helpful in my opinion. There was also a workshop (discussion) which had mandatory attendance every week.
There was one homework assignment per week, based on the lecture, which was about 10 questions. They usually were pretty straightforward which is nice. There was also one VLR (virtual lab room) report per week, which was tougher and longer. We had to watch some videos and basically do a lab. They weren't too bad, but he is very picky about significant figures, so be careful with them. Checking answers with others also definitely helped me.
The midterm was pretty long but pretty straightforward. It covered what we had already done and was fair.
I would take this class again and would reccomend it to others as well.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
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Dec. 18, 2020

Pang is pretty chill. Just do your work on time and you'll be fine. For the midterm the questions were straight off the study guide, make sure you do that. The final was harder, he put really stupid specific stuff on it from specific experiments so you have to like memorize the steps from lab. Overall though he's a good guy and a good teacher. I only went to OH once but he was helpful. If you email him he'll get back to you. I would recommend him.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
April 11, 2020

Professor Pang is extremely helpful! The lab sections were well-run and organized. Pang always had clear and helpful office hours and lecture notes. Only thing is this class is a lot of work with the weekly lab reports but the course material isn't too difficult!

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
March 30, 2020

Highly recommend. Labs are 3 hours each week, and you must attend each one and be on time. You turn in pre-labs and post-labs pretty much every week, which take some time but are very easy to do well on if you juts follow directions. Expect to put in about 4-8 hours of work on the reports each week. The lecture notes were helpful for the exams, but are not necessary or mandatory. The exam was very easy in my opinion, especially since all the questions on it were very similar or identical to questions on the study guide. I believe the average for the midterm was a medium to high B, and the final was an 83%. However, the final was optional because of the coronavirus this quarter. The lab reports and exams counted about the same overall for the class. 75% of the class got either an A or an A-. This class is very well structured, very clear, and easy to get an A in if you just follow directions.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
March 28, 2020

Such an easy class with Pang! The workload is honestly really annoying - just a bunch of busy work, and the TAs grade the lab reports pretty meticulously, but a 90 or above is considered an A in this class, so as long as you try, you can get an A. The midterm is really straightforward and so is the final, and they are both really similar to the study guides Pang releases. I found many of the actual labs to be quite boring and tedious (i.e. pipetting water and countless titrations), so I just honestly got through them as quickly as possible during the lab section. Most labs don't take the full 3 hours, which is also really nice!

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 19, 2021

Lectures: Clear and to the point. Doesn't waste your time. You download some powerpoint and listen. Talks about everything you need to know for this class and does a really good job.

Homework: Does a good job checking for comprehension.

Virtual Lab Rooms: Given the online environment, these do quite a good job of introducing students to various techniques. It's obviously not doing the experiments yourself, but the quality of the assignments are really high and trains students not only how to do experiments, but also to use various experimental and analysis tools effectively.

Weekly Workshops: MyUCLA advertises a 2 and a half hour session. In reality, it takes about 45 to 60 minutes and we can leave when we're done. The worksheets are very relevant to the lectures and homework.

Exams: Really fair and comprehensive of lecture and lab information. Good level of difficulty. Computation and experimental application based questions mostly.

Overall: Really cool class. Too bad I couldn't take it in person. I never feel like I'm wasting time in this class even though I usually don't like chemistry.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 19, 2021

this man's a g, he will literally do whatever you need to do well and he really cares about his students a lot.

take him without a second doubt in your mind as this is the easiest and most fun class I've ever taken

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 18, 2021

There is literally no reason for you to not take this class with this man. Lectures are clear and concise, homework and labs were always straightforward and Pang himself is such a great person. A lot of us were taking both chem 20B and 20L at the same time, and the 20B midterm date often coincided with the 20L lab due dates. WITHOUT ANY OF US ASKING, Pang moved up his lab due dates both times the 20B midterms conflicted. If that doesn't convince you that Pang genuinely cares about us, I don't know what will.

As for the class itself, we have weekly homework and a weekly lab report, which never took more than like four hours in total. I'd definitely recommend taking 20B with 20L, as studying for 20B will basically make it so you won't have to study at all for 20L. The concepts overlap quite a bit and Pang never made his homework very difficult anyway.

Like I said - literally no reason to not like this man.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
March 14, 2021

If you listen closely to your TA, none of the labs should be too difficult. I thought the exams were somewhat tough though. You need to buy a lab notebook, lab coat, and goggles for this course.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 13, 2021

Taken during quarantine. This class is actually a fair bit of work for a lab. Its not hard, but its probably about 5-6 hours per week. All the assignments are super clear in their requirements and its pretty easy to get full points. The lab reports are a little boring cuz its literally watching a video of someone doing the lab and then writing a report off that. It requires effort to get an A, but if you dont try you could easily get a B+ at lowest. Homie Johnny Pang would give extensions on homework if there was an exam going on in 20B on the same day. I wasnt even in 20B but everyone got the extentions which was just a cool move by my man. It Covers mainly acids and bases with a few other simple topics sprinkled in.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
Feb. 16, 2021

During Winter 2021, this class was virtual and I felt like his class was pretty good. The lectures were asynchronous and pretty helpful in my opinion. There was also a workshop (discussion) which had mandatory attendance every week.
There was one homework assignment per week, based on the lecture, which was about 10 questions. They usually were pretty straightforward which is nice. There was also one VLR (virtual lab room) report per week, which was tougher and longer. We had to watch some videos and basically do a lab. They weren't too bad, but he is very picky about significant figures, so be careful with them. Checking answers with others also definitely helped me.
The midterm was pretty long but pretty straightforward. It covered what we had already done and was fair.
I would take this class again and would reccomend it to others as well.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
Dec. 18, 2020

Pang is pretty chill. Just do your work on time and you'll be fine. For the midterm the questions were straight off the study guide, make sure you do that. The final was harder, he put really stupid specific stuff on it from specific experiments so you have to like memorize the steps from lab. Overall though he's a good guy and a good teacher. I only went to OH once but he was helpful. If you email him he'll get back to you. I would recommend him.

Helpful?

0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
April 11, 2020

Professor Pang is extremely helpful! The lab sections were well-run and organized. Pang always had clear and helpful office hours and lecture notes. Only thing is this class is a lot of work with the weekly lab reports but the course material isn't too difficult!

Helpful?

0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
March 30, 2020

Highly recommend. Labs are 3 hours each week, and you must attend each one and be on time. You turn in pre-labs and post-labs pretty much every week, which take some time but are very easy to do well on if you juts follow directions. Expect to put in about 4-8 hours of work on the reports each week. The lecture notes were helpful for the exams, but are not necessary or mandatory. The exam was very easy in my opinion, especially since all the questions on it were very similar or identical to questions on the study guide. I believe the average for the midterm was a medium to high B, and the final was an 83%. However, the final was optional because of the coronavirus this quarter. The lab reports and exams counted about the same overall for the class. 75% of the class got either an A or an A-. This class is very well structured, very clear, and easy to get an A in if you just follow directions.

Helpful?

0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A
March 28, 2020

Such an easy class with Pang! The workload is honestly really annoying - just a bunch of busy work, and the TAs grade the lab reports pretty meticulously, but a 90 or above is considered an A in this class, so as long as you try, you can get an A. The midterm is really straightforward and so is the final, and they are both really similar to the study guides Pang releases. I found many of the actual labs to be quite boring and tedious (i.e. pipetting water and countless titrations), so I just honestly got through them as quickly as possible during the lab section. Most labs don't take the full 3 hours, which is also really nice!

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5 of 16
4.6
Overall Rating
Based on 199 Users
Easiness 3.9 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.6 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.2 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.6 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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