Professor
Julie Ko
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Fall 2025 - I loved Professor Ko! She was pretty straightforward in her explanations (in my opinion) since the lectures are question-based as it's a reverse classroom course. She was really relaxed/lets you sleep and you can tell she's passionate about the material. I will say this class is mostly busy work/participation points in my opinion as every assignment does have weight even tho they're mainly completion, but that also means you can do relatively bad of the tests and be ok generally. I took AP Biology with an amazing teacher and AP Chemistry in high school, so I may be biased but I believed the class was relatively easy (but again, I did have exposure to the material prior to this course). I know some of my friends didn't do as will on the first AOL and still finished with A's in the end as there's a lot of extra practice you can do/videos online but keep in mind it's application-based questions over straight memorization.
Fall 2025 - I loved Professor Ko! She was pretty straightforward in her explanations (in my opinion) since the lectures are question-based as it's a reverse classroom course. She was really relaxed/lets you sleep and you can tell she's passionate about the material. I will say this class is mostly busy work/participation points in my opinion as every assignment does have weight even tho they're mainly completion, but that also means you can do relatively bad of the tests and be ok generally. I took AP Biology with an amazing teacher and AP Chemistry in high school, so I may be biased but I believed the class was relatively easy (but again, I did have exposure to the material prior to this course). I know some of my friends didn't do as will on the first AOL and still finished with A's in the end as there's a lot of extra practice you can do/videos online but keep in mind it's application-based questions over straight memorization.
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Spring 2026 - literally everything in this class is true/false so be careful. the content goes much in depth and the textbooks especially go very in-depth (and honestly more than you need to know for the tests). iclickers are graded on accuracy and discussion sections are definitely a lot more stressful in this class. at the end though there is a pretty nice curve/buffer so i remember i ended with an a instead of an a- (which i was supposed to end with). honestly for this class read the textbook and take notes and check with cpo for past tests because i found that practice tests are really the best way to test your understanding of the content. good luck and congrats for being done with the 7 series!
Spring 2026 - literally everything in this class is true/false so be careful. the content goes much in depth and the textbooks especially go very in-depth (and honestly more than you need to know for the tests). iclickers are graded on accuracy and discussion sections are definitely a lot more stressful in this class. at the end though there is a pretty nice curve/buffer so i remember i ended with an a instead of an a- (which i was supposed to end with). honestly for this class read the textbook and take notes and check with cpo for past tests because i found that practice tests are really the best way to test your understanding of the content. good luck and congrats for being done with the 7 series!
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Fall 2023 - Dr. Ko is in my top 2 most amazing professors I've taken at UCLA, she is so sweet and her lectures are organized so logically and beautifully. I never walked out of lecture confused because she's just so good at explaining. The grading and midterms were also super reasonable. I love her!!!
Fall 2023 - Dr. Ko is in my top 2 most amazing professors I've taken at UCLA, she is so sweet and her lectures are organized so logically and beautifully. I never walked out of lecture confused because she's just so good at explaining. The grading and midterms were also super reasonable. I love her!!!
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