Everything was alright for me up until the final. Completely blew me out of the water, especially considering how easy I thought his past exams were. I think Lavelle realized the practice tests the UAs make were being a little too helpful, and decided to up things up, only the way he did this just makes everything so ambiguous. The TAs are never on the same page about anything. A whole question on the test was dedicated to a topic many of them assured wouldn't be on the test! I also expected a little bit more from Dr. Lavelle. He's fine at teaching and offers lots of office hours, but lazy when it comes to writing the test. Both on the midterm and the final there were egregious mistakes that wasted a lot of time for everyone. On the final, the TAs pointed out a mistake, which made me cross out all my work and redo the problem, only to say 15 minutes later that their correction was a mistake! so I had to do the problem yet again. Maybe this was just a one-time thing, but it doesn't change the fact that there were plenty of examples where the TAs had to get our attention mid-exam to explain an error to us. You'd think that if roughly 1000 students were going to take an exam, you'd put a little more attention to how the questions would be perceived. I'm disappointed in my grade, mostly because it was greatly affected by the mistakes and trick questions on the final. Not impossible to get an A, especially if you pay special attention to the past exams.

Good class. Should be fairly easy if you took chem in high school. The midterm was mostly just drawing lewis structures. The final was tough though, and had some tricky questions. The key to succeed is really exposing yourself to a bunch of different problems and getting in a lot of practice to deepen your understanding. He himself says that repeatedly too. His three mini tests were not bad either, it's important to practice once again so you're prepared to take on any type of problem.

I'm selling Lavelle's worked-out solutions manual of the probelms in the book which is important if you wanna get a lot of practice for the exams, as well as previous exams for cheap! Text me at ********** if you're interested

I dropped this course, but the useless reader and workbook can't be returned. $50 or best offer,
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Dr. Lavelle: stop exploiting us.

Lavelle is a meme and he knows it. He will flex about Chemistry Community and his HOURS of additional support before the midterm and final. He will make random comments during class, then get an entire lecture hall to laugh for him. But underneath this meme, he is a sneaky man. He gives off the illusion that he wants to help you, then writes a final that purposefully screws you over.

The class topics were harder than 14A but was still doable. Would advise on studying all topics for the midterm instead of just focusing on thermodynamics in case future midterms are like this years. Selling past tests and midterms at *************

Professor Lavelle. The most helpful and bright-spirited chemistry professor you could have. He’s got office hours, discussion sections, review sessions in Week 10 for each branch of chemistry covered - 100+ hours of review in Week 10, to be precise! Even over asynchronous lectures, he was engaging, funny, and always reviewed the fundamental concepts before building on them. And Chemistry Community is awesome for homework help! I’ll be back for Chem 14B.

You will definitely get an A in this class as long as you do all the required textbook problems, go to lecture and take good notes, and do the midterm /final review posted by the TA's for the course.

If you took AP Chem in high school, the class content will feel almost like a review. But if you didn't, Lavelle's got you covered. If the lectures were confusing or boring, he organizes a lot of UA sessions and review sessions to help (I personally didn't attend UA sessions but sometimes the UAs will put their review sheets in a Google Drive folder). His damn Chemistry Community ( I swear every lecture he has to brag about the amount of views he has gotten): kinda tedious having to submit posts every week but it can be useful if you are looking for explanations for certain HW problems. Lastly, the best way to prepare for the tests is to go over textbook questions. Sapling doesn't help as much (so I wouldn't recommend studying off of Sapling), but test questions are framed like textbook questions and have similar difficulty levels.
Overall, Lavelle was pretty accommodating considering COVID and the class was not as bad as many people make it out to be. Just utilize all the resources he gives you and you should be fine.

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The concepts in this class are harder than that of 14A, but you can still get an A in class, just attend a UA session weekly, do ALL the hw problems as he puts some on the tests, and don't fall behind on lectures.
Lavelle is actually a very kind professor and he gave us an opportunity to earn 4 points extra credit on both MT2 and the final. (I completely disagree with the review saying he was self-infatuated).
If you put in the work you'll easily be able to get an A, def would take Lavelle again if I could!
STATS: MT1 95%, MT2 96%, Final 93%