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Maher Henary

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Easiness 2.8 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 2.5 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 2.5 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 3.1 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 20, 2020
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A

I took this lab when it was all online, so take this review with a grain of salt.

I actually enjoyed the labs, even though we didn't actually get to do the labs. We just watched short videos of TAs doing the labs and used their collected data for the pre and post lab reports. I did not enjoy the actual lectures as much, just because it was a little difficult to understand him and he didn't really use his online platform that well. He was super accommodating with the global situation, giving us ample time for the midterm and final.
I would say that attending his lectures was helpful in writing up the post-labs. Some of the analysis questions on the lab would be a little funky, but he would usually cover all the post-lab logistics in his lectures. Also, he went over a lot of examples in lecture that seemed irrelevant, but they showed up on the midterm and final! Although the lectures were pretty unengaging, I found that they were pretty important in getting a solid grade in the class.
Also, if you have questions about the pre/post labs, ASK YOUR TA. Different TAs look for different things in the lab reports, and more importantly, may even have different answers for the same questions. I went to office hours for a different TA and used her formula but got marked off because my TA did that problem completely differently.
Honestly, I think Henary tries really hard to accommodate his students and create a conducive learning environment. He has A LOT of office hours and really encourages his students to attend and ask questions. He can be a little vague in what he wants, but for any specifics, I would just ask your TA, since they're the ones doing all the grading anyway.

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Nov. 12, 2016
Quarter: Spring 2016
Grade: A

I love Professor Henary! He did have extremely heavy accent, and made me frustrating for the first few weeks. However, his English is understandable, and you will get used to it (from the perspective of an international student who is not an expert in English). He explained the concepts very clearly, and he often repeated what he thought is important, and he also spoke slowly, so it's not hard to follow him during the class. His lectures are engaging and inspiring. The pace of the lectures was alright.
His texts came directly from the slides. Midterm was EASY. Final was harder, but was fair and doable. I believed everyone did worse than the midterm, and he curved anyways, so not bad.
Overall, 30AL offered by him was a great class. I prefer Professor Henary over Pang, just because Henary spoke much more slowly than Pang, and his tests were much easier.

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 18, 2020
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A

This review is relevant to Chem 14BL taken online during the pandemic.
The professor was overall very accommodating of the situation, and he made his final cover only the topics after the midterm. His lectures definitely are not the most clear and you don't really need to attend them to succeed as long as you work out the problems on the slides on your own + understand the concepts. The content is mostly all a review of Chem 14B; the only new information is titration problems.
One problem a lot of students had was inconsistencies in grading since the professor didn't provide a standardized rubric (so the TAs were all telling the students different things). Just make sure to email your TA with any clarifications and don't rely on what other students from different TAs tell you. Overall, my TA (shoutout to Roberto!) was super lenient and understanding.
We have one post-lab and one pre-lab due every week, 1 midterm, 1 final, and 1 CPR assignment. The post-lab and pre-lab is a lot of busy work. I would recommend joining a group chat with the rest of the students. Also if you can find someone that would be willing to share their past labs with you it would make your life a lot easier.

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 17, 2020
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A

I took this class during the pandemic so there were obviously a lot of changes pertaining to conducting the actual experiment. Therefore, we watched lab experiment videos during the lab. The workload got a bit tedious at some point but as long as you stay on top of it, you're good. Understanding specific instructions from TAs would help since they are grading. He did not test us on any foreign subject which is great. The midterms and finals were fair. Overall, a pretty good class! The professor is kinda quirky which is funny :)

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CHEM 20L
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 22, 2021
Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A

I don't know why people are hating on Henary. His class was pretty straightforward, he was pretty eager to help in his office hours as well but no one showed up most of the time. It will probably be 10 times harder in person tho not gonna lie

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 13, 2020
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A

We took this class online (lol) so it was quite odd, but it thankfully meant that we didn't have to do any of the labs. Some of the post-labs are tedious, but both the midterm and final were not too bad. Make sure you read the slides, do his practice exam, and do the pre-lab questions before the exam and you'll be in good shape. Also it's very dependent on your TA so make sure you get on your TA's good side lol.

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CHEM 20L
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 16, 2021
Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A

Professor Henary's lectures are not very engaging and are often confusing. Sometimes he will explain a simple concept but will make it seem complicated. However, Henary lectures slides so if you know what's on the slides you'll be fine.
The TA's in the class all grade differently which can be frustrating when you are trying to solve questions for the lab reports. I luckily got a more lenient TA but I know there were TA's that were more strict. The prelabs are usually pretty easy and can be finished quickly but the post labs definitely take some time so don't procrastinate on them. The post labs take long sometimes not because of solving the problems but because you have to figure out what is expected of you.
There is only one midterm and Henary does not tell you what you did wrong. You have to directly ask your TA where you missed points. If your test was graded incorrectly you would never know. The midterm and the final are reasonable and grades balance out if you get good grades on the lab reports.
Overall, this class with Henary is okay. There are definitely some complaints but it is very doable and not too difficult. You can definitely learn to work around the issues in this class.

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CHEM 14CL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Dec. 9, 2021
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: N/A

It's best if you avoid taking the class with Henary. He is not a great lecturer and runs through his lecture slides relatively quickly. While some of the topics are not too difficult, Henary's explanations make them confusing and difficult to follow. I would suggest taking the class with another professor who gives clearer explanations. Henary does a poor job at preparing students for exams because he does not provide sufficient practice material. At most, you get a practice midterm exam and practice final exam. Even then, numerous answers to the practice exams were wrong. If you do take the class with Henary, I suggest joining the class group chats so you can find the correct answers to practice materials or taking another professor.

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June 21, 2019
Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: A

Legit could not understand a word this guy said the whole entire time. I recommend coming to lecture, grabbing the notes and ditching. If you had AP Chem experience and you did well in Chem 20B you’ll be fine. The final is a little harder than I was expecting though - so you do need to study for that.

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March 12, 2019
Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: B

This class is tedious, where the consists of two long lab blocks and continuous lab write-ups over and over which are graded pretty harshly if your numbers are off. This is a majority of your grade and takes up a significant portion of your time. Furthermore, Professor Henary's lectures are extremely difficult to understand, as his accent makes the class almost incomprehensible, if it wasn't for his slides that are more clear. The tests aren't too bad, but the final featured a significant amount of spectra analysis, which if you are not taking Chem 30B alongside or before may prove difficult.

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
June 20, 2020

I took this lab when it was all online, so take this review with a grain of salt.

I actually enjoyed the labs, even though we didn't actually get to do the labs. We just watched short videos of TAs doing the labs and used their collected data for the pre and post lab reports. I did not enjoy the actual lectures as much, just because it was a little difficult to understand him and he didn't really use his online platform that well. He was super accommodating with the global situation, giving us ample time for the midterm and final.
I would say that attending his lectures was helpful in writing up the post-labs. Some of the analysis questions on the lab would be a little funky, but he would usually cover all the post-lab logistics in his lectures. Also, he went over a lot of examples in lecture that seemed irrelevant, but they showed up on the midterm and final! Although the lectures were pretty unengaging, I found that they were pretty important in getting a solid grade in the class.
Also, if you have questions about the pre/post labs, ASK YOUR TA. Different TAs look for different things in the lab reports, and more importantly, may even have different answers for the same questions. I went to office hours for a different TA and used her formula but got marked off because my TA did that problem completely differently.
Honestly, I think Henary tries really hard to accommodate his students and create a conducive learning environment. He has A LOT of office hours and really encourages his students to attend and ask questions. He can be a little vague in what he wants, but for any specifics, I would just ask your TA, since they're the ones doing all the grading anyway.

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CHEM 30AL
Quarter: Spring 2016
Grade: A
Nov. 12, 2016

I love Professor Henary! He did have extremely heavy accent, and made me frustrating for the first few weeks. However, his English is understandable, and you will get used to it (from the perspective of an international student who is not an expert in English). He explained the concepts very clearly, and he often repeated what he thought is important, and he also spoke slowly, so it's not hard to follow him during the class. His lectures are engaging and inspiring. The pace of the lectures was alright.
His texts came directly from the slides. Midterm was EASY. Final was harder, but was fair and doable. I believed everyone did worse than the midterm, and he curved anyways, so not bad.
Overall, 30AL offered by him was a great class. I prefer Professor Henary over Pang, just because Henary spoke much more slowly than Pang, and his tests were much easier.

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
June 18, 2020

This review is relevant to Chem 14BL taken online during the pandemic.
The professor was overall very accommodating of the situation, and he made his final cover only the topics after the midterm. His lectures definitely are not the most clear and you don't really need to attend them to succeed as long as you work out the problems on the slides on your own + understand the concepts. The content is mostly all a review of Chem 14B; the only new information is titration problems.
One problem a lot of students had was inconsistencies in grading since the professor didn't provide a standardized rubric (so the TAs were all telling the students different things). Just make sure to email your TA with any clarifications and don't rely on what other students from different TAs tell you. Overall, my TA (shoutout to Roberto!) was super lenient and understanding.
We have one post-lab and one pre-lab due every week, 1 midterm, 1 final, and 1 CPR assignment. The post-lab and pre-lab is a lot of busy work. I would recommend joining a group chat with the rest of the students. Also if you can find someone that would be willing to share their past labs with you it would make your life a lot easier.

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
June 17, 2020

I took this class during the pandemic so there were obviously a lot of changes pertaining to conducting the actual experiment. Therefore, we watched lab experiment videos during the lab. The workload got a bit tedious at some point but as long as you stay on top of it, you're good. Understanding specific instructions from TAs would help since they are grading. He did not test us on any foreign subject which is great. The midterms and finals were fair. Overall, a pretty good class! The professor is kinda quirky which is funny :)

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CHEM 20L
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
June 22, 2021

I don't know why people are hating on Henary. His class was pretty straightforward, he was pretty eager to help in his office hours as well but no one showed up most of the time. It will probably be 10 times harder in person tho not gonna lie

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CHEM 14BL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2020
Grade: A
June 13, 2020

We took this class online (lol) so it was quite odd, but it thankfully meant that we didn't have to do any of the labs. Some of the post-labs are tedious, but both the midterm and final were not too bad. Make sure you read the slides, do his practice exam, and do the pre-lab questions before the exam and you'll be in good shape. Also it's very dependent on your TA so make sure you get on your TA's good side lol.

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CHEM 20L
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: A
June 16, 2021

Professor Henary's lectures are not very engaging and are often confusing. Sometimes he will explain a simple concept but will make it seem complicated. However, Henary lectures slides so if you know what's on the slides you'll be fine.
The TA's in the class all grade differently which can be frustrating when you are trying to solve questions for the lab reports. I luckily got a more lenient TA but I know there were TA's that were more strict. The prelabs are usually pretty easy and can be finished quickly but the post labs definitely take some time so don't procrastinate on them. The post labs take long sometimes not because of solving the problems but because you have to figure out what is expected of you.
There is only one midterm and Henary does not tell you what you did wrong. You have to directly ask your TA where you missed points. If your test was graded incorrectly you would never know. The midterm and the final are reasonable and grades balance out if you get good grades on the lab reports.
Overall, this class with Henary is okay. There are definitely some complaints but it is very doable and not too difficult. You can definitely learn to work around the issues in this class.

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CHEM 14CL
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: N/A
Dec. 9, 2021

It's best if you avoid taking the class with Henary. He is not a great lecturer and runs through his lecture slides relatively quickly. While some of the topics are not too difficult, Henary's explanations make them confusing and difficult to follow. I would suggest taking the class with another professor who gives clearer explanations. Henary does a poor job at preparing students for exams because he does not provide sufficient practice material. At most, you get a practice midterm exam and practice final exam. Even then, numerous answers to the practice exams were wrong. If you do take the class with Henary, I suggest joining the class group chats so you can find the correct answers to practice materials or taking another professor.

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CHEM 20L
Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: A
June 21, 2019

Legit could not understand a word this guy said the whole entire time. I recommend coming to lecture, grabbing the notes and ditching. If you had AP Chem experience and you did well in Chem 20B you’ll be fine. The final is a little harder than I was expecting though - so you do need to study for that.

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CHEM 30AL
Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: B
March 12, 2019

This class is tedious, where the consists of two long lab blocks and continuous lab write-ups over and over which are graded pretty harshly if your numbers are off. This is a majority of your grade and takes up a significant portion of your time. Furthermore, Professor Henary's lectures are extremely difficult to understand, as his accent makes the class almost incomprehensible, if it wasn't for his slides that are more clear. The tests aren't too bad, but the final featured a significant amount of spectra analysis, which if you are not taking Chem 30B alongside or before may prove difficult.

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