Best Professors for Chem 6A and Math 10A?

astrina
Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:02:08 +0000

I TAed for Crowell several times. His lectures are heavy on the theory and background, but his exams are nothing but simple applications of concepts. The questions are really predictable – they resemble the homework and practice problems 100%. Plus he gives you practice exams that are nearly identical to the real thing. I never saw a significant change in difficulty between the midterms and final; I did better on the final than on one of the exams. And the i-clickers aren’t such a big deal. Just get a friend to take yours along. It’s not right, but in a lecture hall of 400 people it’s going to be impossible to spot.

tl;dr - After spending 5 years in the chem department, if I saw Crowell on a list of possible professors, I’d sign up for his class without hesitation. Hoeger would be #2.