<p>What professors tend to be the easiest/best for Math 31A, 31B and Chem 20A, 20B?</p>
<p>Most people seem to like Scerri for Chem 20a… Not sure about Math though.</p>
<p>For math, by far take Brown for 31a in fall and 31b in winter.</p>
<p>Brown is great. Only take Scerri if you’re good at chem and can handle his arrogance</p>
<p>If you let a professor’s attitude get to you, I guess Scerri wouldn’t be good for you. But in a class with 350 other pre-meds and engineers, you’d probably wouldn’t get any personal interaction for his attitude to affect you. Otherwise, I love Scerri’s class. He tests out of his course reader and lectures, which is both good and bad. Good thing is you have very minimal reading to do, but the bad thing is you have to buy his expensive course reader and you have to catch what he says during lectures. My midterm for chem 20A in the fall had a question of which the answer Scerri had only mentioned in passing during one lecture.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve only heard great things about Brown, so take him if you have the chance.</p>
<p>And about Scerri… he’s a theory guy, so yea.</p>
<p>Also, is Bauer’s teaching (Chem), take her. She’s a VERY GENEROUS grader. (There’s even freaken extra credit opportunities. Freaken unheard of!)</p>
<p>silvercross: If you had continued onto Chem 30A, you’d know that Merlic gave extra credit for both of his midterms this quarter and historically has done so. Those were some very delicious 6ish extra credit points.</p>
<p>And regarding Scerri’s conceptual approach: I think that might just be for chem 20A. I know people who had him for 14A and 14B and he wasn’t as conceptual. Still with the course reader though.</p>
<p>LOL how’s this for personal interaction with Scerri: during parents’ weekend, I walked into the Kerckhoff Coffeehouse to meet my parents, only to find that they had randomly struck up a conversation with him and then recognized his name from when I told them I was taking his class. All I could think to say to him was “Uh…I’m not much of a chemistry person” So much awkwardness haha</p>
<p>Anyone have prof recommendations for the MATH 32-33 series, and the physics 1 and 4 series?</p>
<p>Butler was great for Math 32A this quarter, but alas, he won’t be teaching next year.</p>
<p>^^ Physics: Whitten. Heard this guy is incredibly easy. (Although, I think this quarter, the midterm was kinda hard or something. At least, that’s what my friend said. I just think they underestimated him.)</p>
<p>For math 32b, Killip’s too not bad. (There might be better though.) Just be aware, his midterms are kinda easy, so you get a ridiculously high curve. Like for the second midterm, the curve looked like an exponential growth function. (Not good if you’re even slightly below average.) 20% of grade is homework, so that’s a nice buffer.</p>
<p>Does anyone know any easy/good professors for the Chem 14 series, especially Chem 14a? I heard about Scerri, but what about Kabehie or whoever else? I went on to URSA and found that he is going to teach Chem 14a this winter. Thank you!</p>
<p>What do you guys think about math 31bh? I’m thinking about taking it in fall but I might just stick with regular 31b.</p>
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<p>He’s alright for physics, he’s works on particle accelerators, high tech stuff. Usually he has 2 midterms, one very easy and one very difficult.</p>
<p>I’d recommend Kucherenko for Math 32B (which is what I took with her). She does have an accent, but other than that she is really nice and explains the material clearly and basically teaches theory then follows that with some clear examples; very straightforward.</p>
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<p>I think it hasn’t been offered in many years and apparently won’t be offered next year.</p>
<p>Oh, ok.
I really wish UCLA would keep their websites up to date so i didn’t ask questions like this :)</p>
<p>Which site?</p>
<p>I just came across this one while I was researching the math sequences:
[UCLA</a> Department of Mathematics](<a href=“http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/courses/math31ab/index.shtml]UCLA”>http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/courses/math31ab/index.shtml)
Anyways, thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Actually I think this is the link that talks about 31bh, I read about it somewhere.
[UCLA</a> Department of Mathematics](<a href=“http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/courses/topics.shtml]UCLA”>http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/courses/topics.shtml)
Either way, it doesn’t matter now.</p>