<p>why so many people want to take BL with Pang? Is MAYORAL not too good?</p>
<p>What makes you think people would rather take it with Pang? Most people I know don’t particularly like Pang and would rather have Henary or Russell (Mayoral must be new, never heard/seen his name before). </p>
<p>Probably because most of the lab sections associated with Mayoral’s lecture are on Saturdays (which is a new thing due to the high demand for the 14 series lab classes)</p>
<p>Pang has good review on bruinwalk. Mayoral probably started teaching ths quarter, no idea about hime/her. I took 14B more than a year ago, pretty scared about taking BL.</p>
<p>I took it with Pang and thought it was fine. I would do some review beforehand (ESPECIALLY TITRATIONS) if you’re worried, because his lectures don’t go into a lot of detail, but he does cover everything you would need to know for his exams. His exams are mostly calculation based and knowledge of the labs/what kind of math did you do for the labs/what compounds were in the labs and why did you need them etc is what will help you study for the exams. Labs depend on how picky your TA is and how competent you are at doing the labs, so what professor you have has little bearing on the lab portion of your grade which is the majority of the final grade anyway. </p>
<p>Pang’s supposed to be very hard. Chem 14bl isn’t really related to 14b, so I wouldn’t worry about that too much. It’s mostly performance based. If you do everything correctly, your data will be good and your lab reports won’t be too difficult to complete. It’s very time consuming, so plan accordingly. </p>
<p>Pang is not hard. He is very fair and is a great professor. He makes himself readily available to his students by offering plenty of office hours throughout the week (I think there’s an hour each day) and he’s super nice and helpful. The labs are not based on accuracy, except for the last lab where about a third of the points depends on how close you get to the actual value. That being said, it doesn’t mean you can just barely do the work and expect a good grade. You still have to be competent in chemistry concepts and experimental techniques. </p>
<p>His tests are straightforward and as long as you understand the procedures and stuff you do in lab, then you’ll do fine on the tests. Your experience may be different for the 14 series of chem, but at least that’s the way he is with 20L. </p>
<p>To clarify, the labs are graded on accuracy. At least in my section, if your experimental data was off, then you lost a few points, which were significant since the labs are only worth about 15-20 points each. This applied to all of the labs we did, so it may have changed since I took it. </p>
<p>I’m going to submit an evaluation on Mayoral before the final and grades. To begin, my friend, who has a high gpa took this class before and warned me against taking it, because he ended up with a C+. On the first day of class, this professor will tell you that this class is very doable, and that he does not curve (the average will be a C+). At this point in time, I must have been focused so intensely on a hot chick, because I clearly should have gotten the hell out of there. Not running out of there like the last 50 meters of a marathon was my first and most fatal mistake – a mistake which lead me to embark on an adventure that is most tragic, an adventure which is embodied in this comedic, yet accurate post, or essay, or admonition or whatever it seems like. </p>
<p>First things first. What I disliked about him is his style of teaching. Most professors understand that students have other priorities and responsibilities, and care enough to explicitly tell students that the tests will either be based on the powerpoints or the book, not both. Mayoral does not. Mayoral is under the hilarious misconception that Chem BL will be the only class that her students will be taking this quarter. He believes that the students enrolled have travelled far and wide, from the deepest and most obscure corners of the earth to UCLA, in order to enroll in this class. Furthermore, he thinks that all his students have lived the first 18-20 years of their lives seeking this moment—a moment to learn from the master of titration, acids, and bases. And last but not least, Mayoral gives off the impression that BL will be absolutely crucial for students to learn in order to continue living successful, fruitful lives—a discussion which I will save for another time. </p>
<p>One day, I decided to really take this class seriously and see how I can better prepare myself for his tests, which should probably be renamed to “pigs in a slaughterhouse”. I asked him during office hours what we should study, and after giving it quite a bit of thought, he was kind enough to brief me on his testing protocol, which I will give you a glimpse of: read all the chapters assigned and memorize them, study all the lab handouts (10-20 pages each roughly, about 10 of them = 150-200 pages), and make sure you also memorize my powerpoints. After hearing this, I once again failed to dart out of his office hours immediately and drop the class. Now that I think about it, I must have been staring at yet another hot chick, because not dropping this class like Skrillex drops his bass was my second and equally fatal mistake, causing my gpa to weep uncontrollably as it repents for my duo of fatal mistakes. </p>
<p>Anyways, the next point of attack will focus on his tests. His style of testing is somewhat a combination of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, and Kim Jong Un’s attempt at firing a rocket to space. In other words, the test is so bloody ruthless that it was actually funny—I actually LOL-ed during the test after seeing some of the questions. On the second midterm we had, he tested us on so much material not covered in notes, lecture, or all other facets of information that he expected us to study, and even the TAs felt it was absolutely unfair. On top of that, he purposely adds numerous trick questions in there to scam fatigued test takers, as if 75 multiple choice questions (a third of which are big paragraph/graphs questions) were not already enough to transform even the most astute test takers into weary old geezers. The average was a 64% – keep in mind, this class is not curved. </p>
<p>This class, by far, is the most difficult class i have come across during my more than ¾ finished career at UCLA. I used to laugh at people who attempted warn about this class thinking that they were overreacting. Unfortunately for me, this was my third fatal mistake. Do not take this class unless you have no other choice and cannot graduate without it. Actually, scratch that. Just take my word for it, and don’t take this class. </p>
<p>Sadly, both lectures are full now! Wait for the summer session???</p>
<p>summer session might already be full since enrollment started in February…</p>
<p>Is Maher M Henary better?</p>
<p>@NathanielN: Are you sure your friend was talking about Mayoral? This current quarter is the first time he’s ever taught any class.</p>
<p>Update: I looked through Nathaniel’s post history, and he’s a current high school student applying to college. I doubt he knows who Mayoral or Pang are. Anyways, here’s my 2 cents. Henary is very good, Mayoral is very good, Pang is not as good as either of them.</p>