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Rating for Craig Hill
Chemistry and Biochemistry Department at Cal Poly, SLO

CHEM 124
Freshman
Grade Earned: A
Required (Support)
12:45 am, Jun 29, 2001

Despite what everyone else has said, this was an easy class. We never had any homework because we always finished the labs in class. From what I have heard the other chem professors give a lot of homework problems and difficult lab write-ups. For the labs, no one understood what they were doing so we just asked the TAs for help and they would tell us what to do. The labs didn't help clarify the material but we never had to do formal lab write-ups. The lectures were extremely boring. When I had him again for 125 I realized that I didn't need to go to the lectures because everything made more sense in the book. I studied a little on Thursday nights for the weekly Friday quiz/test and usually did ok. Just learn how to do the problems the night before the test and again for the final. His tests were all multiple choice so if you are good at guessing, take this class. The bad thing is that he gives no partial credit. He is a new teacher, so he's still learning how to teach. He tried more for 125 by giving us printed notes and we had to fill in the blanks, but I didn't find this helpful at all. I like Dr. Hill as a person, but I feel that he doesn't have a good teaching style. I also thought that 125 was harder than 124. For most of us engineers, we don't use chemistry anymore after 125 so who cares if you learn it or not? So, if you are motivated enought to teach yourself and you don't care about actually learning or understanding anything then take Dr. Hill.

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