CHEM 1410

Do not take this class with Metcalf. Leung makes most of the quiz questions, and his students always do better than him. Metcalf does not know what he is talking about half the time. Prepare to do a lot of online work. Only take this class if you need it for your major.

If you're an engineer, you might as well take Metcalf because he will be the professor at the next level for you. If you're A&S then you should take Leung and go ahead and get used to him. Leung writes all the quizzes, so being in his class will help much more anyways. Metcalf loves to derive formulas but his lectures don't help that much in preparing for the quizzes, he's a great guy though.

Take intro chem with Leung. There is no point in taking this class with Metcalf over Leung, unless you literally can't fit Leung's lecture times into your schedule, because Leung is the one who writes the tests. Metcalf isn't a bad teacher, but Leung is better at explaining concepts and prepares you better for his quizzes. Leung's students always had a higher average on the quizzes than Metcalf's students did, which is really no surprise because he wrote them. Intro chem is really not that bad, just put in effort to pay attention in lecture, read the textbook, and go to office hours (they actually help, especially before quizzes).

Take it with Leung. He writes the exams and Metcalf wastes your time for 50 minutes every other day

Professor Metcalf was a terrible teacher who would badmouth the other professor who made the exams. He flew threw the material as if we already knew it and acted as if he hated to teach. If someone asked a question in class about the material or the past exam, he would act as if the student was stupid. This class was discouraging, unnecessarily difficult, and made you hate chemistry. If you have to take this class, I would recommend taking a different professor or just reading the textbook.

Take this class with literally any other teacher.

This course was especially difficult because Metcalfe doesn't teach literally anything that is on the tests for the most part, he likes to teach stuff that he himself thinks is interesting, which would be great, but it's usually super advanced and no one actually cares! highly don't recommend.

Love Professor Welch!! Course is hard but his is by far the easier section!

Here's how to get an easy A/A- in this class:

- Show up to lectures, and pay attention (don't mess around on your computer). Kids complain about how hard this class is while they're the ones who are on Facebook and stuff during class and then do poorly on exams. Just show up and pay attention for 50 minutes. Not that hard. A big portion of this class is participation through clicker questions, so do these little things and you should be good.
- DO THE READING. Metcalf's lectures don't cover all the material that's on the test. You can get solid Bs on the tests by just doing the readings. Also, I know this sounds weird, but cram these readings like two days before the test. If you try and space out the readings, you just forget the minute details, which are the hard questions on the mid-terms. But if you're someone who struggles with chemistry, I would do the readings every night they're due. Again, not that hard.

Literally that's it. Show up to class and pay attention. And do the very short readings. If you have any questions about either of those, go to discussion or office hours! Really not a hard class if you're good at doing the little things.

Take with another professor if you can. I learned nothing in lecture and he uses ALEKS, the most annoying online homework ever, that none of the other professors use. Seriously, if you want to learn chem and preserve your GPA, find another teacher.