Professor Reilly truly made this class more bearable and her humor/in-class demonstrations always made lectures engaging. I have left this class feeling like I truly learned a lot and I actually did appreciate most of the structure of the class. Chem 30BL does genuinely give you a glimpse into chemistry research and applications. I went to class/lab finally feeling like my TAs and professors gave a shit about me and what I learned, in a subject I loved.
It's adorable that they give tours and stuff to see NMR spectrometers and the DART MS instrument. The demos Reilly gave in lecture could be hilarious, too, particularly the second polymer lecture. She literally just got one of the TAs to bring in polymers to demonstrate glass transition using liquid nitrogen and broke a ton of stuff. I sat in the front row and nearly got attacked by a hardened piece of rubber tubing LOL.
With that said, it is not particularly easy to get an A in this class given the 95% cutoff - and don't count on there being a curve. I asked and she told me she's never curved this class (since she started teaching in Summer 2018), and it's because no one really gets C's. "If anything, this class could be curved down, but I would never do that" is what she told me. I really respect her so I was never going to argue with her, but ... the flaw of this argument IMO is that the grading scale gets more generous as you go down but is slightly harsh at the top.
Our average for the final exam was 77, but I don't see why it couldn't have been higher if you truly practice. She didn't ask almost anything more difficult than what was in the lecture worksheets.
Grade breakdown:
Pre-labs (20%): 160/161
Post-labs (20%): 187.5/191 (including +2 extra credit for course evaluation)
Presentation (10%): 28/30
Participation (5%): 7/7 (?) or 100%. Not sure if they didn't count a couple weeks.
TA points (10%): not posted yet, but presumably near 100%
Final exam (35%): 94.5/100 (including +1 extra credit)
Overall: ~96.92% in the course (assuming 100% in TA points, could be a bit less.)

I would avoid taking 14C with Dr. Reilly. She was a good lecturer and made the concepts pretty clear during class, but the tests were not at all made to demonstrate our understanding. It felt like she just put the hardest/trickiest questions possible on the exams to throw us off instead of making them fair. Exams were always much more difficult than the practice she gave us and she gave very little partial credit. I thought that having questions that are worth 15-20 points be all or nothing (despite there being a clear possibility of them having partial credit!!) is very unfair, as getting only one or two questions wrong drops you 1-2 letter grades and it belittles what you did learn and take away. Reilly also isn't very open to class suggestions. On the first midterm, nearly everyone missed one question that was worth 21 points (my TA said that only about 1/20 people got it correct) without any partial credit and instead of throwing it out, she just said sorry then put the exact same type of question on the final. The class averages for the midterm and final were in the 60s but she still did not scale up and extra credit doesn't really make that much of a difference unless your grade is borderline. It honestly felt like this class was made to make us fail the exams sometimes. I put several hours of studying into each of the exams, but my scores still did not reflect the time put in or my understanding, which was pretty disheartening. Call me a radicalist, but I don't think that you should have to be a perfectionist who can pick up on every minuscule detail to work out trick questions or score practically perfectly on exams to get an A in a class...

Took her for both 30A and 30B. Prof Reilly will guide you through intro to ochem pretty painlessly as long as you put in the effort, i.e. go to class and office hours, do the practice problems, read her lecture notes, summaries & other materials carefully before exams, and actually try to learn and understand. Imo she paced material pretty slowly and covered material clearly, and knew well that most people were completely new to ochem. Her tests were very fair and she gave a little bit of extra credit for lecture attendance and for exams. She posted meticulous handwritten lecture notes before lectures and personally I found the annotated lecture notes she uploaded after lectures the most helpful for revision. I personally didn't go for office hours but I could tell she definitely cared about students and their learning. Would recommend her for CHEM 30 series for sure.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU WANT TO ACTUALLY LEARN OCHEM. Honestly I am SO disappointed with Dr. Reilly. She truly does not care about teaching or her students. First of all her grading breakdown was insane and I nearly dropped the class during the first week because of it. 10% BACON, 30% Exam 1, 30% Exam 2, 30% Exam 3. It was very clear the breakdown was like this because she is lazy and did not want to grade any more assignments than she wanted to. She also went on random ochem tangents in class which might have been fine in a normal quarter but a 6 week summer class??? no. One time she spent 40mins showing us pictures of her dog. The most frustrating part of this quarter was the last week. We were slightly behind on material and only had 3 lectures until our scheduled final. Monday she cancelled lecture due to "technical difficulties" and said she'd post a lecture later that day. Monday went, no lecture. She was also not responding on piazza or her email. She did not upload a worksheet for our Tuesday discussion and our poor TA had no idea what was going on either. Wednesday comes, still no makeup lecture. Dr. Reilly shows up and starts teaching like normal and announced she is canceling the lecture so "we don't have to rush material" although it is very clear now she just did not want to make a final. Thursday comes, once again no worksheet and still MIA on all platforms. Friday comes and she emails everyone saying lecture will start late since she is stuck at the DMV. SHE NEVER SHOWS AND DOESNT RESPOND ON PIAZZA, EMAIL, NOTHING. Mind you we still had 2 of the hardest chapters left to do. In the end she ends up posting lectures for those 2 chapters FROM LAST SUMMER. Doesn't even bother to record one. She is so unhelpful and lazy and does not care about your learning. I am praying for the kids who have to take chem 30c because this class definitely did not prepare us for that.

i usually don't leave reviews because organic chemistry as a topic itself is hard. but it's because she was the one teaching it, that it was so bad. she made everything unclear. she gave keys out wrong and way too late. don't go to bed before 11pm before a test day because you'll probably miss 10 of her emails. don't recommend

Ok honestly Dr. Reilly was goin' through it this quarter BUT STILL managed to deliver insanely engaging and cool lectures and was SELF AWARE that she was not doing well and actively made that class easier- a mark of someone who honestly really cares about her students. She cancelled our final presentation for a more goofy type chemistry related video, provided tons of extra credit, extended deadlines etc. Final was still a little bit rough as most Reilly finals go but she provided some funny questions on it to balance it out and provided 3 practice finals as well to help you study for it. My only complaint ig which is more for the department is that there is very little practice for the types of questions on the final given throughout the quarter so you really need to grind- it's not studyable in one day. You really had to know your experiments and learn applications as she pulls reactions from papers and expects you to know what modifying certain things does. However, I love all the experiments and it was insanely cool stuff that you learn throughout the quarter- highly recommend this class and Dr. Reilly :)

I loved taking this class with Reilly so much. She is such a friendly and thoughtful professor. She was super flexible with everything (especially because it was the return to in person classes) and I would recommend her to anyone. She gave us extra credit for turning in a drawing of her dog!

Reilly was kinda inconsistent this quarter. She's usually known for being super responsive and quick to update students with any changes, but this quarter seemed to be the opposite. Replying to most messages at the end of the week all at once with an update email, delaying deadlines (which was not necessarily a bad thing, just added onto the inconsistency), and having the class weighed heavily on the final. Again, this is a lab class so a majority of the points were TA dependent, but the labs were definitely forgiving. However, having 40% of your grade depending on the final seemed pretty unreasonable, considering that there is no midterm to bump it up and many were calling for an online exam. Class was good but could've been much better.

Dr. Reilly is the best professor I have EVER had. She wants students to succeed and her positivity and kindness really helps you get through this difficult subject. Her midterms and finals are very fair, and she has helpful discussion worksheets which are the best way to study for tests. Class is not curved, but she does adjust the grading scale. Our averages were low 70's and high 60's for midterms (making the average a B-). The final was around a 78 because it was a much easier exam. She gives extra credit for clickers and for evals. We had a few assignments on BACON which were worth 9% of the final grade. Go to office hours!!! She is amazing at explaining, especially when she can go step by step with you. I also took her for Chem 30B in Winter 2019 and will take 30BL in the spring. She continues to amaze me. If I took this class with any other professor, I am pretty sure I would have switched my career path by now. Bless this woman!!!!

Professor Reilly clearly cares about her students, which includes on making sure her students material. I didn't find her class easy, but with her lectures, notes, and office hours it made the class enjoyable and she took the time to help me personally when I told her I was struggling with the material. Her assessments are hard but a fair judge of how well you are understanding the material. When she gives you specific study tips, like make flashcards of all the reactions and memorize and then retake the practice problems as tests, do it. Her study tips are incredibly helpful to learning the material and succeeding in this class. She is extremely kind so contact her with issues because she understands this isn't an easy subject and will work with you through it. Also no need to buy the textbook, find the PDF. Definitely one of the best professors I've had at UCLA.