Professor Arno is a nice person but doesn't know how to teach. Lectures would often be him reading the slides for 50 minutes. He posted the slides so there was no point in going to lecture. The last time I went the classroom was almost empty. It is better to just read the slides and study by yourself. Sometimes he would get confused with topics and made them harder.
There are weekly quizzes in discussion which are pretty easy if you study the lectures, with the option to correct them in order to improve your grade. The midterms were quite easy, and with the curve, I got this grade.

I would only recommend this class to students who are completely willing to teach themselves the material. I didn't want to jump straight into chem 14 or 20 because I didn't have a strong chem background from high school, so I decided to take this class. Though I will say the review of basic high school chem was probably useful, I had to teach myself all of the material. Dr. Papazyan is a nice guy, but his teaching is confusing and overly complicated. He highly recommends using his slides to learn rather than using the book, but I completely disagree. The textbook and other online resources (like YouTube videos) were MUCH more helpful. Going to lecture is somewhat useless as he really just reads off his lecture slides, which was often more confusing than just reading them myself. He is also extremely unorganized; he forgot to print out half the problems on our midterm, and we started our final 30 minutes late because he didn't bring periodic tables. As for workload, you will definitely have to get used to keeping up with the fast pace of the class and the weekly quizzes, but it is doable. Overall, again, I would only suggest people take this course if they really need a more basic foundation of chem and if they are completely prepared to self-learn.

Don't take this class.

ATTENTION: I AM SELLING THE TEXTBOOK FOR THIS CLASS!!! I'm selling it for $50 (that's a little under half the price I bought it for, still in great condition). EMAIL ME: goldilocks575@gmail.com....Everyone ragged on this professor but his class was very easy. You don't even need to attend lectures, just learn from the textbook and your TA! I stopped coming to class as a freshman after week 2 my first quarter at UCLA and still got an A. It's basically a review of high school-level chemistry with a little advanced material added on top. I took this class to brush-up on chem before taking chem 14a, and it served its purpose. My issues with this prof were:

*He graded the quizzes too harshly and didn't curve them (this was solved after students complained)

*His lecture slides were basically so messy they were impossible to read and lectures were agonizing to sit through

*He gets FRUSTRATED when you ask him questions (I was the only one who went to office hours every week all quarter and he basically called me dumb at every meeting)

*The final was IMPOSSIBLE! I'm an MCDB major so I tend to do well in science classes, but I KNOW I bombed that final. He must have curved it really heavily tho, because I still got an A.