I feel the organization of this class is fairly well. The material got harder as the course goes on. The exams resemble the previous ones. I highly recommend the optional textbook and videos on the thinkwell. My discussion TA helps me a lot as well. The class can be tricky sometimes but it is not impossible and extreme. The professor helped most of my questions and he is really nice.

For someone who hasn't taken AP chemistry, Chem 14A with Scerri was honestly not as bad as I would've thought. Although I earned a B- in this class, that was due to not good enough study habits on my part. Despite this, Scerri provides practice midterm tests that prepare you well enough for the actual midterm. As for the final exam, he provides you practice final exams that prepare you well enough for the actual exam as well. Although, the final exam felt a bit tougher than the practice finals, with enough studying, I'm sure you will ace it. Make sure to pay attention to ALL details in the slides, as well as make sure you go to all lectures because some things he says without putting in the slides. Overall, as someone who did not have a great background in chemistry it is possible to earn a good grade in this course if you put in the effort. Make sure to ask your TA's any types of confusing questions you may have, utilize thinkwell videos, and overall utilize all resources to help you pass this course. I definitely enjoyed Scerri and would recommend anyone take him if they want a good chemistry professor!

Scerri has a really cool accent and is interesting to listen to but you definitely have to listen during lecture because some things he says aren't in the slides but will be on the exam. Your grade is 30% quizzes online, 30% midterm, and 40% final. Just do the practice midterms and finals because Scerri borrows a lot of questions from past exams, sometimes doesn't even change numbers. A very good CHEM14A class and not as hard as people hype up chem classes to be.

I think that professor Scerri is an overall good professor. To pass the class all you need to is do his old practice exams, do great on his 4 quizzes that are awfully easy since most of the answers are on Chegg so try to get a solid B or A on those, and attend lectures to understand the concepts. His slides in my opinion had the sufficient information and I enjoyed his class. I had taken chemistry twice and he was the professor I finally passed chem with. You don't need to buy the book so SAVE YOUR MONEY! Thinkwell is the only thing you will need in this course and you will be good to go! Goodluck! :)

Overall, Chemistry is a difficult topic. This class is a lot of self learning using past exams, PLFs, and study buddies. Scerri is not the best lecturer in my opinion. But the thinkwell source that he requires us to purchase has his own lectures in it that were a lot more helpful. I would suggest going to at least one discussion from each TA to see which one is the best and go to that one because the TA you were assigned with may not be the best. I highly suggest PLFs for the chem 14 series. Overall, you'll earn the grade you deserve based on the work you put in.