I really enjoyed this class. Professor Prado taught this class along with Professor Caram and Casey, but she was the main one who lectured and taught the class. She took on the class last minute as our initial professor could no longer do so (she began teaching Friday of week 1).
She uses slides that are posted on CCLE, but she writes on the slides during lecture, so I'd recommend attending class. There are clicker questions during lecture and it's hard not to get full credit; there are bunch of opportunities and you get half a point just for participating. There are weekly quizzes (Friday during lecture) which aren't too bad. I didn't read the textbook too much but used it more as a reference if I didn't understand something. There are HWs for every lecture but they don't have to be turned in.
I really like Dr. Prado and the class overall. She's really nice and very approachable. She is one my favorite professors here at UCLA and I think the class overall was appropriately paced. Definitely recommend.
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Dr. Prado is an extremely sweet teacher! The workload isn't bad and if you keep up with lectures and do the discussion worksheets, you will do fine in the class. She also is super helpful during office hours and provides her students with a ton of resources!

Professor Prado is very sweet and helpful. Her tests are fair, especially because she provides so much practice material (Sapling, pre-class quizzes, practice exams). Although participation counts toward your grade, mandatory participation helps ensure that you do not skip class and that you are understanding the material.

Prado was a great Professor and very fair. She gives out all her precious exams for practice and they are pretty much like the exam in the class. I just did all of the them to study and got an A. Also her discussions are extra credit for the final which works wonders! I think maybe her exams got harder from previous years, but they are still doable. Also her LAs organize workshops and the worksheets there are also helpful!

This class was too easy and did not encourage any critical thinking. It focuses on memorization. The final wasn’t cumulative and you leave the class not remembering anything from the beginning, which made 14D hard.

If you know what you're doing, this class is easy. I would usually only study a day or two before each midterm, and I did fine. Doing lots of practice problems is key; those prepare you for the test the most. She posts old midterms and finals, so there's plenty of practice material. Dr. Prado told us to buy the textbook at the beginning of the year, but I rarely looked at it. I did the readings at first, but it didn't take me long to realize the textbook was useless. Don't do the additional practice problems from the TB either. Focus on old tests, sapling, lecture slides, and clicker questions. Finally, for tests, PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS!! There are so many places where you can lose easy points (not circling conjugated atoms, not drawing in lone pairs, etc). These points really add up, and there's also a bit of a time crunch since the midterms are in class. Practice a lot so that you can work quickly and maintain accuracy.

Loved Professor Prado! She was super helpful and sweet, very approachable. She understands what it's like to be a student and can relate to us. She's so encouraging and explains everything rather well. I was probably .5% away from getting an A- #SAD. But if you have the chance to take Prado, do it! She gives lot of practice problems and tests that are similar to the actual tests.

Excellent class and Dr. Prado is extremely sweet and has tons of extra credits to offer. Definitely take her if she's teaching!
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I enjoyed Prado's class so much! Unlike the reviewer before me, I felt this class was really challenging, as I had no background in organic chemistry at all. Though I struggled to get down the many new concepts, Prado was definitely the best teacher to guide me through them. Her pacing through the material was perfect, and I had time to understand what I was learning through the many Khan Acadmey videos, Sapling homework assignments and readings she posted! She gives super helpful tips that she used as a student, and I still use them in 14D! It is true that this class relies heavily on memorization, but a lot of organic chemistry bases itself in rules that must be memorized. That is just the nature of this course, and as a person who sucks at memorization, I had to practice and practice and practice to get this stuff down! Though 14D is a whole new level as it has to do more with reaction mechanisms, I do feel Prado has given me a solid grasp of the fundamentals necessary to understand and do well in the class. I never knew such a helpful, knowledgeable, and compassionate teacher existed at UCLA!!!

Don't believe the grade distribution! There's no way 22.5% of the class got over 99%. This class is hard! Even though Prado is the clearest lecturer and really helpful, the tests are always a time crunch and you end up missing so many points on small details. I know a lot of my friends are struggling also with the workload that this class gives, as organic chemistry is a ton of practice! The grading scale is really tough too! I expected a grading scale more lenient for organic chemistry, like A- is is 89% to 92.9%, but her current grading scale has A- at a 90%! Like, A+ is 99% and above, which is the highest I've ever heard of and it's killing my overachiever friends! So yeah, I love Prado so much; she's the most helpful teacher you could get for this subject, but the grading scale's way tougher than is shown on this site...I'm expecting like a B after the final. Crossing my fingers she'll make the grading scale a bit more lenient during our quarter!