Reviews of professor Gerardo Ochoa

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Ochoa is an amazing lecturer, chem is just a hard subject. He's a great personality, super smart, and is well respected. The class itself is just hard, but ask TA's for help! Also, his end-of-class curve is beautiful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Had him for 2A in 2019. Was a great professor then. Trust me guys, it really doesn't get too much better than him for the chemistry department.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Solid professor for a rather challenging course. His lectures are formatted well, even if they sometimes feels rushed. However, he makes a lot of time for office hours where you can get clarification on topics you don't understand. He's also a fun person to talk to with plenty of entertaining anecdotes.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Ochoa is great. His lectures are easy to follow and he uses lots of practice problems. Tests are fair and very similar to his practice tests. Definitely go to his review sessions because he walks through problems that are very similar to the hardest problems on the exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Ochoa was truly amazing. I had him in Fall Quarter 2021 and wish I could take him again. From his notes to lectures to funny stories, Ochoa made learning chemistry both enjoyable and memorable. 10/10 without a doubt.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Super fun as a lecturer but his tests were almost nothing like the lectures. Pay attention to the worksheets in discussion and the review sessions always give freebies!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures engaging & funny, review sessions copy paste of exams, old practice exams also very helpful, fair teacher, generous curve got 55% overall & passed, it's still a hard subject so you need to put in effort, no minus grades, final super hard though because written with other professors so you'll have to use their practice exams

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
he found a way to make a 7:30 AM lecture interesting. tests were hard but he went over very similar questions in his exam review session, so just keep up to date with exam prep materials. all lectures were posted online and attendance only required at lab and discussion

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Really great professor! So sad he's leaving. Go to his reviews as he literally puts questions from the test in the reviews. Overall really solid choice for a chem teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Ochoa genuinely cares about his students. If you're seriously concerned about your ability to succeed in his class email and speak with him individually; I did this early in the quarter and it was extremely helpful in providing me direction on how to best prepare for exams. Test will never have surprises: if you understand chem you'll do well.