Reviews of professor Charles Barrows

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Barrows is a good guy, but after having him and Prof. Craig (another gen chem prof at UW) I would still choose Craig. Entertaining lectures and notes to follow but everything seems surface level. Since his tests are multiple choice there is no partial credit which sucks. Knew people who never showed up to class and got the same grade as me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Loved Dr. Barrows! While the course content was hard, the way he sets up lectures and taught it was very helpful. He gives out an insane amount of practise problems for studying too!! He's a little silly but it's not hard to keep up in class. Had him for 152, gonna miss him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Barrows's lectures were awesome! He includes memes and gives us a notes packet to fill out in class, which I loved. Attendance is optional, and there's some time to ask questions during lecture. His tests were a bit hard mathematically, but he provides TONS of practise problems - use them!! Def recommend, because he really cares abt teaching.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Barrows overall is a pretty good professor. I have taken both Craig and Barrows and their both great in their own ways. Both do have different teaching styles one does slides the other does fill in blank notes. You do need to put in efforts to learn and understand the material. Definitely ask for help, don't hesitate and study with others.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is insanely hard, I would recommend taking any other prof as they have much easier tests comparably. Exams have content never covered in class or other material, you have to rely on having a good TA if you want to pass. Lecture is basically useless, you learn everything through textbook/TA/ALEKS. Nice guy though, just a bad teacher.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall, Professor Barrows was pretty good and gave good and detailed explanations of concepts. The class was pretty test heavy but the test format was reasonable. Doing practice tests and redoing lecture problems help. One downside is he is barely available outside of class hours.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was the most difficult college class I've taken. I normally get good grades but his lectures were difficult to understand, we went too fast and with additional difficult classes, it was just too much and I did not do well. The midterm and final are basically your grade. I never got a C in my life but did fail this class! Don't take!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course is not a weed out, there is one test, and that test is the weed out. The first test was beyond difficult for literally no reason. But besides that the course is not bad at all. A reason why the first test is harder is due to him teaching a flipped style for the buffers, titrations, and solubility chapter. And so the learning isn't great