Reviews of professor Daniel Czyz

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not an easy elective. If you did not like organic chemistry and applications, do not take the class. The professor requires you to remember all organic structures, mechanisms of actions, etc. and that is not even a 1/10 of the material needed for exams. Exam are extremely hard, with 2 being cumulative. Everything is pre-recorded.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Czyz teaches a tough class, but I think he explains the concepts well.  This course was a little tricky because all of the information comes from lectures and there is no supplemental study tools.  The tests are hard and I do not test well, which can be bad because the majority of your grade is exam scores.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Czyz is a very good lecturer, and the class is very interesting. However, there are four mandatory exams, two of which are cumulative: a midterm and a final. The midterm was 97 questions, and the final was 150. The exams are worth about 75-80% of your grade, and the final is 30%. Take another elective if you can.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Requires a lot of memorization/time. Slides are marked to help for test but anything is fair play which makes studying a little bit hard. Midterm and final are both cumulative and very long. Assignments are simple but sometimes they are not very direct and graded a little roughly, hard to get full credit. Lectures vary from 10-30min. EC offered

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The exams are long and difficult. But he teaches everything in a way that makes the concepts easy to understand and his TAs are amazing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Tough class. 10 quizzes, 13 assignments, and 4 exams. Final is cumulative, 150 questions, and 300 points (worth >30% grade). There are hundreds of slides with gator icon to memorize. Some TAs are unqualified, and you have to deal with them throughout the semester. Grading on Canvas is unclear. Choose your elective wisely, and not this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The assignments for this class are very unclear. he makes a video on how to do it but if yo choose the wrong thing then the whole assignment goes sideways. Exams suck and he claims that slides with this figure in the corner are important but anything is actually fair game. If everything is fair game why bother with the figure in the corner?

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a great lecturer and his tests are very fair. He is engaging, knowledgeable, and makes the material interesting. His assignments were very reasonable as well. It is not an easy A but as long as you actually take the time to try the class is very doable.