Reviews of professor Elizabeth Bess

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Bess was a great professor but ochem is still hard regardless. Had synchronous lectures where she would go over the content. She provided thorough fill-in lecture notes and she'll tell you certain mechanism that you can skip/what will be on the test (vaguely) during lecture. LOTS of hw so start early. Good curve so a high F-low D range was a C-

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Bess is one of the best professors I've had so far since being at UCI! Her lectures are amazing and are "fill-in-the-blank" style. She records her lectures just in case you can't make it. Her midterms/finals are fair and just like her lectures so no surprises. I would take her class again if I could!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed Bess's lecturing style. Her in lecture questions were super helpful to gauge if I knew the material. For an 8am class, I enjoyed coming into class everyday and never found myself skipping like I typically do for most morning classes that are recorded because Bess's energy is so warm. She's also really sweet in office hours!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Legendary professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
shes very nice and ez to listen to when she lec. exams were mostly fair with most questions coming from examples during lec or in the hw. ochem is just a hard topic for everyone. flexible in grading and curve of the class. had good supportive teaching team. some difficult synthesis/mechanism questions on test r weighted heavily tho so beware

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Bess is the best pick for Chem 51B. Her example problems are clear in the lectures and they are similar to exams. During this virtual learning, she has been helpful in accommodating for us students to succeed with extra videos. Her curve was fat!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's nice and lectures are ok. Her exams are somewhat fair but she doesn't give a lot of practice besides the  homework and discussions problems. Recommend doing a lot of problems from hw & peer tutors and memorize the mechanisms each week (don't put it off until a week or a few days before exam).