Reviews of professor Elwood Kwong

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best chemistry teacher! He is very nice and passionate about what he teaches! He used TopHat to share helpful PowerPoints and practice questions to better understand the material. Half of the class he lectures and then has an inclass assignment due for participation. TAs and ChemPal matter in order to prepare for his exams!!! Online tests!!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Beware of good ratings. Does not know how to teach well. Covers material on a slide once then goes to the next topic. Does not review before exams. Your grade basically relies on your exam grades and his exams are made to confuse you. The review material given does not even match what is going to be on the exam. Would not recommend at all.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a very nice and caring person, but I didn't love this class. He teaches from a powerpoint and then there may be worksheets, besocratics, or other online activities. The activities are simple enough and easy to do if you pay attention and understand the class. However, the exams are made to confuse you and make up a big chunk of your grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is nice and knows what he is talking about. If you truly pay attention you'll get the ideas, it's not that hard. 75% of your grade depends on exams so that might be tough. But overall, great at explaining, and he'll answer any question you may have nicely.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You definitly need to put work in after class, just the lectures and powerpoints aren't enough. Tests are pretty hard, but the playposits provided on canvas are helpful in learning the information needed for tests. He provided a lot of extra credit opportunities to help you. Worksheets help apply the material a lot. Study often for a little bit

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall not bad of a professor. He gives good lectures sometimes they can be boring. He tries to engage with students but it's hard to do when the class is 200 students. Exams are very tricky. He tries to trick you so know your material. Class is hard but doable.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The course is messy. All the aspects of the course are not at all connected. Outside of class work is not gone over in class, you basically teach yourself and its hard to teach yourself. The professor is helpful and answers emails quickly, but classes are boring and not helpful. The tests are not at all based on what is "taught."

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Kwong is very nice and seems to care about his students. Attendance is graded and all the worksheets and homeworks are graded by completion. The only downside to this class is that the tests are the only grades that matter, but other than that it's not bad. The teacher is nice and you can ask him as many questions as you want.