Reviews of professor David Vicic

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Vicic can be very annoying with the amount of tests and material he goes over in class but the class overall is not bad at all. His lecture style could be better but the class itself was fine, you need to put in a LOT of time to get good grades!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
gave us 5 midterms and changed the format on each one. would be better off reading the textbook than going to class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Gives 5 extremely content heavy exams every 2-3 weeks & his scheduling is awful...exams during common hour week, days after spring break, day after Easter, etc. Grades based solely on exams. No HW/quizzes. Go to lecture, but NEED to read the book before because class is so disjointed and confusing unless you already taught the material to yourself.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Course is difficult but generally tests are fair. 100% of grade is exams. You are generally expected to know all of the material quite well. Definitely don't skip lectures. If you do have questions, he is good at answering them. Generally explains course material clearly and effectively. Question weighting can be weird but overall a good prof.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof Vicic is super nice. Explains the subject well, and is eager to help in office hours or by email. The tests are really hard tho, but if you practice a lot you can do well on them.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Okay Professor, better than others in the chemistry department at Lehigh. 5 exams makes up your whole grade. Unfair because each multiple choice is worth 20 points out of 200, meaning your exam grade falls very fast. I hate organic chemistry and this class just made me hate it more. The Lehigh Chemistry department could use substantial work.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Compared to Mark Chen for Chem 110, I appreciate how Prof. Vicic divides the exams/tests into 5 with 1 to drop; this helps minimize the "cram" before exams.  However, he does not present/share his slides with good info like Mark Chen does, but instead insists on handwriting and drawing the mechanisms by hand, which is kind of a waste of time.