Reviews of professor Lori Stepan

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Stepan is a nice lady but not the best professor. Lectures are boring. Exams are extremely hard and worth most of your grade. I got a tutor and it was still bad. I late dropped it before I failed the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lori Stepan does not care about her students. She simply shows up, reads off a slide, and expects an entire class to learn from that. She gets mad when the class average is low, and blames it on us not doing enough rather than her teaching. She had to curve the entire class because the final was that bad.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The class itself had a lot of material, but as long as you keep up with it and do the practice exams, it's fine. Some lectures were interesting and had demonstrations, others were pretty standard. Although there's more content, I'd say the exams are easier than AP Chem.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Stepan is a caring professor who wants to see her student do well in inorganic chemistry. Dr. Stepan provided many opportunities to get bonus in the class. Overall the class wasn't awful but the discussion posts were long, the homework was challenging, and much of the information was taken from the text book (that is on wikipedia)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Read the textbook and take notes, do all the "optional" homework problems and do the practice exams before every single exam. This course isn't easy, but it can be a lot of fun when you start to really get into the chemistry.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Lori was an ok professor. She provides extra credit opportunities, but tests are tricky and she speeds through material a bit so to be successful I'd recommend TA office hours and doing the homework work problems, which aren't for a grade but do help.