Reviews of professor Kevin Kou

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Did exceptionally bad on both midterms and the final exam (think 10-20% below average) but somehow still clutched with a C-. I don't know how or why, all I know is he made my spring break less depressing and I thank him for that. Definitely don't come into this class expecting it'll be the same level of difficulty as 8A, otherwise you'll eat dirt

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
bombed the second midterm and didn't do well enough on final to replace that midterm and get me to a C- (i was like 1.5 points away), but because I had around average scores on all exams and all poll ev points, he passed me with a C. forever grateful for that passing grade. his only flaw is he uploads stuff/makes announcements kind of late notice

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
everything on exam is from lectures. attendance is not mandatory but there are polls occasionally. you can get extra credit if you go to office hours and SI. if the average is bad on a midterm, the final will replace the midterm. there is hw but not based on accuracy. highly recommend

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The content in this course is hard however Professor Kou's lectures make it durable. He is very accessible outside of class and offers extra credit via SI and regrades. HW is basically participation and so are the PollEvs. Entire class is curved so a 55% was a C-. Final can replace your lowest midterm.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
O chem itself is a very hard class but Dr. Kou made it fun to learn. He is a wonderful professor and person and is very reachable. Something I don't like about this is that his TAs are not very understanding and not available. On my final, my TA graded me very harshly and I requested regrades by Prof Kou which he gladly did. I got 6% back.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Horrendous. Gives unnecessary amounts of work

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hes the new lab coordinator for chem8. Final exam was fair. Postlabs are long and usually very difficult. Very strict grading. Department never curved before but his reports are insanely difficult that sometimes they have to add a few points. It shouldn't be this hard to pass a 1 credit class. He needs to relax a little.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Kou is an amazing lecturer. This class is challenging with mechansims and 
spectroscopy galore. I fumbled the second exam which left me slightly below 
the class average, but he incentivised us by releasing a policy where your final exam score replaces your lowest midterm score. I listened to his advice and it saved me.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The goat fr. Won't find anyone better. Struggling with 8B is understandable, but blaming Kou for not curving your 32% is a literal skill issue. Practice problems and tests are just like exams, he explains things well too. The average is so low cause the average student works as hard as 6th graders, then begs for a curve. Get rumbled, stay humbled.