Reviews of professor Randy Vander Wal

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Your grade is based on 5 exams and one project. Your lowest exam grade gets dropped. I didn't show up to class after the first week and only attended the TA lead review sessions. Memorizing everything covered at the review session is pretty much a guaranteed A.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was just straight memorization. The class is just based off of 5 exams and one project. His lectures are super boring because he just writes down the notes and barely explains them. Also he does not organize the notes well which is confusing. But if you memorize the material for the exam you can get an A. But overall he is a nice guy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is completely unfair. The whole thing is memory but what he does now is he completely changes the exam from the review. I have gone over the review millions of times but still failed the exam. To base a class completely off memory is unfair and if you even wanted to learn anything, his lectures are boring and at 9/10 AM.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although attendance is not taken or graded and the lectures are very boring, you MUST show up to class if you want to succeed. The exam reviews are also helpful for connecting lecture and exam content. You need to review the entire chapter front to back to do well on exams! Write chemical structures and create flashcards to drill the concepts.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class is mostly a memorization game, so it will range in difficulty person-by-person. Randy is awesome and he cares so much about his subject. The homework kind of sucks bc they aren't relevant to the tests, but the in class review sessions are so helpful. This class becomes very hard the minute you stop attending class, even tho its tempting.