Reviews of professor Nathan Scharf

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Definitely the hardest pre-req, no matter what teacher you have! Studying is an all time must, in order to get a good grade you have to put 110% in! For his class, you take pre-class quizzes, and then focus on practice problems in class which I believe helped a lot. He was always available for office hours/explains things very well!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Nathan Scharf is literally the worst professor I have ever had. He is so boring, he talks too slow for anybody to be able to understand, and he doesn't like stopping for questions or to clarify things. He makes his tests ridiculously hard for no reason.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super nice guy, was very helpful and would answer any questions, made labs fun, and always prepared you

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I did not attend a single one of this professor's classes because I did not learn a thing. I went to outside tutoring and used the practice resources and Chem101 assignments to learn. You definitely have to put a lot of effort into this class but I really enjoyed the material I learned. Don't expect any help or sympathy from this professor though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures are a little slow, but he is very nice and is always willing to help and answer questions.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor lectures well and is a really nice dude, but do NOT be fooled this is an extremely difficult course as it is based on HEAVY application of 2 condensed semesters of Biochemistry into a single semester. No matter how much I studied for this class, I still barely passed every exam. Exams were 100x harder than what was taught in class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Chem 150 is a very hard class. You cover topics like biochem and orgo as well as the other chem fundamentals. Prof Scharf is a good teacher and his at home videos are very helpful. You need to study a lot for this class but overall he is a good teacher that provides a lot of examples and practice problems.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This guy made biochemistry seem 10x as hard as usual. His explanations made no sense and he made his exam questions so confusing that he had to spend the whole time walking around explaining to us what he meant. Ignore him and just take regular biochemistry.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
will never recommend this professor to anyone. I am sure he meant well and he seemed like he really wanted to make his class easy for his students at the beginning of the sem, but I was bamboozled. I had to withdraw from this class after failing all of his extremely difficult (and nothing like his lecture) tests. especially for nursing majors.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
As someone who withdrew from a gen chemistry class... this class helped me understand everything I was so lost about. Just know going into the course that it will take effort and time since chemistry is hard. Dr. Scharf is the best professor to take for this class. He is extremely organized and explains super clearly.