Reviews of professor Mark Young

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Young as a person is great, he has an older sense of humor and tries to incorporate that into his lectures. HOWEVER, as a professor, the only reason his class seems to be passed is because of chance. His exams are worth nearly 65% of your grade, and don't usually cover content well. They are multiple choice, luckily are curved though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It was Young's first time lecturing so maybe that's a good excuse for how bad the lectures were. He used a different professor's slides and read them. I realized half-way through the course that I could simply read the slides myself and do fine without the lecture. The thing that saved me from failing was the final replacing the midterm.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Young's chemistry courses will be harder than other teachers but he does not deserve his poor rating. Young's homework assignments and exams were harder than other teachers and required you to understand the content at a deeper level. Most students who cheat on homework using Chegg struggle. I found the homework was more than enough preparation.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lazy and doesn't care about his students. Reads from horrible slides and advances through slides without writing the solutions himself. He also doesn't have study guides or review sessions, instead, he has a lecture on the day of the midterm that goes over new material. The exams also cover what you studied two days ago. You will have to self-study

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I don't know why he has such bad ratings. He does a decent job of explaining things but his tests are reallly easy. Good prof overall.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The lectures are boring in general, just reads off the slides. The homework is challenging, and test is very difficult. Learned the topic of thermodynamics in his class, but it was really difficult to keep up.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please steer clear of Professor Young. Non-mandatory attendance. Highly recommend renting the textbook, and self-studying or attending the lectures of other professors as his lectures do not cover everything needed. No cheat sheets are allowed for the exams, as he provides a *partially* complete formula sheet. Thankfully, he does curve his exams.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not take his class unless you absolutely need to. He does curve his exams however they are much more difficult than any other professor offering the same course. Be prepared to self study as he breezes through lectures without much thought or explanation except for his prewritten solutions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
if I could rate this guy a zero I would. This has got to be one of the worst professors I have taken at UCSD. Do take take his class wait until next quarter if he is the only one with open spots. The average on the first midterm was around 30% I think that an average that low speaks for his teaching.