Reviews of professor Yiming Wang

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He made the class seem more like a competition than a learning experience for his students. I had a lot of trouble following along during lectures and would have to figure it out through YouTube videos and the textbook later. Cheat sheets don't help in the grand scheme of things (not worth taking his class). Advice: practice exams and office hours

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Yiming is a super nice person, but I think he is too advanced to teach this class. Lectures felt very unorganized and I was always completely lost until I watched other youtube videos. Final grade is based on a ranking system and the exams felt unnecessarily difficult (the personal cheat sheets weren't even helpful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
GO TO HIS OFFICE HOURS; made the biggest difference imo. super generous answering questions and usually gave hints about test topics. cheat sheets for exams are fine but you wont pass if you don't understand the concepts; very application based. tests purely from concepts in lecture, goes fast, but if youre organized and review notes its very clear

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's nice but lectures were impossible to understand, just drew on the chalkboard. My notes were always inaccurate bc I could barely see. No canvas resources to complement the lectures, just HW and past exams. Your grade is 2 exams and a final. Studied all Thanksgiving to get a 43% on the 3rd exam. My grade was a 76% but got a B due to his curve.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take him! His class is awful, lectures are awful, tests are awful, it's all awful. Orgo is hard, but he makes it 10x harder. His lectures are so unorganized and his tests are much harder than the other chemistry classes, also the exams aren't always curved. For example, his class average is 56% compared to the other classes' 82% average.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Yiming is a wonderful professor. He is very humble and scholarly, never acts like a Harvard genius. His exams are hard tho, but you have one additional cheat sheet for every consecutive exam. Utilize external resources well. He cares for his students and answers every question you ask.