Reviews of professor Americo Fraboni

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
What is fair game? Apparently the 600 lecture slides we have to know for the test.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Fraboni is a great teacher. He explains material clearly and concisely. In addition, if you're unable to attend class a certain day, he uploads recordings to Canvas. There are 3 exams in total; but he drops one of the three, so you have some leeway. Labs are a little confusing, but he's always walking around the room to answer questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took o-chem1 at Fullerton College in fall 2021. By no means was this an easy class, but Dr. Fraboni is one of the best chem professors I have had. He is happy to help you if you make a point to reach out to him. He was also very compassionate when dealing with covid and related issues. Attend lecture, take good notes, and do practice problems.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Many reviews on here are people who don't care about school, and only use old exams to cheat. Orgo is hard, don't expect to cheat through every subject. Fraboni is a good teacher, sometimes struggles but makes up for it with lots of EC and dropped test. He says "fair game" but if you pay attention in class you know exactly what he wants.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Fraboni sucks!! He is not a good teacher at all but acts like he is such a good teacher. Not only does he not have any experience teaching, but he also teaches material incorrectly until a STUDENT OF HIS corrects him. He grades extremely harshly and it is unbelievable that he teaches the BSDO kids as a new teacher!!! DO NOT TAKE HIM!!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The one problem I had with Fraboni is that he would put topics on his exam that I feel that we BARELY went over in class. Or just these random tricky questions that we didn't even touch upon but it was probably mentioned in one short paragraph in the textbook. Other than that, he's wasn't very responsive to his emails this semester.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This teacher is simply awful. He takes forever to respond to emails and sometimes doesn't even respond. He also can't teach. Point blank- he isn't a good teacher AT ALL! He doesn't know how to explain stuff and ends up making you more confused if you ask a question. He doesn't care about his students and doesn't even know how to teach. AVOID

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is not meant to be a gen chem 1 professor. He knows organic chemistry like the back of his hand but taking a step back and teaching gen chem 1 was a challenge for him. Has an amazing grading policy where you can still get by if you screw up. He didn't give HW but it was in your best interest to do the textbook questions. Flexible office hours.