Reviews of professor Nathan Astrof

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class is a difficult class and it requires a lot of time to study for. It is a good class and you will learn a lot from him. Utilize his lectures and problem sets and go to his office hours! He's a great professor and he loves to help his students outside or during class hours.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please read this before taking Biochemistry II with Astrof. 

He's chill and down to earth... that is in Biochemistry I. He's still a super nice guy but the tests are no longer nice nor reflective of what he says you should learn.  Biochem 2 is materially dense and you may be asked to recall material that is only covered in one slide. Be careful.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you mess up on one exam, it is very possible to recover overall since your best exam counts twice. I was able to recover from a failing grade on one exam. There is extra credit which is a built-in curve plus an extra 10-point question on the exams. Put in the work and do well!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm not done with this course yet, but as a I study for the final exam, I must say that this class really gave me my money's worth. So much content that I'm studying 2.5 weeks ahead and my brain already feels super saturated. Astrof is a great professor, but it's the nature of this course which makes it stressful. Just be prepared to get juiced up.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Great lecturer and an overall nice guy. His class is very test heavy so if you do bad on one exam, you are pretty much screwed. He gives extra credit on exams but his grading is so harsh that they aren't as helpful. He needs to be more lenient with partial credit tbh. he once took off full credit cause I missed a Hydrogen on an exam smh

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not recommend, lots of people getting Cs and it is a hard course.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You don't have to read the textbook but you should understand the major concepts of the slides and focus on the problem sets. Make sure to include units for math problems and understand every math problem on the problem set as the exam will consist of similar questions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not recommend, the structure of the grading 90% based on tests and tests only include have 10 free response questions, not multiple choice at all. He grade them one by one.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Let's just say the third exam is a different beast. I don't know where these questions came from bc it wasn't from the slides or the problem set. Expect to fail the 3rd exam. It will only get harder after the first exam. Don't go into Biochem 2 studying the same way you did when studying for Biochem 1 bc you will fail. Expect lots of orgo material.