Disorganized, late on day of tests, unprepared lectures, all over the book, unsure about his own answers when asked questions. I expected more from a PhD.

Not a good teacher. His slides are images from the textbook. He is never prepared for lecture. He goes off on tangents all the time. No practice exams, only HW assignments on material he did not even teach. He refuses to answer student's questions before class. When asked a simple question he will ramble then say.."ask during office hours" *AVOID*

take this class if you like learning ochem by yourself. he flips through slides on powerpoint and runs over the pictures with a laser pointer and mumbles things about them. I'm pretty sure he wings his lectures with whatever appears on the powerpoint which really is just a collection of pictures from the book. i got an A-

To put it frankly - if you take this teacher for the 118 series you are doomed. Unless you have the amazing ability to self teach yourself Ochem via textbook alone, prepare to learn nothing. No practice exams, only practice is assigned hw problems from the textbook, which should be noted that he himself cannot do without his solutions manual. AVOID

Awful. His teaching style is really hard to follow. Didn't seem to have a real lesson plan. He thought there was 3 weeks of class left when there was only 1 more class until finals! If you are going to take him, be prepared to teach yourself the material because he is no help. AVOID.

Took Chem8A with him and it was terrible. Really terrible. He insists on posting practice quizzes the evening before each quiz, which pretty much leaves very little time for us to practice. He also reads off the book, so many people just come to class to take the quiz and then leave. He's super boring. Take someone better if you can.

Dr. Nurco sucked! He doesn't care about the students and blames them for doing poorly on quizzes when it's his fault for not teaching the content! Lectures are very disorganized and quizzes didn't reflect the content well. Also no partial credit! Take ochem with literally ANYONE else

Absolutely terrible professor. While he holds review sessions outside of class, his lectures are extremely shallow in content so reading the book is a must. Additionally, he does everything last minute. He releases the practice quizzes and their keys at literally 2AM the night before. Harsh grader and gets mad at the class for not understanding.

As someone who went to every review session, reads the book and takes notes from it, and does all the homework I feel like some of the reviews are biased. I'm struggling for a B in this class even though I put more time into it than other classes. When averages are C- and Ds I think theres something wrong with that.

Nurco seems like someone who just doesn't want to lecture anymore. Nearly every lecture/ review session led by him is condescending and his remarks on Piazza are nearly always rude/ demeaning. That doesn't mean you'll fail though. Utilize, youtube, your textbook, and your TAs. Just don't depend on Nurco to teach you much at all - you'll be ok.

This is a very difficult class and 2 hours isnt enough! Hes kind and does a lot of review, but you MUST put in so much extra time if you want to succeed. Lectures are useless, read the textbook and go to reviews. Also no curve which is the only o chem class Ive heard of not having a curve even though final average was 66%

Seems knowledgeable about the subject, BUT cannot put that into ways into which students can comprehend/understand. Exams are tough and practice midterms too easy. Holds a lot of office hours and review sessions.

I have never seen someone as careless as he is. His exams will have topics that he did not even talk about in class and you will have to study them by yourself. I'm talking 50% of the exam is not covered in class. He is so disrespectful towards students that ask him. His grading is either you get the whole thing right or it is a zero. Avoid.

Worst professor I have had in three years of college. Teaches ochem by reading off of slides. Has tons of OH but they are of no use when you are rude and unaccessible. Even the TA's hated him. Grades on all or nothing. No partial credit. Exams are unfair and hella long. Averages were around 40%. Curves to make students pass with a C though.

Worst professor I've had in college, half the time you ask him questions in lecture he can't actually answer the question and will instead deflect it, if you go to his office hours he is very condescending and makes you regret going, not only that he if you go to his office hours chances are he'll just pull out the textbook and tell you to look

Nurco used to be one of my favorite professors when I took him for 118A. In 118B, everything went downhill. For the first midterm he didn't give us a practice exam until the weekend before the exam. He does all or nothing points on most of the exam, leading to low scores. Very rude when you ask questions, doesn't seem to care about the student.

so for che118b w2020 we had two options for our professor, the dreaded nasiri or nurco, many of us having heard the horror stories of nasiri b-lined to nurco only to later find we've put ourselves into something even worse than nasiri, you'll be hard pressed to find a more disorganized, unfair, condescending, and bitter professor at davis.

The absolute worst. It appears that Nurco does not care about his students or how much he makes them struggle. Never have I had a professor so unorganized, stubborn, and unsympathetic. Do. Not. Take. Him

Besides the fact that his lectures are dry and unhelpful, he is an unsympathetic and rude human. Ive never encountered someone as bitter as him. He has no passion in the way he teaches. As a professor, youre supposed to encourage your students and help them learn to love the subject. He makes me want to drop out lol. Please avoid at all costs!

No partial credit, high point MC with 12 options, and lengthy exams for the time given. This would be ok if he was approachable. He was bitter and rude towards his students. During the COVID shut down, he kept all students in the dark about the final until two days before. Lectures are pointless. Ended up learning from the book and YouTube videos.

Avoid Nurco. His tests are very long for 60 min and nobody finished on time. On top of that, its all-or-nothing credit for exams. Literally, little to no partial credit is given. Exam average was always 40%. Wow. Lectures are all slides so there is very little interaction with drawing out mechanisms; he leaves that for you to do. Just steer away.

The class was already hard enough and his lectures made it more difficult. Lectures were dry and the lecture slides were scattered. Need the textbook because all his homework (not mandatory) were textbook problems, and the textbook is super difficult to understand and look at, especially online. His tests are SO hard and WAY too long for the time.

Winter Quarter 2020 will be forever known as the Pandemic Quarter. Nurco as my prof only raised my anxiety and stress x100 during this Pandemic. He failed to compromise with his students, he failed to take our mental health into account and mental capabilities. His tests are long and hes by far the toughest grader I've ever had. SKIP IF U CAN

Get ready to be preached by the textbook.

His class was so bad, I have ptsd looking at ochem problems. I got A's in 118A and 118C, but a C+ in his class. I have never encountered such a horrible prof in 3 years of college. He REALLY shouldn't be a teacher. He is rude and his tests are unreasonable. Wish there was a 0 rating. Only take him if he's your last resort and hope for the best.

Hilarious bc the way that he neglected us was humorous. Written from a student during the PANDEMIC where learning is remote. After we pointed out downfalls of his course, he increased point values and lowered time allotted for quizzes. Leaves us in the dark. Tried to recycle lecture videos but failed, then failed to re upload adequately. Horrible

During the pandemic, Nurco has made no effort in accommodating students. He even suggested going to another place with better wi-fi if a student had poor internet connection. Quizzes are 4 minutes and are arbitrarily weighted No organization present at all, is quite unresponsive to concerns, and is generally uncaring and aloof. Avoid if you can

The most unaccommodating professor during the pandemic by far! There are DAILY quizzes, some are 2 or 4 minutes, and amounts vary from 4-18. He neglects students' voices on Piazza. The material isn't hard. It's how he structured this course that frustrates many students. Also had him for 118A, also wasn't good back then.

Easily the worst professor I've had. Quizzes are given over a two hr period, allowing us not to be able to watch lecture during time period. 18 quizzes back to back today.. prof doesn't acknowledge our frustrations, syllabus is useless to follow because everyone is confused about what we're getting quizzed on. This prof needs to stop teaching.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. Save yourself the trouble and try to get Lievens. Very unaccommodating to his students and does not follow his own syllabus. Honestly, lectures are recycled and useless so it's better to read the textbook. He does not listen to complaints or concerns, and all his changes make it harder to get a good grade. DO NOT TAKE

Dude. Nurco sucks. Do not take this class with him. He has no compassion for his students, it's already hard to take classes online in 2020, none the less with a teacher who is extremely inflexible, offers no clarity and does not respond to his students (when he does its done condescendingly and angry). He doesn't even stick to his own syllabus.

He had a very unclear way of teaching. I felt like I was floundering every day. The tests gave me so much anxiety bc I didn't know what to do. I suggest taking someone who actually teaches. He just used slides, and from taking chem again, THAT IS NOT THE WAY YOU TEACH CHEM. especially this one. good luck if you got him!

just horrible, avoid at all cost, this man and his class have no redeeming qualities

Every recent review is indicative of how he runs his class. I will say that what makes him worse than every other professor at UCD is how unflexible he goes about things. With every bad/unclear lecturer, they have redeeming qualities in that they set class curves, or give students points for unreasonable questions. Nurco does not do anything for us

I think prof Nurco is a good guy in general, but as a professor for this course he did not show much concern for his students needs especially in the middle of a pandemic. He never responded to anything in piazza after the first week, he did not post new lectures and the old videos were confusing to follow. material seems scattered. uncaring.

Homie aint even a professor. He gave us two minutes for our quizzes (pictures had to los and internet isnt the best), stated that there would be roughly 60 quizzes this summer but he said SIKE and gave us 102. he sucks at communicating and doesnt care for his students. he is chair of chem talked to him and he made no changes.. good luck ��

I usually never rate any of my professors but I absolutely had to in this case. Nurco was had completely no regard to listen to student concerns and provide help during an online version of the class during a pandemic. He was rude and unbothered. I regret not waiting and taking this class with a different professor. The worst experience so far.

2 minutes to load quiz, read question, and complete. Whatever happened to the 60 quizzes he initially stated. No more than 10 dropped quizzes he said, EVEN THO WE WENT OVER 100 QUIZZES. I also remember the 1 day we had like 18 quizzes. I don't even bother watching his recorded lectures from last year. He can't teach. Also no curve so rip

I don't eve have this much amount of work for my 5 unit class.

poor explanations of literally everything, even class expectations. doesn't care about students. lots of hw

Horrible lecturer. I wasn't gonna rate him for how bad he did a year or two ago but this quarter I'm mad enough to get my two classes of having him's opinion in.

He abused the amt of lecture he could have forcing students to watch many lecture hours and read the textbook before our scheduled lecture, which instead were practice problem hours. You are expected to do all this and labs and an insane harshly graded 3+ hr hw. Midterm was completely unfair and unlike any of the hw. No concern for any covid issues

The most unaccommodating professor I have ever had. Adds more lecture hours than he is allowed with about 6+ hours of hw a week. Not compassionate AT ALL. I asked about the workload on piazza and he deleted my question after students agreed, and did this to others who questioned him. Smart guy but he should not be a professor

I usually never rate professors but I had to this time. Professor Nurco is extremely unaccommodating to his students, especially during a time when all classes are remote. He assigns too much hw and the lectures are insanely long. The midterm was difficult with not enough time to finish. He deletes everything from piazza. Avoid like corona

Dr. Nurco was a researcher who probably would have done a lot more good in the fields of research. I had him winter quarter 2020, and have to say that his lectures are useless. I did more good reading Neil Schore's textbook than wasting my time in one of his lectures. When his lectures went online, I didnt watch a single lecture and did better

I had Nurco for CHE 8B Summer Session (online). This man does not care about the wellbeing of his students. He does not respond to Piazza comments and straight-up deletes any that he does not like (which is most of them). HIs workload is excessive and due dates are arbitrary. Most of all, he is incredibly condescending, bitter, and unhelpful.

Releases prelabs the night before they're due, homework due dates can be before the lectures that actually discuss the homework topics, and deletes comments that students make questioning his methods.

he's bad

As a Junior level student, I have never had a worse professor. Unaccommodating and irresponsible, he does not care about students and only about making himself look good. Tests are heavily weighted and rely more on formatting than on actual answers. I cannot believe a professor like this is allowed to teach at this point in time. Ridiculous.

He's horrible for the pandemic. He takes points off for things that aren't even related to ochem and things he never specified in the class, and you get 0 points for the whole question even if everything else is correct! He does not test on how much you know ochem. People who have iPads also have a large advantage, this is not an equitable class.

I had to drop this class for how ridiculous it was. He would delete any students concerns about the workload of the class (6+ hours a week for 2 units) and was just overall inconsiderate of students in the midst of a pandemic. Avoid at all costs.

Literal garbage. He does not care whatsoever about students struggling during this pandemic. He assigns outrageous amounts of work and impossible exams and shows no care when students speak out about the toll this class takes on them. Professors like this are the reason students have even worse mental health during an already excruciating time.

Easily the worst professor at UC Davis. Deletes questions he doesn't want to answer especially ones about his course structure. Not compassionate at all during the pandemic. Grades based on margin size rather than actual material. Should no longer be allowed to teach, please avoid. This class was an absolute joke and I learned nothing :)

Why he sucks: - Doesn't respond to emails, and when he does, he replies with incomplete sentences. Ignored all questions during zoom reviews. - You spend more time with Pearson. Back-to-back 90+ minute homework provided with wrong solutions without any work from yours truly, Dr. Nurco - He gives himself all the easy questions on the practice exams.

This guy is literally the worst chemistry professor on campus. He doesnt teach at all, his problem solving sessions dont help, textbook doesnt help, his OH dont help. His exams are crap, he is crap. Do not take him!

He does not care for his students at all, deletes negative piazza comments, and his lectures are extremely unhelpful. His tests were very hard and many students got 0's because "their margins were incorrectly sized" and other formatting "issues" even if the work was correct. 6+ hours of homework for a 2 unit class. Avoid him if you can

I am telling you right now to AVOID THIS MAN AT ALL COSTS. He assigns so much homework on a VERY FAULTY system & the excessive workload affects the 4 other classes you have to take to compensate for the class only being 2 units. He never taught only used recordings from last quarter. Dont even get me started on the bs test grading. Just DONT!

He is NOT a good professor and it truthfully doesn't seem like he even likes to teach. If you can take anyone else plz save urself the trouble.

He was not being understanding of the situation. And he would always make students feel bad whenever someone would ask a question, so disrespectful.

He does not have the personality to teach, he is very rude, and not good at all at teaching; You have to do all the learning on your own, reading the textbook or getting help from a tutor. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

Please avoid taking Dr. Nurco if you can. He is unapproachable and lectures straight from the book. He assigns so much work for a 2 unit class and is very picky with how tests are submitted. Nurco's lectures were pointless and confusing. You'll do a better job teaching yourself 8A material. Also don't expect a big curve... Good luck.

Nurco posts like a million "pre-lecture" and then you have to do the actual lecture and THE HOMEWORK before the lecture, which makes 0 sense. His lectures were not clear at all, he would not answer student's questions he would just say to all of them "ask in office hours". Not enough time for tests. Final was completely different than what he told

Nurco does not care for his students in the slightest. He continually ignores concerns on piazza and deletes any questions and posts that showcase concern about how the class is being handled. His tests are not consistent with what he teaches in class, and is overall very rude and condescending, making his class a hostile learning environment.

Tough course, teacher expects a lot from students. Be prepared to spend a lot of time doing practice problems and reading the book outside of class. He is hardcore Ochem Teacher. Not flexible about COVID with coursework, felt like passing the course is barely surviving. Takes points off for anything wrong with no partial credit.

His class made me consider dropping out. I have never met a professor who grades as harshly or gives ZEROS to dozens of students on midterms because he doesn't like that your scan isn't perfect. He was also transphobic and a completely horrible person when reached out to via email or piazza. Save yourself and your mental health- take any other prof

Honestly not terrible at presenting the material BUT the tests are VERY difficult and must be PERFECT. He often ignores and deletes questions on piazza making it useless. SO MUCH homework which gives you absolutely no time for other classes. Please save yourself and avoid unless you really want to suffer mentally. Maybe its just his online format.

literally, the worst. Just like his feedback on our work, I refuse to be constructive.

By far the worst professor I have had in my entire college experience. I have never had to drop a 2 unit class due to the amount of stress. He expects too much out of a 2 unit class and I personally did not like his teaching style. I attended tutoring, office hours and had a private tutor. No one can say I did not take advantage of my resources.

professor was REALLY rude and condescending, lectures were not that clear especially since this is o chem we are talking about, take another professor please