This is the first time she's taught this class and, while she is capable of discussing topics, her English can be confusing, so I cut some slack, but she failed to teach a lot of topics in an understandable way and made some seemingly nasty comments about regrades/students overall. Also, she doesn't curve exams. Watch the AATC videos to survive.

This was Wei's first quarter teaching, so I tried cutting her some slack but when her students were slammed with insanely confusing homework and midterms that seemed unfair, it's hard to give her credit. I do think she has the potential to be a good professor, but I hope she listens to students in the future as most almost failed her class...

What the hell was that final. Jayson Tatum.

It's her first quarter teaching OChem and she does not curve AT ALL. I will probably have to retake the class depending on the final average. Most of the questions on the final were not focused in lecture most of the time. Since the beginning of the quarter, she had MT 2 Curve % on Canvas bust changed it RIGHT after we took it. AVOID.

worst class ever, midterm and final problems were nothing like the practice problems went over in class. Ze's lectures barely made sense and I taught myself everything

AVOID! Professor doesn't curve midterms. Dr. Wei had her Canvas page stating a MT2 Curve % since the beginning of the quarter but it went away AFTER the exam. Final was hard and not reflective of the lectures AT ALL. The TAs are great but the professor doesn't make the class worth it. If you care for your grade don't take her course.

Problems sets were copied from other professors and hard. Midterms were a weird mixture of questions from the textbook and Prof. Lievens. Best of all, no curves! She seems nice in lecture but the class feels disorganized. TAs responded faster than the professor and make the class better. But it's not a great experience at all.

She has fill in the blank notes that look nothing like the material on the final or the exams. Classes are spent filling in the blank instead of practicing and teaching which was not useful to learn the information at all. She does not curve and hands exams from other professors without teaching the same material as them. Overall a insanely bad.

Diabolical final exam. Ze did a SN2 backside attack on my GPA.

She does not provide any of her own practice exams that are cruital for success in chem. In office hours, she doesn't solve problems on the board & just talk through them at you. Note format is filling in blanks, she doesn't explain chemical theories behind them. Final was extremely unfair, never thought I would say this but even farahat is better

Nasiri 2.0

5% would retake. 4.4 difficulty. 3 midterms that were 2 hard, 1 star review.

Her class was a nucleophile, it attacked, and I was the leaving group. I wish to be eliminated after that final

Was a TA for Nasiri and became another Nasiri. Awful at teaching. Material did not match exams whatsoever. Avoid her at all cost to save your gpa. Most importantly, PLEASE I BEG YOU UC DAVIS DO NOT TENURE HER!!!

The final was significantly more difficult than the lecture material, with unexpected curveballs including content she did NOT teach. D avg on 2nd midterm, and mentioned multiple times she will not curve it, later admitting in office hours that she doesn't know how to. Former Nasiri TA…enough said.

what was that final lol

She was unnecessarily apathetic toward students. She held extremely high expectations without any curve or resources to study for midterms. She created no materials and suggested we use past exams that didn't reflect hers. Exams were mostly textbook problems, and she never clarified which to study. I wouldn't recommend this class to my worst enemy.

Very uncaring attitude towards students, and it's reflected in her exams. Midterm 2 and the final both had material that was either not introduced or barely covered by the lectures. Also refused to curve mt 2 despite the average being a D.

Let me be clear, Dr. Wei is probably a great human being, but MY GOODNESS was this class terrible. She was apathetic and dismissive. Her inability to provide a thorough and clear explanation on ANY topic was most seen and felt with the difficulty of the tests and homework- which failed to reflect the bulk of what was presented in class.

TERRIBLE! Literally used an AATC workshop pdf to teach the class. It's her first quarter teaching OC and she does not curve AT ALL. THE FINAL EXAM was DOO DOO, basically tested us on stuff we didn't learn.

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gave us 21 mechanisms that we had to know. then gave a completely random mechanism on the final that was quite literally impossible. how tf do you even go from a primary alcohol cyclopentane to a cyclohexane with a methyl and a bromine WHAT DA FAWKKKKKKKK

Started fine but turned into a disaster. Average was an D by exam 2 and she wouldn't curve. Even then, I managed to have an A— only because I was relying on AATC. The final was basically all free response mechanisms for problems she barley went over. I kid you not I do not think I scored above a 30 percent even with doing fine up till that point.

What was the point of teaching us 21 mechanisms and the SN1/SN2/E1 table if that wasn't focused on in the final. Not even the notecard could has saved us. AATC is the only resource you can really rely on for this class. TAs are amazing but the Dr. Wei needs to be more considerate of her students. She made negative statements about curves (D Ave.).

Wei is skilled in her field but lacks effective teaching. She rarely looks up from her iPad during lectures & leaves questions unanswered. Unpredictable tests, inconsistent grading, & no uniformity. Regardless of being a first-year teacher, it is unjustifiable for so many students to be set back due to her poor execution and lack of communication.

Jiahui was tricky. Not ze best.

She lectures with fill-in notes and acts like we already know the material. We don't. Midterms and final are filled with questions never. seen. before. AND only on material mentioned once in a lecture randomly on a side note that was never directly emphasized or ever mentioned again. Also there are no real resources that reflect her tests at all.

Uses fill in the blank notes that were extremely easy compared to the actual exams/mechanisms. 2 Midterms (refuses to curve despite the avg of M2 being a D). Everyone agreed that the final was not a fair representation of what she taught (very hard). Does not have her own materials. She just posts Nasiri's and Lieven's past materials.

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she should consider quitting teaching and stick to doing research, what she is actually better at.

I am sure Dr.Wei is a good person, but she really needs to reconsider her approach to teaching. Her lecture notes sometimes have no similarity to problem set or exam questions, with the final being the most unexpected and mind boggling part of this course. She doesn't provide enough resources and her way of explaining things just doesn't work AVOID

I have no clue how its possible to get an A in this class. The first couple of midterms were ok - some questions were super specific but nothing awful. The final was just horrendous - it felt like it was from a completely different class. The reactions were like nothing we've seen from the midterms/practice. Really bad faith on her part.

Her lecture notes were not easy to follow--I would have rather just made my own notes. She didn't spend any time doing practice problems or doing examples during lectures. She would only fill in the blanks on the lecture "notes" she gave us. The final was absolutely terrible and she refuses to curve.

Spent hours teaching myself the content because the fill in the blank lecture style is a joke. The final was extremely difficult and was supposed to be "accumulative" but had no questions from m1 and m2 content just the new stuff. Waste of my time. Che 118a will be seeing me again next quarter.

My worst experience at Davis so far was in this class. I studied for two weeks in advance for this final and I was still unable to answer questions. There was nothing more I could've done. Wei is not a good lecturer and her notes emphasize one thing while her exams are covered on something entirely different. Avoid at all costs.

Please DO NOT take Wei. 4 problem sets, 10 quizzes, 2 midterms, and a final. The problem sets (besides the last one) and first midterm wasn't that bad, leading me to think she would be decent...WRONG. I know for a fact many failed that final, and it likely won't have that significant of a curve. She CANNOT teach. AVOID AVOID AVOID.

People say Professor Wei's class is fair, but that's far from true. The first midterm was easy enough to keep students from dropping. The second exam was worse. Her answer key had over five mistakes. The final was a disaster. No amount of studying or resources helped. I had an A, but now I'm not even sure I'll leave with a C.

Studied day and night for this class. I did well on the first and second midterms, but the final was a disaster. If you emailed the professor, there was no reply. Only one TA responded quickly; the others took 2-3 days. This class was a nightmare. I signed up to take Professor Lievens, not her, but I guess that's just my luck.

Genuinely the most difficult professor here at UC Davis. Lectures were no help, homework's were no help, and midterms were gradually more difficult each time as it only reflected things that she has never taught us. Don't even get me started with the final, cause it was honestly straight up gibberish. She also emphasizes heavily on no curve.

worst. professor. ever. she has passion yes. but teaching is poor. she cannot teach. she simply cannot. not the language barrier, simply what we learn is more complex in exams, everything is self learn & best bet to pass is to do really good on quizzes.

I thought she was an ok professor until the final exam. She barely prepared us for the exam and put mostly new material on it. The class average was 47% on the final exam and I feel like she did not curve enough considering how everyone did on it. Lectures were just her filling in notes, not really explaining the meaning behind concepts very well.

Prof. doesn't focus on teaching conceptual understanding which is mainly why everyone does so poorly in her class. Lecture notes lack so much information that are basically useless for exams besides mechanisms. Ochem is not as difficult as it is made out to be, but her class makes it so unnecessarily difficult with unfair exams & poor explanations.

DO NOT TAKE WEI. Everyone essentially failed midterm 2 and the final. Her lectures and exams do not even correlate. She refused to reply to my email regarding my final grade and she never replied to her emails during the quarter. She is a horrible lecturer. Never raises her head from the iPad, she is filling the blanks on for her notes.

I wouldn't take Wei ever. I am limited to 350 but I could go on. Ochem is hard & she didn't make it any easier. I've used Klein for this entire class & I learned more from that than any of her lectures. DON'T take her, if you don't want a mental breakdown in mid-quarter. Please SPARE yourselves b/c you aren't seeing anything u learn in person.

DO NOT TAKE. Wei is a terrible professor. You'd think because it is her first time she'd be more lenient, but she is not. She is incompetent. The only way I managed to do decent in this class is with the help of AATC. Please avoid if you can, and if you can't I wish you the best of luck. You will need it.

Professor Wei will be teaching General Chemistry next quarter, and if you're looking to dislike chemistry from the start, consider taking her class. Even students who earned A's have complained about her teaching style and course structure. Many find it difficult to follow, so be prepared! Worst professor ever

One of the more stressful academic quarters of my life and I owe a lot of it to this class. Midterms were not curved, no matter how hard they were. Content on exams was never anything ze made, so anything covered in zir lectures was rendered useless. Only the final was curved. Like many reviews say, a lack of empathy. Avoid if possible.

Half her lectures were color coding and the other half was her talking about future classes. Even with all that, her notes weren't easy to follow, and watching the recordings did not help because she is a horrible lecturer.

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I TOOK IT FOR CHEM2A, and i would say i learned everything by myself so far. she ran through topics really fast, didn't go deep into it (not really explaining), expected you to know what is going on. the only good thing is the midterm is similar to practice problems, but other than that, nah

If you are okay with teaching yourself the material completely on your own then take this class. Understandably her first language isn't English, but understanding her at times was extremely difficult. Her lectures were difficult to follow if you do not have an iPad because she uses fill in notes. TA's carried this class.

What was mainly hard for this class was that her tests were nothing like the lectures. She used fill in the blank for her notes, but then pulled straight from Enderle's practice exams for the midterms. By the second midterm, I learned I just needed to memorize Enderle's exams in order to pass. It's also hard to understand her.

AWFUL. I had her fall 2024 and initially was supposed to have Lievens until 2 weeks before the quarter we she was switched for Wei. Her course was, to me, a complete disaster. Lectures consisted of filling-the-blank notes which we copied during class. Her HWs were impossible, I spent hours in OH to no avail. Hardest final I've ever taken. AVOID.

The worst professor ever.The TAs had so much attitude for no reason it seemed like doing their job was a burden to them. Avoid taking Wei at all costs

Get ready to teach yourself the material because lectures are not helpful at all. Barely passed the second midterm by memorizing the enderle practice exams since they were copied and pasted.

Had to self-teach myself most of the material, she wasn't thorough in explaining concepts and instead just filled in blanks on her notes and just expected us to know what she was doing. I do think she tried her best and she is a caring person it's just her teaching methods dont work, she also doesn't post curves/grades until finals are graded.

Going to a lecture is a waste of time you could have spend studying. In lecture she goes over Enderle's textbook and doesn't elaborate. I got through this class by studying the owl textbook on my own. Overall, bad teacher who cannot explain topics in an understandable way. Midterms are copy/paste of the Enderle's practice exams, STUDY THOSE!

Lectures were useless—I went for the first two weeks then stopped since it was just copying fill-in-the-blank notes. Midterms reused old Enderle exams. The one time she added a new question to the 2nd midterm, it was incorrect so we all got full credit. The final wasn't reused (shared across all chem professors), so I think everyone did badly.

Totally unprofessional and lacking empathy toward her students. She doesn't want her students to get a good grade.

The lectures made me more confused then if I hadn't have gone. You can tell this was her first time teaching this course as her note style made topics more confusing then it had to be. Had to stop atteneding lectures and reverted to just watching YouTube viedeos on the topics and atteneding the co classes.. VERY strong curve however.

Dr. Wei was funny and nice enough, but her teaching was poor. In lectures she never explained the concepts, only did practice problems and never said what she was doing or why. I usually left more confused than I came in. Didn't post any grades or curve info until the very end so you had no idea what grade to expect. Slow to respond on Piazza.

Had no idea what she was talking about the whole quarter. sweet but chem was not my strong suit in the first place and learning everything myself was not fun. If u don't understand her, skip lecture, self teach and do hw, for midterms LITERALLY memorize a lot of enderle's practice exams(what I should've been doing since the beginning)

Dr. Wei seems like a pretty good person, she showed us that she cared about how we did in the course, but she does not know how to teach a class effectively AT ALL. She would continually backtrack and skip around, making it nearly impossible to stay with her during lecture, and she in general did not explain things in a remotely clear way. AVOID.

i think wei is a nice person, i just feel i didn't learn anything in lecture. i even watched the videos beforehand but i always ended up confused. she kind of just does the problem without explaining it well. i wasn't even sure that i passed but the curve saved me. depend on enderle's material, please!

She never responded to a single email, she doesn't post grades until right before the final so you have no idea how you're doing, doesn't curve ANYTHING until after the final (though it was a very generous curve, I believe almost 10%). Her lectures were near impossible to understand and her TAs treated us like a burden.

She was not ready to teach students.

she cares about her students but was not ready to teach. her lectures were unclear and disorganized and she cared more about color coding instead of the actual content. most of her exams came from enderles reader so rely on that for exams.

who hired her? there's no doubt that she is smart, but she is not good at teaching, not at all.

Stopped going to lecture after a few weeks and only attended Co-Class. Lectures were unclear and didn't help. All her exams were taken directly from the previous quarter taught by Enderlee (she only changes the numbers). I would avoid at all costs. I barley made it out of there.

Professor Wei is very kind, but I struggled heavy in her class do to lecture not covering the full content and the exams being extremely hard. It is hard to follow her in lecture and I got confused often. I would not recommend taking her her unless you are very good at chemistry. Also, her class did have a huge curve so that help a lot.

One of the most difficult professors I've had at UC Davis. Her teaching style was unclear, and it often felt like she wasn't able to explain concepts effectively. It was also discouraging when she responded rudely to questions, which made it harder to engage in class.

The TAs were unhelpful and often came across as rude or condescending. It felt like they forgot what it was like to be a student, and instead of offering support, they decided to use Google answers during office hours. It didn't feel like they were prepared to assist us or genuinely interested in helping.

One of the most challenging professors I've had at UC Davis. Very knowledgeable, but not an effective teacher. Lectures were hard to follow, exams were extremely difficult, and her notes focused more on appearance than clarity. Also, she rarely responded to emails.

Worst professor at Davis. Has no experience. Avoid at her at all cost. Just run away!

Honestly, she is so sweet and nice, but that isnt enough for me to raise my rating. Her lectures aren't lectures, you dont learn anything in class. All learning must be done by you on your own time. I was taking 19 units at the time, so this was the worst. Be prepared to teach yourself. The material is tough, and she doesnt make it any easier.

Took 118a fq24, wei's 1st quarter. Lectures hard to understand, esp when she zoomed out right after writing smt. Not the best at explaining. Notecards allowed in weekly dis quizzes and both mts. 118a content is difficult, start w stuff from 2c then 1 mech, then 3 more, then after mt2 you get two weeks to learn a dozen more rxns... Final was awful

It's so hard to understand what she's saying in class and where she is going with the lesson. Most of the time, she relies on other professors' work to teach in her class.

Bad at explaining not very supportive

It is a inspiration how bad her lectures are. All of her lectures are based around one or two practice problems with no legitimate teaching of concepts. She frequently says "If you don't understand this then drop my class" and "If you don't understand then ask your 'smart neighbor'". Avoid her section at all costs. I have never seen a worse teacher

Professor Wei was not a good lecturer, I generally benefitted more from independent study than attending lectures which would confuse me more. Her midterms had questions directly copy and pasted from the practice test, no numbers changed. I vouch for the other reviews noting her color coding. Heavy test curve.

Didn't go to a single lecture all quarter. She just does practice problems (tho not very helpful) and doesn't actually teach. Atleast she's nice but thats lowkey not enough. Just copies off Enderle, had to teach myself for the most part by reading Enderles Reader.

DO NOT TAKE HER COURSES, SHE NEVER TEACHES, BASICLY JUST TEACHING MYSELF THE WHOLE QUARTER. TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS IN LECTURES AND QUIZES.

No teaching at all. Go ask your smart neighbors.

Her lectures are nightmares.

The only thing amazing about her lectures is how spectacularly bad they were. She frequently jumps between topics for no real reason and heavily relies on work already done by other professors here. My biggest advice if you have to take her class like I did, DONT go to lecture just watch lectures posted by Dr. Enderle so you can learn the content.

It was so bad I hated chem for ten years.

you might as well never go to a single lecture they are that bad. Her microphone is awful and cuts out every couple seconds. At every single lecture she just turns it off and holds a hand-held one instead. This combined with her heavy accent and constantly shifting topics into irrelevant stuff make it impossible to understand anything.

Professor Wei seems like a genuinely good person, but good person doesn't help when learning chemistry. I think her way of teaching not effective to many so in reality you're just there to take tests on self studied chem topics. She often didn't answer questions and only covered the surface level of the topic with one example. She is organized tho.

this professor is absolutely horrible and needs to be fired asap. she doesn't even teach and rushes through content without even explaining what the heck she's doing, and she cares more about her dumb color coding than actually teaching. she would also continuously make rude comments "if this doesnt make sense then drop the class" like bro r we fr

she needs to get fired and never teach again, she's the absolute worst and can't teach for the life of her. she cares more abt color coding than actually explaining what she's doing. being in her class during my first quarter as a freshman made me feel so discouraged and unmotivated. whatever u do js NEVER EVER take her for ANY class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Her lectures are pointless and she cares more about providing useless examples of o-chem than actually focusing on necessary ones. Grades are locked entire quarter and midterm averages horrible (~40-50%). I know she is new to teaching but I think it isn't really her thing. Enderle's reader has been my ride or die (thank you king)

Don't take her class. DROP IMMEDIATLY. I haven't gone to or watched a single lecture since day one bc they're so buns. You have to self study from the textbook and practice for exams based on Enderle's materials. She doesn't show grades or give an idea of what the overall curve will look like so you have no idea where you stand in the class.

My second time taking Wei. (got an A in 2B with her). Class isn't a death sentence as long as you have discipline self studying. If you need a good lecturer who will teach you, this isn't the right class for you. First MT exam was poorly written and impossible to finish, but she did have a more fair second midterm. I've heard she's nice and funny.

Not a good professor at all, cannot teach and literally spends half the lecture telling us how she is going to use colored this and that. Her midterms were like Enderle exams, 1st one was impossible, 2nd was better. Going into the final nervous but hoping for a curve. Avoid her if you want to keep your sanity, she really should not be teaching.

This class left me wanting to die every time I look at anything chemistry related. Lectures are so awful it is actually unimaginable, you are left off so much worse than before. If you can teach yourself all of the content you might be okay. Otherwise AVOID.

honestly just so terrible. didn't really go to lecture after week 1 bc she doesn't explain anything at all. felt continually confused and lost whenever I did go. choose any other prof if you can or just wait another quarter to avoid her.

professor wei is pretty much what everyone else on here has said. the lectures are awful, it doesn't even matter if you go or not. mic cuts out every few seconds. i think her favorite phrase is "go ask your smart neighbor." i will say she is pretty funny and seems like a genuinely sweet person, but not a very good professor at all.

Seems like a sweet professor, but that simply does not make up for her ability to teach. Seriously, I don't know what'd she teach if Enderle's reader did not exist. Going to lectures felt pointless, which resulted in almost empty lecture halls. Avoid if you can. Midterm 1 was almost impossible to finish in a 50 minute time frame.

If you're looking for a sign to believe all the reviews and not take her class. This is it. HORRIBLE lectures and she isn't prepared for them. Without her notes on the side, she gets lost on a problem on the first step. Too busy worrying abt color coding. Takes all her stuff from Enderle. Never enough time on tests and they are so long.

i tried so so so hard to pass and I studied so hard but she made it IMPOSSIBLE, her notes dont make sense and the online materials dont make sense without watching vids and the vids never match whats on the tests. DO NOT TAKE WEI. I genuinely thought if i worked hard I would be fine but she proved that some professors are just evil.

Heavy emphasis on Dr.Wei using Enderle Reader to structure her lectures and exams. You'll do decently good if you do a A LOT of self-teaching and practice exams from Enderle. But other than that if you expect to actually learn from her you won't get much of that. I highly recommend going through the Enderle reader before class. AVOID if possible.

someone buy her a working mic because thats the reason why i skipped all the lectures. shout out my goat jace. he was an amazing TA and explained everything in one discussion class that wei couldn't in 3 lectures.

Dr. Wei is very new to UC Davis, and it was very evident to see that throughout the quarter. Without taking AP Chemistry, success in this class is very difficult, but possible with much self-studying. Often copied another professor's notes as hers. Midterms however, are extremely similar to practice exams. If possible, avoid and take another prof.

Honestly, Wei seems like a super nice lady who wants all her students to succeed. With that said, her lectures are just simply ineffective. Her accent and mic quality make it extremely difficult to understand the subject without a lot of self studying. I want to give her a higher rating but can't, wouldn't take again, curve is massive though!

Dr. Wei is a sweet person, but is not a good professor in any sense. If you wish to do well in this class, you will have to self-study the Enderle reader or textbook. Most people do terribly in her class, with the only saving grace being her generous curve at the end. Her exams are also bad, with 2/3 having major errors and low averages.

She doesn't teach. You must read the textbook and take your own notes in order to pass. Lectures are optional. She goes over practice problems in lecture, no teaching. There are 2 midterms and 1 final. She cannot teach chemistry to save her life. Good luck if you have to take her.