This was her first semester at Purdue and I absolutely loved her! She is a great professor who presents the material in a way that is easy to understand. The class itself is very fast-paced, but it was manageable in the way it was taught. She is always willing and excited to accept questions during class, and her review sessions are super helpful!

If you take this class, this is the professor to get. I haven't heard a single person say that they didn't love this professor. She loves when people ask questions, even in a lecture hall. Opens up study sessions to everyone taking the course. The homework is hard, but doable with the book. If you skip this class, you will not pass, period.

Dr. Low-Nam is a great professor! She teaches in a way that is understandable and is very patient with her students. Great communication. Very lenient. Easy extra credit. The class is relatively easy. Didn't sweat a bit. It was a 5 credit course but felt like 2. If you put in the work you will definitely get an A Periodt.

The exams in this class were hard, but Dr. Low-Nam is a great professor. Unless your degree plan requires it, I would still suggest you: RUN.

Dr. Low-Nam is a fantastic lecturer. While the material is sometimes difficult, she explains it in a thorough way and the class is very doable if you put the work in. Even during COVID she was accessible and interacted with students whenever possible, and I would love to take another class of hers. Stay on top of assignments and you will be fine.

Dr. low-nam is an excellent professor. She cares about students success in the course and is very understanding. The hard part about this class is the fact that it is essentially a two semester course condensed into one. There are three very long lectures a week. The exams were very difficult but one exam is dropped at the end of the semester.

Professor Low-Nam is incredibly knowledgeable about her field. Her class was probably one of the homework-heavier classes for me this semester, but I still thought it was very manageable. Her lectures are very long, but if you pay attention during them, you should be able to take the exams without studying. Don't forget to submit homework!

Dr. Low Nam is very knowledgeable about the topics in the course and is great at explaining things. The class is a 5 credit hour course and you can tell... I had to work hard to earn an A, and I had taken AP Chemistry in high school. CHM 12901 is an interesting course and Dr. Low Nam will go out of her way to help you understand the material.

She's a great professor but the class is pretty difficult. It's easy to feel behind and most of my Sundays this semester were spent on this class. Even though I hadn't done chemistry in a few years it was a very doable class, just stay on top of lectures and labs and the online homework. Prof. Low-nam is very kind and understanding!

dr low-nam genuinely cares how you do in the class and wants everyone to succeed. shes super knowledgeable and is able to clearly explain just about everything. she loves to connect concepts so speak with her about how topics will connect and look for specific examples on your own. she also gives a lot of extra credit and shes really nice!

She's an extremely good professor. She knows the content for this class really well and responded to all my emails within 10 minutes. Her lectures prepare you well for her exams and overall have well prepared me for organic chemistry. For a 5 credit class you get a lot out of it.

This is a great professor who always takes the time to answer questions and help those who need it. However this class is the equivalent of high school AP chem but in ONE semester. Do not take it unless you love chem/it is required. I had to take it for my Bio major and failed nearly every exam. Understanding the material and formulas is CRUCIAL!

She is probably the best professor I have ever had. She is very passionate about her topics and about her students success. She is willing to set up meetings outside of class and correct things that were not fair to the students/too difficult. Her office hours are very helpful and very full. Her review sessions are amazing. She goes the extra mile.

Dr. Low-Nam is wonderful. She will go above and beyond what other professors do to help students understand the course material, and is extremely kind and cheerful. You'll need to take advantage of it because CHM 12901 is a very difficult class. Go to lecture, go to recitation, do all of the assignments, go to review sessions, and you'll do well.

Dr. Low Nam is an absolutely amazing professor. She truly cares about her students and the content. However, this class is incredibly fast paced and there is a lot of work. Office hours are a very helpful and necessary if youre struggling. Dedicate yourself to the content from day 1 and youll do great.

CHM 129 is a tough course, without a question. But, Dr. Low-Nam does an amazing job presenting the information in her lectures. The labs are also quite interesting, but beware that the exams are HARD. Go to SI, help sessions, rework homework, practice questions, etc. Dr. Low-Nam's office hours are also very helpful and she is super nice.

Dr. Low-Nam is an extremely caring professor and does her best to make the lectures interesting. The course is very work intensive and you will need to designate a lot of time to it. GO to office hours! Low-Nam is very invested in your successful and is there to help you. Work hard beginning day one cause it's hard to catch back up if you're behind

I absolutely loved having Dr. Low-Nam as my professor. She really takes time to make sure everyone is understanding the concepts. She genuinely wants her students to pass, and provides many opportunities such as review sessions, and extra credit which I recommend to do. In short, Dr Low-Nam is an amazing professor who works hard to teach everyone.

Low-Nam is great. Lecture material is covered fairly swiftly, especially if you haven't taken AP chem so be sure to head to her weekly office hours which I made a habit of, as she often can reexplain concepts more slowly and provides test hints there ;) Low-Nam is very caring and has a genuine passion for the content. Best of luck!

Dr. Low-Nam is very kind and genuinely cares about your learning. It's nice to see a professor passionate about the material she teaches. Her office hours were a gem for the prelabs and any questions about the exam. There is a ton of extra credit in the class, so make sure to utilize all of it. The labs and HW took a majority of my time.

I love Professor Low Nam, it was just the class that was awful. I was someone who was told by their advisor to major in Bio after never taking any APs in high school, so this class was a struggle. Low Nam's office hours though... GO TO THEM!!! They helped so much and she is always willing to do what is most helpful to her students. Very caring

Dr. Low Nam is a great professor who really enjoys what shes teaching and cares about students doing well. However, its a super difficult class with lots of homework and attending the lectures is really important. The tests are very difficult.

Low-Nam clearly loves the topic she teaches, but if the class wasnt required for my major I would not take it! There was a ton of homework and exams were very difficult, however low-Nam was very accessible and easy to reach if you needed help with anything. And her TAs were AWESOME! use their help!

Love Pr. Low-Nam. She is very caring and inspirational. Realizes that there's a lot of content to be covered and that the lectures must be very quick , but she does her best to explain everything as slowly and as steadily as she can. She often draws a lot of diagrams for students.

She believes that every student has the capability to success in the class. She is accessible outside of the class. She loves to engage with her students and is always eager for a quick chat with the students before and after class. If you introduce yourself to her once she will remember your name and recognize you out of 400 people audience.

Pr. Low-Nam is a big sweetheart. She makes all the little details in and outside of the class which really improves the mood and confidence. She is always happy to answer your questions during and outside of the class.

She clearly puts a lot of effort into teaching this class. Every professor in PHYS172 is given the same presentations to use for lectures, but Professor Low-Nam goes out of her way to alter the presentations to make them easier to understand. She listens to student feedback and incorporates it into her future lessons.

She edits the general slides to highlight the most important information, and works lots of practice problems. Her speed can be hard to keep up with at times, but she gets through all the material.

Dr. Low-Nam is genuinely awesome. This class was extremely difficult as my first chemistry course in college, but Low-Nam genuinely cares about her students and gave us multiple opportunities to earn extra credit/points back. Expect to struggle in this course, but a good grade is achievable with the proper effort. Look out for the exams.

Knows what she is talking about and re-explains topics when the majority is having trouble understanding

Very enthusiastic during lectures and makes diagrams with cute drawings before every exam. The class is hard but she makes it as easy to understand as she can.

Can't really say I paid attention to lectures truly, but I could definitely tell that Dr. Low-Nam was a great professor that made coming in worth it. She makes lectures fun and doesn't talk in a monotone voice and bore everyone.

Dr. Low-Nam was a great lecturer and did everything in her power to keep students engaged. Would constantly gauge the class to see what we needed to understand the material better. Make sure to attend lectures, the problems worked out in class would often pop up on exams.

PHYS 172 is an awful cluster of a class, and Low Nam, being chucked in from chemistry, tried her best to make sure every person in that giant lecture understood what she was saying. She gave lots of examples, explained clearly, and made the lectures fun when she could. Really lifted up one of the worst-run courses Purdue has and made it doable.

Very good professor. Her pace is quite fast and takes a little bit of getting used to. Super accessible outside of class and is always willing to answer questions during lecture as well.

I haven't completed this course but needed to express how amazing Low-nam is. She cares about her students and responds to her emails fast. There are plenty of opportunities for help in this class and even though this class is extremely difficult she works to make it as easy as possible. She constantly makes sure the class is understanding lecture.

Dr. Low-Nam is incredibly well-spoken and does a great job of making class engaging. This course is a 5 credit-hour course so it definitely takes a lot of work and is more difficult, but there are plenty of resources to help you succeed. Dr. Low-Nam is an asset to PU.

Dr. Low-Nam's class is extremely difficult, especially to freshman with no AP chem experience. That being said, she is a wonderful professor who really cares about her students and provides plenty of resources to help you succeed. Beware the workload can be very very overwhelming.

She was a great professor and truly cared about her students, the content in the course was just very difficult and one may fall behind very quickly.

READ THE TEXTBOOK! I read the entire textbook and did the review problems from the book and got perfects on nearly every exam. Low-nam is an incredibly sweet prof and wants everyone to succeed. she encourages questions and even gets excited when students want to ask a question. Goes the extra mile for her students.

Dr. Low-Nam is the sweetest professor. She always wants to hear from her students during office hours and during lectures. She is very excited when students have questions during lectures, and won't mind finishing her lecture the next day. She is always very passionate about the material she is teaching and seeing her students succeed.

Dr. Shalini Low-Nam is an amazing lecturer! She conveys material very clearly and emphasizes important material for exams. Lots of extra credit opportunities to boost your grade. The course itself has a lot of work, but it is not too difficult to complete. Attend office hours, lectures, and review sessions, and you should be just fine.

Professor Low-Nam is very excited about chemistry and strives to make the course enjoyable for her students. She encourages questions. The course itself has many office hours and help sessions. Professor Low-Nam talks very quickly in lecture.

She is one of the best professors I have ever had at Purdue. She wants you to ask questions and build a relationship with her. I regret not going to her office hours and not getting to know her. 12901 is one of the hardest classes I have taken due to my not taking AP Chem in high school. Be prepared to grind and study but an amazing professor!!!

Dr. Low-Nam is the best. She makes herself very accessible and you can tell that she has genuine care for every one of her students- even though it's a massive class size. CHM129 is hell on wheels imo, but if you keep up with homework, recitations, labs, and do decent on tests, you'll do well. Dr. Low-Nam is absolutely the way to go.

Low-Nam is knowledgeable and excited about teaching. She loves to answer questions. Doing the problem-solving sessions makes tests easier, and reading the textbook was mostly unnecessary. You must pay for Connect problems though, and they don't always give you the values needed to solve them. If you took AP Chemistry, this class is mostly review.

I was most nervous about CHM129, but Dr. Low Nam made this extremely rigorous course much easier. She prepared her students well for all assignments and exams while keeping the lecture active and engaging. She also offers lots of extra credit and ways to obtain a higher grade. It is a very dense course, but Dr. Low Nam makes it manageable.

Dr. Low-Nam is very passionate and is willing to help her class succeed, her office hours are really helpful. If you have a problem on a homework or anything you can just send her an email and she will work it out for you. However she does lecture at a faster pace. I found this class challenging only because I was never exposed to AP Chem.

She is very kind, but talks fast in her lectures. The lectures don't have great examples, so maybe looking up examples would help. Recitation, homework, or labs are a lot of work but easily found online. She was very nice and would recommend her office hours over Conklin. She is very nice and welcomes questions.

I hate chemistry but I loved this class because of Low-Nam as a professor. I cannot stress how useful it is to attend her office hours, it was really key to getting the grade I wanted. Tough content, but a fantastic and enthusiastic prof.

She always makes sure her students understand the lectures and frequently asks if the concepts make sense to the students throughout her lectures. She is very friendly and always answers questions kindly.

Dr. Low-Nam was a lecturer for PHYS 172, and while she did not affect assignments, grades, or class policies, she was by far the best professor for the course. The way she explained the concepts was very understandable, even for people who had not taken physics before, and after attending other class times I can say she is the best lecturer.

PHYS172 is infamously a poorly structured and taught class at Purdue, but professor Low-Nam really helped make it a lot easier. Her lectures where actually engaging and informative, and she grew close to the class as the semester went on, amazing professor!

Professor Low-nam cares about making sure her students understand the material. Homework, a recitation worksheet, a prelab flowchart, and a lab report are due outside of class each week. Study for exams with SI sessions, problem-solving sessions, and reviewing homework and recitations. Lectures are available to watch online.

The professor was super caring and passionate about the topic. She did an excellent job at answering students' questions and wanted to ensure all the concepts made sense to her students. The class overall was awful and poorly set up. Expect to do hours of work every day outside of class. There were a lot of extra credit opportunities though.

If you attend all of the possible opportunities for extra work in this class, you will succeed. I attended Supplemental Instruction and Problem Solving Sessions weekly which caused me to do well in the course. Dr. Low Nam is very thorough in her lectures and makes it a point to answer every question. There is also LOTS of extra credit so use that.

CHM129 was definitely an intensive course, but Dr. Low-nam made the lectures clear and enjoyable while keeping up with all the content needed to be covered each lecture. Her passion for teaching and helping the students was very evident in her teaching and the way she always made sure that all questions had been answered before she moved on.

Dr. Low-Nam was incredibly caring to all of her students. She always encouraged questions in lectures and kindly answered them. The class is set up so that if you utilize all the resources and put in the work, you will succeed. Exam III will be the most challenging.Tough course (at least for someone who didn't take AP chem) but great professor.

Biggest thing for me was watching the video lectures when exams were nearby..I realized that during class I couldn't pay attention so much- One look away from the screen and 8 million new topics popped up, but I'm so grateful for the video lectures and being able to take it at my own pace- DEFINITELY utilize any resources you can; this is not easy!

This course covers a lot of material, and I respect this professor's ability in introducing and guiding students through major concepts. I was able to keep up and pass the course, even though I didn't have any prior knowledge of the subject. She gives clear and accurate answers to students' questions as well.

Very good professor. Classes were manageable and a lot of resources were provided for tests.

Dr. Low Nam is awesome! She is super skilled in her knowledge of chemistry which was clear during lectures. While the content was difficult she was ready to answer questions and explain concepts again to make them more understandable. There is a lot of work to do outside of class but with good time management it wasn't a struggle.

Dr. Low-Nam is EXTREMELY invested in chemistry, which very much shows in her teaching. She ensures everyone can succeed, no matter the circumstances and barriers people may face. The class is difficult, but if you utilize all available sources, you'll do fine.

Very awesome professor! I first walked in a little intimidated by her, but she has become phenomenal throughout the semester! She makes lectures very understandable and answers all of your questions. Definitely would have her again as my professor!

The class is pretty manageable if you put a lot of effort in. My only prior knowledge was tenth grade chemistry and I ended up doing pretty good.

Dr. Low-Nam is an incredible teacher who demonstrates clear interest in her students' success. She explains concepts thoroughly in class and is always open to questions. Personally, I watched the lecture videos online instead of attending the lectures but found her to be incredibly engaging in both formats. Be sure to take advantage of recitation.

Dr. Low Nam is an incredible professor. She makes sure to address all questions throughout lectures, takes time to thoroughly cover each concept, and immediately clarifies any confusion. She provides a sufficient amount of extra credit opportunities and creates very fair exams and study material. I would 100% recommend anyone to take her!

She is the best professor/teacher I have ever had in my life. She truly cares about the students that she teaches; I have never met someone so passionate about bettering the lives of students. She was one of the first professors I had in college and I wouldn't change anything about her for the world. Also, GO TO HER OFFICE HOURS!!!!

She goes fast during lectures, but talks clearly so its ok. Slides are easy to understand. 12901 is a freshman-level course and she 100% accommodates students for that. Gives lots of chances to ask questions during lecture. Unfortunately the class structure itself is a little confusing with the recitations and labs.

very caring of student success

Dr. Low-Nam was an outstanding professor, especially given the accelerated and quite challenging course. Compared to the other professor, Low-Nam is understandable and provides us with numerous opportunities to grasp the same concept. The TAs are nice graders for the test and lab reports, but the exams for this class are definitely a challenge.

Amazing class. Don't forget to use your resources. It's not easy if you don't have strong chem background, but the teaching team will get you through. Go to office hours.

Her lectures are better than the other professor, but overall I have to attend lecture and rewatch the videos to get a good grasp of the content. The exams are hard, but fair. There are many drops and extra credit given at the end.

Professor Low Nam truly cares so much about her students! She encourages us even when the course gets difficult and compensates low scores with extra credit and policies like prorates. Lectures can be hard to study from/understand so use an outside resource or the textbook.

Low-Nam though being harsh with the tests does want every single one of her students to succeed. I will say that the challenges in this course are the pacing and how the content is tested though they are very forgiving with mistakes and errors and you have more resources for help than the difficulty of the course requires. They want you to do good!

Passionate about chemistry and her students succeeding. Labs are fun and reports aren't bad. Homework isn't that bad, but when it comes to exams, really the only problems that help are the problem solving session ones. Understand the content forwards and backwards because the exams are challenging. Plenty of extra credit.

Cares about her students and wants everyone to be passionate about chemistry and succeed. Exams are definitely tough even if you have taken AP chem before, but there is extra credit on all the exams. Not a lot of study resources are given so you do need to find them yourself, problem solving and the review sessions are helpful.

Overall, an amazing professor. Passionate about chemistry and does well to engage and know students. Learn the material CONCEPTUALLY, DO NOT try to brute force important concepts. Use ChaptGPT to create practice problems in diff scenarios. Exams are styled in a way where the questions are asked differently from how they're shown in lecture.

Chem 129 is a very, very difficult course. She makes it easy. Offers a lot of extra review outside of normal lectures. Easily one of the kindest, most clearly caring professors I've had. Incredibly easy to ask questions to, and answers them well. If you have a different lecturer, go to hers instead, she's flat out awesome. Great chemist and teacher