I found her class to be very fair and reasonable. Her lectures give you all the ideas that you need to know and that will be on the test. She tries her best to make it interesting and accommodate to the students, whether they're uneasy about the subject or strong. Tests are reasonable to what she teaches in class.

Great professor, easy A. Homework every week, participation points in class, two tests, two midterms, and a final. Course material is very easy to learn and all taught in class, if you pay attention. Anything not taught in class is available in through her podcasts. Informs class about everything and sends mass notices to clear up any confusion.

The tests are a little more difficult than the homework questions but the extra credit homework questions were right on. The whole class was appropriate in terms of difficulty, you dont need to dedicate as much time to studying. Her grading criteria is confusing but it is all written out on the syllabus.

Tammy the OG! First off, amazing Chemistry professor... Let me just say, I was on this site when wanting to choose professors and the reviews were only so-so for Lam and I was repeatedly told to take Johnson. I am so glad I went with my gut and went with Lam, as she is inspiring and so sweet with straight to the point lectures. Clear cut grading.

Dr. Lam, what a professor. I really thought she was great. Shes very specific with all her grading criteria, and she really does care. I would reccomend rewatching her podcasts because they can really help you understand the material for her quizzes/tests. Although the quizzes are made by the TAs, her midterms are pretty easy if you study hard!

Chem 6B is way harder than 6A. But Dr. Lam makes it relatively simple and she cares for her students. The TAs make the quizzes, but itll be fine as long as you watch her podcasts and take diligent notes. Shes a great professor if you work with her.

The homework load isn't too bad and her lectures are very good. She thoroughly explains all of her steps in her calculations and tries her best to explain topics conceptually. Some people complain about tests not being like the hw problems, but chemistry is all about applying the concepts. The tests may be challenging but they're fair. Good teacher

Great professor. Extremely clear grading scheme that allows you to drop a midterm/cloned final/quiz grade and teaching is very informative and straight forward. Tests are always pretty moderate, being based off of the homework and lecture. Does do lots of clicker click-ins.

Dr. Lam is an excellent professor. She has weekly homework due online, which really helps you prepare for exams. The exams are fair. Just make sure you do the homework and attend lecture.

Contains 2 quizzes, 2 midterms, and 1 final Homeworks are helpful for tests Do extra credit homeworks and practice midterms, some of them are similar to the tests Lectures and textbook are helpful Stay focus during lecturestudy less outside of class Go to discussion and study the handout from TAA on quizzes Based on AP Chem Student

She is a great lecturer who podcasts and uploads her powerpoint slides. Homework assignment every week. Extra credit opportunities as "Challenge assignments" (extra HW questions). 2 quizzes, 2 midterms. Very reasonable material but still study! Gives you extra textbook ?s. She does rush Chapter 10 at the end but tells you exactly what to study.

Dr. Lam is a popular choice on campus, however, the environment and teaching style is not my style, but I'm not gonna dock her down for my own problem. She's in a dark room early in the morning and provides a lot of the same examples to help students learn, but that's not my preferred style. Beware her free-response is kind of wordy so it can tough

The most annoying voice in the world. I never understood what she was saying but the examples she provides in lecture are useful and her clicker questions helped me stay awake and attentive. Overall she was a good prof but imo she doesn't curve enough. She drops one of your assignments but her curve stinks.

I thought Dr. Lam was pretty funny during lectures. She goes fast through the material so it's hard to keep up with her, but she generally explains it well. She does have clickers graded on correctness, so you need to go to lecture and know what you're doing in order to get participation points. 2 quizzes, 2 midterms, and a final, all pretty hard.

The extra credit everyone talks about is basically useless because it applies to your homework points and won't exceed 100%. You can miss three lectures at most. Iclickers questions get points for correctness. Quizzes are difficult and no real curve.

Lams class is difficult, but the homework she assigns sets you up very well for her quizzes and tests. 2 quizzes in discussion over the quarter, with 2 saturday midterms and a final. She uses clickers so lecture is mandatory but they are very well organized and useful to go to anyways.

Lam is a good professor out of all the chem 6 series professor. Her teaching is clear and very reflective of her exams. Exams are heavy. You must practice all the given resources she provides. It takes me a week of study in order for me to score decent or above average on her test. Her curve is very generous.

Read the textbook! It's crucial to getting good grades on the lab reports and quizzes. The curve isn't great because a lot of people cheat and fake data so the average scores for lab reports are high. Means you have to do well on the quizzes and final. Lectures aren't mandatory but she only audio podcasts and uses the board so show up! Very doable.

Professor Lam is extremely knowledgeable about Chemistry and knows exactly what she's doing. Her lectures are very dense and she uses iclickers, but if you read the textbook and do additional problems as needed you'll be fine. She doesn't announce her grade cutoffs, but generally she works to help her students. Studying and hw are a must!

Professor Lam was very successful at moving her class online because of COVID. Having taken her for 6B in person I can say not much changed as far as how the class is run. Lectures,hw, reading (as necessary),and practice problems are a must if you want to succeed in this course. Professor Lam doesn't announce her grading scale but grades seem fair.

Lam is a wonderful professor. Her lectures are clear and well organized and no surprises on exams. Exams are not straight from practice tests like some other professors. But 6C was much easier after 6B with her because I learned so much. The negative reviews from the last few months are totally off and look all the same. Don't believe them.

Her lectures are a little boring, but she explains concepts pretty well. There were a few topics I was confused on, but she was really accessible during office hours to help. It was obvious she wanted us to be successful during the pandemic and she gave us resources to do so. Quite a bit of homework, but doable and tests were fair.

I definitely had to work for my grade. However, I found that Professor Lam was always straightforward and clear with what she expected. She made herself available to students. Attend discussion, review homework problems, and review practice exams.

Professor lam is definitely a great professor for teaching chemistry. She is pretty good at presenting related examples during the lecture. Therefore, all you need to do for this course is watching every recorded video, finishing the sampling hw, and may attend the review session before the exam. A little bit test heavy, but the grading is fair.

Good teacher and good class. Its not really more difficult than high school chem classes. She gives adequate examples during lectures and offers good practice with homework. The exams and quizzes reflect the lectures and homework very well. Gotta pay attention though, some of the exam questions are based on subtle concepts from lectures.

Professor Lam always shows a clear command and understanding of the material. She even put lots of effort into video editing her 50-minute lectures during our online environment. For an online chemistry course during Omicron, I think she did well. I guess for downsides, the tests are difficult and require lots of outside studying to understand.

Her class was asych this quarter, she put a lot of effort into editing her videos, they were separated by topics and she emphasized qualitative understanding so that we could apply the concepts well. I always used the whole time frame for her quizzes and exams but overall I think she is a great professor and really cared about her students.

Asynchronous lecture videos with slides filled with information word-for-word from the textbook. I felt like watching the lectures were definitely more helpful that reading from the textbook because she summarized it nicely. Lots of example problems putting qualitative information into a quantitative context. There were 2 midterms and 3 quizzes.

I had Dr.Lam for both 6B and 6C (6B in person and 6C online) so I've seen both sides of her teaching style. I think she gets a bad rep because her accent can make it a little hard to understand her at times; but once you get used to it she actually does a surprisingly good job at teaching the content!

Teaches more than the other 6B professors so better for chem majors. Lectures were pre-recorded so speeding them up made them less boring. Tests were hard but if you understood they were definitely doable. Slight accent but fine. Talks slow. Passionate. All lecture slides are plain white.

Dr. Lam was a good professor who provided lots of helpful resources and had plenty of office hours every week. She is very available outside of class, even though her one-on-one tutoring often felt more like repeat lectures.

Her lecture are very clear and she is very thorough in her explanations. Her accent is very slight and does not hinder her teaching. Chemistry involves a lot of practice but that applies to all chemistry classes and hers is just no different. If you put in the effort, the grade will follow.

I honestly don't think she's as bad as people make her out to be. The hw is quite long and time consuming, but doable if you split it up and go to lecture. The quizzes, midterms, and final were definitely fair (study lecture examples, midterms, discussion sets, Achieve hw, practice problems, form study groups, etc). Make use of office hours too.

She wants you to understand the material and gives you all the tools. Her lectures are the best organized and she's super helpful. But you have to work and it was a steep learning curve after 6A. Her exams are tough but the curve is fair. If you just want to memorize stuff and expect the test to be a copy of the practice exam, take someone else.

Very organized and expectations are clear for every exam. Exams are very similar to the HW and there is not BS

Organic chemistry is supposed to be one of the hard classes. Prof Lam has made it SUPER easy. Her tests are representative of lecture content, and honestly easier than the homework questions. A little slow of a lecturer, but very fair. Go to lecture, study for your exams, do your homework, you'll be perfectly fine. Note: She prepares well for 40B.

I love professor Lam, she is very enthusiastic about the subject she teaches. She is very clear about what she was looking for in terms of content covered on exams. Her lectures are thorough and easy to understand, providing a lot of examples. Ochem as a subject can be difficult to grasp, but her exams are very similar to the weekly homework.

She is a great lecturer with very very reasonable exams. They are ACTUALLY representative of what we learned and does not try to trick us. There is also a curve. She explains concepts thoroughly and in detail throughout the whole course, so we can keep check of how past content relates to current content and so forth. One of my favorite professors!

Ochem lab in general is hard, there are a lot of assignments and the post-labs are graded very harshly. If you mess up badly in an experiment, you lose a lot of points. She is a good lecturer and the exams are representative of the material, just make sure you do the conceptual questions. The final was pretty hard.

As a current UA for a different 43A prof contrary to most of these reviews, Lam's lab was well structured. Difficulty of post-labs and assignment imo can be attributed to the class in general. Exams were representative of experimental concepts, and she covered almost all exam content during her separate exam review Q&A session.

Honestly, I don't think Lam is as bad as some of these reviews say she is, her class is fairly straightforward. There were three quizzes, two midterms, and a final on top of weekly homework which could be a bit much. The homework and lectures prepared me for the exams which were not difficult if you knew the material.

If you attend lectures and pay attention, there's very little you have to do outside of class. Doing the HW and challenge problems will prepare you for exams. Exams questions are similar to HW, with some harder conceptual questions mixed in.

I had a good experience with her lectures, everything was clear. Exams reflects on homework, extra practice problems, and discussions.

Class is pretty straightforward. Lectures podcasted. Homework is through achieve worth 20%. 2 midterms worth 20% each. Final worth 40%. Can replace midterm with final. Tests are mostly MCQ but some FRQ.

The fact that she graduated from MIT and never brag about it its very humble compared to other prof... Her class is not as bad as I imagined based on the comments. As long as you are dedicated to the class, you will do great, and she gave curves. So, if you find yourself having a hard time, other people are in the same situation too.

Professor Lam's class is straightforward and her exams are reflective of the course content and homework. At times, she might explain things in an overly complicated manner but exams were not as difficult. There was a homework assignment every week and 2 90-minute midterm exams on Saturdays. In my opinion, she doesn't deserve the bad ratings.

43A is a lot of work no matter who you take, but Lam puts in effort to make the class fair for everyone and really cares about grade equity. Canvas forums made asking questions easy, and her responses are quick. Strict, but flexible for lab accidents. Exams are okay if you study all the supplemental lectures and practice questions.

Honestly, the course itself sucks but if you look at the options for who exactly teaches CHEM 43A or the types of tests each professor gives. Lam is by far the more lenient and understanding out of the three but the class is kinda bad if its seen in a vacuum but compared to other profs legit the best

I rlly like prof lam. I go to all the lectures, and I think she does a good job. The lab reports are easier than in 7L, but still a decent amount of work. Midterm was easy if you studied. I think a lot of ppl that don't like her are lashing out based on their own lack of studying, especially that one guy.

Fast-paced but generally organized. Many different graded assignments (notebook, prelab quiz, data report, postlab) so stay on top of things. The labs are not too hard but having a good TA helps. Exams are fair, doing the supplemental questions helps. Lectures aren't mandatory but help as well. Grade cutoffs aren't disclosed though.

Lectures are podcasted and weekly slides were available online prior to lecture. You don't know your total grade until the end of the course as it is locked, but you are able to see your midterm grades, HW, etc. And exams are fair. She goes at good pace and does not rush content too. Amazing professor overall!

I really liked Dr. Lam! She is very smart, gives many examples, and has such an organized course structure. Will curve the class if needed. My only complaint is that she goes really, really fast, which makes her hard to understand sometimes. But go to her OH if you feel confused, and you will do great in the class.

She is an extraordinary professor. I really like how she gives examples in her lectures, and her office hours help out so so much.

I like her practice problems and the homework, while frustrating at times, is very helpful

Honestly she is not bad at all. If you took AP chem you'll be just fine. Her MCQ are very similar to homework/ lectures but FRQ are pretty difficult. I would have gotten an A but I got a 60% on the final as I studied for it for 30 minutes at 1am. Has a 1/3 of a letter grade curve and homework is doable. Overall decent professor, I'd take her again.

Midterms and final were almost exactly like the weekly homework and came directly from lectures, so understanding that will most guarantee success. Not an easy subject so show up to lecture and work outside of class. Examples were given during lectures that helped a lot.

Not sure what the hate is about. Was very nervous for this prof based on reviews, but I liked her and did well (I'm not even that good at chem fr). Workload is heavy, but doable if you plan well. Final much harder than midterm. Study supplemental questions for exams. She is clear with what she expects on exams. Many opportunities for points.