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CHEM 1610 Introductory Chemistry I for Engineers
Last taught: Fall 2011
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Fall 2011
1.7
Average

His quizzes will make you hate chemistry. Avoid it unless you really have to take it. If you do end up in Grisham's class, be prepared for a major hit to your GPA.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 1.0
Difficulty 5.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Fall 2011
2.7
Average

Of all the three teacher, Grisham was the toughest. He puts trick questions on his questions that come from his slides and chemistry in your world articles from collab. As a professor he is very enthusiastic and it's clear he loves chemistry. However, his quizzes are arbitrarily hard.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 2.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 5.0
Fall 2011
1.7
Average

He's a good lecturer, but his lectures are fairly useless; he simply reads off his beloved lecture slides which are unhelpful and directly from the text. His quizzes are designed to trick the heck out of you, and he places questions almost completely unrelated to chemistry on them. I do not recommend him.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 1.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 1.0
Fall 2011
1.3
Average

Do not take Chem 1410 with Grisham.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 1.0
Recommend 1.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 2.0
Fall 2011
2.0
Average

Class is pretty boring. He rambles on about unrelated history factoids and rushes at the end of class when he realizes he is running out of time.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 2.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 9.0
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Fall 2011
2.0
Average

Extremely competitive class; uncertainty in grading throughout the course, but if you take the time to learn every exception in the book you will have a leg up. Not an easy A, so don't take unless it's a prerequisite or you have very strong interest/skill.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 2.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 3.0
Fall 2011
1.3
Average

Grisham is a man with a terrible sense of humor who gives quizzes and tests unfairly. His lectures would be incredible boring if it weren't for the fact that they're so terrible.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 1.0
Recommend 1.0
Difficulty 4.0
Hours/Week 0.0
Fall 2010
3.7
Average

The professor is very funny and entertaining, if weird with quizzes--you must know every extraneous detail he mentions for them. Lectures, homework, practice problems, and quizzes have little to do with each other.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 3.0
Recommend 4.0
Difficulty 2.0
Hours/Week 1.0
Fall 2010
1.7
Average

Do not take grisham. He will put questions like "who won the nobel prize in 1950?" or "what did ____ scientist discover?" on his quizes. He discusses these in lecture and also posts them on the slides, however it is pretty annoying to have to study two chapters as well as maybe six different scientists. Weekly HW he gives you four days to do. Take Gerrans.

Instructor 2.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 1.0
Difficulty 5.0
Hours/Week 7.0
Fall 2010
3.0
Average

Competitive class. Study hard for each quiz.

Instructor 4.0
Enjoyability 2.0
Recommend 3.0
Difficulty 5.0
Hours/Week 4.0
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