Only time I've ever gotten a C in the class. I would come in prepared for tests and then totally fail them. I like him as a professor- he has lots of helpful material on his canvas, but for some reason those tests are super bad.

Good teacher, tests are difficult. You need to completely understand how to do all the book problems forwards and backwards to do well on the tests. He does tell you how to succeed, but there are a lot of book problems for each chapter, making it easy to fall behind. Provides resources and tells you how to succeed, but exams are very difficult.

Clear lectures with clear expectations for exams. Do the work he tells you to do outside of class and you will do well in the course. Curve is helpful and reasonable. No nonsense guy which I personally liked.

CHEM1B is already a hard class, but Dr. Joseph makes it harder by including questions on exams that were not even explained in lecture, ALEKS, or optional homework questions. I studied for over 15 hours for the final alone, and received a 45% because nothing he expected us to learn was on the final. One grade gets dropped which is helpful though!

Good lectures(definitely go), midterm 1 was like the practice and midterm 2 was really hard( do the homework problems because they help soooo much). He gives a lot of resources to succeed which I recommend using.

The tests are soo hard (esp final) and way different than the practice tests. The book problems are also super hard and there's like 40 for every chapter. He explains things pretty well in lecture so he's good if you learn like that. He's helpful during office hours. The curve is decent.