Very hard teach avoid if possible. Makes tests hard for no reason, and the partial credit from the free response seems to make you loose more points than gain. Averages on exams for chem 1b were 52% and 61% this should speak for its self.

She is challenging, but if you put the work into it,you will pass. Her tests are really long, and difficult but, the class average is really low, so the grading curve is pretty fair. Do every extra credit opportunity and pre chapter assessments, they are easy points. She is very willing to help, I reccomend office hours.

If she didn't have her lectures at 8 am I definitely would have chosen her class every quarter of chem.The free response a bit intimidating at first but a fair amount of partial credit is given.Overall great professor and fair grading system.

She is probably the hardest gen chem professor but shes definitely the best. I learned a lot and put way more effort than i ever expected to put into chem. She curves the class as a whole so go to CLAS and test reviews and pray you get above the class average. 2/3 FRQs and 1/3 MC tests.

Much harder than every other gen chem class at UCSB.

Super helpful! And not that difficult, her tests are literally the same questions with same numbers as from the book. Got an A- in her class and I slack pretty hard

Hardest chem teacher ever. Had **** for 1A and breezed through without ever attending lecture. Feldwinn's test are hard and I failed both midterms before the curve, although she did have a rather large curve. First failed midterms in my college career :( If possible, take someone else

Professor Feldwinn is very helpful. She understands that chemistry is hard and uses that knowledge to help others grasp chemistry better. CHEM 1B is the hardest of all of the chemistry series and she made it seem not as bad and harsh as I thought it was going to be. Those formulas help but listen to how she uses them.

great professor. really cares about getting concepts across. very approachable and helpful in office hours. tests are hard, but fair.

her voice is really annoying. did not like her at all. made me drop chem! i went to office hours often and each time i went she didn't help much at all. i felt doomed because i was having a hard time in her class. take CLAS.

Feldwinn's 1A class is notoriously challenging, but engaging with the textbook, practice problems, and resources like Unstuck study AI can help you navigate it. The lectures move quickly, so staying focused is key. It's a tough class, but doable with hard work.

Really a bad teacher. Believes pedagogy is unimportant. Prefers hard, obscure minutia over understanding. Unfriendly and unwelcoming. Would rather eat you with a side of fava beans than have you learn the course info. Eat me darby.

Feldwinn is notoriously the hardest gen chem prof for a reason. If possible switch professors! If you get stuck with her (like I did) do every single book problem, quiz problem, iclicker, and Aleks when studying, she uses them word for word on exams. Exams are mostly free response with no partial credit.

Do not take the professor if you can at all help it. I promise you're better off waitlisting another professor or taking chem another quarter! Not worth the stress. Tests are open answers, so if you're not exactly correct, you get a zero. Lectures were at 8:00 am with before-class questions at 7:45, which went away at 8:00, & showed up on the exam.

Her lectures are well done but very fast paced, she teaches as though you should already understand new concepts which makes it quite difficult, especially towards the end of the quarter. 8 HW assignments on ALEKS, 4 quizzes, 3 midterms, 1 final. Class ave. is in the high 60%, low 70% range. You need to work HARD to pass this class, so don't slack!

She doesn't explain anything that she does in lecture. she just goes through everything without any reason behind it. If students don't understand, she expects them to figure it out on their own outside of class. All her tests are free response and very rarely multiple choice. She is brutal.

Moves so fast

LLLLL. I suggest either taking another professor or switching to gender studies. You spend hours doing aLeks, and the morbede amount of book probLems she hands out. On top of that, Lectures are 100 mph, so expect to review that materiaL. Oh, also don't forget to read the chapters from the textbook! Absolutely out of control.

Feldwinn is easily the worst chem teacher at this school. She literally doesn't everything different then every other chem teacher, her students do poorly and she never changes anything. He literally uses test questions for Iclicker and expects us to get it right after she just explained it 5 seconds for. Doesn't explain things well at all

She gives extra busy work and quizzes that other teachers don't. She is the only gen chem teacher who gives free response but doesn't give partial credit for it anyway. She has the worst lecture/midterm/final time slots (8 am lectures and midterms/finals are the week's last days so you go home late). But she's a good lecturer just a bit fast.

L teacher. L class. L rizz. I came into this class excited over the prospect of learning a new outlook of chemistry. However, I was thoroughly disappointed over the discouraging learning environment of this class. I lost my passion over chemistry and changed my major and changed schools to SBCC. Don't take this class if you want happiness.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS. I've never felt more defeated as a student than in her class. No matter how many book problems I did, how much I read, how many hours I studies, I continued to do poorly on tests. I attended 1 lecture from a different professor and learned infinitely more than I ever did in Feldwinn. Exams are FRQs but no partial credit.

The test are hard, but when you take other professors you will realize that her teaching methods are honestly the best. She goes through problems step by step and does them in a hierarchal order. Although she seems to expect more from her students than any other professor, the amount of work that you put in pays off in the end. DO THE BOOK PROBLEMS

her test questions were from the homework but the exams were free response and she doesn't look at work just the final answer