I had Professor Sylvester for 1a and 1b. I really liked her lectures, they were easy to follow and she includes a lot of example problems which was really helpful. She provides a lot of practice for exams and her tests are very similar to practice tests.

Sylvester is a fantastic professor! She's really good at explaining stuff in a simple way, gives a lot of example problems, and is also really funny. You do need to set aside time for book problems and practice tests but as long as you understand them you'll be able to solve whatever problems she puts on the test.

Great Professor. A better lecturer than Joseph IMO. Do every book problem that was challenge for you again and then again and again. Make sure you can do every single problem on every practice exam. Her midterms are fast paced and challenging. Her final exams can be hard but are very doable and replace a midterm score which saved me.

I did not go to class much and really only did the practice tests the night before, but the curve saved me. It's not hard to do well if you can at least put aside one day to do practice problems, Sylvester is a great professor and when I did go I enjoyed lecture! Her expectations are super clear for exams and very similar to practice exams.

Sylvester is a funny, nice person but her tests are brutal. Good lecturer, but gave the easiest examples of problems and the easiest practice exams that did not help or prepare you for the exams at all. exams were nothing like practice exams, books problems, and were absurdly hard. Had her for 1A then for 1B and had to drop after the 2nd midterm.

Good teacher, easier if you have high school chemistry knowledge for chem 1A. Midterms were very similar to practice test, final was more difficult. Overall thought she was a good teacher for this class.