Great concept to have a pre-chem 1a prep, but this class needs a lot of improvement. Firstly, it is way too test heavy and needs study guides and practice midterms. Instead, you are told to study the 1,000+ questions in chem 101 and textbook. Also, we were not told if the class would be curved or not. Overall hard class and needs work.

While I think taking chem 25 is valuable to prepare for chem 1A, the professor isn't the greatest teacher and office hours aren't very helpful. I taught myself a lot just by doing practice problems in the book and chem 101 which is the only reason I did well

Took this class because I genuinely had no chemistry knowledge and wasn't ready for 1A. People say it's not worth it but I got a great understanding of the basics, Menard is great at breaking things down and explaining concepts during lecture. Read the textbook, go to lecture/discussion, do textbook/chem101 practice problems and you'll be fine.

A lot of people complain that chem25 is a waste of time but this class was very beneficial for me. He goes over basic chemistry and makes it easy to understand. The tests are not necessarily hard or easy, you just have to understand the material. Provides extra office hours before tests and the TAs are easy to contact.

Professor Menard's class seems easy when he's teaching, but his tests are very hard. Your lowest test grade is the lowest percentage though, which is nice. My counselor told me I could only take this class (which wasn't true) bc I am undecided. Waste of a credit/money. Prof is so rude, passive aggressive, and not accommodating. Go to chem 1a.

Took this class wanting to get a better understanding of chemistry before starting chem 1A in January but did not get that. Waste of a quarter, should have gone straight to chem 1A. Three midterms, quiz every week, and a final. Prof still debating whether or not he's going to curve the class even though most people are failing. Go straight to 1A

This class was supposed to help me prepare for CHEM 1A; and we were supposed to go through 7 chapters. We did not even finish chapter 4, meaning we did not get to the stuff that's actually hard to understand in CHEM 1A, making this class a complete waste of my time. I got no extra preparation for the parts of CHEM 1A that I am most worried about.

Go to class and PAY ATTENTION, do the readings, do the practice problems, and you'll be fine. I like how he gives you access to the lecture information on gauchospace, and he also likes to do fun demos in class. Overall, the class is fine, but I didn't really learn a ton.

Whatever you do, DO NOT take this class. I took this class to prepare myself for Chem 1A. Chem 25 doesnt fulfill any requirements, meaning that I wasted a quarter and Im behind in my Pre-Bio major. Menard is incredibly rude and made me hate chemistry. Just take Chem 1A; don't make the same mistake I did.

Honestly, Prof Menard wasn't bad but wasn't great either. He is a very very tough grader. He wouldn't give great tips to do better, he would just say "go to section" where the TAs did not know anything. There is a quiz every week and 3 tests plus a final. Too test heavy but his office hours were helpful

Gab grades toughly in this class, no doubt. For perspective, I studied and did practice problems each weekday for 1 hour, consistently. I started doing this after the first test. My grade on the first test was a 70. After starting this, my grades shot up to 90+. You have to work for this class, just like the other chem classes. Big test of balance

Professor Menard does very little to help his students even though the entire class was struggling. He was by far the least understanding professor I had this quarter. He grades tests extremely harshly and told us it was our fault we were failing, not his testing style. You'd be better off just watching khan academy review videos and taking Chem 1A