Arguably the best CHEM 1A professor, but still a difficult class nonetheless. Read the book, do the optional questions, show up to lecture and you'll pass. The final was overly difficult but it seems like that was an issue with all the professors.

Prof price is easily the best chem professor at ucsb. Do book problems and go to lectures, I wouldve gotten a higher grade if I did. Lectures are amazing, he moves fast but is very concise with explanations. Final was very challenging though.

Great lectures but tests are difficult

Coming into the infamous gen chem series I was extremely worried from all of the horror stories but Professor Price was an amazing teacher and his lectures were clear and concise. Based on other classes, I'd say Professor Price is your best bet for Chem 1A. Still not an easy class, but if you put the work in it will show in your test grades.

Best chem professor at UCSB... nothing else to it!

The best chem prof at ucsb! Explains concepts so well, and really cares about students doing well in class. Tests are fair and you'll do well if you do ALEKS, book problems (pretty crucial!) and practice exams. His lectures went by so fast because he makes chemistry interesting and does lots of practice problems.

Took Price for CHEM 1A, and I loved him. He moved fast but definitely taught well and was clear. Also pretty funny sometimes. 10/10 would take again

Price is a great professor. You can tell he cares about teaching in the best way he can. I was always able to grasp everything he taught in lecture, he is good at making chemistry understandable. Tests are based on book problems so do them if you want to do well. Lectures are about concepts and the book questions are on application of the concepts.

He is a good professor. Lectures are not boring, but very informative. Try to go to all the lectures and do all the homework assigned and prepare to do extra homework from the textbook to do good on tests. 3 midterms, 1 final. 1 midterm gets dropped, and the curve will save you. Any chem 1A prof is good, but I think Price rocks.

Great professor but hard class. Chemistry is such a hard subject but Professor Price makes it somewhat enjoyable. Definitely the best chemistry professor I have had so far.

Chem 1B with Professor Price was really tough but he's a great guy and a solid lecturer. He's super accessible outside of class, and willing to help/give advice. He's also a very generous grader. Chemistry is obviously a hard subject, but Price made it as smooth and easy a process as possible, and I really enjoyed taking his class.

Prof. Price does give really difficult tests but his instructions for doing well in the class are very clear and there is every possible resource to succeed in the class available to you. His lectures are clear and well-organized. You can tell this prof. knows how difficult learning chemistry can be and actually cares about his students' learning.

Lectures on the online portion are incredibly detailed and easy to grasp. All three midterms were reflective of the practice exams and notes he provides. However, the final itself seems to stray from that pattern making it hard to believe that it came from the same professor. Despite that, your grade should be equivalent to the effort you put in.

He suddenly jumped and yelled in class without any reason, and even cursed in the direction of seats that students were sitting in. He didn't manage the order of the class and final exam room at all, students, his TA, and himself all could yell at the air or at others at will in class and in the final exam room at any time.

If you suddenly find the very rare coincidence that he tended to always say 'she ...' in the direction of every seat you sit in at random, it would be a little bit intimidating and irritating.

During the final exam, Dr. Price kept walking back and forth, saying 'she is simple nurse.' After the extreme chaos in the examination room, he remained silent, then shouted 'she is silly,' 'she was very smart,' 'I am upset about the class,' 'she...' He never apologized and offered a compensatory solution for such a rare test room management issue.

Professor won the Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018 and is the chair for the Committee for the Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. Don't know why he chose not to manage the order of the classroom and the final exam room of Chem 1C at all in Fall 2019, and even yelled in the final examination room with his TA and students.

In the examination room, professor price dramatically didnt care about his TA and students yelling dramatically loudly together in the classroom for no reason and disrupting the order of the examination room. He even didnt reply to students when they called his name, stared at him, and spoke loudly enough to him that Price is moral!"

Tests were really hard and book problems are a necessity

Price is an AMAZING lecturer. He's been doing this series for 10yrs, so he knows what students typically struggle on, so he is able to give the best explanations on those topics. He's very accessible through email and gives thorough answers to any concerns or questions. Makes the content digestible and easy.

Dr. Price taught knowledge clearly and accurately in class. However, after the appearance of chaos in the classroom and examination hall, effective management and handling were not carried out in time, which further enlarged and exacerbated the problems. Some of his words and deeds in the classroom are difficult to understand and uncivilized.

The grade for this class is based on 3 midterms (the lowest score gets dropped), a final exam, in-lecture questions, and ALEKS. The lectures were pre-recorded and Dr. Price does a good job with organizing and presenting the information. However, the exams are very difficult and watching the lectures alone is not enough to pass.

Prof. Price is pretty good at teaching! His lectures were clear and pretty interesting. However, his tests (3 midterms and a final) were horrible. I did all of the homework, started studying one to two weeks before each test, and took handwritten notes for all of the lectures, and still struggled really hard. I think Chem 1B is hard no matter what.

Price's lectures are clear and the material isn't too hard to grasp. The issue was the final exam, it was pretty difficult in comparison to the recommended book problems and practice exams we were given. He has an issue of making things seem like they'll be easy, then boom, a difficult exam.