She prides herself on being a tough grader, thinking that it also means she's a good professor. She's not. Often incoherent, hard to reach, and tests don't reflect what's assigned or taught in class. I'm sorry I took her class. Avoid if you can.

I had her for CHEM105 which covered general chem, bio chem, and organic chem in one course and she was amazing! I would 100% recommend her to anyone scared of chemistry. She uses common language to explain the process and she's pretty funny. She genuinely cares about her student's success.

Her sense of humor keeps class fun. Tests are hard but that obvious, its ochem. I loved her teaching style and think people give her wayyyy too much hate. Take queen anyika if you want to make ochem slightly less painful

Great professor, clearly explains O-chem at the highest level of depth, preparing you for all future coursework. Tests are hard, make sure to take notes at lecture, read the textbook and do all practice problems!

Do not take her for 109C! She is very discouraging and her responses to emails are rude. She acts like she is so wise in terms of the subject, yet she frequency makes mistakes and always has a lame excuse for it. Right before a midterm, she said the test would easier than any English or Spanish test ever. The average ended up being a 65.25%

difficult only because its ochem, but I loved her. Her lectures are highly organized and structured. if you do textbook problems, you will be golden for exams (they are very similar, if not identical). Don't be fooled by my A, I worked my ass off for it, but its not unrealistic, I got a 62 on the first exam and was still able to pull it off

I don't understand the hate. Anyika is easily my favorite professor at ucsb. She cares a lot about her students understandings and has taught me study habits that I will use forever. She will scare you into studying harder which ended up making me enjoy ochem way more.

Class with her was one of the most difficult and discouraging experiences I've had. Class averages were consistently low, which made it clear that this was not an isolated issue, but a systemic problem with how the course was structured.Exams were unnecessarily hard with no partial credit, making it nearly impossible to do well despite preparation.

obviously ochem is hard, but mercy didnt even try to make it any easier. if you really REALLY put in the effort an A is possible, but just try to take it with someone else if you can. that aside, i actually didnt hate her teaching and her tests werent unfair, just difficult

Personally I found her to be a very difficult professor. Her lectures were very bare and she expects to teach yourself all of the content and use lecture as review. She's also very discouraging in office hours and in lectures. I would need more than two hands in order to count the amount of times she told us we were going to fail the tests.

Anyika is a quite poor professor and I am tired of acting like she isn't. Her lectures do no better at teaching than the textbook itself, her test averages are consistently significantly lower than other OChem averages, and she fails to prepare students WHATSOEVER for her exams. do well on the first two because the third quiz and final are awful.

This has to be one of the hardest class I have ever taken here at UCSB. The content was already hard and messy but Anyika made it harder by hiding crazy tricks in her tests and I dislike how points were either all or nothing. The final was destructive to say the least but the curve she gave was very generous at the end of the day.

Anyika's tests are very hard and can be demotivating at times, which is the only con I can really make. But this is intrinsic to any O Chem course. However her lectures are very concise and well taught. Almost everything important is covered in lecture, but I recommend reading the textbook for review. Always do the textbook problems and DON'T CRAM.

Dr. Anyika is not easily reachable outside of class. I have been ghosted by her on numerous occasions. We were told we were going to fail the class every other lecture due to a low average on the first midterm. Even after attending office hours every single week this quarter, I do not believe I can succeed in this course.

I have never put as much effort into anything as much as this class, yet the work goes by unrecognized. The midterms were really difficult, but fair and you will do well if you put the work in. BUT be prepared to basically teach yourself the entire course by reading the textbook. Final was HORRIBLE and super unfair, it was stuff we had never seen

i went to her office hours a few times. her jokes were funny but the way she answered questions was unhelpful and discouraging. she moved super fast through lectures. the breaking point was honestly her teaching a whole new unit 6 days before the final (mostly through video lectures).

This class was the hardest I have ever worked for. Studying 6 hours a day still gets you nowhere. She is condescending when you ask questions, and when she does reply, its usually one word answers. There are things on the exams that were never taught in lecture, and then she is surprised when the entire class average on the exams is 50-60%.

I took her 109A, professor Mercy was really nice, the exams were quite straight forward. Most of her exam questions were from textbook. I don't know how's her other ochem classes, I've finished the ochem series with another professor, but my friends are taking her 109B, they always ask me questions and make me suffer from 109B again.

The only class I got a C in. She truly made it that way. Never had a professor I didn't like so much because of how unfair her grading/tests/quizzes were and how much she didn't care about her students.

The class is super slowly paced and easy since it's prep for the first gen chem, and mercy is super personable and teaches very clearly. There wasn't a single time I felt behind, so as long as you go to lectures it's a free A. She's funny too so lecture isn't all that unpleasant.

Definitely wants students to succeed, the class was great preparation for chem 1a, one of the most organized professors I've had so far.

The way she taught and organized her slides were SO thorough and easy to understand. She does not put any concepts on tests that she has not gone over or were not in the recommended book problems/section worksheets. As long as you pay attention AND do the book problems, you will do amazing!! She is hilarious, funny, genuine, caring!!

Class is fast-paced, so I feel as though I grasped the material better outside of class by going over the notes. I appreciate that she does a good amount of practice problems. She has her silly moments too. You will have to put a lot of time outside of the lecture to understand the material.

Definitely recommend this class for people who don't have much previous chem knowledge. I learned a lot from the course and don't regret taking it. Mercy can seem a little intimidating and present concepts in a basic yet overwhelming way but if you do the textbook problems at the end of each chapter (notably the cumulative ones) you will be fine.