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CHEM 1109

General Chemistry I · 24 instructors on record · 94 sections

How the curve score is built

58Teaching67 raw · 4th percentile of BC classes

+1Easiness adjustmenteasiness 79 · 53 raw workload · lighter than 57% of BC classes

59Curve scorethe teaching curve +1 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 57% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

67BC evaluations94 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of

34thMore challenging than 34% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

88BC — “Intellectually Challenging”94 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

43rdMore work than 43% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

53BC — “Workload”94 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

This course is intended for students whose major interest is science or medicine. It offers a rigorous introduction to the principles of chemistry with special emphasis on quantitative relationships and chemical equilibrium and the structures of atoms, molecules, and crystals. The properties of the more common elements and compounds are considered against a background of these principles and the periodic table.

The board

24 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 24Filters the rows below. Positions are always against the whole class, so a rank does not change when the list is narrowed.

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 8 of the 24 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Brooke ElanderChemistry	8087 raw · 8 records	97+5 to the score	17th	—no page
2	Paul LeeChemistry	7790 raw · 4 records	68−2 to the score	61st	—no page
3	Malavika Asokan NairChemistry Provisional fewer records	7481 raw · 2 records	97+5 to the score	33rd	—no page
4	Jillian PlattChemistry	7587 raw · 4 records	75±0 to the score	42nd	—no page
5	Jin Ook AhnChemistry Provisional	7385 raw · 2 records	78±0 to the score	36th	—no page
6	Joseph MorabitoChemistry Provisional fewer records	4542 raw · 1 record	49−7 to the score	75th	4830 ratings · all classes
7	Jing WanChemistry Provisional	6877 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	26th	—no page
8	Kaitlyn SzalayChemistry Provisional fewer records	6680 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	55th	—no page
9	Konara PamunuwaChemistry	7081 raw · 4 records	—	—	—no page
10	Mariah TedderChemistry	7082 raw · 4 records	78±0 to the score	50th	—no page
11	Shoma MukaiChemistry Provisional fewer records	6274 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	22nd	—no page
12	Shoshana ReichChemistry	6974 raw · 4 records	97+5 to the score	9th	—no page
13	Khalil MimouniChemistry	6881 raw · 4 records	68−2 to the score	49th	—no page
14	Yiling ZhuChemistry Provisional	5864 raw · 2 records	—	—	—no page
15	Esma UcarChemistry Provisional	5355 raw · 2 records	—	—	—no page
16	Ling ChengChemistry Provisional fewer records	5266 raw · 2 records	49−7 to the score	61st	—no page
17	James WilkesChemistry fewer records	6776 raw · 4 records	84+2 to the score	32nd	—no page
18	Richard MichaudChemistry	6974 raw · 6 records	97+5 to the score	11th	—no page
19	Gavin GiardinoChemistry	6681 raw · 4 records	63−3 to the score	48th	—no page
20	Michael GoldsteinChemistry	6568 raw · 4 records	97+5 to the score	16th	—no page
21	Clarissa KeenAssistant Professor of the Practice · Chemistry fewer records	5562 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	62nd	4435 ratings · all classes
22	Akinwande AkinniyiChemistry fewer records	5769 raw · 4 records	62−4 to the score	6th	—no page
23	Daniel FoxProfessor of the Practice · Chemistry	6171 raw · 10 records	68−2 to the score	60th	5847 ratings · all classes
24	Nathaniel HartmannAssistant Professor of the Practice · Chemistry	6074 raw · 10 records	62−4 to the score	72nd	—no page

All 24 instructors listed.

9 of 24 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 94 records

Instructor4

Course3

Feedback3

Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks

Explains Clearly: The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available: The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating: The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest: The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized: The course was well organized.
Clear Goals: The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later: What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments: Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback: I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback: The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload: How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
Challenge: The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance: Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.

Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

94 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Nathaniel Hartmann	Fall 2025	01	73	62	100
Khalil Mimouni	Fall 2025	02	85	75	—
Khalil Mimouni	Fall 2025	03	81	68	—
Ling Cheng	Fall 2025	04	73	68	100
Khalil Mimouni	Fall 2025	05	77	61	60
Ling Cheng	Fall 2025	06	58	58	—
Khalil Mimouni	Fall 2025	07	82	69	—
Daniel Fox	Fall 2025	08	73	64	60
Akinwande Akinniyi	Fall 2025	09	65	56	60
Jillian Platt	Fall 2025	10	87	56	80
Jillian Platt	Fall 2025	14	88	84	60
Clarissa Keen	Fall 2025	15	60	57	60
Richard Michaud	Fall 2025	16	73	62	20
Richard Michaud	Fall 2025	17	78	62	20
Shoma Mukai	Fall 2025	18	69	65	60
Richard Michaud	Fall 2025	19	61	54	20
Shoma Mukai	Fall 2025	20	79	65	60
Richard Michaud	Fall 2025	21	76	87	—
Nathaniel Hartmann	Fall 2025	22	83	66	—
Daniel Fox	Fall 2025	23	70	65	60
Akinwande Akinniyi	Fall 2025	24	70	59	60
Jillian Platt	Fall 2025	26	82	76	40
Akinwande Akinniyi	Fall 2025	27	62	57	—
Akinwande Akinniyi	Fall 2025	28	77	67	100
Jillian Platt	Fall 2025	29	90	70	40

Showing the first 25.

How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.