Tanikella, Murty  

Dr. Tanikella is an great. His test and quizzes are usually pretty easy. The Final is basically questions that he has given you on previous tests. He assigned homework for each chapter, but he doesn't collect it. If you have any problems with the material, he is always happy to help in his office hours. He usually curves the class at the end, so if you aren't doing so great, there is still hope for you. If you want to take a chemistry 124 class that is enjoyable, take Tanikella.

I don't know, Murty was alright. His tests were kind of easy and the stuff wasn't that hard to understand but if you didn't get something and asked him about it he didn't really explain it very well. His lectures were litterally straight from the book, down to the smallest detail. The labs weren't too hard but the grader was a total bitch, she took off points for the dumbest thing as if she was looking for an excuse to not give you a perfect score (ex. she took off a point on a homework assignment because I left the answer meters the SI unit instead of converting it to nanometers...that still pisses me off). Anyway, you probably won't go wrong with him just read the chapters and try to stay awake during lectures (this is harder than you'd think at 730 in the morning). I think I pulled a solid B and I'm not the greatest chem student...

Dr. Tanikella is an above average professor. His quizzes are all absed on things right out from the text. (So read over your text!!!). There are also some take-home quizzes which are pretty nice. The mid-terms and the final exam is alos based mostly on the previous quizzes and few new materials from the text. The labs are graded pretty easily as long as you did some work. And if you do not know know any of the problems, you can just e-mail him your question. The thing is though, there are many students who probably will not know what that problem is about, so you wouldnt be alone. So, in the end, if you want a solid and kinda easy B, Dr.T is the right professor to take.

take him if u can, an easy B and an A shouldn'tbe to tough to pull off. You will have all the questions and answers to all the midterms, and the final before taking them from the practice tests he hands out. Just memorize those questions and you will do fine. His lectures are extremely boring though, especially at 7:30 in the morning. The class isn't very hard.

At the biginning of the quarter I didn't like the way Tanikella taught the class. But then I found out that the questions on the quizes and tests were the same as the practice problems he gave. His lectures were extremely boring, I fell asleep most of the time, but he is really helpful during the lab.

You may find Dr. Tanikella's lecture extremely boring, after the first few weeks of class I ended up passing out for at least ten or fifteen minutes. However, all of his quizzes and tests are multiple choice, and all nearly verbatim from the practice ones he gives you and the practice questions on the internet. The labs were very straightforward, and everything is graded very leniently.

And at last we come to the point where I get to rate Dr. Tanikella. Here's the deal with this guy. He gave out practice tests that were verbatum to the real tests. If they weren't right from the practice tests, then they were the same tests from the previous quarter. Needless to say that there were way too many A's from people who just memorized the answers. This kinda pissed me off because I was actually going to SI and learning the material. If you didn't actually memorize the exams, then basically you got a much worse grade than the people who did. The tests always had a few questions that pretty much nobody knew. Some of the weird questions my SI instructor didn't even know. So you almost had to memorize the previous tests if you wanted an A. It was an environment that condoned cheating which I was also participated in because some questions were so random. It was sort of a damed if you do, damned if you don't type of deal. So when the other teachers who teach 124 realize he is doing this, they make him change the tests. So then, he pulls a quiz straight from the internet. I didn't have it beforehand but found it 5 min after I got home. The highest score on this quiz was a 76%. Then he gives the SAME EXACT QUIZ to the people who were absent on the original day that it was given. The last exam in the course, which was 2 days before the final exam, covered organic chem(which wasn't even on the final) and another chapter. This was the only exam I think he actually wrote himself. Yet, I found most of the questions by looking at previous exams- so he didn't even fully rewrite the last one. Then we come to the final. After finding out that Dr. Tanikella was flubbing his class, the other teachers decide that they are all going to write the final together. I take the final to find quite a bit of material that Dr. Tanikella never taught in his lectures. The highest grade on the final was an 81% in Dr. Tanikellas class. He didn't curve the damn thing and 1 person got a flat A in his class. I scored in the top 10% on the final because I'd been going to SI and what not- but I think roughly 40% passed the final exam. Overall, Tanikella was about the second or third worst instructor I've had at this university. A lot of things pissed me off about him. This course was about the worst in terms of academic integrity and I'm ashamed that Cal Poly University is feeding such utter bullshit to its students.

Tanikella reads the book to you in class. His tests and quizzes are tough because he pulls them out of a national question bank. It's brutal to stay awake during class. Personally, he's a jerk. If you read the book and do example problems you'll be fine. Don't count on getting much out of his lectures.

Murty is horrible. His lectures are really boring and his style is rather gruff. Chem 125 labs felt like a complete waste of time. I like chem- but this guy totally turned me off of it with only three hours a week. Thanks for nothing ya jerk.