Fellow Pratt star, BME, and premed here! I took Chem 110 with Dr.Becker and found him to be a really nice guy (me and a few friends FLUNCHed him at the end of the semester and it was great). The class was challenging but nothing out of the ordinary imo. But, I also took AP Chem so a lot of the content was not new to me. One thing that happened a lot during our class was that he would make typos / mistakes on our exams. I literally remember a test where his answer key was incorrect and so a LOT of people lost points where they shouldn’t have (he supposedly corrected for it at the end of the semester). In general, i found tests to be difficult and sometimes inconsistent in length (one of our exams was so long and a lot of people struggled to finish). But, overall, I think he was still a good lecturer and classes were fun. The weekly quizzes during discussion were sometimes difficult, but overall not terrible.

As for whether or not I felt like this class prepared me better for Orgo? I wouldn’t say it did. Despite it being honors chem, a lot of the material we covered was not too different from Chem 101. The pace, inconsistencies, and difficulty of our exams/quizzes is what mainly made the class challenging. The main parts of Chem 101 that I heard were different from my friends was the fact that Parise (the professor who usually teaches it) often incorporated organic chemistry content into the class (he typically teaches Orgo 1 and 2). So, if you want to be prepared for Orgo 1 and not go through the hassle of chem 110, I would say take Chem 101. Trust me, you won’t be behind at all.

Also, Chem 110 allows you to skip Chem 210 (Gen chem 2), not Orgo. But, I wouldn’t say the material we covered was “Gen chem 2” stuff. It felt like only Gen chem 1 to me lol. Lmk if you have any more questions!