The worst Biology teacher at the University of Delaware. She gave me an F. I came to all her office hours and studied til the cows came home and she laughed in my face when I asked for extra credit. take my advice and STAY AWAY.

Took her for honors bisc207. Alenka is a nice lady but should not be teaching, especially the honors section.She makes the course cluttered and disorganized. I didnt get anything out of going to the lectures - i basically had to read the book and teach it to myself. Got an A- tho.Her accent is really bad and doesnt explain anything well.

She is TERRIBLE. she gives us questions that she doesnt teach about and are not in the book. she expects us to know more than medical researchers and when i went to her office hours she just told me i dont study correctly. this is the only class ive ever struggled with... its her not me! shes ridiculous and test are impossible..

SO HARD. She made BISC207 so much more difficult than it had to be. Her lectures had absolutely no structure. She's obviously a very intelligent woman, but almost too smart to teach. I highly recommend to get the class with another professor.

She often talks about topics that are completely unrelated to the course in lectures. Her exams often have topics that were never covered. The questions typically have many grammar issues and are difficult to understand because of this. She doesn't allow you ask questions which makes deciphering the correct answer very difficult.

Her exams were ridiculous and unlike any other bio teachers for that course.

You could have spent a semester doing an independent study on introductory Biology and probably have had a better experience than this sorry excuse for a class. Don't fall for the "only the last quiz matters" ploy. If you do bad on a quiz you now have two quizzes to prepare for because everything is cumulative. I used to love Biology before Alenka.

Successful relationships in all walks of life require clear expectations. I am taking the final exam in two hours, and no matter how well I do I will forever despise Alenka for inducing this much stress in her students. Not because of difficult material, but because of unclear expectations. Her knowledge is too all encompassing for her own good.

I feel angry about this class. I feel frustrated about the lack of organization and expectations. I feel demoralized about having no real control of my grade. Most of all I feel thankful that it is over.

Alenka is a very intelligent person and you can tell she cares about her students. However, this class was extremely difficult. Expectations were not clear and we had quizzes every Friday that people failed consistantly. She expects you to apply knowledge at a very high level.

This class was so hard. You could tell that she knows what she's talking about, but she is unwilling to share. She runs her class by asking you questions. However, no one knows the answers because she does not use a textbook. I have no idea where she gets her lessons from. Her slides don't help. Weekly quizzes are brutal. Avoid taking her class.

AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS. She gave me a D+ when she didn't have all of our work graded, only the exams. I had to email her 3 times before she finally responded and she still hasn't fixed my grade. Her tests are impossible to pass, tests you on things that you have no way of knowing and then argues with you when you call her out on it. Just awful.

If you get put into her class and there is no way to switch out then switch your major. It may seem drastic but trust me, switch your major. Nice lady, Horrible teacher.

Overall awful professor, lectures are not helpful, progressive quizzes are killer. Office hours are extremely crowded, she often incorporates info from the office hours on quizzes. Grammatically challenging questions bc English is second lang. She relies heavily on prior knowledge of AP Bio, if you did not take it will be extremely difficult.

You can tell she is very interested in her subject, however her teaching style is very hard to learn from. She relies on question and answer based lectures, and becomes angry saying, "how disappointed she is" when no one in the class can correctly answer her question. The progressive quizzes are very difficult and have a large impact on your grade.

Alenka made BISC207 so much harder than it had to be. We had little to no resources for quizzes/exams because she didn't use a textbook and gave very little homework assignments (homework would've been helpful for such a difficult class). She called randomly on kids which made everyone more nervous. Final exam was super difficult.

There is a difference between giving the class information, and actually teaching it. Alenka does not know the difference. Nice lady, worst professor I've ever had. Only benefit of taking her class is that any classes you take afterwards cannot be nearly as worse as this one. Make all sacrifices possible to avoid her class.

Worst professor by far. She expects way the students to know more than they actually do and expect you to just read her mind. The lectures are barely lectures you just have to hope that you get good notes from her talking. There are progressive quizzes every week on things that were never learned. The Exams are super hard. Stay away from her class.

The worst prof I have had at UD. The only way you can do well in this course is if you regularly go to her office hours. She forgets to put the right answer in the multiple choice options on exams and quizzes and teaches the math differently than you learn in lab. You have to be able to read her mind and understand her awful grammar to pass.

Prof Alenka is a nice person but not a good teacher. Progressive quizzes are very poorly worded throughout semester. This semester we still don't know our grades by finals week. No textbook, confusing lectures and grades mainly depend on exams. Take any other prof

There is no way you will take this class and enjoy it- especially if you havent taken AP Bio. The "progressive quizzes" will hurt your grade and you do not learn many of the questions on them. They are meant to be difficult, not to help your grade. The powerpoints do not have notes, so you have to write down what she says. I was happy I passed.

Literally worst professor Ive ever had. Does not have a proper teaching method that is successful (obviously refuses to change that) majority of the class has no idea whats going on. Youd think if your students are struggling you would find a way to change the way you teach the subject.

She makes THE WORST exams I have ever seen. She often has multiple correct answers, horrible wording, or just wrong information. She is very boring and teaches at a middle school level. My class is SOOOOO behind the other 207 classes and I am terrified. This was a repeat of 9th grade honors biology.

Her "lectures" are made up of blank slides and going around the room handing students her ipad to fill information in. Small quiz every week, 2exams, & final. Even with a tutor i'm probably going to have to retake the lecture because she takes FOREVER to put grades in, exam 1 from FEBRUARY is still not graded. No idea of what my grade is.

Do not take any class by this teacher because on every test and quiz taken there were 2-5 questions where she put the wrong answer and when you try to contact her about it she ignores you. She is always behind on grades and just talks at you in lecture. She provide no notes/slides with information that is helpful & constantly contradicts herself

DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS! UD freshmen-request non-honors integrated or separate bio/chem. Lectures are boring and you learn nothing from her slides. Alenka's tests are awful and she doesn't give partial credit. Exams don't even have the information we "learned" in class. Even with open-note tests b/c of online format, tests and quizzes are total luck.

Her lecture slides are very basic and she expects you to write down most of what she says. She rarely will go back if you have a question and overall was a very nice person or a good professor.

Please spare yourself the stress, and do not take this course. Alenka structures her class in a way that almost seems impossible to do well in. The exams and quizzes always have errors in the answer key, the questions are confusing, written in broken English, and will make you want to pull your hair out. Alenkas class is unnecessarily stressful.

Professor Alenka was very difficult and her tests did not align with what was learned during class. She did not have sympathy for her students and rarely listened to problems that students had with grading etc. She was hard to understand and her lecture slides were mostly pictures with no words. I do not recommend taking this course with her.

Could not understand a word she said. Always digressed into discussions about miscellaneous animals. Exams were a huge part of your grade, there were only three of them (including the final) and the average was NEVER better than a 65. 0/10 would not recommend.

Very difficult professor with even more difficult exams. Very difficult to understand her. I did take the honors section of her class, but her class was by far the hardest class my freshman year.

Absolute worst professor I have ever had. Do not take class with this lady. She is awful.

Awful professor. TAKE ANY OTHER PROFESSOR. Her exam questions make no sense, her pre/post unit quiz questions aren't even English, Her teaching style is terrible. She expected us to be molecular biologists before we started the course. First half of the course felt like I was taking organic chemistry rather than an Intro to bio course. RIP.

worst class I've ever taken. had to switch majors because she ruined bio for me. Professor Alenka will give quizzes where she won't even know the right answer and we had to email her to change our grades. Her lectures are very boring and her tests make little to no sense. The class felt fake.

The teaching style in this class was incredibly inefficient, I found it rare if I actually learned something in class. For exams I would have to watch videos and teach the material to myself. Professor Alenka didn't consider her students or have sympathy even if you were trying your best.

This was the worst class I've ever taken. Test averages were always around a 50 and the questions made no sense. I had to audit this course and ended up switching my major partly due to this class. If you have the option, do not take this with her.

Worst professor I've ever had. There was a ton of gaps in her teaching. Her exam questions were unrelated to lecture. You need to do to ur own research to even begin to understand her. She doesn't provide enough resources. Our average exam scores were the lowest I've ever seen. I swear I'm genuinely smart & I still couldn't figure this class out

Prof. Alenka is the type of teacher that blames her students that the exam averages are terrible, and does not possibly consider it could be her fault. Her class also did not prepare me for BISC208; my 208 professor keeps referring to things we "should have learned in 207" that Alenka did not talk about. The labs were good though.

Professor Alenka is such a sweet person outside of class, although probably shouldn't be a professor. Her lectures are tremendously scrambled and the exams don't match up with anything you do in lecture. She isn't very responsive in emails so go to office hours if you want to attempt to get some help.

This by far has been the hardest class. Lecture was very hard for no reason, feels like it's her life's destiny to make your life harder. Went to her help hours which was more helpful than the actual lecture but that's only once a week. Her pre/post-unit quizzes are very hard and you can only imagine what the exams were like. Don't Take her section

She fails to actually teach during lectures and is very inconsistent with putting up grades/assignments. The material she teaches and the course in general is considered to be very challenging for an introductory course. Overall, I hope students do not pick this course if they wish to save their GPA.

This Professor is the worst. She deters participation in class. Appears nice at first but is genuinely an asshole. Very tough grader and an inability to teach.

Every student struggles. Earning a low D on any assignment was a victory because the class average was always low. The tests are created to trick students. The structure of the class has good intentions but bad execution. She is nice but can not stay on topic leading to assignments unfinished and overall class confusion.

This was a very difficult class. I have been a straight A student growing up, good with time management and stay on top of my work and I was furious with Professor Alenka. Her exams are very challenging and most people fail. With people failing, she still does not curve. You have to get a good grade in lab in order to be successful with Alenka. UGH

Professor Alenka was a terrible teacher. Her exams are very confusing and her lectures are as well. I am not entirely sure what has to be done in order to fire a teacher such as herself, but action should be taken. This class is nearly impossible to study for and I would not recommend taking it unless you are extremely intelligent.

Most of the class is failing and Professor Alenka does not care. In fact, she gets frustrated when students are confused and asks questions. Even if you took AP Bio you will most likely fail. I had a tutor, studied hard, and had great time management but none of the hard work paid off with her class.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS This women is on my hate list. She messes up every single exam you will take and you have to argue with her about the correct answers. Her lectures are a literal joke. She spent an entire lecture reprimanding us on why we should wear a mask. She also likes to scream at you at 8am and blame her horrible teaching on you.

So sorry to all first semester freshman who had no choice. She as a textbook available but not even worth it. Messes up answer key ON THE EXAM. open note but still have to study. yells at class for not trying. gets very off topic. attendance optional but highly recommend going because slides are very broad so you have to listen. everyone is failing

She is one of the hardest professors I've taken yet. Her material is not clear, she tests you on things that were not clearly gone over and most of her tests are not proof read at all and she has to be corrected by students on multiple occasions. Do yourself a favor and take another professor

She is very nice as a person however as a professor not so much. Grading is very weird on canvas so you don't know what you have. Exams are worded poorly as well as lectures. Often will go on tangents unrelated to the subject. Try to take with different professor. Like her as a person, not a professor.

The worst teacher I have ever had. She does not go over material in a clear way and still expects you to know each topic in depth, greatly overestimating the knowledge of any student. I took AP biology and am still unsure that I will pass this class. I recommend her to no one and am extremely upset that I am forced to take BISC208 with her as well.

If you care about your GPA...DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH THIS WOMAN. She never fully explains what she is trying to teach and then when she asks questions to the class and student will answer, then she will just say correct and not repeat the answer so know one knows what the answer was. She rambles on about info that is not important. STAY AWAY.

This was the worst teaching experience I have ever encountered. This professor is very knowledgeable but she gets sidetracked like no other. She doesn't understand how to work Canvas or stay on track. If you want to succeed in this class you are going to have to do well in Bio Lab and put the effort in outside of class.

I actually think shes partially illiterate. The subject material is pretty easy, but she writes the exam questions herself and it has become clear that english is not her first language. Not only are the quiz and exam questions difficult to decipher, but she will literally mark the correct questions wrong She has also never once answered my emails.

Not approachable at all, cold calls students she knew didnt understand the material just to embarrass them. Her exams are very hard and have a ton of grammatical errors. Expects you to have prior knowledge, and her lecture slides that are posted are mostly blank so you can't look back on it. Attend all the lectures, honestly don't take her class.

Do not take this class. I took AP Bio in high school and finished with an A, but was failing this class for half of the semester. She does not respond to emails, and is little to no help in resolving issues if you approach her in person. She was also just mean lol and was not great at lecturing. Her exams were also very very difficult.

I had to teach myself everything I learned in this course. This professor's lectures were pointless. I, and so many of my peers, had no idea what was going on in lecture and the slides didn't help at all. No matter how much information I taught myself, her tests were impossible. Take this class with a different professor!!!

The worst professor I have ever had at the University of Delaware. She is a nice woman, but an awful teacher. Her slides have maybe 5 words on them and the content she goes over in class is almost never relevant to the exams. She does not have steady office hours and never replies to emails. Her exams are INSANE almost everyone fails & no curves.

She was not a very good teacher, often made simple topics 100x more complicated then they should be. This made her assignments and exams all the more confusing. She also asks for criticism but never takes it, and then projects her poor teaching onto her students.

Alenka is here for a check at the end of the day. Her classes are confusing, and good luck sticking to one textbook. Her test questions are not clear and poorly written, although she gives you a reflection to get some points back, hopefully, but don't count on it. If you have her, good luck, because you're on your own for this course.

This is by far the worst professor I have ever had. She makes very simple biology topics extremely complicated and hard to understand. Her tests were impossible, and it was really hard to get above a B on any test. The test material had nothing to do with her lectures and the class was very disorganized as a whole. DON'T TAKE HER!!

DO NOT TAKE HER!!! Take anyone but her. If you want a proper sem with good grades take someone else. She literally bullies her students and laughs in their faces and her slides have practically NOTHING on it. Her exams are worded horribly.

Her class is determined by a few very hard tests that you don't get any preparation for such as a study guide. Her slides don't give any information so if you miss something she says then you won't know it you have to teach yourself for this class if you can take another professor

Her slideshows are pretty much blank except for like one picture so it is really hard to understand and then to study. She doesn't teach at all she just skims over topics and expects you to already know everything. Tests are also very hard. Would not recommend taking her class.

Lecture slides contained little to no material. Tests didn't match quiz questions or lecture material. A very lovely person to talk to and she did answer questions, however when it came to actual material the tests were very confusing

It took everything out of me to get a C- in this course. Alenka drained my life and everyone else's. I took 3 exams, one being the final(cumulative) and these weigh your grade heavily. Her exams are highly unfair with limited time being a written, paper portion and then a portion on canvas with multiple choice. Do not take her if at all possible.

The class is super lecture heavy and the slides are practically blank. If you aren't listening for the entire lecture, you will miss the most niche detail that will surely have like 10 questions on the exam. Exam questions are absolutely ridiculous and no matter how much you study, you will never get the grade you want. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!

There is no reason why I should have to go back to my dorm and teach myself all the content I was supposed to have learned during lecture because the professor is awful and unclear.

Wording of questions on homework/exams deliberately confusing. Slides are random, complex pictures (she loves her visuals). Tutoring was the only reason I passed, SimBio teaches way better than her. Was afraid to participate in lecture, where I didn't learn very much. Very hard final. She is very smart, but teaching isn't right for her.

Nice lady, but did not provide material to study from which made preparing for exams very difficult

She's certainly well educated in the subject, however, her method of teaching is just as unique as her background. Her slides are incredibly vague, which is why you'll need to pay attention in every single lecture (unless you've taken AP Bio). Her test questions are confusing and she doesn't change them. Good luck.

Literally save yourself. She did not want us to succeed

Her slides are empty and unorganized. Be ready to teach yourself all of the content outside of class, as she goes on long tangents that don't have anything to do with the content. Somehow the textbook was more helpful than the lectures. Don't take her class if you like life.

Worst class I have ever taken. This class has made me want to change my major. Alenka has lowered my confidence tremoundlsy. I studied, went to tutoring, etc and still had a D in the class. The written exams make NO sense at all. I ended up auditing the class before it messed up my GPA. Stay away from this class if you want a good bio experience.

in all seriousness, DO NOT TAKE HER. she is boring, hard to understand, just genuinely must hate kids. She gives long lecture assignments that are hard and timed and her exams are hard for no reason and she does not give partial credit at all. She literally has said to just use the text book. She also does not teach on the same path as the labs.

She is EASILY one of the worst professors in this building and if you need to take biology avoid her at all cost. She is not engaging, the lectures and exams don't line up, and you basically need to learn it all on your own time. I had to audit it before it tanked my GPA and I changed my major right after taking it.

Had her for BICS207 wish I never took her class. She can't teach you basically have to teach yourself. She'll blame you for not understanding something. She'll put the random way stuff on the exams, stuff she didn't even cover. One of worst professors I've ever had. She has no compassion and won't try to help you learn.

Being transparent, I came into this class extremely optimistic, however it resulted in so much stress and anxiety. Her quizzes and exams are not straight forward at all, you can try and look up the answers but they will most of the time be incorrect for her assignment. It's very hard to do well in this class, 100% suggest taking another professor.

Lecture in this class is not worth anything. Simbio and out of class are far more useful than actually going. She'd randomly get mad at students sometimes for not understanding or paying attention. Her slides lack information and just are useless. Her exams aren't as bad as some of the reviews say, review the lecture assignments, it will help.

Does not provide notes of any kind besides SimBio. Lectures are not helpful whatsoever, all she does is draw on a few pictures. She locks every assignment so practice questions for tests are near impossible. Is less than helpful during lecture and will not provide help if you are stuck on a question.

Oh my god she sucks. Lectures are completely useless, all she does is ramble about the same topic for an hour, no substance. She locks assignments so you can't see how you did on them and it's nearly impossible to get feedback. Don't take her class but if you do you'll have to rely on the simbio assignments to learn the material.

Actually the worst professor I've ever had. She posts no resources for studying, which you will need to do because her lectures are useless. She rambles about random things and if she doesn't want to answer your question she'll say "I'm not spending 5 minutes explaining a whole class" Has no empathy, has 2 exams and an assignment every lecture.

Doesn't teach anything applicable to the exams. All knowledge is effectively self taught. The coursework is not conducive to learning. I would rather bash my head into a wall.

She does not explain the topics in lectures coherently at all, and it does not flow together well, making it hard to understand what she's saying because she kind of just rambles on. Messes up a lot of questions on the lecture assignments, so you'll get a low grade until she goes back days later to fix her mistakes.

This is my civic virtue-do not take this professor.

I don't even know what she saying

Lectures are quite useless and you teach yourself. Exams are the hardest I've ever taken and she splits them into two parts. Half written and half Canvas. For the Canvas portion you can use your notes, but don't get too excited, it's only for the last 10 minutes and she doesn't allow you to backtrack on the questions you've already answered.

This has to be the worst class I've ever taken. I have taken multiple advanced classes, and none are as near as hard. The lectures are terrible, she uses mostly images only with little to no note taking. The way she assigns is terrible. For example, it will be Saturday evening and she will assign not 1, but 2 quizzes to be done at 8 AM Tuesday.

DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS! Her slides and lectures are pointless with little to no info on them. This class has caused me so much stress and anxiety. She gives timed quizzes where you can't go back so it's hard to do well on them. Almost everyone I know in this class struggled and it feels like she's setting her students up for failure.

I can never tell what she's saying. In the beginning of the year she said she reads these reviews and knows how students feel about her but I don't get why she isn't doing anything to improve herself.

One of the hardest classes i've ever taken for no reason

Her exams are impossible and don't go along with what we learned in class. Take a different professor for your own sake.

Getting mauled by a bear is somehow less painful than taking this course. The course itself is actually pretty easy if you follow along with the SimBio; however, this professor somehow twists it in such an unnecessarily complicated fashion that I'd rather decipher hieroglyphics than do another forsaken lecture activity. Good luck!