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horrible

has a bad attitude and is arrogant

She does not follow the textbook and is useless for helping you with any questions. Unclear and not geared toward student success.

what she taught did not make sense.

Really confusing, and her tone makes it seem like she's talking to kindergarteners.

She seems nice and well knowledgeable in her field but I just think she can't teach. She takes way too long to get to the point, her slides were unclear and does not compliment the textbook. I just couldn't learn from her

Her lectures are absolutely awful. They're hard to follow and she fails to explain concepts clearly. She makes me hate genetics.

Copy pastes diagrams from textbooks, and provide no explanation. Lectures are boundless af, even when I re-listen to the recordings I have no idea what she's trying to say in most of the slides. HMB265 went downhill real quick after Stephen Wright's section ended.

Attendance is mandatory but you still learn nothing from the lectures.

Act so enthusiastic about her lectures yet nothing she says are tested. Useless lectures. Just learn from TA office hour and textbook and you will do well.

I think out of all my life science courses I understand this one's material the best... but the exam is just not fair. Few question testing your understanding or intellectuals. Too many stupidly made question that's not covered in class,just appear once or twice in textbook as a supporting detail. She probably just want us to remember the whole txt

Hard to follow when she rarely goes straight to the point. Lecture material seemed fine when studying, but being tested was a whole new realm. Questions were often specific details that were breezed over during lecture not even mentioned during lectures at all. Slides were just filled with diagrams with no summary or important points.

She is very disorganized and unprepared for lecture. Tests always include very specific details but she barely goes over these in class if at all. She also comes across as very condescending during lecture. She also expects that you read the textbook instead of actually teaching the material

shes super disorganized, her slides are literally just pictures she either took from hartwell or another book. shes terrible at explaining and now im super nervous for the exam cuz i feel like i haven't learned anything. naomi was great, i wish she taught the whole course instead of prof chang. this woman needs to stick to research and gtfo teachin

Not accessible outside class. Seems disinterested in material she teaches, never, never replies to email or gets back when you leave message. If you don't get her after class you never will. Disappointing all round.

THE WORST PROF EVER!!! Does not care for her students. She obliviously does not care about the success of her student and would rather see us fail.

Tells you vaguely that you need to know everything for the exam and nothing specifically. Tested content never mentioned in class (particularly statistical term definition - not in textbook either). Students had to memorize random facts (not related to genetics) to pass the course, VERY disappointing. Answers questions in person if you're lucky

EXTREMELY DISORGANIZED! One question on the exam had an option with an extra number in a gene that in her slide title did not, so I didn't select it. I visit the textbook to confirm my answer and the option with the extra number was correct -her slide title was wrong. She doesn't even care to change it. Wonder how many years she's kept this error.

Her slides are very bare bones and don't really explain the concepts. That's pretty normal though, so you'd think her lectures would make up for it... think again

Do not take this course this prof at all. Worst professor ever seen. Her exams are brutal and unfair for no reason. She tries very hard to screw your mark in this course. Worst course seen so far.

GIves us under a day to study for weekly test

Her lectures are very disorganized and she does not explain things well. She does not seem to know what she's doing and her tests are based on your ability to memorize all of her slides and the textbook. Would not recommend.

The exam was disgusting, I got 85% on the past exams but I don't think I can get 75% on this year's. She tested on tiny details that she never mentioned, and she made the questions so hard to understand, I had to spend at least 1 minute to understand the question.

literally one of the worst profs at UofT. Slides were horrible, the final exam did NOT test on actual course content, but required memorization of irrelevant things she briefly mentioned in passing in 0.00002 seconds. Be prepared to memorize every single breath she takes - I thought people were severely exaggerating when they said this, but nope!

Dr. Chang is one of the worst professors Ive ever had. Her focus is on research and that is abundantly clear. Her slides are super brief and she doesnt even elaborate during lecture so you dont know what to focus on. She brushes through everything and then asks super specific exam questions. She should just stick to research tbh.

after Dr. Levy-Strumpfs section, this course went downhill so quick. tests and quizzes dont reflect lecture material. its like she expects you to memorise every little detail she mentions in passing. she is clearly incompetent and has trouble expressing herself. try to take this in the summer if you can.

her lecture is not organized and she tests on weird stuff

the thing I really hate about u of t is that researchers are allowed to teach courses. she can NOT teach. vague slides, poor explanations, and difficult test questions. I'm sure that the TAs could teach the course better than her.

She's so bad! The concepts are actually super simple, but no one has any idea what she is talking about. Doesn't know how to properly explain concepts, and doesn't take the time to answer student questions.

AVOID! Does not know how to explain concepts AT ALL.

Says so much but so little. 0 logical flow in the lectures, I literally leave the lecture having no clue what I learned, her slides are absolutely useless, she just rambles on and on and it's just such a messy lecture. Cannot stand her lecture style, avoid her at all costs unless you actually want to know what's going on.

Lectures are so surface level it's a chore to stay awake. Avoids actually clarifying genetic concepts, opting for the incredibly helpful combination of pointing at slides with no information or throwing out buzzwords for the wow factor. Be prepared to self-study and ace the first half of HMB265.

explains things in a very confusing way and does NOT equip students with enough information to do the weekly quiz's. I have found her to be the hardest professor yet at U of T.

Her quiz questions have answers that are opposite to what she puts on her slides.

She talks way too fast, in class most of the students especially the females are rude and waste their time and money gossiping loudly abt other students and getting relationships(shouldnt be doing at all), many students do not come or leave not even halfway... clearly these students have 0 respect, these students should drop asap, avoid her

Whoever made that 5/5 rating on Nov 22, you are stupid, no offense. Her lectures are not good. Although she did not make the quizzes, the questions on the final exam will be made entirely by Belinda herself. I hope you won't give her crap when you find the final exam to be hard as sh**

Like what the other student said before, they are pretty much correct. prof doesnt seem to care about teaching: talks too fast and cannot explain well. It is obviously not the only issue, no wonder there are so many empty seats as many students who have clearly 0 respect for anyone and many issues with a lot of students, Worst course seen so far

Chang is worse than Naomi. Barely any slides and will test on the most specific details. If you don't note every single thing like her long annoying "ugh"'s and "um"'s then kiss your GPA goodbye. Prime example of the prof that reads off the slides and checks out her cheque to the bank after ruining our lives.

If I had to ballpark, there are words on approx. 50% of the slides. To Prof. Chang, "slides are testable content" includes what directly comes out of her mouth, especially if it's said in passing! Apparently Prof. Chang has "no idea what happens in tutorial" aka she doesn't care that 20% of our grade is unrelated to lecture/exams.

Explaining concepts very vague, useless slides, sometimes reluctant to answer students' questions and just told u to review the textbook. End up skipping most of her lectures.

Even the air she breathes is testable content. Every single obscure data entry is apparently expected of you to memorize for the final. She tests based on exactly what she says during lectures and just the slides and/or ppt is no where near enough to even get above 60 in this course.

Clearly passionate in her research, but explanations during lectures were unclear. There were many times where I had to replay the recordings over and over again after attending lectures live. Neither the slides nor what she said out loud contributed much to explanations. The textbook was definitely my best friend.

She does not understand how to teach this topic to novices. I don't believe this course is hard but her teaching made it super time consuming and difficult to get through. I would spend an hour after every class rewatching and rewinding her lectures as well as reading the textbook to understand what she was trying to say.

This prof quickly made me hate the course- my grade in the course is due to the other lecturer. Lectures are about 80-90% of what will be tested on the final- however Prof Chang rushed through lectures in 40 minutes with examples that were irrelevant but tested. Try take this in the summer with different profs if you need HMB265 as a program req.

You need to memorize an exact transcription of her lectures to do well. Anything she mentions in passing will be on the final, and she also doesn't explain concepts that well. Definitely possible to get an A, but only if you do well in the 1st half of the course. Final will most likely drop your mark. It's a required course so what can you do

Just read the other comments and you will see understand......

She genuinely does not explain a single thing and it is all gibberish lol

I have never been so appalled by a professor's lack of ability to deliver coherent lectures. She needs to stop stuttering and start preparing better for what she wants to say in lecture. It is so difficult to follow her content and it takes me forever to go back and review what she said because of how messy she is with her delivery.

Slides will have irrelevant diagrams/numbers, while she will randomly mention what is actually important for just a split second between tons of incoherent rambling. Often assigned difficult readings only ~50% relevant to lecture content, will not clarify how much of the textbook is testable. Expects total memorization of examples.

By far the most difficult professor to learn from that I have ever encountered. Delivers lectures in a completely disorganized and incoherent manner, with explanations that are extremely tough to understand. Made me completely lose interest in the subject, despite it being very interesting otherwise. 10 min lecture = one hour to understand.

I. HATE. HER.

Shes such a bad prof its unbelievable. I feel bad for anybody that has her as a prof. she literally cannot get a coherent sentence out without stumbling 20 times and when she finally gets it out your left wondering what she just said. If you see this Prof. Chang stop teaching for the sake of the students please let somebody else teach!

She says something for one second and the next thing you know its gonna be on a test. Worst prof at uoft, maybe she will stop teaching and give students a fair chance of doing well in the course.

The worst prof ever. I just finished the final exam and I would say her test does not focus on any important points but only on minor details and examples. She plays around languages so that people who can't understand her fancy English won't understand the question. My cGPA up until now is 3.9, but I really think I am really failing this test.

true that she tests on minute details. i rewatched every lecture the days coming up to the exam so i could remember niche examples and even that wasn't enough. really awful that we're not tested on our knowledge of the subject but on our ability to memorize every word she says. most life sci courses depend on memorization, but this was overkill.

Slides have no info, lectures are like reading a script: doesnt repeat things/correct herself aft a mistake. In class I transcribe what she says word for word. Most things she says is in the textbook tho, U HV TO READ IT!!! I got by doing tht, I dont learn anything from class. Practice questions dont help. Exam is memorising what she says in class.

The final exam was cumulative over 22 lectures. One of the short responses on her final was to draw a singular slide from memory that was mentioned once in the entire course.

Prof. Chang taught the second half which I liked the content better but her lectures were impotent and made everything more difficult. Her testable materials were focused mostly on minute details on her slides rather than general concepts. Textbook & TA review sessions are what saved me. Also, she seems like she is unwilling to answer questions.

This is the worst professor I have ever had in my entire life. She can't even read off her script in a coherent manner. The exam was the most unfair evaluation I have every taken. Apparently, every word on the slide is testable including the journal citation. If you have to take the course, rewatch lectures, go to TA review sessions and pray!!!!!!!

She does not explain topics coherently so you have to rely on recordings of the lecture. The final exam is mostly based on her second section which contains many small irrelevant details like the synopsis of a journal article she mentioned but don't have access to...If you have to take this course, study everything she says...like everything...

this part of the course obliterated me.

Prof Belinda is maybe the worst prof I've ever had at UofT. She doesn't care much about students and is not good at explaining concepts. Compared to her co-prof in the course Levy-Strumpf the difference is night and day. Don't let this prof discourage you from genetics or HMB program in general. Also, take more of Levy-Strumpf's courses :)

no words. horrible. everything.

She really does not know how to teach, and even the wording she uses in the lectures is ... if you know, you know. It makes me laugh, but nothing.

Good luck everyone

it is true that the concepts are difficult to understand, but still it is also true she does not deserve a place where someone teaches others. I think her wording and teaching skills are from another dimension kind of somewhere else. YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE IS SAYING EVEN THOUGH IT IS ENGLISH.

She lacks understanding of the material, simply reads the transcript, and struggles to explain concepts in a memory-heavy course. She's not very patient with students, doesn't wait to answer questions after class, and redirects clarification requests by saying to *watch the lectures*.

I don't want to live anymore. she makes me feel like I am a speakable potato

I would rather study cs.

I think she knows how terrible she is at teaching others. Thats why she always recommends us to read the textbook. well, good luck

Does she deserve a 1/5, maybe not. Do i care, absolutely not. Her lecture on development was the worst bout of teaching that I have ever experienced.

she makes me question life

you're cooked

awful teaching, she doesn't know what she said

Very poorly skilled. She doesn't explain anything but just repeating terms like "ahhh, ehh". Attending her lectures is just a waste of time because everything in her class (her presentation and lecture slides) are just misleading. The worst worst prof i've ever seen in uoft. Good luck guys.

what a fancy teaching skill

Stop saying "ah", "eh", "uh", "in fact", "right? in context of that does not make any sense

This is the worst lecture I have ever taken. Bad lecturer, bad TA, bad grader. They are so mean and strict with us. After the midterm, a lot of people in my class dropped this course. Don't expect tutorials and assignments to improve your overall grades; they will even make you even more overwhelmed.

She explains so much but so little at the same time, then you leave the lecture hall wondering what you've learned in the past hour.

Her lectures make me doubt that I understand English.

Worst prof i had in uoft. Overcomplicates everything, the TA sessions were far more explanatory. Tests are very nitpicky, she asks every small detail, even if it's not discussed in lecture.

test does not relate to content

worst teacher in uoft

She doesn't know how to teach properly. Going to her lectures are the biggest waste of time!!

HMB265 in general is a very poorly coordinated and vague course. This professor does not make it any better. She goes very surface level into the lecture material and does not explain concepts well. The questions on the final were extremely specific (even details on slides we hadn't discussed in class) and some were irrelevant towards the course.

It's like the only time she reads the slides are when she presents them every year. The content itself isn't very difficult but deciphering her rambling is a skill in itself. There is no depth of the material, just random, specific details that have nothing to do with the point of the lecture that she will test you on. Good luck.

One of the worst profs I've ever met, I do not understand what she is talking about during lectures. She made the second half of the course so much harder (compare to the first half of the course). Drop the course or attend peer review sessions, trust.

The second half of the course went absolutely awful for majority of the class. She goes on about tangents on the most irrelevant topics for minutes but rushed important info, and then tested on small details from slides. She speaks as though she is in a panel and not lecturing a class, very disengaging and dreadful.

Worst teacher I had in 2nd year, test did not make any sense based on class material. Most of the questions were about irrelevant details in the slides

No exaggeration, the worst professor I've ever had since I've been at this university. Lectures and lecture slides are completely useless, and the final especially focused on irrelevant details NO ONE remembers that weren't even explained in class properly (not to mention her horrid articulation skills).

I never wore my seatbelt while driving to school because I wanted to die before making it to her class.

the comment before mine is so real. do not take 265 w her. take it w prof. malinoski if u can - trust me it makes a difference. then 265 is doable. my grade is the way it is because of prof. malinowksi not her - dropped her. do not take it w her - be warned

I am absolutely appalled by how little I am able to understand when attending Belinda Chang's lectures. She lectures like she's giving a presentation on her PhD research rather than actually teaching, so there is essentially no information on her slides. Instead she rambles on to an audience that stares at her blankly and unable to take notes.

She has not at fault in fact, she was never at fault. The person who really made the biggest sin is the Mr. Unknown who gave her the PHD and made her a professor. It is crazy that someone can make a living out of something they are terrible at. Genuinely want to bulldoze con hall during lecture time.

Awful slides, prepare to rewatch lectures many times.

Belinda Chang's content is easier than the first half - it's just memorization. The problem? She's boring. Usually I don't skip lectures but her lectures were really boring and I skipped a few. Anytime I'm in lecture, I have no idea what is happening. TA review sessions are a MUST!

Her slides are awful and have no words on them. Don't even bother going to class because she does not explain anything clearly. Just watch her lecs and the TA review sessions to save yourself.

Can't explain lecture materials properly, powerpoints have barely any words them. Don't even bother watching lecture recording or going to lectures, completely useless

She passes by everything without much explanation. She cannot explain concepts that well either. It is just her looking at pictures. Cannot understand what is and what isn't important. She brushes on topics, thinking everyone already knows the full content before, therefore she does not even remotely explain what the words are.

Her lectures are confusing. Little information on slides and she doesn't form clear sentences of what she's explaining. Her explanations are confusing. She should learn something from prof yip on how to teach. The TA from the review sessions teaches concepts better than she does so shout out to the TA

Belinda Chang will test you on every minute detail from her slides that you probably thought was not important. Not to mention her slides basically have no words so you will have to research every topic she covers on your own to actually understand what's going on. I would recommend just finding a major that doesn't require this class.

If I got a dime every time she says "umm" or "ahh", I'd be rich by now. She explains everything and nothing at the same time 😍

Her slides doesn't have any words on them it's purely diagrams and it's up to you to write down everything she says to understand these diagrams. Also she goes back on her word many times during lectures so you will have to rewrite your notes many different times. Hmb265 was the hardest course I have ever taken in my time at uoft.