Really bad teacher that explains nothing and gives the wrong answers. She makes a bunch of mistakes and always has to correct herself.

If you're bad at chemistry or even average, DO NOT take Uvarov. She may know what she's talking about, but relaying that to her students is near impossible. I only survived by watching Enderle's videos, which was like a whole new world of chemistry. She is passive-aggressive and defensive. Avoid if possible, otherwise be ready to self-teach.

did not explain things clearly. always made mistakes but would make excuses. overall, not a good professor.

Average was 43 for the first midterm, and in her email announcing that she basically said that because the first midterm is high school chemistry we should have done better. Sorry, but if it's so easy then that says something about your tests and teaching if the average is that low. Notes are riddled with errors and she's not helpful at all. Avoid.

Horrible teacher, bad examples, didn't even do review sessions and wasn't very interested in the students it seemed like.

Messing up, jumping around the lesson, uncoordinated, taking scantrons away to work on the second half of the final exam when there's clearly NO REASON for that. After a while, going to her lectures didn't seem worth it.

Lectures were pointless. Never explained her examples. For me, chemistry was a class I had to teach myself everything for even the basic and easy concepts. Only good thing was the curve.

Understand that to do well in Uvarov's class, you're going to need to teach yourself and seek out many outside resources. She will not be any help to you much, but her curves are pretty generous because of her weak teaching.

This professor is the worst teacher I have ever had. When I asked her a question she looked at me with a blatant disregard stare and barely answered my question. There is not much I can do except put up with this absurd excuse for a teacher. After taking this class Chemistry is definitely my least favorite subject. The curve was amazing.

She's literally not teaching anything. Almost everything i learnt so far is from self-studying: YouTube, Chemwiki, textbook, and sapling homework. The only thing she does during the lecture is quiz us through iclicker questions which means you cannot even skip the classes to spend more time on self-studying because the Participation is graded.

No organization to lectures. Doesn't teach. Doesn't answer questions or clarify when asked. Not helpful during office hours and extremely condescending. Took AP Chem, passed with flying colors and still found this course moderately difficult. Mandatory attendance for participation points. Try switching to a different professor.

The basis of her class is suppose to be pre-lecture learning that will be clarified in lecture but that doesn't happen. Her lecture is like a pseudo-quiz show, only it's not as interesting as that sounds. To make it worse, she has lessons organized in the opposite order of other professors. That means that labs and lectures don't sync up.

She's probably the worst chemistry teacher you can meet in your whole miserable life. Her 'Lecture notes' basically contains about 6-10 questions and only about 5 questions would be discussed during her so-called 'Lecture'. She does not teach you concepts so you have to learn your ass off from Chemwiki and textbook with some youtube videos. GL&HF

She doesn't teach ANYTHING. She is very rude to you when you ask questions during her lectures. She calls out names the entire lecture to ask q's about material you were supposed to "teach yourself" beforehand. The tests have information that she very briefly if AT ALL covered during class. Highly reccomend avoiding this professor AT ALL COSTS.

One of the worst teachers ever. For an introductory chemistry class for somebody who has never taken chemistry, it is your first nightmare. So rude to people who ask legitimate questions in class. Her self teaching system does not work. So you basically have to put time outside of class just to learn the material, and there is hw before every class

This is the worst class ever! If you have to choose between waiting a quarter to take chemistry or taking any class with uvarov, wait till next quarter or switch majors. She makes you teach yourself while doing the homework then goes through problems in class and doesnt explain answers. She is rude and terrible and the worst ever.

She is very rude to students who ask questions. She has people explain how to do problems in their own way going over all possible wrong answers and wrong methods before saying which one is right. Lectures she saves and puts on her page aren't legible at all. Her teaching method is telling us which youtube videos to watch on the concept.

This is the worst class I have ever taken with the worst professor I have ever had. I am a 5th year so I have been in a lot of classes and had a lot of professors and I cant think of any professor who was as terrible at fascilitating learning as Catherine Uvarov.

She is honestly the worst teacher I have ever come across. She gives homework before every lecture, and doesn't teach or give any notes on how to approach the homework, nor does she give any kind of a lesson in class. Just don't take her, you'll save your GPA and stress level.

Picks students randomly in class to explain questions, gives tough exams, no curve, assigns hw for a chapter before explaining the chapter's concepts.

Dr. Uvarov was possibly the worst professor I've ever had. Don't get me wrong, she's a great person, but a terrible teacher and I regret ever taking her. She uses Active Learning (which means you need to know your stuff before going to class). So this is basically a self-taught class.

You know a professor is bad when they consistently refer to themselves as Dr. and act like it in class. For future Uvarovites, brace for impact, you will be really fortunate if both you AND your GPA make it out in one piece.

I would not recommend taking her class unless you are ready to teach yourself chemistry. Most of the lecture time is used to answer multiple choice questions via clicker, which implies that you should have assimilated the material beforehand. I learned more by spending 5 minutes with a tutor than 1 hr in her lecture.

I can not stress this enough, DO NOT TAKE HER. She does not teach at all and everything is self taught. This class has killed my GPA, I have been keeping up with the readings and everything, but nope it wasn't good enough. My condolences for you if you are taking her.

Clear grading criteria and lesson plans, but she's a horrible teacher. Her practice exams DO NOT correlate with the actual exams, there's an excessive amount of homework, her lectures are useless, and not to mention she is extremely RUDE!!! Seems to care more about her teaching style than the actual class. Enjoy teaching yourself chem? Take Uvarov.

Sapling homework ($30) due before each lecture, iclicker ($50) mandatory participation, and unclear lectures. The only reason why I'm doing "alright" is because the homework helps out a bunch, and my TA was the bomb. She is experimenting diff teaching methods. Why am I paying thousands of dollars to be a lab rat in a classroom? Avoid at all costs!!

To say the least, FTB. She is the worst teacher ever. SO many homework assignments and lecture is mandatory. Its a flipped class so you are supposed to know the material BEFORE class. She DOESN'T curve. She RUINED chemistry for me. Please do not take her.

WORST EVER. If you are looking for somebody who is not going teach you anything and then test you to find things that you don't know, THIS IS THE PROFESSOR FOR YOU. She will ruin your whole quarter. You cannot do anything else but her class. I wish I could rate her with negative numbers. STEP 1: AVOID AT ANY AND ALL COSTS STEP 2: SEE STEP 1

If ur in for suffering take Uvarov She is the most hindering professor u'll ever take She says shes not there to teach but rather guide but the only place she guides her students is in the wrong direction I enter lectures empty handed & leave the same shes very rude No reader her practice tests are unhelpful Would rather have a rock as a professor

She will call u by name and have them answer a question in front of four-hundred students. If you do not give the correct answer rather than continuing she tells the whole class that you don't know what you are dong and THEN moves on. Lectures are not very helpful. No curve like most chem professors, tests are harder as well. AVOID at all cost.

This class ruined my life, I had to spend so much time reading from the textbook. If you haven't taken AP Chem you will have difficulties in this class. It's not the hardest class you will most likely pass, but maybe not with the grade you wanted. I'd rather wait another quarter than take her.

Horrible. Worst class have taken at Davis, avoid at all costs. Seriously this class is 100% self-taught and is not like any of the other Chem2A classes taught on campus. No curve. Lectures are completely useless. Homework is useless. So so so so so bad. Thank goodness for my TA.