She was the most useless prof I've ever seen. Her lectures are inconsistent, and sometimes it felt like she didn't even know what she was teaching.

Her techniques are bad. Her class is more of a biology class with all that memorizing. She gives you a horrible formula sheet. So be prepared to memorize 20+ formulas

She's just a horrible teacher. I wish Lori Van Belle was the prof for chem 1020. Piece of shxt formula sheet. She's the only prof that makes you memorize formulas. Her notes are useless too. You can't go back to the notes because she just scribbles a bunch of jargons on the rubbish slides.

I DON'T RECOMMEND TO TAKE HER CLASSES AT ALL ,, SHE IS TERRIBLE, THE FINAL WAS HARD I PARLEY PASSED THE COURSE

Cristen is an awesome person as a human. However, I feel like she expects more from us even though her powerpoints are very confusing. She over complicates the simplest things and does not give any hints about the midterms and finals. The questions on tests were over-complicated. Don't recommend if you want to do well in Chemistry. Hard marker.

Tough marker. I'd rather not take chem at all.

Cristen seems like a nice person, however her formula sheet is ridiculous! she expects you to do tests without giving you formulas. Which by the way is impossible unless you memorize all the formulas given in the 9 chapters. Her exam questions are not of examples from her powerpoint. To better understand the material i suggest read the textbook.

Her exams are extremely difficult and lecture notes are not clear !!

Hardest course I've ever taken. Cristen does not help people who don't know what they're doing... I did not take Chem in high school, and was completely lost the entire semester. No matter how many help sessions or office hours I went to, there was just no chance. She speeds through the lectures, even though this is an INTRO TO CHEMISTRY course.

Awful professor, goes through lectures WAY too fast and doesn't assist those who can't keep up with certain concepts. Not helpful, not a good lecturer.

It seems she is "winging" everything. She waits until the last minute to write tests and so even if you want to be prepared and get ahead she's unable to give you any help because she doesn't even know what she will be asking about. Overall a horrible organizer, very poor lecturer because she just talks at you and doesn't provide follow-up slides.

She talks at you during lectures and makes no effort to provide clear notes post lecture. She tries to make you apply concepts but she doesn't do a good job teaching that skill. No helpful exam prep for application Qs.I learned way more reading the dry textbook than attending her class. Recommend reading the text first and then going to her class.

She made biochemistry challenging to study for; for no reason. Her lectures were not concise; she just seems to talk at you, she recommends you follow the learning outcome but her midterms seem to be like she just wings it. All I can say is you have to be 2x more prepared for this class. Study the textbook and basically teach yourself.

Extremely easy course, but hucaluk is kind of ... not intelligent at all. One would expect a university professor to have some level of intelligence ... but no. Her assignments are easy but so many questions are marked incorrectly. Also, she simply does not know chemistry well enough to be a prof. Hucaluk can't think critically whatsoever.

100% Would not recommend. Her lectures are always very simple and general but test and exam questions are very long and complicated, she also writes midterms very last minute. Be prepared to teach yourself the entire course. Take advantage of on campus help like PASS sessions and other tutoring, they'll be a big help.

Her tests are hard. She takes simple content and manages to create long and confusing questions. All her lectures are straight forward but tests are complicated. She's a nice person, but her assessments are not fair. Ive had her for a few classes and midterm class averages for all were usually around the 50s, not for lack of studying.

Ive had her for multiple courses. In Chem 1010 she was good however in all upper year courses she is awful. Her tests are super hard! She makes questions long and confusing. Even the TA couldn't solve some of her tutorial questions without the answer key! If you have her for anything other than first year Chem... Goodluck.

Absolutely horrible so far. I emailed her when I received a really bad mark on one of the assignments and she didn't even bother explaining the step by step solutions. On top of that, she literally gave us lessons that are on youtube! I can't believe I am paying $4000+ to watch crash course videos! She's a terrible online teacher.

she's not a reasonable person at all, makes everything overcomplicated so you lose marks for bs. the course itself was easy but man oh man you'll get into some decent arguments with her.

If you're a new student with the ability to chose another prof, do yourself a favor and pick any other option.

Her module lectures are mostly free youtube videos that don't match the difficulty level of this course. Whenever she actually teaches the content is also simplified and does not match the difficulty on the tests. The tests are also full of mistakes and I constantly have to email her because right answers get marked as wrong.

Worst prof I had so far. She has this no backtracking rule for the midterm and exam so u cannot go back to the previous question and check over ur work and u have to finish questions before moving in to next question. 90% of the class didnt finish the last 4-5 questions and lost around 20 marks for a 45 mark midterm!

She is not reasonable or caring to say the least. She will find any excuses to deduct marks and I always had to double check my work with her because she never graded my assignments properly. During a pandemic, she decided it was best to triple our number of assignments and her online lectures questions are way easier then the assignment ones. 0/10

Consistently marks the assignments wrong, and gives no feedback on them. We have no way of knowing if our answer is wrong or if it was an error on her end. Midterm was nothing like her lectures, and had a lot of errors in it. Doesn't listen to her students and gave all of us a copy pasted response to our emails for midterm errors.

Absolutely awful, don't have 1 good thing to say. Made the pandemic 20x worse just by being the prof to this course. Course itself is relatively easy if you put in the time but prepare to teach yourself everything. Assignment/quiz questions are in no way similar to the lectures, she teaches the easiest version of the questions she actually gives

Too lazy to put her own questions, so brings super hard questions in short time with no back track. Her excuse : students will cheat. Finds every opportunity to deduct marks, so she made the late submission penalty thing in the 2nd term. Liar; when asked about the Oral test results, she said tutors are working on them, results were never released.

Gives a super easy lecture slides to shock you with her hard stressful tests. Her assignments are full of mistakes, as she does not put the correct answers as her grading is always full of mistakes. Disorganized as she leaves us stressed not knowing how the final will look like, the online evaluation tests results were never released, etc

I'd say I agree with the reviews on this professor as she is very not composed with her work , screws over students ,and for an example on a assignment the sign was not in the correct value ;positive or negative, lost half of the marks on the assignment. Exams are stupidly hard, with the practice exam being so simple. Overall just not a good prof.

i wish i could give a 0, made me physically ill giving her a 1/5. terrible midterm chrissy grrrrrr

the worst midterm i have ever written rawrrrrrr

Just no

Has the ability to make chemistry a detestable experience.

80 minute time period to do a 3 hour test making it a test of how fast you can write rather than one which tests your knowledge.

Terrible prof. The quiz questions are unreasonably hard as it doesnt cover anything learned from the lectures. She doesnt take any feedback into consideration even though majority of students are clearly struggling. She takes off marks for the tiniest mistakes and most of the material is learned through YouTube videos.

Overall nice person but not a great prof. She gives a lot of hw and doesnt take her time to explain everything. I dont know about yall but I didnt pay to teach myself. On top of that she doesnt give enough time for quizzes and tests if she doesnt change her ways and you have her next God bless you.

Class is very heavy/hard for an intro-level course. Not very thorough or generous with quiz/test timing.

Studied all week for this midterm and still wasn't able to do majority of the questions and I didn't finish. Practice, lecture, homework, and quiz questions were much easier and didn't prepare us for the midterm at all. No backtracking allowed and for every question, you either got it right or wrong. No part marks. Wish i could give a zero

Extremely unfair when creating and grading assessments. Mostly teaching yourself this extremely heavy-based content course

Had this professor twice and I can say that she’s managed to ruin both courses for me. She makes the lecture content so easy then tests us on the hardest material. She’s a very unfair grader and takes every opportunity to cut off marks. Would not recommend her.

Chemistry went from my favorite course to least favorite since I started chem 1010U until 1020U with mrs.

Her midterms are straight up horrible. Since everything is online she would say the midterm is open book, then she makes it super hard and if calculated on average 1.25mins per question, that too multiple step questions. Her in class weekly quizzes is no better, 10 mins to solve a long answer question, its just a race against time.

You already know! Extremely unfair and exams do not match taught content. Very limited time during exams and the class average was 51%

terrible teacher honestly dont know how she got her teaching license

Terrible at teaching (lists facts but don't take time to explain clearly in a way that's easy to understand). Whenever lecture is over I felt like I've learned nothing. Expect to go through the materials on your own and study more in depth cause the lectures and homework questions will not cover what's on the test. Organic Chemistry Tutor helps.

No time at all for midterms and exams. She gives you a quiz for 10 or 15 minutes but expects you to do similar questions as "multiple choice" questions within a minute. Even if you study and understand the concepts and practice, it all comes down to whether you can do it quickly. It's ridiculous. Her midterms are just a race against time

The midterm was absolutely horrible, it was built to make students fail. The multiple choice were like short answers and the short answers were like long answers. To rub even more salt into the wound, we were not only given a 20 minute late start, but had only 1 hour to solve these torture questions. It was not nearly enough time.

I am confused and frustrated at why she makes the midterms ridiculously hard. Has little to do with how much you know the contents but how fast you can write. It's very unnecessary and unfair to those who need high GPA to pursue higher education like med school, even though it's not about their knowledge but if they can do them unrealistically fast

Prof. Hucaluk has a great personality for a human being. However, her midterms are ridiculously hard as they are based on how fast you can do them, not how well you understand each concepts. We only had an hour to do 23 questions that required multi-step calculations. Furthermore, once you fail the midterm it will be hard to recover.

Do not take a class with Cristen if you can help it. Cristen's lectures and quizzes are fine, nothing too crazy, but her midterms and exams? Good luck. You know something is wrong when the class average is 50% and there are multiple people retaking the course. I'm surprised I passed, I assume my lab grade saved me. Avoid this prof at all costs.

She's terrible she's a tough grader she doesn't know how to teach and then she will BLAME you for the bad grades, i recommend using organic chem tutor on YouTube otherwise you WILL NOT PASS and unfortunately I didn't know this until it was too late. Cristen, I hope you get fired, you do not deserve your job.

If you don't have a great knowledge in chemistry this is not for you. You need to attend her lectures because the "annotated notes" are not useful to study with. Her work is messy and unorganized. Her midterm was terrible with 20 short answers and 4 long answers. Does not take constructive criticism and has very few opportunities to boost your mark

Hucaluk barely gave any time for the miderm, and then proceeded to get upset with the class for receiving complaints about it and her teaching. Very unpleasant woman when she is told she sucks

She doesnt know how to teach and refuses to believe the fact that our future relies on these grades. Overall rude and not helpful. She should be fired

This is the worst prof I've ever had.

not one good thing to say about her. cant teach, cant grade, makes exams unreasonably hard, and overall not a good prof.

by far one of the most incompetent professors I've had the displeasure taking a class with. cant teach, completely unreasonable, doesnt allocate enough time to do well on midterms, and did not seem to care for her students.

This school needs more chem professors.

exams are horrible

To be honest, I had her for several classes but every class is an nightmare. Her lecture is basically about unimportant stuff that will not ever be tested. The test is out of our knowledge.

WORST PROF EVER STAY CLEAR FROM THIS SORRY EXCUSE FOR A PROFESSOR.

I go to every lecture and still have no idea what's happening. I leave this class more confused than coming in. I hate her teaching style, and her exams are tough.

The class is pretty bad if u can avoid her do it trust me Ur better off without her i don't know where she gets her questions from cause they isn't from the lecture on top of the questions on the midterm are worded so badly and literally are hard to understand pls be prepared to read textbook and pray to god daily if u want to pass.

Horrible prof, notes are messy, exams are literally comparable to being in a mental institution, no practice questions or rewiew for exams, finds ur downfall funny

final exam was a nightmare. the multiple choice questions were taking 10 minutes each. Barely taught anything that was on the exam.

doesn't teach

if u have biochem with her one advice i will give you is learn from the textbook. it doesn't matter how much you study the lectures, if you don't look at the textbook, you're screwed. She gets all her tutorial, test and final questions from the textbook I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH, learn material from the textbook bcuz the tutorials are hard too

Awful prof, don't take her classes. Questions on her midterms and exams are nothing that are properly and thoroughly taught in the lectures.

teaches like a failed girlboss doing a ted talk. stopped class when i came back from peeing. sorry queen, didn't realize we needed bathroom passes. the exam (nothing like lectures) was psychological warfare in multiple choice form. i took AP chem and still walked out of that exam spiritually concussed. avoid if you can. if you cant, pray.

Lectures are not easy to follow, content is quite easy but she makes it seem so hard. Her exam is mind boggling.

This class made me switch majors. and i had a 98% in highschool chem. for all yall thinking this is easy its a whole new level

Genuinely the worst teacher this year, her lectures make little to no sense and if you miss a class you're screwed because her slides have NOTHING on them. You need the textbook for this class because it's the only thing saving you from failing.

if you are reading this please listen to me. I had a 97% in hs chem, loved it so much I'm majoring in chemistry. PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. RETAKE IT IN THE SUMMER OR WITH ANOTHER PROF. she does not know how to teach, if you do not listen get ready to pull all nighters, have a quiz each week, and teach yourself EVERYTHING.