Horrible. There is no compassion for students even though the test averages were horrible this semester. They excuse all the horrible test scores and pretend grade replacement is a sufficient solution. If the test average is 53%, the students are clearly struggling and something is wrong with the way material is taught. No self-reflection at all.

do NOT take her. she puts up the icas and you're expected to work them out with the people around you (not helpful if no one understands the material). test averages were VERY low and she blamed this on kids skipping lecture since it's early rather than the fact that she doesn't explain ANY of the material in class. most kids go to evans class

TAKE EVANS AT ALL COSTS. Structure is a series of videos containing notes before class, and class time is ONLY used for in class problems. Santos does not explain the concepts and does not confirm/give answers (even tho correctness = attendance grade). Evans does both and posts his work. 1/2 the class skips her lecture to go to Evans'. Terrible

- I gained nothing from a single lecture I attended - All the work is homework, because you are expected to teach yourself and come into class knowing everything. - The midterm averages were never above 55%, but Santos & Evans act as though this is normal. - Chem labs are already so hard, but she made them even longer and require more work.

Horrible lectures, very difficult tests. The second test average was a 50, probably because the professors for this class give vague lectures that rarely parallel the content on the exams. The tests are literally so much harder than any of the study material they give you. Avoid this professor if possible.

Quite literally does not lecture. Tests has failing averages because students learned absolutely nothing from coming to class. Practically self-study.

Did not teach during lectures. All the material is basically self-taught by watching lecture videos that she didn't even create. In lectures, you work on in-class problems which she doesn't really help you solve or give you the answers at the end. Terrible professor, would not recommend her.

She does not teach in class whatsoever and has a low understanding of the chemistry topics she is "teaching". I told her about my disability accommodations and was shrugged off and was not provided accommodations on one of the exams thereafter. Exam averages for the class were 50s and 60s, with no curve. Only E.C. opportunity was another mini exam.

Please avoid taking her at all costs, or take Evans instead. She quite literally does not teach during lectures and the tests do not resemble the in class worksheets. In addition to that, many of the lab protocol result in failed experiments.

Dr. Santos will expect you to work through problems on your own or with the people around you without thoroughly teaching the topic. She will often go without working through the problems she gives you. If you have anxiety in the classroom and are afraid of asking questions, you can't just expect her to go over the problems at the end of class.

Class time is taken up by worksheets that bad "lectures" attempt to support. The worksheets are filled with problems that are never gone over, which leaves you entirely reliant on the people around you to explain it to you. Nothing is received from the "lectures." Lab protocols (run by Deborah) result in bad data and failed experiments.

No material is actually taught in class; instead, we are just forced to work on worksheets with the people around us. No one knows what they're doing, so we don't learn anything. The questions aren't properly gone over and we gain nothing from class. It is basically self-taught

We don't learn a thing in this class. The pre class videos for this course aren't helpful at all, and don't help in any way for the prep quizzes. The in class questions aren't actually gone over in class, and questions people ask in class aren't properly or directly answered.

Do not take her if possible. for someone whose entire research is how to teach chemistry, she cannot. she barely lectures, has the classroom "facilitate" their own learning... meaning she doesn't teach. Basically you are better off teach yourself this class. the only good thing is that she is available outside of class.

I thought I'd give her a chance despite seeing the reviews. Bad idea. She barely lectures in class. She sent out a "learning reflection", in which most student's feedback told her to lecture more.Then, she spent 20 minutes in class discussing how she won't do that. She won't listen to feedback, despite asking for it. The test averages reflect this

do not take deborah santos if all possible. i am great at chemistry, but this is the worst and hardest class i have ever taken. she does not like to lecture, and lets students struggle on their own to learn material. she is very nice, but she is not an effective chemistry teacher.

If you think you are good at chem, this class will make you rethink that. I got a 48 on the last midterm, which was ABOVE AVERAGE (the average on this midterm was a 43). For God's sake, the Organic Chem students have higher test averages. There have been times in class where I would ask for help and she gave me a wrong answer. Be weary of her class

Please don't listen to anyone who says she "really cares about us" because she doesn't. There is absolutely no reflection on her part. I'm a chemistry major, and she is messing with my future by giving the most ridiculous exams that have failing averages. I succeed in lab and all the other assignments given, but the exams are horrendous.

The lectures do not prepare you for the test. The test averages were always failing, and the tests were too long to complete in the given time frame. She also provides little guidance in teaching and expects you to learn everything individually. I did not listen to the reviews, and I wish I did. Take any other teacher.

Debobrah is not an effective professor. Everyone did horrible, despite doing everything to prepare. In class, if she helped set up problems and gave us an answer key then maybe it would work better. There is not enough TAs to have a classroom setup like this, there's like 1 TA that actually knows what he's doing for over 200 students with questions

Georgia Tech should really look into this professor. Her exams were not made to test knowledge, but instead were too long and pretty much designed to make us fail. Averages were below 50% with no redemption. Does not lecture at all. I think the 5 and 4 star rating were written by her.

She does not lecture and does not even adequately go over the problems she gives in class. She makes her exams difficult and lengthy with a small time restraint and essentially designs her exam for students to fail. Her explanations are severely in class are inadequate and if anything it makes me more confused about things I already know.

Our last exam's average was 43. At the last 3 mins, at the end of the exam, she suggested starting the FRQ "if we wanted to." Dr. Santos does not teach during class, rather she walks around "answering questions" very vaguely and not explaining the concept. She rarely goes through the in-class assignments and if she does, she does not finish them.

For our recent midterm, there was not enough time given, the material on the exam was nothing like the practice material given to us, and people were crying outside the exam hall. There's no need to give such difficult exams to prove we know a concept. Students know the material but their grades can never show it because of the poor class design.

Bad at explaining and does not teach. Extremely difficult exams.

Do not take a class with this professor. If she is somehow the only one available, seriously consider getting the credit for this class at another university. She is inadequate at teaching and often does not know what she is talking about. She does not seem to care at all or take any student concern or other professors' concerns into account.

a failing average was not enough her to demonstrate that the exam was either poorly designed or her course structure did not prepare us for it

Terrible professor, deserves to get fired, doesn't understand what grades mean to students, thinks it's perfectly fine that students get 40s and 50s and that a 60 is an amazing grade and won't curve from there. Don't take this class even if you have to graduate a semester late because of it.

I would like to quote what she said on our second midterm. "For a frame of reference, students earning higher than 60% should not view their score as poor, in fact, you demonstrated understanding of more than half of the content and with limited time to do so. " Our midterm average was a 48. That should speak for itself.

Rating is still too high

Wants students to fail

Deborah Santos, while claiming the way she structures her class "helps students perform better on tests," consistently has exams with failing averages. Instead of listening to much needed feedback, the professor does things her way. A professor like this can hurt your gpa and lower chances at pursuing careers after college (pre health students).

This course is horrible and extremely disorganized. No regard for students.

Fire her please!

DO NOT TAKE HER We have failing averages on exams and are forced to completely rely on the final to hope we pass the class. She never considers how students feel about her lectures or exams, as she disregards our opinions and only sees her perspective as the right way. When students openly express their concerns to her, she chooses not to listen.

The tests have minimal correlation to material given in class and the grading strategies are extremely discouraging. She offers grade replacement at the end of the course that she makes so necessary to even pass the course that it becomes outrageously stressful throughout the semester. Avoid taking the course with her if at all possible.

Deborah Santos is a horrible teacher. Not only does she not teach in lectures she gives you group worksheets and fails to even go over them. Her class is useless and the exams are unnecessarily difficult and unfairly timed. Instead of taking time to teach you, she will analyze test scores and make sure she includes a p value in her analysis.

Worst teacher I have ever had with one of the worst class organizations. Just terrible. Refuses to listen to student feedback DESPITE asking for it in Learning Reflections.

Evil monster who gives awful exams directly after awful labs with awful protocols with unclear instructions and poor materials and organization. Avoid at all costs.

absolutely terrible professor. DO NOT TAKE HER !! even when the entire class fails her exams she somehow finds a way to blame it on the students.

Can I give her a zero? The structure of this class is a joke.

Has a flawed class structure that has consistently facilitated failing test averages, particularly the second was the worst out of the three. The lack of instruction and overly useless pre-lecture videos make it pertinent to self-study to even have a chance in this course. DO NOT RECOMMEND AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

do not take her pls.

DO NOT TAKE CHEM 2 WITH THIS PROFESSOR

Yes, she is available outside of class and answers emails/Ed discussion questions quickly. However, still a horrible teacher who has no respect for students, she does not care at all and provides every reason except for the fact that the test was unfair and her teaching unsatisfactory to justify failing test scores.

If any administrative staff at Georgia Tech is reading this, FIRE HER! I don't know how she slipped through the interview process to teach here

Makes exams with average failing grades for first-year chemistry. I heard from a TA her response was "womp womp". Absolutely unprofessional and did not respond to any emails or posts on the discussion board asking about the exam.

i think i would rather drop out of college than ever have to take a class with her as the course coordinator. almost every exam this semester has had a failing average, but she blames the disconnect on us. she gives us exams that are actually terrible/really short time frames for number of questions. PLS TAKE CHEM 2 SOMEWHERE ELSE IF U CAN

Had an exam that was average failing because no one had enough time to complete it. Heard from a TA her response to the many complaints was "womp womp". Her labs are consistently ahead of lecture content and therefore nearly impossible to understand, especially for Chem I. Good luck if you take chem while she's still the course coordinator.

Worst professor ever. When feedback was given to "stop doing what she's doing" she said absolutely not. does not listen to students. does not lecture. is in charge of too much and isn't even a professor yet, she's a pre-professor. for someones whose whole research is chemistry education she is the absolute worst. DO NOT TAKE!

Whatever you do, do not take this professor. She does not know what she is doing half the time and makes you do a worksheet everyday instead of teaching. She also makes exams are very hard.

There is substantial proof that Deborah Santos has violated Section 8.3.9 of the Faculty Handbook which states "a faculty member may be dismissed for professional incompetency and neglect of duty that are not part of the post-tenure review process". A complaint will be issued to the Office of the Provost to investigate these grounds of dismissal.

When it comes to teaching, competency and decency are more important than anything, and she has neither. Awful professor, awful exam scores, and no accountability. She knows what the entire student body thinks of her and knows how poor her exams are as an assessment of knowledge, and she doesn't care in the slightest, which is very unprofessional.

Lectures were, unfortunately, not really good at conveying the course content. I fully stopped going lecture after 3 weeks with no consequences. Exams were mostly fine, but the second was really poorly timed which led to terrible grades, and the response showed a disappointing unwillingness to take accountability.

Deborah Santos is a horrible chemistry professor. I can thank myself and myself only for doing well in this class.

If you can take anyone else, do it. If you have to take Santos, doing well is doable, since the grading allows for a lot of room for error, but you will be putting the majority of your time towards this class. Lectures are just you doing group problems that she doesn't go over, so you'll have to teach yourself. Honestly surprised she isn't fired.

scary, evil woman who barely gives extra credit (the CIOS was worth 0.005 points ??) and does not listen to her students when they beg her to lecture. I did not go to a single lecture after the first couple weeks because we just did nothing

Dr. Santos is by far one of the hardest chemistry professors at this school. She barely lectures in class and then refuses to give opportunities to help mediate bad grades on tests, even when the whole class does bad. Avoid her if you can

Deborah Santos is the most unprofessional teacher I have ever had the misfortune of learning under. She neglects students needs despite complaints and prioritizes her research over teaching. Her teaching lacks coherence making labs frustrating. The money wasted on her salary could be spent elsewhere and I pray for the day she's fired.

She does not teach well, give tests that do not represent the taught material, and has no care for her students. Did not round up my grade 0.077%. If at all possible DO NOT ENROLL IN ANY COURSE WITH HER NAME ON IT

terrible prof, provide too much homework and bad grading on tests, not present in classes just relys on TA.

She makes chem so much harder than it has to be. I went to every lecture, studied super hard and barely pulled through with an A. If you can try to get out of taking her as a professor.

She made chem so much harder than it had to be. I went to every lecture, and studied absurdly hard, and BARELY pulled through with an A. I would do anything to get out of taking this professor, but if you do need to the only way to study is to go through all the lecture slides, and redo all the in class questions, and that will maybe get you an A.

This course was scored out of 1000 and an 890-1000 was an A, a 790-889 was a B so when I received an 889.97, I hoped she would round up since there was no policy on rounding. However, she has an obsession with every student earning every last point of their grade and will never accept that students make mistakes that don't define their knowledge.

Santos is so obsessed with every student earning every point of their grade. She spent the entire course never admitting to any of her mistakes while believing that students couldn't make any. She doesn't round grades and doesn't really provide any grace for student mistakes because she believes we need to give everything we have to earn anything.

The best way to describe her is rough. The class, the tests, and the lectures were rough. Everything was rough. I participated everyday and did all of the assignments and reading. I had a tutor and studied hours on end a week, but it was never enough. She doesn't actually lecture and when we asked if she would change it, she straight up said no

Professor Santos just didn't teach. I went to class every day, and it wouldn't have made a difference if I didn't go. She doesn't care about what the students need from her; she teaches in a way that is comfortable for her, which doesn't help any students. All I'm going to say is people were crying after Exam 2, and she didn't do anything about it.

There is grade replacement but she does not teach. Be prepared to learn all the material on your own.

I have just started this general lab & already had to do 3 assignments that together took a very long time (over 4 hours) just to complete stuff like Lab Safety, Intro Quizzes, etc. I was scared for this class with the stories that my friends who took it told me. After my first week of lab I'm even more scared. Don't think this will be a fun sem :(

Inherently, Dr. Santos is not a terrible person, but her teaching style is, and she refuses to change it regardless of the grades of the class. Her lectures were 80% practice and 20% lecture. She will expect you to do most of your learning outside of class. I find that ridiculously absurd considering this is supposed to be a low-level intro course.

This lab is horrible. I also took CHEM1211L and that ended with several people complaining about how the final experiment didn't work. Santos had no sample data to give to remedy the fact that the procedure was not well-written, and most of the experiments for that final week failed. Her procedures are terrible and confusing.

Dr. Santos is a very nice person, but I would not recommend her section to anyone that doesn't already have an amazing grasp on chemistry. We worked on practice problems (which were not reflective of the test) for ~95% of the class time and when we would ask her for clarification on a concept she would often answer incorrectly or not at all.

I absolutely hate this woman with every atom of my being. If I didn't have the support system I did I wouldn't have made it through this lab. She has no originality and we no joke do the same lab on repeat every single week. I have genuinely never disliked a professor this much. She is not kind.

I devoted all of my time to this class and felt confident. BUT the exams are impossible bc she crams several multistep problems into a short period. The lectures are a waste because I still have to home and teach myself. This class poorly represents any of the work me and my classmates did, and she could not care less. She is not nice nor helpful.

Dr. Santos runs the Lab section for CHEM 1310, and it is way harder than the lectures. Labs were disorganized, the protocol was impossible to understand, even the TAs couldn't understand the instructions. Labs are also based on material you haven't covered, pass/fail grading and tokens were the only win. It is not impossible, just miserable.

The Lab TA for this class was the only thing that made it bearable... All of the labs felt identical and were written extremely poorly to the point where the I would barely even use them because they were not helpful. Very easy rubrics so its very hard to get a low grade but I still did not enjoy it. Don't listen to the good reviews, they're lying.

Some of the lab protocols were super confusing. We were doing organic chemistry in an intro to chem lab for some reason? Even my TA was confused. The post-labs were fine, they weren't difficult to do just a little bit tedious.

Labs were tedious... we always ran out of materials and had faulty equipment that always made labs last much longer than they had to. The pre and post labs weren't hard but very tedious, not a pleasure to do. Grading is pretty easy, but we're forced to buy labflow for 75 bucks to submit the pre and post labs, it's an annoying platform.

Santos is horrific at her job. Labs were either missing most equipment or equipment was dirty. Lab reports were lengthy and took several hours each week. Labs did not correlate with lecture. Santos didn't know what was going on and neither did the TAs. Chem lab was horrendous.

Abrasive professor who showed no understanding for serious medical issues (I almost died) despite documentation from ODS/Dean. Required dean intervention to make up missed labs. Labs and reports extremely time-consuming (3+ hrs). Despite strong performance on exams, she tried to fail me. Not everyone w a PhD needs to be teaching.

It is a travesty that students in 1310 are forced to take a lab section with Santos. The labs were poorly designed and of relatively low quality. As well, post-labs often outpaced lecture material and were extremely time-consuming to complete.

Where do I even begin... the amount of tears I shed on these INTRO lab reports was a record high. She is awful at planning labs and although my TA was great she didn't know much of what was happening either. The post lab reports were lengthy and frankly a waste of time. She is actually awful and I'm appalled she is the only lab coordinator for 1211

Dr. Santos's lab sections were quite... interesting. She often made lab instructions unclear or assigned labs that were difficult to carry out based on time constraints or material limitations. Overall, lab was very stressful and difficult due to the way she structured the class.

Do you believe in hell? If not, you will after this class. Good luck

She made labs more difficult than they needed to be. Also introduced us to Lab Flow which is very buggy and genuinely made me cry on several occasions, also was a $75 purchase I felt was unnecessary.

Really untidy labs. Dirty materials, few replacements for broken parts, and she would change the lab protocols mid-lab (not in my section but the semester after). Last year, there was a strange liquid in a pipet bulb I got from a lab desk which produced fumes that I accidentally inhaled ... I had hearing loss for several hours after :(

Labs have unclear, confusing criteria, protocol, what is expected of you to do. Material is often redundant -- such as inputting the same table into the labflow AND the report which has to be done by hand -- and I felt like I was explaining the same thing every week over and over again in the oftentimes many hours I sacrificed to this class.

The protocols weren't synced with our lecture material, and our TA had to teach us most of the information himself. All the labs were pass/fail and graded on a 1-5 point scale, making them really easy to fail if you didn't read the rubric properly. The protocols also often required us to create our own protocol, which was incredibly frustrating.