Truly one of the worst professors I have ever had. Doesn't bother to show up and introduce herself in any way. Her lectures are slides directly (word for word) from the textbook (which by the way she gets from the textbook company) and she reads right off them. Don't bother watching them. Waste of time. More concerned with herself than students.

I received maybe two emails from her at the beginning of the semester. After that, it was only lectures of her which were the slides taken directly from the textbook. Everything was handled by her Teays and TIs. The courseload makes it impossible to actually learn anything due to the number of assignments each week.

One of the worst classes I've ever taken. I learnt close to nothing. The lectures were useless and all of it was self learning. I understood that I had to study for anatomy myself because it is a class that requires such attention however having the class structured so terribly with a professor that didn't really teach didn't help at all.

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS! DO NOT!!!

She is not lenient at all when it comes to homework. Be prepared to teach yourself this course she doesnt teach.

simply put, fekete makes NO effort to help or even teach her students. i dont even know what this woman looks like. sometimes i forget this course even has a professor teaching it because shes that bad. lectures are worthless but hey, at least some of the exam questions are prewritten questions coming directly from the quizzes

I wish I could rate her a 0. She gives way too much homework and quizzes a week. Shes uncaring and a horrible person.

Terrible just terrible

This teacher does not seem to care too much about her students or teaching the class in general. The lectures consist of her reading off the lecture slides and nothing else. The readings are very long and so you need to put in extra time to read (for the reading as hw and to take notes). Labs are fine, I just don't get much out of them.

When many people were asking questions regarding material on an upcoming midterm, she had to look up every answer on Google. She told a girl that she wasn't putting enough effort into the class when the girl was doing everything in her power to learn the material.

I expected more. As a science major, this class is crucial for me comprehend. Like most online classes though, I'm just completing assignments on time and not retaining any info. The professor is rude and does not show empathy toward students, given the circumstances. I feel like I am completely on my own and teaching myself.

I never knew just how awful and stupid someone could make you feel, until I took one of her tests.

The lectures are pointless, she reads right from the slides and the powerpoint, homework and exam test bank is provided by the textbook company. For the amount of effort I put into this class I want her to create unique material. You will be teaching yourself. No care or empathy for her students, told someone i know to drop the course 1 week in.

Poor with student communication

Donna does not care about teaching her students AT ALL. Worst professor I have ever had. I failed the midterm and when I had a meeting with her on what I missed all she said was if I had read and used common sense I would've known the answer. IF YOU GET THIS PROFESSOR RUN.

The worst teacher I have ever had. She doesnt care about her students. We are teaching ourselves. The amount of work is ridiculous and those points are not enough for the time put in. I studied for two weeks straight. I cant pass this class without failing the other classes I am in.

This class makes me have mental breakdowns. She does not care about her students in any way. She refuses to curve the class even when the average on tests is in the D range. I'm very disappointed that Purdue brought a professor like this in and I expected better teaching from a Harvard grad. Be prepared to have all of your hard work not pay off.

I'm not one to generally complain about a professor, but Dr. Fekete is just a bad professor. I am used to difficult course work and content wise have taken tougher courses. However, the exams in this class are written by the textbook company, which means professor Fekete's help is worthless as she does not truely know the content. Do not take!

Donna Fekete is not an effective professor. The average grades on midterms and lab practicals were between 65-75%. I understand this is a college anatomy class and it has been known to be difficult in the past, but in discussing contents with past students, this course is supposed to be passable, and studying pays off. With her? Impossible

Understanding that anatomy is heavy on memorization and application of knowledge, Dr. Fekete has done everything in her power to prevent her students from succeeding. Not only are her lectures useless, as she reads off the slides, she doesnt even want students to ask her questions. Shes lazy and unhelpful, so be prepared to teach yourself.

Listen, I was prepared to take Anatomy and Physiology. I knew it would be memorization, hard work, late nights and lots of dedication. This class however? Absolutely insane. In fairness, my lab and lecture were online and my tests were in person - worst of both worlds. However, the prof is unclear and inconsiderate. Good luck Charlie.

She doesn't care about her students at all and if you email her questions she gets mad. She once sent an email to all her students saying "don't email me I'm busy. If you have questions ask the TA". This is really unprofessional in my opinion. Her "lectures" are reading off powerpoints. Lots of tough reading, must teach yourself the entire class.

I understand that this class is to be a step up from BIO 110 but I have taken other bio classes that are a step up such as BIO 221 which is very difficult. The key difference is that it really feels like the staff for this class including Dr. Fekete do not care about you as a student... Fekete is very cold and her lectures are simply reading slides

I was prepared for a hard college anat course but this class is ridiculous. Don't try to email her, she'll say she's busy and doesn't have time to answer emails. Lectures are read straight off slides, no work is done by her. Be prepared to teach yourself everything. Courseload is a lot and I find myself rushing to submit rather than retaining info.

BIOL 203 is a hard course. Hard courses need a good professor that can effectivley teach and guide their students into success. But this professor and her staff do not care about the students. Very rude in their emails and very demanding towards the students.

If you're taking Bio 203 with Donna Fekete, then I sincerely apologize. She has a horribly pretentious attitude about her and will not curve. Her entire teaching style is a mess. She gives insane amounts (hours) of homework and her classes put unbelievable amounts of pressure on students. Lots of memorization. Overall, 10/10 would not recommend.

Donna Fekete is the first and only professor I've had that DOESN'T want her students to ask questions. My lab TA's would openly talk about how they wanted to quit because of how horribly organized the course was this year. For such a hard class, the professor should be able to step up and teach, and Donna Fekete is not that professor.

Donna is a brilliant scholar and is very respected in her field. However, she does not quite meet this criteria as an instructor. Emailing her directly often resulted in receiving a rude response. A&P is my favorite subject but was disappointed in that exams were un-original and were all connect questions. This course is entirely self-taught.

In short, if you take Bio203/204 with Dr. Fekete, you're on your own. She is an awful lecturer and most of your (extremely time-consuming) homework requires you to teach yourself. The test content was not predictable and I walked away from all 3 tests feeling like I had been blindsided. She does not seem to care about students or their outcomes.

This class is entirely self taught. I gave up on the lectures a long time ago because it was just her reading off of the slides and not actually teaching. Very rude in emails and just overall not great. I'm sure she's brilliant, but Harvard definitely didn't teach her how to teach people.

To whom this may concern, Every bad review is true. Shes by far the most heartless and inconsiderate professor Ive ever had. However, you can get an A and you can pass. Shes lazy and her lectures are lackluster. The exam is your quiz questions, make a quizlet of your/your peers quizzes. Take the class with friends, my girls were Everything.

McGraw Hill taught me more than she did. She was not very caring during the pandemic. There was no flexibility what so ever. The lectures were a waste of time because she read of the slides word for word and the slides said exactly what the book did because McGraw Hill made them. The class was very disorganized and the communication was not good.

doesn't care about her students at all. lectures are just her reading off of slides that she didn't make. was very rude in emails. did not accommodate for a student who had COVID when it came to giving extra time for a quiz. overall just very mean

Does not show she cares what so ever

Last semester I had emailed her and I got a RUDE response back. She shows no empathy towards her students. I understand that this class is supposed to be difficult but to correctly make a class difficult you have to TEACH the difficult material which Donna does not do. If you have to take anatomy I suggest taking it elsewhere and transferring.

People saying that she has tried to change the class since BIOL203 are right. But, it's not beneficial. Labs have been moved completely online, but you still have to go to in person labs, and she took away the lab manual so you really don't know what you're learning about. As a student it feels like she cares more about what makes HER life easiest.

Dr. Fekete is really uncaring about students. She is very knowledgeable on what she teaches but just uses the books PowerPoints and Homework. Every lecture is trying to cram 40-50 slides in and there is no clear learning objectives for the exams. This class, overall, is not designed for student success whatsoever.

She is absolutely terrible. She can't teach, she's super vague, never helpful, and boring as a rock.

words cant describe how awful this class & professor is No effort is given she stopped doing her own lecture videos which was the bare minimum she was doing Be ready to teach yourself the course Also youll do the same on the exam whether you study 0 or 30 hours because it is impossible either way Last test avg was below 56% and this one was lower

She shows obvious neglect for the students. Donna expects students to be experts in every aspect while not putting in effort herself. Might as well take this class online because the online homework is more helpful than anything she has done.

Donna doesn't care about her students or her class at all. She acts like she does so much work for this class when all she does in lecture is read slides word for word that were provided for her by McGraw Hill, yet she makes her own questions for the test that aren't always from material from the lectures. Don't take this class if you don't have to

Dr. Fekete is one of the worst professors I have ever interacted with. Does not care her students at all. Get ready to teach yourself the material, because her lectures are not useful at all. She reads word for word off of slides. Preparing for exams is close to impossible. Her study guides are useless. If I could give her a rating of 0, I would.

Literally the worst class ever. She is beyond rude, degrading, condescending, any adjective to describe horrible. And she sucks at teaching, her lectures are 50 minutes of stuttering over slides she didn't make and content she doesn't know. She is only here for research and couldn't care less about trying to teach. Dont take if possible, good luck!

Donna Fekete is a completely useless and frankly horrible professor. Having had her for 2 semesters now, I am convinced that you could replace her with a fly and it would have the same competency. Exams are ridiculous. She talks down to her class, refuses to check emails, doesn't make her own powerpoints, and gives 0 effort. Just a waste of tuition

THE TEXTBOOK IS YOUR BEST FRIEND!!!! Don't waste your time watching the lectures- Donna doesn't know anything. Lectures are provided by the textbook company and doesn't have everything you need. If you stay up on textbook readings, you'll do fine in the class. Just don't expect Donna to be of any help, she is the most disrespectful professor here

I have never encountered a more disrespectful and lazy professor in all my 3 years at Purdue. The lectures, which were 40+ slides each, were useless and Donna added no meaningful or helpful material while teaching. A class average of 55% on an exam was blamed on us students when she was the one who wrote the exam. Do not take this course with Donna

First semester I had her i emailed her and she rudely replied to me that I had sent my email to the wrong person. Too lazy to answer my question even though she was the professor of the class. Labs were online, but still had to show up in class for some reason. Lectures were pointless. It didn't matter how much you studied, there was no winning.

Dr. Fekete does not give enough time to fully learn the material before going on because of the sheer amount of content in these classes. The tests are extremely hard and you never really know what is going to be on them. Her lectures are her just reading off the slides. Do not take with her if you can avoid it.

Being a freshman, I was expecting this class to be difficult. I spend countless hours studying and getting help, but it never seems to pay off during the exams. Being new to college I know I don't have the best ways of studying, but this class is very difficult. You don't really know what will be on the test at all.

Frankly she is just rude when addressing students. Doesn't seem to care about student success at all and should just retire if she hates teaching. Terribly crammed lecture slides with no intention to slightly adapt to fight her lectures within a 50 minute period. Course itself is difficult, but doable just didn't have a pleasant experience with her

I was required to take this class, and I love this topic. It was anatomy and physiology which going into nursing, is very important. I started off rough, but i worked very hard. I had a meeting with the prof. and she said i was doing everything right, but my grades werent showing it. She didnt care, and she told me tat i was doing a good job.

Bad prof, bad class. Lots of information. Not lenient at all

I'd say she is the worse professor I've had but I also took a class with Rucha Karve so I think they're competing to be the worst professor at Purdue. Very condescending in every announcement after exams blaming the students for the poor average, not taking responsibility for being a terrible professor.

Impossible. Insane amount of work. Exams do not reflect what you have learned anyway. She is very rude and uncaring. This class is human anatomy, we are not in medical school. The average for an exam was 65% and they said it was all the student's fault, not their's.

I took this class as a freshmen. The material itself is not horribly difficult as its pure memorization, but the sheer sum of material per exam is ridiculous. Its a weed out be prepared to work hard and for that hard work to not pay off. Exams ask the most random and obscure questions instead of broad and conceptual questions.

While I will end up passing this class with an A, I can say that Fekete is one of the worst professors I have ever had. Her lecturing is about as bland as it can get, as she basically reads off of her notes every lecture. Everything I learned in this class I learned from reading the book for hours on end, often at the expense of other grades.

Fekete is hands down one of the worst professors I have had at Purdue. The course is structured terribly and she blames students for low exam scores, despite the fact that this has happened since she started teaching the class. When problems arise, she takes no leadership and has other people respond to emails you send to her. Uncaring and rude.

Dr. Fekete is the worst professor I have had and the only professor I have felt strongly enough to rate here. She was more focused on being respected as a Doctor than teaching students the material. She uses lecture slides straight from McGraw Hill and seems unprepared in lectures. She just reads from her notes. Her communication is condescending.

Worst class I have ever taken. You really have to work for your grade and teach yourself because the lectures do not help.

Donna has no idea what is going on. Her exams were too broad to really dig in and study. Be ready to do hours of reading and lecture watching along with reviewing. Very interesting class though.

This is a weed-out class. Those who are saying she is not that bad are lying to you. She is the only A&P head coordinator at Purdue, so there is no getting out of having her as a professor. You can study for an exam for hours and only know a handful of questions during the exam. Get ready, because this class is HARD!

Ruined anatomy for me. Very clear she thinks very highly of herself and this is a weed out class. Very disappointed Purdue has not fixed the issue. Anatomy should be the basic love of every student in health and human sciences. Instead, this class does the opposite and you do not learn anything.

Worst professor I have ever had. Told me that using my DRC accommodations was "special treatment". She cannot deliver a clear message to save her life. She should have stuck to research.

Professor Fekete was very accommodating and refuses to help students that require special accommodations. When over 75% of the class gets a D or lower, she refuses to give a curve and blames students for not studying enough when she's really just a bad teacher. One of the worst professors I've ever had.

She was absolutely horrible. I suggest taking this class as a second-term freshman or sophomore. Lots of homework barely provides explanations for test materials. Her "study guides" hardly cover anything on the exams. DO NOT HAVE HER AS A TEACHER. My sole reason for being incredibly depressed and was going to drop out after my first semester