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Dr. Cagli is not a bad professor by any means. However, if you are a visual learner you will not find her lectures beneficial. I prefer hand written notes & she does screenshots off the textbook which you also need to read each week. On top of that, mini exams present problems rarely practiced and are 20-30 mins for LONG problems.
She's new but she is fair and good. Pay attention in lectures because the same problems pop up on the exam (just different molecules, numbers). She appreciates students' feedbacks and try incorporating them for future exams. Exams not that hard as long you study. One downside she might give less time on the mini exams tho :( 5 mini exams 1 dropped
shes so nice and caring, but her exams can sometimes be stressful. i really want her to continue teaching here she just needs to adjust to exam time proportions but she has overall been a really accommodating professor in such a short time
Lectures are decent, but she rarely gives examples. All test questions are things she's talked about once for about 5 minutes, and she does not in the slightest give us enough time for tests. I've been teaching myself all the material based on what she has in the lectures which is honestly the only way I can get by.
5 mini exams and 1 dropped. I think exams were fair as they were representative of her lectures. she is so sweet but needs to give more time on exams.
Quite evident this is her first year teaching based on how inconsistent her assignment criteria is. She asks for feedback quite a bit but is reluctant to change. Many had issues with how long her mini-exams take, but instead of making changes she asks US to change the way we take her exams. I'd suggest taking chem w a more experienced professor
Lectures have not been helpful for me at all. She just screenshots portions of the textbook and reads off slides without further explanation. I prefer handwritten notes as they are easier to follow. There are barely any examples in lecture which is no help. Her exams have LONG problems and we only get ~25 mins to finish and then we have lecture.
Keep in mind this was her first quarter teaching ever, however, her lectures are not helpful and jump around alot anything you will learn from YouTube and the textbook. There was no time during the quarter that she actually showed any step-by-step mechanism or in-class example to explain the concept. She is extremely nice and cares about students.
She tries to keep students engaged and asks for our opinions after every test we take (if it seemed fair for us etc.). I agree with other reviews that her lectures are a bit difficult/not going through mechanisms properly/moving too fast on some things. You do have to teach yourself some things/go to workshops, but tbh that may just be ochem.
Organic chemistry is already a tough subject, and this professor's inexperience makes it harder. She rushes through material without explaining mechanisms in depth, expects us to finish exams in a short span of time, and barely curves grades. I recommend choosing a more experienced professor for a better learning experience.
Idk why someone is saying no curve. There was a MASSIVE CURVE! Got an A+ with a 90% in the class. 82% was a B+. Insane curve. mid exams. It's ochem and you need to put some time and effort. Professor did everything to help us succeed. Resources were provided and a lot of questions in final were taken straight from those resources. STUDY PEOPLE.
For her first time teaching, yes there are a lot of flaws. She lectures off of PowerPoints and that can be very unengaging. Exams and final averages are on the lower end, but she is always open to change and makes it up with a really strong curve. She is a very sweet and kind woman and is always trying her very hardest to help us learn.
shes so nice but i didnt really like her lecturing style. she would gloss over examples and for the last few days she crammed a week worth of material. the final was pretty hard, and the exams were doable (some problems ripped from her slides). i would say though she has a pretty generous curve especially for a chemistry class
She did not give enough time for most of the mini exams. She is really sweet and caring. Hwow
Final was awful. Most of the mini exam averages were low. The last few lectures were rushed. She was open to taking feedback. But i personally did not enjoy her style of lecturing. It was not helpful
She is new, very nice, and open to feedback, but prepare to teach yourself everything. Her lectures were basically useless and I found myself learning everything on Youtube and from the textbook. Her tests were very fair but often short on time. I think she will become a better teacher but currently is not great, but the overall class was ok.
She is a very nice lady who was open to feedback, especially towards the end. 5 mini exams, lowest one gets dropped, we didn't really have a lot of time for the first 2 considering the amount of questions. Very test heavy with the mini exams every other week and weekly discussion quizzes. Final was ROUGH for everyone I heard but curve was generous.
As a repeater, I enjoyed Cagli. The pacing was something that wasn't her choice, and I think she did the best she could. Exams were fair, and she was very open to feedback. I appreciated how she tried to explain topics from multiple perspectives. I just wish we had smaller, more frequent HW with multiple attempts, and 3 MTs instead of 5
She's kind, caring, and always willing to help during office hours. She's honest about the difficulty of the material and gives clear guidance on how to approach problems. She communicates what to expect on exams and truly wants her students to succeed. I'd take her for the entire CHE 118 series if I could. Her TAs were also really helpful!
Sweetest, most empathetic woman I've ever met. Treats students as her equals and encourages us to ask her for advice beyond chemistry. So eager to help everyone, her vibrancy and charisma in the lecture hall is so refreshing. I've never been more excited to come to class, I've been doing better in 118B than I was in 118A.
She makes us take assumptions during tests without ever teaching or specifying, and when asked about it, gets extremely defensive. When the class bombed a midterm her response was "I was able to do it in half the time whats your excuse?" She just seems out of touch.
She is a very nice professor, but fails in every other sense. Her lectures are poorly constructed and don't convey material that will be tested. She has no sense of urgency to teach material at a decent pace that week, at which point she crams as much as she can in, leaving students scrambling. Edas TAs have taught students more than she has.
Not a competent professor, often gets things wrong in lecture, and does not give students all the information that they need. Her tests are not reflective of what majority of lectures are about. Many test questions are written poorly, where she asks a vague question but wants specific answers that could not be interpreted from the question itself.
This professor is new but works hard. She takes criticism to heart. However students get their ego hurt when their academically challenging major is academically challenging. It is ok to struggle in a class this hard. I may disagree with some of her grading calls, but I'm not flabbergasted by them.
Tough grader and does not respond well to feedback.
Eda Cagli is very kind. She always tries her best to input students feedback and stays after lecture for another half hour to help us with any other questions. She gave me advice on how to study and helped my grade go up. Please be kind to her in return! Her lectures are clear and understandable. Go to co-class if you need more help understanding.
Very nice professor. Lecture slides are prepared and annotated slides are posted. Very caring and wants her students to do well. For the first couple midterms the class average was low so she shortened the last midterm and the average went up. Overall, very good professor. However, to do well in the class PRACTICE! Don't rely only on lectures.
She does not respond to feedback or questions outside of class or OH. Her exams have consistently been very low with no curve, and she adds questions that we haven't learned. Tests are also written very poorly, with important information missing. There is almost no partial credit given. I had to fight to keep my accommodations. Do not take!
She didn't like our ratings and is not giving us a practice final exam. Not very nice.
Dr. Cagli is a very caring professor. She is very receptive towards students' feedback and she always sends out encouraging messages after each exam, which is very motivating! I don't prefer the presentation slides method of teaching, but her explanations/drawings of the mechanisms are very helpful. The midterm reviews are also good for studying.
Very poor professor. Many people rate her highly because of her kindness, but overall, she is not a good teacher. She doesn't respond well to feedback or write fair exam questions. I would avoid taking her if possible. Even if you attend lectures, most of it does not help, and you will be self-teaching.
I had Dr. Cagli for both 118A and B. Last quarter was her first quarter teaching and she has improved so much. She has worked hard to fix the layout of her class to support students with more resources. She is great at taking criticism and she genuinely cares about the students in her class. An A or B grade is definitely achievable in this class!
ABSOLUTE WORST CLASS I'VE EVER TAKEN! Made me want to switch school or drop out. She hasn't given any information on a curve, her grading criteria is absolute bs and we don't even know about the criteria before the exam. Every part of the class and all exams were missing information, and shell tell you things to consider before the exam starts. SMH
Some might disagree, but I feel like she gave very clear explanations. She always made sure to encourage and answer student questions. The class material itself was difficult, but I was able to follow along and understand what she was teaching.
No clear grading expectations, doesn't teach well, basically relying on Co-Class however, Cagli likes ot disagree with how things are taught especially mechanism wise so you have to learn her way. Very unorganized had LA and TA's provide all the studying material that had so many mistakes in the key didn't do anything to help students succeed.
She's a decent lecturer/teacher but this class was a disaster year it came to organization. Unclear grading expectations, answer keys with wrong answers and little communication. The head TA was a godsend through, but still this class was a chaotic mess.
The entire class was graded on three midterms (1 got dropped) and a final. Never once had a practice exam that didn't have mistakes. The final consisted of mechanisms that were either not covered or shown to us 2 days before the final in the last 5 minutes of class. Dont take this professor unless you wanna teach yourself and leave the exams crying
As a person, she's really sweet, but as a professor.. She asks for feedback after every exam and then completely disregards it and makes the following exams even harder. Exams are long, with not nearly enough time to complete them, along with including things she rushed over or I've things honestly never seen before.
The exams are way more difficult than anything we do in class with a huge time strain and material that was never covered. She claims to give partial but doesn't, and wants feedback but when students said the practice exams were nothing like the actual exams she considered taking away the practice instead of giving us accurate practice problems.
She is a very sweet and kind woman, but not a great professor in terms of managing the class. I did not find much problem with her teaching, but how she handles writing the exam and feedback is problematic. Practice exams and problems have typos, and she is also very unclear on what is going to be on the exam. She also does not take feedback well
Many might disagree but she gave a lot of hints before exams. Review sessions were designed to tell us what to study. She even dedicated last lecture to focus on reviewing and told us that last bit taught is not gonna be tested on. She is nice and considerate. People just didn't get her hints or chose not to study. It's o chem guys. please study
I know a lot of people who would disagree, but for her first time teaching this class, she did a good job. Ochem is challenging and requires work regardless of the prof. If you practice a lot, pay close attention to her hints, and go to the review sessions, the exams are fair. She takes feedback seriously and tries her best to improve.
Honestly she's not as bad as everyone says she is. She explains things pretty simply so that I could understand but lowk the exams are hard. 3 midterms and 1 is dropped. I had no clue how to do the final tho. Not the worst professor, she's so sweet but dayum that final cooked me.
I took Dr. Cagli for 118A last quarter and she has definitely improved. I understood her lectures more throughout 118B. However, I do agree that when it came to the newer content on the final, many mechs were rushed through and we did not get any thorough practice time. The final was rlly rough :o
Lectures off slides. Hand written notes preferred.She lets you make up quizzes if you missed them, during her office hours. Her accent is hard to understand at times and more time on quizzes is needed in order to be able to finish the quiz. Lowest quiz dropped out of 5.Overall, nice person but she just needs more experience as a prof bc she is new.
Avoid her if possible. She refused to make a practice exam for the final and everything she does is very rushed and disorganized. Her exams are always way harder than anything she shows in lecture and she can be misleading. Grading is 3 Midterms 50% drops lowest, final 35% and lab 15%. Prof Lievens and Helix clear 100%
get ready to teach yourself because she can be very vague during lectures and rushes A LOT. drops the lowest midterm so that's good and her curve for 118a was huge with a C being ~50% since her averages are low. final was extremely harsh too
Overall I enjoyed this class and thought that the midterms as a whole were reflective of material taught and were overall fair. Kind professor who does her best to make lectures engaging and is enthusiastic and passionate about organic chemistry. Final exam however felt horrendous and mechanisms/synthesis questions on it weren't taught well/rushed
does she gives hints to the final? yes, but on the actual exam they are so poorly executed that those hints dont even matter. She may be a new teacher, but she is not receptive to feedback at all. Every studying/testing experience has been a nightmare. she may be nice, but she is NOT a good professor at all.
Cagli was an angel! I loved her class so much and I really shaw her passion when teaching. I'll miss her :DDD
only reason why i got a good grade in the class was because i religiously went to my ta's office hours. professor is an awful lecturer and tests on material that we never learned in class and is extremely difficult. rushed through last parts of lecture because she would go too slow at the beginning and doesn't actually teach only reads slides
The lectures felt extremely rushed, making it difficult to absorb the material effectively. The midterm and final exams were poorly worded, and exam questions were often confusing and unclear, which made it hard to demonstrate actual understanding of the content.
It was Prof Cagli's first year teaching and she did a great job for the little time she was here. Lectures could be fast paced, but at least they made sense for the amount of material needed to be covered. The review sessions were helpful and she was very approachable to ask questions or talk to in general. Exams are fair with a cheat sheet.
This professor believes practice exams, review, and office hours are something sacrificed from personal time. Also, do not call the final average of 55 good. Some problems in the final were not even from this course. Quoting her: A little empathy and appreciation for that effort would go a long way. WHAT EFFORT???
i think she was good. gave a lot of hints what will be on the exams. teaching could have been better but she had already improved a lot since 118a. I would have taken her again if she taught it because of her and her TA giving hints about the exam. Liked her as a person tho she is very caring.
Hilariously bad. TERRIBLEEEE. NEVER TAKE HER SHE WANTS TO SEE STUDENTS FAIL!!!!
Other students and universities beware EDA is not a good teacher; she should not be as condescending as she. The tests were not reflective of the material shown in lecture; she has no clue what she's doing, and it shows. Can't say I learned a thing from her. The TAs would be better professors than her, even tho they're grad students.
Eda taught well most of the time and her lectures were easy to follow. The review sessions offered by the TAs went over every mechanism/concept necessary for the exams. the final review session covered 90% of the content that appeared on the final exam. Overall, eda gave us many opportunities to earn a good grade u just need to practice lots
Where do I begin? The fact that the final included stuff beyond the scope of our class. The fact that she neglected obvious mistakes on her midterm. The fact that she'll put an easy example in class and make the test far harder than that example. Or how condescending she is to students that find the class difficult. Absolutely awful professor.
mediocre. bottom-tier even.
below-average is the best way to describe her. some raters are way too over dramatic, but others are way too forgiving for how bad she was. she's not a 1/5 but she's also probably not a 3/5 or higher. just the very epitome of below-average.
Dr. Çagli is the most caring instructor I have had in college. She wants to see her students understand the material. I truly do believe if you put in the work for her class you will do well. Albeit tough examinations and some curveballs, she curved very generously at the end of the quarter. I wish she could stay at Davis. We're losing a gem.
She was overall a nice lady but got snarky towards the end after she read her RMP. Her lectures got better as the quarter went on. Main issue was questions on exams were inconsistent in terms of wording and what she answers wanted. She tested on some 118C topics on the final and without the head TA no one would've known how to do them.
Practice exams were disorganized with erroneous answer keys. Review sessions taught the material wrong. I copied a mechanism straight from the review onto an exam and got 0%. I had to fight for every single point. I regrade requested 10% of my exam back, every exam. Exams graded inconsistently. Some lost points for things others wouldn't.DONT TAKE.
Nice lady, big curve and likes to see her students succeed. people complain too much. They need to take classes from nasiri or mascal and then only will realize how less challenging cagli was. People need to be more grateful to her. She is very knowledgeable and often tells us what to focus on for exams. Many people didn't pay attention i guess..
Class was really hard but cagli helped by telling us what we should mainly focus on. Head TA was goated too. He covered a lot of things that were on the exam. Bless Sarah too for her review sessions. I feel like everything to focus on was just given to us all the time as it was right there in reveiw sessions.
I did well in her class but still had a very negative experience. Her practice problems were poorly reviewed, and exam grading was inconsistent. Many students could have succeeded with simple improvements, but she dismissed constructive feedback and refused to make changes. Taking her class was an agonizing life event, would NOT recommend.
I don't know why a bunch of the reviews on here are lying about Eda. At first I thought she was a nice professors because she was new to Davis and it was her first time teaching CHE118B. BUT NO! she was so harsh on grading, no partial credit, did not take criticism well. CURVE was nonexistent, and thought "curve" was fair to everyone but in factnot
Test were super hard, tested on 118C materials. Does not give partial credit, super harsh & strict grader. Her test averages were 50,60,and 80%. She kept on asking us why it was so low, but her problems were hard, or there was too much to do in 50 minutes. Keeps on changing the format of the tests. Awful prof, I have to retake this class b/c of her
OMG. thats all you need to know about her. awful do not take her, I promise you will be wasting your time taking any class with her. Ignore all the other reviews that you see, this is your sign to run away now and not waste your time and effort in her class. She does not care about the time that she is wasting of her students, espec med students.
Look at the reviews released on today and see how many of them are D+. Many of these were a C- last night. She "put the cut-offs so no one was on a cusp"; I would like to know her definition of a cusp, as I know of at least two people who have a grade within 1% of a C-. She became so spiteful, and I feel like that was reflected in the .10% curve.
With the realization that Ochem is hard that is why most people dislike it. Cagli was a good teacher compared to other teachers I had who didn't respect the students, and would just ignore them, even if they had questions. So I don't think she deserves a low rating, I had fun learning this material, and the TA's were also the best I've had.
If there is any other option available, I would not choose this nightmare. When it comes to learning and especially such an important course as ochem, I dont care about her personality but the effectiveness and accessibility the lecture is delivered, for this reason, she failed to do so to an extent that the rating doesnt work w/ no -pt. chunshabi.
Until the last couple weeks, Cagli was my favorite chem prof and my grades were fine. The final was a disaster: the average was 55%, which I attribute to two things: we rushed through the last few lectures, and the final included topics outside of the scope of the class. Also, the curve was disappointing and didn't improve my letter grade.
Decent professor but the final and midterms had a decent amount of material that was not covered during the lecture.
She is a new professor. decent lecturer but has the tendency to make a few mistakes. Her practice exams have a lot of typos in it, but studying was doable using outside resources like aatc. Her exams are moderate difficulty, with one or two questions being worded weirdly. final was very hefty. she tends to test us on things learned last minute.
I did not enjoy my time this quarter. Cagli was unclear with expectations until the whole class failed the first exam, and even then, it was hard to get a straight answer from her. She does not offer any partial credit on exams, and it was detrimental to my grade. Everyone says Lievens is hard, but Cagli puts it to shame. Do not take this class.
i thought she was a nice lady at first but near the end of the quarter she was kinda errrr. the exams are difficult and the final was soo hard. she's okay at teaching the material (better than farahat i dare say). there was a curve but it wasn't even that good. and i can't even retake the class bc i got a c- ugh.
I dislike when teachers blame students rather than attributing their own teaching style. Her curve helped a lot of the higher grades rather than lower grades. Neo, her TA, was great, but both covered material that we never learned in class and expected us to know it for the final.
I was not going to post a review, because Im a traumatized by her. But seriously look at all the bad reviews, that was posted about her class, they all have a high amount dislikes (its most likely her disliking it) because some of the my friends had figure some of the nicer reviewers were left by her. Like seriously look.
Some the nicer reviews does not seem like we took the same prof. Like I went to every single lecture + OHs and I was still so confused every time that I left that room. Strict grader, no partial credit, has high expectations, wants us to start studying for midterms in week advance (during the quarter with other classes). RUN AWAY
Everyone thought her "curve" would be really nice and generous like how she had for 118A but no, there was barely anything. So like the other review had said, it had only helped the individuals with higher grades than those who had a lower grade. Which isn't fair at all. Head TA also sent out a really mean and snarky message. AWFUL.
I think the hate is unwarranted. Her lectures are easy to follow, she draws every mechanism out so you know EXACTLY how each mechanism works step by step. Her tests are difficult but ochem in general is difficult. Her tests were similar to helix's exams and her averages were also similar, if anything her curve is more generous.
While lectures seemed fine and organized exams were always a wild card. Bad midterms and absolutely terrible final. Curve was not good.
Wasn't the best at teaching/lectures but that's not a big issue. The biggest issue is her exams were way too long for the 50 min allotted time. When told this, she dismissed students saying they should be better prepared and should study harder, basically blaming us instead of hearing us out. Final was DIABOLICAL. I do not suggest taking her.
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