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VERY organized.Notes are clear.Course was too rushed!
like reading the text book, without all the reading
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she is mad good... best chem teacher i ever had...
Excellent Professor! She is friendly, and incredibly intelligent. Be aware that her exams come straight from her notes. So if you miss class, try hard to get a copy of the notes.
Holy ****..... this **** is good. I'm a dumbass and I.. yes I.. got an A!! She's a hottie too... check her out.
runs a tight ship, but is very friendly and helpful. lectures are clear & straightforward - very good teacher. goes above & beyond the call of duty.
Excellent teacher that will be available to answer questions and doesn't try to trick anyone. You actually leave lecture being taught everything your supposed to know.
Notes are clear and organized.. Willing to help students.. One of a few good ones in RU chem department!!!
great teacher, by far my favorite at rutgers. comes off a little harsh if you don't know her, but once you do you won't find a more helpful or professional teacher.
Orgo 308 as well as lab 311 are tough courses, but if u have Govindarajoo to help u out, then life becomes a little easier. Rarely will you ever find a great professor, who is so nice & helpful, & answers your e-mails immediately & can meet w/ u anytime!
She is very efficient, helpful and very organized. I don't know how I would havegone through Orgo and Orgo Lab without her help. She should be teaching Orgo every semester.
This teacher is pretty nice. Her notes are very clear and organized. Most of her questions come from notes. U have to work hard though to get an A. Her curve for an A was 80% not bad.
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Dr. Rajoo is awesome -- nice, helpful, organized and no bs. Really nice to look at, too ;)
this prof is one of the best at RU...VERY organized, clear in explaining and helping students understand material, and writes very neatly...helped A LOT for exams...makes organic chem understandable, though considered to be hard-core material...A+++++++++
yo best of the three orgo teachers when it comes to teaching. her review is very helpful if you did the problems in advance she has helpful handouts and her lecture is very clear. just read the book and you'll be fine.
shes a really great teacher- makes things a LOT clearer!
Heck, if you have her notes, you don't even need to read the book. Every proffessor should be like her.
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She is a wonderful teacher. She makes everything understandable. The exams were very hard, but I did well thanks to her. She knows her material well, and knows how to explain things in a way that students can understand.
needless to say...she's an excellent teacher! Although she just get aggitated easily, she is very helpful and very clear. She makes orgo very understandable.If you can, take orgo with her or the 2nd best..O'connor
She's a great professor...she gives clear notes and goes through them. Take her for orgo! Too bad she won't be teaching next sem. (spring '05) since she's having a baby...but if she's teaching when u're taking it...TAKE HER!!! (3 exclamation points means that she's REALLY good...lol)
She's great, gets a little mad if you ask questions but she's awesome. Challanging class, but read book before lecture and she'll make it stick with you. Very clear, helpful, and organized. Moves by fast. class is time consuming, if you want an A. TIME and EFFORT. Rajoo is awesome
Good professor. Her notes are clear...she takes them straight from the text book but she goes through them so her lectures are very helpful. Gets mad if you ask questions. At her office hrs, if you don't understand what she explains right away, gets mad. If you stay on her good side, she's fine.
I actually enjoyed her lectures! She made the material clear.. after her lectures, if you read the section and do the problems, you will get an A in the class..and on the weekends, do the HW problems that you covered that week..also, do practice exams..i did 2..ended up with an A :)
Will be the best organic chemistry professor you've ever had as long as you're willing to work for it.
listen. if you really like taking notes, go to her class, and wear your hand out. otherwise, just go to pat o'connor's lectures, and save yourself a headache. she's not helpful, and unclear. exams are standardized, so it doesn't matter which lecturer's lectures you go to.
Uch such a mistake. I don't know where the ratings come from but I cant catch a break. My mistake was not switching to o'conner... I cant tell for certain but maybe uhrich might be better. Damn near impossible...Good luck
Excellent and very clear instruction. Tests were fair and easy, provided that one completed the homework and studied for a reasonable amount of time. The curve is almost as tough as the curves at Cornell, but the less-intense competition means that an A is in reach of those who desire it.
Extremely clear teaching style. Gives good notes to review off of later. However, you MUST read the book & do chapter problems to do well in her class. Do not rely solely on her notes. If you read the chapter & do EVERY SINGLE problem she assigns- you will definitely get atleast a B.
She is clear on what you need to know. The exams are straightforward and she provides plenty of resources. I got an A.
Great Lecturer, its too many notes but its not bad if you bring her outline. She pretty much tells you what will be on the quizes, so you cant dose off. If you pay attention and take notes, you should be fine. And of course a lot of people find her hard cause THIS IS CHEMISTRY, its not theater appreciation...
She gives you a lot of notes both online and in lecture, and it seems like there's so much information. But she's simply giving you everything you need to know for the quizzes, labs and tests. Very straightforward lectures. She doesn't smile a lot; she's a serious person. But just read and do everything and you'll be just fine.
She is very clear in her teaching. Questions in class are answered. shes helpful most after class and in office hours. very nice during office hours. gives all the notes we need for exams. made me like chem more than ever.
ditto to the comment below this one. Very helpful, very happy, very enthusiastic, very good.
Great teacher, but I still could not pass O. Chem II for the life of me.
Shes a very efficient lecturer. She goes thrue the book page by page pulling out exactly what you need to know and is also very willing to re explain things. You def have to read the book on the parts that are harder to understand.
great teacher...puts up notes on projector. you need to attend class to do well and make sure to read the chapters! good teacehr, quite helpful if youre polite
She is very efficient as a teacher. She writes everything on the projector and helps you during her office hours. She tells you what you need to know for the exam. She gives you little hints as to if a certain type of question will come on the exam and it does come. She is kind and helpful.
I failed orgo during the fall with Boikess cause he was the worste teacher ever,then I took the summer course with her and was amazed at how orgo is not really difficult at all as long as the teacher is top notch,and dr. rajoo sure was excellent in every sense of the word.I highly recomend taking 307 w/ her and no one else. Awesome curve at theend
As a Orgo Lab Lecturer, her lectures were fine; however, her weekly lab quizzes (and the lab final) were EXTREMELY difficult.
she was awesome. she paced the class by writing the notes down herself, as opposed to siegel -- who goes by his slides really fast. i highly recommend govindarajoo.
Very clear explanations, many good examples. Helped us prepare for exams pretty well.
she was awesome. very helpful. if you pay attentino to her notes and her examples, you will do fine on exams. she even tells you what problems and concepts are most likely to be on exams. so show up to class, pay attention, and take notes. and you will do fine. those who do poorly in this class are those who do not take notes and do not pay attn
This class is so fing hard. It's not her fault though... dr. Sigeal writes the test. THIS IS ONE OF THE HARDEST CLASSES AT RUTGERS! Do not take if you don't have to. The only ppl that know what they are doing are ppl that took AP Chem in high school :(
I love her. She is such an amazing teacher. She makes everything clear. I never asked a question in class, because she doesn't like it. She can give attitude. She made chemistry so interesting for me. I actually didn't mind studying for it, because the way she taught it was so amazing. I didn't chcek my grade yet, but either way, she's great.
Very straightforward teacher but suuuuuuuuch a beeyotch.
Pointless time wasting class. You go to lecture to copy notes from a powerpoint for an hour. Then spend 2 hours or so on the lab hw which is basically 2 hours of straight copying from the book. Maybe my rating is biased because i have full load of class and pointless busy work classes bug the **** out of me but i hate orgo lab.
She is one of the better chem teachers. She probably is the besT!! but the thing is that chemistry is hard as hell that it doesnt matter if the teacher is good or not. its about if you show interest in teh course
Lectures are clear to the point where reading the textbook isn't necessary. Do homework problems repeatedly until you don't get any wrong and you'll be fine on exams/quizzes (it got me an A). She can have a bit of an attitude, but seems approachable for the most part--I never asked a question for fear of her eye roll.
THE BEST PROFESSOR!!!! honestly she has been the best professor i have taken class with so far in my college experience....if you haven't taken her i believe you should.... i won't say the class is easy, no you have to work hard but having her as the teacher makes the course more interesting...
Professor Rajoo is the best Chemistry professor at Rutgers. Thanks to her I actually passed Chemistry the 2nd time around! Writes out everything for you, take notes in class and do practice problems and you'll do ok. Chemistry is difficult regardless, but her class can go far.
Sooo much information. It's not even that hard. It's just...scattered...everywhere. Textbook to handouts to lecture notes to extra notes. You're desk will be cluttered as you try to do the homework. Also, too much work for a 2 credit class. You spend 4 or 5 hours a week in lecture and lab and a few more hours doing hw. not that hard, just alot.
I did not like her "teaching" style.You just spend an hour copying her powerpoint that she could easily post.The course is also not very organized and there is info in several places that you are accountable for.The material itself is easy, it is basically just busy work. The class is very annoying and a waste of time.I got an A and learned nothing
I took her over the Summer Session. Probably the best professor I have ever had in my life. Extremely professional, very clear explanations. You won?t fall asleep in her class (get distracted for a second and your lost). But she made Orgo possible (I got an A). Watch out for hard tests. Do EVERYTHING she tell you to do!!
She's awesome!! her notes are very helpful in clarifying what's in the book. In addition, she's willing to do anything in order to help students out. i repeated organic chemistry with her, and found her much better that boikess, roth, or o'conner. she really should head the organic chemistry department.
The recitation is completely useless. It is 55 minutes (I cant remember ever getting out early) of copying her PPT verbatim. The class overall is terrible; having to compete with students who have copies of the last three years of labs and continually convincing yourself that academic integrity matters is aweful. Minimal but honest effort= B+ grade
I think the notes she give kinda of help. But I don't like the way she teach--use transparency. Because she always try to explain stuff while she's writing so people will more concentrate on the what she wrote instead of what she said.
Her lectures and notes were presented very clearly and wrote notes via overhead. A lot better than slides. Probably the best intro to chem prof.
Dr. Rajoo is a great professor, especially compared to the others in the chemistry department! If you're lucky to have her for class and recitation, she teaches you the chemistry material very well and goes over questions you have. Overall, she was very approuchable and helpful!
She's not that bad of a teacher. Like the last reviewer, I hate copying notes on the overhead. It's very distracting. I wish she would upload her notes on a slide or something instead. She goes straight from the book though, so I just highlight whatever she's talking about and anything extra I write in the margins. :D
She's one of the best chemistry lecturers. She does each problem step by step on her transparencies. You must read the textbook before you go to class or else you'll be extremely confused. Rajoo is extremely professional and efficient; she never goes on tangents. Great Chem 1 lecturer.
I dont know what the big hype is with Dr. Rajoo. All she does in lecture is put the notes exactly from the book onto a projector screen and goes through the problems which can be found in the solutions manuel anyways. She's good because she is REALLY helpful if you go to her office hours.
Pointless time wasting class. You go to lecture to copy notes from a powerpoint for an hour. Then spend 2 hours or so on the lab hw.
I love her! She is an amazing professor, who is always willing to help. She's one of the chem department's kindest professors. Dr. Rajoo really knows her chemistry! I wish I could take her for chem 162 but unfortunately she doesn't teach it =(
Considering 1/3 of the class failed, she may be tough. BUT she is really helpful, and her lectures couildn't be clearer. Honestly Boikes and all the other orgo prof should learn from her, she taught the material well, the rest is up to you. PRACTICE IS KEY and GO TO LECTURE. i got a B+ in the class..not too bad if you put in the effort
I took orgo 307 with her during the summer. I failed the first time around with boikes but got a B+ with her. She teaches the material very clearly and I would definitely recommend her. her notes are amazing as well
Take her for orgo over the summer. The first time I took orgo I got a D because the professors were so horrible at teaching. But she teaches in a clear, concise way and all you have to do is study for her notes (I studied the day b4) before the exams and you'll do great. She writes up everything on the overhead projector so no boring powerpoints.
She is a nice great teacher, take her for chem 161 if you can
She was an amazing professor. I hated chem before I got to her class, and now im considering changing my minor to chemistry.
Not particularly hard class, easier than the 307/308 lecture courses, but still need to put a lot of time into the class per week to get a good grade. I think its easy to get a B but to get an A you need to prepare for hard quizzes and study alot for the final exam. She is a very good lectuer,but the class is highly dependent on the TA
Awesome lecturer! If you're more of a notetaker/listener she's definitely the best to take! Makes sure you understand thoroughly everything you need to know for the exams and writes her notes as she goes along. She usually warns when a lecture quiz is coming up, which is nice. Don't take her lightly though, she can be a tough cookie yet very fair!
She could make life so much easier by posting her lecture notes. Class is supposed to be 55 minutes, but she always runs over to at least 60 minutes. Between the book, the handouts, the extra notes, and her lecture notes, she makes things way more complicated than they have to be. The lab reports are very annoying and tedious. Hated this class.
Makes you come to class to copy notes when she could just as easily post them online and save everyone time. This makes the course unnecessarily painful. She knows no one would come to her lectures if she did that, perhaps she is lonely.
Class was once easy, now its pretty tough. Weekly quizzes are hard, lab reports are long and annoying to write, overall I found this class to be one of the most useless classes I have ever taken in college. Complete waste of time but if your a science major you have to take it unfortunately.
She is a great teacher. The only problem is that those quizzes are extremely hard! Therefore, you are stressing really hard the entire time if your target is that A. Even with all that studying you are only running a B! I wish this class would be a bit easier, this way I would enjoy studying for orgo, rather than just for the grade...
She writes all of her notes on the overhead, which for me was very helpful. She dislikes it when people ask questions, especially dumb ones. But a great professor overall
She's awesome and very helpful. She answers all questions and writes her notes.She is the best!!!
One of the few Rutgers sciences courses where your effort is the pure determinant of your grade. Give it your all and get 90% of the total points and you'll get an A. Quizzes and final exam EXTREMELY straightforward. Got an A by keeping up, putting all my effort into lab reports, and studying from the manual and notes for quizzes and exams
Dr. Rajoo is very fair. She writes her notes on the overhead but she goes through all the material really well. She has good examples and explains all the concepts so you understand them. She is a great professor (one of the best gen chem instructors!) and almost all her students do really well!
Great professor - actually writes out her notes during lecture, notes are clear, teaching very straightforward, and extremely helpful! Thanks to her, Gen Chem was a breeze!
She is such a great professor! Her notes are clear and easy to understand. If you have the option, definitely take her as your professor. Chemistry is a difficult class, but she really helps you understand it!
She is an amazing professors. Her notes are precise and she is always willimg to help. Go to her office hours!
Just recently took her over the summer. She was great. Everything she wanted you to know was in the notes. Go to class so that you can take her notes down word for word. You'll need them. Dont underestimate the quizzes. They're a little challenging. I put in a lot of hard work and got a B+. I was satisfied.
Had her for orgo 1 in summer- she's a very good professor.Quite strict and a control freak, but if u take orgo,she's definitely the prof u need. writes notes very clearly in class and they are very helpful.her exams and quizzes are tough, but coming out of her class and doing well, i feel like i learned a lot with her! TAKE HER!
Unorganized lecture. Very bad lecture slides and the way she makes us take notes is annoying. Lab was very annoying and especially the prelabs and the postlabs. Quizzes were ridiculous. TAs didnt really feel like answering my questions and would get annoyed if I stayed for the duration of the lab to ask about concepts and problems.
She's really clear and stays on top of things in class. All of the questions on the test are covered in class. There are four exams including the final. Chem in general is very difficult but I feel like she makes it a lot better. I highly recommend her!
She is a great professor and her lectures are very clear and understandable. Her notes are remarkable! Chemistry, as we all know is a hard class either way, but she takes her time in explaining the information. I know many people who ditched their lectures to go to her's. I rarely even opened the textbook because her notes were simply amazing.
She's a great professor much better than a lot of the other chemistry professors. Chemistry is extremely difficult but she is a very good lecturer and is very clear. You must must must do all the practice problems in order to succeed and go for your TAs or her office hours for help.
Incompetent. Lectures are just fill in the blank sessions for handouts. She does not teach, but rather tells you the information to look up. Gives multiple handouts and sets of instructions for one lab, adding unnecessary confusion. She demands immense work to get an A, yet cannot put together a coherent (or properly timed) lecture or lab handout.
Had her for the summer. Failed orgo the first time, so I thought orgo was impossible. Took the class with her and WHAT A DIFFERENCE. She only teaches you what you need to know. She's very clear, and her exams and quizzes are very fair. If you need to take orgo, TAKE IT WITH HER. Never really use the textbook except as a reference for diagrams.
I took orgo with her for the first time over this summer and I don't regret my choice. If your keep up with the lectures and review every problem she's given you (especially the ones in her final review) you'll end up with an A! Very recommended.
Crystal-clear teaching with no b.s. She says the textbook is useless and she teaches only the important stuff. While she doesn't use powerpoint, this is actually better since it makes you wake your sleepy-ass up and pay attention. Yes the lecture is almost 2 hours long, but she ACTUALLY teaches. Fantastic teacher. Don't take orgo with anyone else.
Terrible teaching style. Simply writes notes before hand and copies them onto an overhead. DOES NOT give any extra practice worksheets to do
I really liked her! Very clear and I def used the textbook to reference her notes!
Has the best teaching style I've come across. Clear, concise, encouraging, and incredibly intelligent. Must go to her lectures, very helpful. She explains everything very clearly. Anyone can understand the concepts with her method of presentation. I found myself so into her lectures, that class time fly by very quickly. Really highly recommend.
Great teacher, great notes, extremely clear
AMAZING. Her notes are so helpful and clear, perfect for someone like me who has never understood chem. She was very helpful after class and gives clear explanations. She can be a bit intimidating during lecture, but she is really so easy to talk to (considering I'm shy). Bottom line, TAKE HER CLASS.
Her notes are absolutely ridiculous because she makes you fill everything in. She is a very mean person to encounter and is not willing to help students. This 2 credit class is so unnecessarily time consuming its mind blowing. Did not learn one useful thing to take with me out of this experience.
The quizzes have nothing to do with what we learned in lecture and her notes are just unnecessary. She expects so much to be done, and assigns ridiculous assignments. She is unwilling to help, and is a very rude person to encounter.
Extremely helpful professor as in gives crystal clear notes and drops many hints as to what kinda questions vl be on exms. Fair grader and she is very approachable too. It's just her disciplined personality that scares ppl but she genuinely helps ppl. FOLLOW HER ADVICE TO THE NAIL AND YOU WILL GET AN A.
Lectures can be difficult to follow since she leaves blanks for everyone to fill out. It's a lot of writing, and you should attend lecture if you want to pass. Overall, she is an extremely fair grader. Everything you need to know is in her notes or the book. She instructs her TA's to pay attention to specific wording, so it's easy to lose points.
She's a great teacher. She's very clear and it's easy to take notes
She's awesome. I hated chemistry going into college and she made it very enjoyable. She gives excellent notes and doesn't go too fast, which is important. Dr. Rajoo cares about every one of her students and explains everything with multiple examples. I wish she taught gen chem 2!
Her notes are all over the place and she makes this class so much more pointless and confusing than it needs to be -___-
My gosh this class is an overload for 2 credits. So many notes and other resources to keep track of during the weeks, and they accumulate quickly. You need a high level of organization to do well in this class. Nice professor overall, but she really makes you work hard for that A!
Govindarajoo is my favorite chemistry professor. She writes her lecture notes by hand during lecture, so it's super easy to follow along and try the problems out while she's doing them. You either love her teaching style or you hate it, but I think it's great.
ANNOYING amount of work for a Lab course. Notes are unclear, all over the place, no organization. It's just a bunch of busy-work. If you're a science major with more important classes this is going to be seriously annoying to take with all the other classes you might be taking
For organic chem lab the amount of pre-lab work and post-lab work that needs to get done is by far too much. The quizzes do not test you on your ability to do well in the actual lab, you can do horrible on the quiz but still be able to do your lab very well. This class is too time consuming and yet i did not learn anything.
hollllygod, she's horrible. the amount of work and time needed to be put into this class is horrendous for a 2 credit class, it literally feels like a 5 credit class. If your taking it with orgo 2 andor other hard classes, its going to suck so much. good luck, theirs basically no curve.
Govindarajoo is an amazing lecturer and savior. She actually made Orgo bearable. However, to get a good grade you still have to work hard in this class by studying her notes, handouts, old exams, and textbook and doing the end of chapter problems and her problem sets. Unlike Boikess, her quizzes and exams are also fair.
Even though Govindarajoo may be a decent lecturer, her exams (especially Exam 2) are harder compared to the previous years' exams, practice problems, and quizzes. Most of the questions on Exam 2 are too difficult to even attempt.
The lectures given are pretty clear however she gives a basic idea of the concept but the quizzes & exams turn out to be incredibly difficult. Do not take this class during the summer unless you have previously taken it before. She doesn't skip anything. Crams everything in within a day and expects you to be tested on it the following day.
she is a fair but difficult teacher. the summer moves fast so you have to stay on top of it. its very demanding but her exams and quizzes while difficult are extremely fair. do all practice exams over and over again and attend all review sessions and office hours. i took it for the 1st time in the summer and got a B. a lot of work but i was happy
She is the best gen chem prof at rutgers by far
Does notes by hand which you love or hate, I found it difficult to follow along. If you have a good foundation in chemistry going into her class it wont be as tough, but if you have only a basic understanding it is very hard to do well in her class.
Man orgo lab with her has been tougher than when I actually took orgo with Oconnor. She has SO many expectations, and there are SO many different resources. VERY unorganized class, and way too demanding. Literally a 2 credit course that feels like 5 credits because of the amount of work given.
Ridiculous amount of expectations and a very big time commitment for a 2 credit class. Weekly quizzes, prelab and postlab assignments, library assignment, online questions, and a cumulative final exam. Her lecture notes are not very structured. It never seems to end with this class.
Professor Govindarajoo is a very knowledgeable professor. She is an enthusiastic lecturer that handwrites her lectures so that students can copy it easily. She stops and explains further if needed. CHEM 1 is easy long as you do the hw, read the textbook and actually try to understand the material NOT JUST COPY IT! First time I ever understood Chem!
Dr. Govindarajoo is really a great teacher. Although lectures definitely get boring from time to time, she tells you everything you should know in preparation for exams. Not very enthusiastic or a dynamic speaker, but she makes things as simple as possible and works through problems during lecture. I'd take her class if she taught 162.
She's is probably the most helpful and most clear professor out there, so if you have her for gen chem or orgo, you're lucky! She prefers you don't ask questions during lecture because she wants to cover as much material as possible, but it helps to ask her after the lecture and during her office hours. Also, she writes out her notes, so that helps
I didn't get good grades for most quizzes, but I improved close to the end of class. I got 30 points below the average on the final exam. My grades seemed to be everywhere, but if you get high scores on the easier assignments (Lab, Library, online prelabs) and make a positive trend on your quiz grades, a B is definitely obtainable. Work hard.
For Chem 161, your teacher is not a significant factor. All assignments and assessments are the same. Just do as many practice problems as you can and you'll get a good grade on tests. You don't really have to "know" the material. You just have to memorize how to do the problems that will be on the test.
I may be confusing my distaste for her with my distaste for chemistry, but her lecture style was not helpful to me. She essentially writes the textbook on projector slides and reads it aloud as she does. Not for me, and, as I imagine, not for many others either.
She is amazing for chem 161! She knows the subject so well and she tries really hard to make the subject clear to others. Her notes and explanations are fantastic but you still need to play your part and do the work! If you're trying to pick a lecturer, she is the one!
An AMAZING professor to have for Chem 161. Her lectures are really helpful because she writes notes and examples on the overhead projector and she doesn't speed through the material. She makes sure that everyone understands everything before moving on. If taking Chem 161, then she is a must have professor!
Amazing lecturer!! I didn't take chem with anyone else so I cant really say, but I think she's really the best option. She writes out the notes with you instead of using power points so you're never rushing to write notes. She also explains as she goes. Chem for me is difficult but I'm really glad I had her.
She is not a terrible professor or person, she actually is really nice and understanding. From my understanding it is very similar to chem lab, just show up make sure you read the book beforehand and reviewed her notes and you will probably get an B or A on that lab. Also if you read the book you probably are in good shape for the prelab quiz.
Class is supposed to be for 2 credits but it ends up feeling like a 4 credit class. She puts up the notes online but leaves blanks here and there. You have to go to class to fill in those blanks. To pass, you have to read the notes and textbook chapters. There is a curve in this class. Look up the experiments on YouTube before going into lab.
Dr. Govindarajoo is not a bad professor at all. She's very clear and concise on what she expects from you in the class. The course itself however is a lot of work for a 2 credit course, so make sure you're on top of your work. There is a decent curve at the end, but your grade is mostly based on the quizzes and the final. Do NOT fall behind.
Gen chem is hard since the tests are the same for everyone with any prof, but she simplifies everything to make it a lot easier to understand than the textbook. Her problems will generally prepare you for the exam, but definitely make sure you know the special cases, and do plenty of practice problems on your own.
Although general chemistry is hard to begin with, some might find it even more difficult with Dr. Govindarajoo. Her lecture style of writing things down on a projector is definitely NOT for everyone. I found it difficult to keep up with her.
She has contempt for her students. I truly believe that this professor is purposefully spiteful as she goes out of her way to frustrate students. She posts up to 5-10 different documents to prepare yourself for the lab which end up being a complete waste of time. Her lectures are useless as she tells you to look up everything in the book anyway.
This class is intense for only 2 credits. There is a long pre-lab and post-lab due each week. Final exam and quizzes are difficult with questions that only advanced Chem majors proficient in PChem 327 and 328 and Inorganic 371 know how to solve. Had to use partial derivatives for one of the questions. Equipment does not work that well.
This class was difficult. Lab reports can take hours to complete. Quizzes and exam were beyond the scope of the course since specific critical thinking questions would be asked. Boikess probably contributed with her when designing the quizzes and exams.
For 161 and 307, she was okay by writing all her notes on the projector. Unfortunately for 311, the projector notes were replaced with blank powerpoints that you have to fill in during lecture. There is no time to fill in everything since she flies through over 100 slides per lecture. Quizzes are difficult since you have to understand each slide.
she is a good proffesser, its just that she takes to long to explain things,because she perfers to hand write her notes as she lectures in order to be spontaneous, if she didnt she would have more time to go over her practice problems in more depth
I found this class to be a lot of work. Be ready to spend around 7-10 hours a week on the work. Lab reports (post and pre-labs) take a long time to do because you have to be so specific. Don't skip lecture! Lecture notes have blanks which she only explains in lecture. I did find it easier to do well compared to 307/308 but very tedious work.
Govindarajoo writes out all of the notes and it is very easy to follow along. Attendance is not mandatory, but it does make the class a lot easier. She also puts up all the slides online.
Explains everything clearly in lecture. A lot of work outside of class every week and there are quizzes every week. Material and concepts not difficult as long as you review lecture notes. Labs can be long and frustrating sometimes.
This is a difficult course for 2 credits. Quizzes begin on the first day of class with most of them requiring a working knowledge of PChem 327 and 328. Prelabs and postlabs take approximately 20 hours each to complete leaving little time to study for the quizzes or other classes. Believes that this is the only class we are taking.
Labs require not only a working knowledge of Orgo but also Gen Chem, PChem, Analytical Chem, and Inorganic since some of the procedure uses skills covered in those classes. Labs are difficult since you have to imagine every possible scenario for each procedure which is emphasized during the quizzes and exam. If you do this then you are fine.
The procedure for each lab is not that clear and has dozens of steps. So it is easy to mess up. Quizzes are not only memorization but also understanding and application. So you must understand every lab since she loves scenario questions. Also review your notes from Gen Chem and Orgo so you understand the concepts.
Govindarajoo is a wannabe PI. This course minics a real research lab since each lab teaches you techniques that a pure synthetic organic chemist would carry out in the research lab. With that said quizzes and exams equilibrate to graduate-level orgo with some questions requiring an intense knowledge of calc and linear algebra. Would not take again.
This course is a demo research lab. Each experiment has unknown results. With that said quizzes and exam were difficult since Govindarajoo is not that clear during lecture with her expectations. Lots of work for a 2 credit course. Should be at least 5 credits. Then people will take it more seriously. Take at CC.
Weekly quizzes and final exam were beyond the scope of elementary Orgo. Would not take again.
This course feels like 10 credits. Long prelabs, OWL assignments, and long postlabs along with next week's prelab are all due at the same time every week. Also there are quizzes during every lab with most of the questions requiring an abstract knowledge of not only Orgo but Chem in general.
The first lab may be okay but starting with the second lab you are not allowed to work in groups and have to carry out the experiments by yourself which is difficult since you have to have a working knowledge of Orgo to understand the concepts. Lab is a place to collaborate with others. Quizzes are difficult.
This class is terrible. Quizzes are difficult and requires one to be proficient in Gen Chem and Orgo. The Extraction lab is long, beyond the scope of the course, and recalls Orgo. Boikess and Roth probably collaborated with her to design that experiment. The best experiment done in this class is talking to buddies.
Orgo lab 311: class is absolute trash. Her notes are disorganized, scattered and have blanks in them which you are expected to listen to clues in lecture to pick up on. Lady... just write the dang information. Stop telling us to look up x or look up y. Just tell us. Horrendous quizzes too. Beyond scope of the class. The Class SHOULD be interesting.
Horrible!!! Writes out her lectures. Explains the materials while she writes. However, I found the process very challenging. It's hard to copy the notes and pay attention to what she says at the same time. I dropped out of the class mid-semester. 3/10 would not recommend.
It's infuriating how much work you have to do for a 2 credit course.
The quizzes and super quizzes in 311 are too challenging and outside the scope of any of her notes and the textbook. They require hypotheticals and thought experiments. Very high degree of minutia. You can study everything for a week and still get curveballed on those quizzes. They seem designed with contempt for us students
For a class that is only 2 credits, the amount of work required equals to 5 credits. Quizzes are difficult and cover absurd details. You have to recall the 20-step carbonyl mechanisms from Orgo 2 that requires not only memorization but also an understanding of padped. Boikess and Roth probably designed this course. Take at CC if you have to.
This class is getting more difficult, obsolete, and dross. You need a good working knowledge of Orgo 2 in order to understand the procedure and do well on the quizzes (and exam). Do not take this course at this school unless you received at least a B in both semesters of Orgo. Otherwise take this course at a CC.
All I have to say is that this course abates your GPA- not ameliorate it since we are still fledging in Orgo in general. Quizzes and exam are designed for Chem majors. Hints for preparation do not help for the actual experiments.
This class is terrible. Concepts before Extraction were not that bad. Starting with Extraction and the synthesis experiments, everything starts to snowball. Quizzes after Extraction require one to have a good understanding of all the carbonyl mechanisms from Orgo 2. Also not very accessible outside class and does not respond to emails.
Arduous. Lecture notes consist of questions where info cannot be found. Makes Aldol Condensation confusing. The only that I understood about that lab is that the yellow compound smells good, nothing else. Labs are research-based since she thinks that we will make endeavors. Try not to be absent since she ignores emails regarding make-up requests.
This is a bootless class. Exam is beyond the scope for people who are not Chem majors. Pretty sure I got less than half the questions correct (might not even pass this class). Takes lab too seriously since she believes it is a real research lab just because it's in Wright-Rieman. Results are not accurate due to contamination. Take in summer.
This class is making me reconsider my life since she has contempt for the students. Exam was more difficult than the quizzes there was not enough time to finish the exam. I used to make the Dean's List but with this class I am not sure. I have a lot of respect for those who get A's.
Final exam was extremely confusing and we only had 55 minutes to answer 20 open-ended questions! Weekly quizzes weight as much as actual laboratory reports and are extremely difficult (my lab section has a lot of smart pre-med and pharmacy students and the class avg is still around 10-12 out of 20). Some TAs are unfairly strict so be careful!
All I have to say is take this course in the summer or at another college.
Never got below an A in a science class. Lecture notes are disorganized and exam does not relate to the notes. Well I guess this class is not really a science class. It should simply be called Game 101. Also there is a downcurve if you score less than 100 out of 200 on the exam which does not make sense due to the difficulty of this class.
Spends most of the time reading off powerpoint slides full of bullet points during lecture. What happened to using transparencies under a projector? Also puts questions on the exam that were never taught in lecture or done in lab. Not sure what she is trying to achieve or the purpose of taking this class.
Nugatory class. Quizzes and exam does not have to do anything with the lectures and lab reports. Pulls random questions from the sky.
Govindarajoo is difficult for Orgo Lab. Lab is located at Wright-Rieman (Chem Research Building) and looks like a real research lab. Believes students will make endeavors which is not possible due to contamination and being a demo. Exam was difficult and did not relate to any aspect of lecture and lab. Also heard that she downcurves this semester.
If you take this class, you are fried bacon with a side of boiled eggs. Accent is hard to understand and notes are difficult to read. Requires hours of self-studying. Even if you do that everything is left-sided and does not relate to the notes. Best part of this course is that it is only 2 credits with tons of work.
I would recommend her for the summer but not during the school year since there is tons of work for only 2 credits. One of the hardest courses that I took this semester.
This course does not satiate one's demands. Exam and quizzes were beyond the scope of the material taught during lecture. Even though the exam was difficult, exam average was high due to overweening, rococo, bedizen, and ostentatious pharmacy and premed students. Take this course at any other institution if you want to maintain a good GPA.
Quizzes and exam designed for advanced chem graduate students. To do well in this class I suggest coming up with mnemonic devices. The best mnemonic device to remember is "fonclbrisch". If you memorize "fonclbrisch" you are guaranteed at least above average on all the quizzes and exam regardless of semester taken.
I got As on the quizzes and the lab reports, but did average on the final and still got a B in the class. Grading scheme doesn't make sense.
Took Dr. Rajoo for Orgo 2 and lab. Graduated some years ago. Dr. Rajoo wears very 90s-ish clothing but has the hottest and most attractive voice in the world. I could legitimately listen to her all day. Is obvious that she doesn't drink much as she taught us how to distill alcohol but wasn't sure how "proof" correlated with %. She's awesome.
She is a fantastic prof relative to on-season prof. She teaches you exactly what you get tested on and she actually TEACHES! Thats key. She also bumps if you're borderline at the end. Really makes you enjoy orgo. Do her old exams, understand them, and you are fine. Don't take on/offseason orgo! Take her!!!
I liked that the previous exams she provided were so similar to her exams for the semester. class usually boring but if you pay attention you will be much better off for understand the material. She is kind of impersonal though, kind of a hard ass. if you work hard reading the TB and practicing told exams you will not have a hard time getting an A
she writes out all of her notes which is annoying but you know exactly what she wants you to know. however, she did not connect the dots with some of the concepts to previous lecture info well. i think this was due to lack of time (she spent a lot of time just writing). but tests are pretty fair and fairly similar to previous years
6-8 hours of written lab reports per week will take up the majority of your time. Quizzes are extremely difficult, ambiguous, and barely relate to topics taught in lecture. Studying consisted of a disorganized treasure hunt looking for info she tells you to look up. Posts continuation of lecture videos so you can continue class even when you leave!
She's amazing during lectures! She actually writes down the notes and example problems with us during lecture instead of boring cliche powerpoints. If you attend her office hours, she will actually make you try the homework problems. She's a little fast-paced but if you read your notes, you're good for homework and even the exams.
She is very disorganized. She writes out her lecture notes and explain as she writes which is very hard to pay attention and understand. She doesnt prepare you for exams or the final so be prepared to teach everything to yourself.
Terrible. Her powerpoints are literally the definition of useless. Basic questions during lecture do not prepare you for the difficulty of the final exam. so no
She would write out the lecture notes which some students found helpful but for me, It just was not easy to keep up with. She also is not very easy to contact outside of class which is frustration. She seems to care about the class and will answer questions at the end but aside from that is not very much help. I would recommend attending lecture.
Lectures are fill in the blank sessions and many important bits of information are intentionally left out for you to "look up" Procedures for labs are buried under layers and layers of different instructions, you have to write this procedure out every week, depending on your TA you may be marked down. No clear grading criteria for any part.
Lectures do not match all of the material on exams. Many of her lecture notes are difficult to understand if you do not read the chapters prior
Organic chem lab 311 is terrible. You have ATLEAST 5 hours of work per week JUST on the pre lab/ post lab material. The actual lab is 4 hours, and is very intense and hard. Their is a 55 min lecture once per week, and the lecture slides are disorganized. The FINAL EXAM IS HARD, and you only get 60 mins instead of the normal 80 min. Very hard class
Horrendous class. WAY too much of a time commitment for 2 Cr. She's incredibly fake - acts nice but when you ask for help she's pretentious, mean, and incredibly snobby. Geeta, stop making students miserable and make this class more organized and bearable.
One of those classes that will probably make you quit pre med if you want to ask me . . .
I had her for gen chem 161 and she is a FANTASTIC lecturer. Very effective and clear. She hand writes notes on a projector and we copy it off the screen. Great way to have everyone take notes, although her posted notes may seem disorganized. Amazing at explaining difficult concepts. Responsible and fast-paced. I learned a lot and improved my chem!
At first I thought she was a really nice person. But towards end of the semester, she just didn't seem to care as much. The class was very disorganized and the grading was really tough. Barely replied email even though I know she read it but just didn't want to respond. This is probably one of the worst courses pre med/dental students have to take!
LOTS of work that takes up so much time in the week that doesn't need to be done. 90% of the labs don't even work and you are forced to just fudge some numbers and results so you can leave the lab.
She explains things pretty well. Not too difficult to get a good grade but extremely time consuming and tedious. Assignments are frustrating because they are so long (studying for weekly quizzes/superquizzes, handwritten lab report, postlab questions, prelab questions, lab outline...) The good news is, the class ends 5ish weeks before winter break.
This is gonna be a doozy. On average 7 different handouts for each lab + textbook + additional lecture video. Trawl through all this info to find some obscure question that she will put on a quiz or exam. Seems nice but the class is mismanaged at best, little to no guidance. Has sheTaught the class too many times and too lazy to change? I think so.
You have to waste so much time digging through 3-4 documents, one lecture, and one online video to piece together your lab. The disorganization forces you to spend way more time than should be necessary just to prepare for the lab. It doesn't leave much time for actual studying- especially if you're taking Orgo the same semester
-Spend at least 5 hours a week doing prelabs and postlabs -Labs are 4 hours long, and are very annoying (reactions rarely work, annoying to set up equipment, big lines to get reagents) -Purposely leaves info out of (very disorganized) lecture notes -Quizzes based off memorization If you're willing to work, you should end w. a decent grade
Terrible, spending hours each week looking for definitions and why certain things work the way they do and writing pointless pre labs that seem like they dont end. So unorganized and as result everything above is made even more brutal. Be prepare to put countless hours into memorizing the most specific lab steps for quizzes and exams too. Goodluck
I wouldn't so much as criticize the professor as I do the course in general. Prepare to put in 5-10 hours a week for the prelab and post lab and quiz which will pull from the most minute detail from the textbook. If you finished orgo, take the course off season. A 76 could be a C+ to a B+ depending when you take it. 311 is highly disorganized.
very disorganized course
This class isn't the most difficult thing ever, but it sure was a lot of busy work. I wouldn't recommend leaving everything to the night before. You always have a pre-lab and post-lab due every week and its a lot of work. The labs themselves are 4 hours and 20 minutes long, but most aren't the whole time and you can leave early.
Pre/post labs are very tedious but thats what keeps your grade up. OWL HW/Lecture quizzes are also gimme points. Quizzes are difficult and the final is 20Q multiple parts and only have 60 min to take it. The labs themselves aren't difficult but old equipment makes it frustrating to get accurate results. Labs usually run for 2ish hours if that.
Chemistry of Art class is pretty interesting. Another professor comes in most of the time and does demonstrations. The chemistry in the class is pretty basic, but the rest of the material isn't hard, there is just so much of it that it is hard to mix it all up. Exams are info straight from guided notes. Class curves well, I got a B+ with a 75.
Good/nice professor on the outside but is horrible in terms of running the class. She is very disorganized (files are EVERYWHERE AND TAKES FOREVER TO FIND STUFF). So much work for only 2 credits. Expect to put in 10 hours of work every week just doing random busy work. Final was very specific and does not give you a lot of time.
Orgo lab truly deserves the rep, all because of this Prof. Govindarajoo. RIDICULOUS amount of work-- 10+ things to do EVERY WEEK, with assignments taking between 30 min to 5 hrs per assignment. Additionally, all the information you need is split up into like, five places so you gotta go on a wild goose chase just to do your homework.
This class mixes basic chemistry topics with related art concepts. Although the chemistry was extremely simple, there was A LOT of art information to study for the exams. PowerPoints were disorganized and information was not clearly stated on slides. However, another professor usually came to each class and spiced up the lectures with demos.
Extremely unorganized professor who gives a ridiculous amount of work for absolutely no reason considering it's a 2 credit lab class
WORST PROF EVER!!! She has no care for the fact that students have other classes as well. There are so many crappy assignments every week. She doesn't assign points properly at all. One prelab will take around an hour to do but it will only be worth 2 points which makes no sense at all. Her quizzes are so hard for no reason. DON'T TAKE HER!!
I would rather beat myself to death with a mallet than take this course again. Prepare to waste lots of time reading 34 different documents on canvas for each lab. Good luck and may god have mercy on your souls if you have Geeta for orgo lab.
The labs themselves are relatively easy, it's all the work that comes along with them that makes the class unbearable. The information you need to know for the class spans 5+handouts and textbook chapters and even then, you never really know what's going on in the post labs. Assignments easily take more than 2 hours, all for 2 credits? Never again.
This class was terrible. Most of the labs themselves are not too bad, but she makes up for it with the huge amount of work that she gives for homework. The assignments take hours to complete, and she also adds to that by making us go on a scavenger hunt just to find the instructions on how to complete them. Incredibly unorganized!!!
she is really unporfessional
Worst prof I have ever had. Inconsiderate of her students and their time. I hope she takes the time to read these reviews and the comments in her student surveys to truly reflect on the way she structures this class.
This is probably the most time consuming 2-credit course you will ever take at Rutgers University. I am taking heavy med school classes a long with this one and this class supersedes all of them in time spent doing work. You come out lectures with more questions unanswered than when you entered. Good luck because youre going to need it .
Geeta is the reason why we are all losing our minds. She does not know how to teach and has unreasonable expectations of her students. She needs to restructure the course or understand that her 2 credit class is not the only one we are taking. I would not recommend this professor to anyone.
During this coronavirus pandemic, you would expect her to be more forgiving as many students may not have a stable home or internet connection, mental health issues, etc. She instead piled on more assignments and quizzes. To complete labs, you have to go through many diff. docs before finally finding what it is she expects. Very unorganized.
Mixed opinions on Prof. Geeta. Lecture content/prelabs/postlabs are pretty straightforward, answers can be found in her notes/textbook. She is a decent lecturer and is mostly understanding of students who miss lab. The work is not too difficult but the amount of assignments is incredulous when you note that her class is only 2 credits. TWO!!!
Trash. Not only do her assignments involve numerous hours of searching through multiple unorganized documents, but she had the audacity to add further labs and assignments after our FINAL EXAM as if the corona virus is not enough burden. Her labs reports are incredibly tedious and her quizzes ask questions about the tiniest details in the book.
This class legit being only 2 credits worth requires you to do tons of homework assignments. The ways she's emailing us and giving us handouts are so unorganized. This course is so waste of time. Doing prelab, postlab, studying for quizzes makes you not able to prepare sufficiently for other courses and you actually need to go to lecture.
Weekly prelabs and postlabs took like 5-7 hours to do. To do them, get ready to go thru the textbook, 3 different documents and a video for each. In lab quizzes are hard and open ended. I spent more time doing work for this class instead of my harder 4 and 3 credit classes. Labs were easy but useless since results didn't matter.
This class was the most work Ive ever done for any class and Ive taken orgo ,chem, chem lab,bio and bio lab. There are lab reports , prelabs, and research assignments. Dont even bother studying for lab quizzes because you will fail either way. The actual lab portion isnt too difficult because you can leave early.
This course was the bane of my existence. It sucked up all of my time and caused me immense. pain. the entire. semester. I'm taking this course with biochem and somehow I did more work for this course??? Also, get ready to sift through an EXTREMELY unorganized website and 3489754 different documents when trying to conjure up your lab reports...
I really wouldnt think the material is structured properly. She never talks about the mechanism of how science works but require you to rote memorize
she lets you buy a bunch of homework platforms and those assignments really don't help with this course. and she told wrong things and would go at you and never think about correcting herself
I got an a but to be honest I wasnt learning anything other than rote memorization.
I don't understand why this class is so much work. It is literally only worth 2 credits. There are so many different assignments that we have to complete every week, some of which are worth only 0.5 points each! Not to mention the disorganized mess of documents that gets uploaded for each lab. Overall, this class isn't hard work but A LOT of work.
self-centered, never listen to suggestions to improve her teaching quality.
HUGE time commitment. Be prepared to spend hours on post labs and studying- it piles up quickly, and then exams can become almost impossible to study for bc of the absurd amount of information she wants you to know. I will however say she is very, very thorough. Have never met a professor who posts so many documents about the same assignment lol
she's pretty cunning and manipulative in fornt of her students, likes to show off her professorship and pdh whereas her class barely teaches you knowledge. It's pretty frustrating, as it is how she teaches things
Overall, she is great at explaining the material and lab. Her downfall is how unorganized she is. Will have 10 different tabs for the same material when you can easily put it under one so that it's more accessible. But honestly, it really comes down to how lenient your TA is. Pre and post labs would take HOURS to complete.
I wouldnt think she gives good lectures. It requires you to take much time to work on the material after class and test on things that wouldnt be covered in the lecture. Quizzes and exams are insane since you have no idea to work on what to study.
it's so messy
Geeta really devoured away my interests in organic chemistry. I am super confused about the course structure as well as how she explains things. I truly dont feel she is competent to teach this course
i've never seen a more dramatic 2 credit class in my life. I don't think I even had to do this much work for orgo itself. it's so disorganized in that everything you need for the labs is on separate pdfs so you never know what you're supposed to be using for it. I have it online due to covid so I was expecting her to cut slack, boy was I wrong.
The two credits course is much complicated by the matter she goes over, a lot of things just straight memorization without explaining the logics. I dont know what to do to to make it out in her class. Messy, confusing and unrelenting
She is the most unstructured professor I have ever witnessed. Her notes are all over the place and I feel like she doesn't realize or at least care how much busy work she gives us. Its ridiculous
The class is online because of COVID. Very unstructured and you don't get back your grades until many weeks later. The quizzes and exams were open book, but that didn't help much. You just have to understand conceptually. Your grade depends on your TA pretty much
She catches too much heat for late grades, which is not her fault (grading is all done by TAs). She's still pretty unorganized with her uploads online, finding the correct material is like a bad scavenger hunt. Lectures are super dry and always leaves out information for you to "find in the textbook," but quiz/lab questions are verbatim from notes.
I took her chemistry of art class as a business major who likes art and it's a really amazing class. You really need to pay attention to the lectures because she goes over a lot but it's really cool stuff. If you want to take this class for sas core, you should prob have a basic understanding of chem bc it can get hard. Difficult but cool!
The most disorganized Professor I have ever encountered in all 4 years of undergrad. Ridiculous amounts of work for 2 credits, and resources (with important info) are scattered everywhere. Cumulative, but you don't get work feedback until 2 weeks after. It's not the TA grading the reports late, it's Geeta intentionally releasing grades late...
Orgo lab isn't too difficult, it's just a lot of busy work - the weekly prelabs, postlabs, and quizzes take some time to complete. Dr. G's quizzes can be tough, but if you take good lecture notes and glance at the textbook you should be fine. I took this course without taking orgo 2 and I got an A, so it's definitely doable.
Its a lot of busy bee work, but I dont think it really helped me with learning organic chemistry lab principles. It takes much of time and energy to do the work but dont a proportional gain in experience and understanding
such a rude and egotistical lady. cant even ask any questions or for any help.
Horrible professor. You might actually get worse at orgo from this class. You will definitely start to hate it. Everything is so much more confusing and complicated than necessary, wasting HOURS and HOURS. She ignores advice about the course, and refuses to replace incompetent TAs that can't even speak compressible english.
For a 2 credit class, there is WAY too much work. Between the post labs, pre-labs, weekly assignments, PQs, and the weekly quizzes, I have to prepare more for this class than all of my other classes combined. Dr. Govindarajoo is useless in all this since she makes you look everything up in the textbook instead of teaching. I DO NOT RECCOMEND.
such a huge workload for only 2 credits, requires hours upon hours of work a week
I have never left a review on RMP before but I just had to now. Govindarajoos class is WAY too involved for a 2 credit lab. We have so many assignments due every week not to mention 3 WEEKLY QUIZZES. Plus a library project, final project, and final exam. She has to understand her class isnt the only class we are taking. Would give a 0 if I could.
I usually don't have a problem with classes. I have no problem with Dr. Govindarajoo herself. But this was terrible. The material isn't difficult but I spent hours in this class hunting down information in the textbook. It is ridiculous and leaves no time for anything else. I strain myself to hell and back trying to match the deadlines.
This professor does not care about her students at all. She never emails back and shes rude in general. Also the work that is given is just unbelievable, you will not be able to catch a break. Shes really unfair
Biggest waste of time. Exams/weekly quizzes make up like 50% of your grade so you actually have to try. Expect your pre/postlabs to take about 2 weeks to get graded. Overall worst class I've taken at Rutgers, way too much for 2 credits.
This class was the worst. It is not that the class was hard, but there was too much busy work for 2 credits. This is made worse by her forcing you to hunt down information in the textbook as opposed to teaching it. Quizzes were very poorly written. The experience will be even worse if your TA is a harsh grader.
I dont even know how she still has a job at rutgers, worst class i've ever taken. You are expected to do a prelab, postlab, playposit, homework assignment, lecture quiz and lab quiz ALL in ONE WEEK & you do this for 12 weeks straight lol. Can't forget about the pointless projects that we were forced to do as well. You need to dedicate a lot to this
All i have to say is: good luck.
Advice: Take notes on EVERY single lecture including the textbook for the corresponding lab that week. Study, study, study. Do not wing the quizzes, they are HARD & Only doable if you study well. Do as best you can on the postlabs, prelabs, PQ & HW, they will boost ur grade. Don't rely on the notes for quizzes, its way to fast paced, know the info
her class is just incredibly insane with so much heavy schoolwork. Tons of information have to be rote memorized but barely explain the mechanisms behind it. When you communicate nicely with her about these problems, she never thinks about her problem yet come up with a bunch of course policies and personal maneuvers to hide those problems away.
Listen this class is so bad and there's no way of changing that. This professor is very hard and is terrible with communication. She doesn't care about the students at all only her own life. There is so much work and so many quizzes/assignments that are all insanely difficult. This course is not worth 2 credits. WORST CLASS IVE EVER TAKEN
I hate this class so much. In the lecture the prof tells you to look stuff up instead of just teaching us the information. I am so beyond done with everyone in the chemistry department at Rutgers. This class is so infuriating and difficult BECAUSE SHE DOESNT TEACH US WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.
It's baffling to me how Rutgers insists on the faculty in its chemistry department continuing to hold their positions. Worst class I've taken bar none; offers little learning value, will drain any prior interest, and is a useless timesink. It almost seems like it's intentionally disorganized to create "difficulty". Rutgers loves its rigor.
At first, I was scared of taking this class bc of her reviews, but ChemofArt is actually one of the easiest classes I took. Exams are open notes; outline of her lectures is given (kinda like fill-in blanks); lectures are recorded as well so you don't really have to go but I did it to socialize haha; occasional pop quizzes but easy; manageable hw
NON STEM MAJORS. listen. if youre required to take a science class, take this one. the class mostly focuses on different artistic techniques and the science behind them. but the chemistry youre required to know is equivalent to high school chem. all tests and quizzes are completely open note too. definitely worth it if you need a science credit.
Professor absolutely sucks. Woman does nothing but make sure your life is as difficult as possible. 5 assignments due every week, a lab, and quizzes that have 0 relevancy to whatever we completed. she has no sympathy to what students are dealing with and forced me to cram everything i missed when i had to take a break from school in one week. 0/10
There was no need to have quizzes, outlines, PlayPosits, interactive assignments, and prelabs/postlabs due every week. The material on the quizzes was not really related to what was taught in class which made them difficult. She also told us to look a bunch of things up in the lecture outline instead of actually telling us the answers.
Prof G. just reads slides w/ little additional insight. Quizzes cover irrelevant details that oftentimes aren't even in her lectures. Constantly says "read the textbook" whenever she doesn't feel like discussing a concept. Over 50 assignments (2 credits), most of which take hours to complete. Grade composition doesn't prioritize actual lab work.
You'd think there's no possible way to make this class worse but don't worry, Geeta comes in with 10 new assignments to make your life that much harder. Just because we're home does not mean we're not busy with our classes - stop making this class so unbearably monotonous
Assigns so many unnecessary assignments. Every week 4 assignments and a quiz, on top of notes, lecture and a lab period. Constantly tells students to refer to the textbook in lecture rather than actually giving us the lecture. Was way too hard of a class for 2 credits
The worst class I've ever taken. The work load is ridiculous for a 2 credit course. Has multiple videos to watch per week along with mandatory lectures, quizzes, assignments, post labs, and pre labs. She doesn't even cover everything in her videos and expects you to read the textbook for the info. I hope this course load is reevaluated.
I took this course thinking of learning more about art pieces but it's only about chemistry. You would have to re-learn all chemistry knowledge from high school and know how to solve questions. It is NOT an easy A or interesting course. The professor never allows you to submit an assignment late even if you email her, and is a strict grader.
Downright awful experience in this class. I only needed to take 6 credits and this 2 credit class had me working harder than my friends with 15 credits. Asks you to look at the textbook for every concept she doesn't want to explain. Literally none of those concepts showed up on the quizzes. Get ready to get obliterated for a chance at a B
I gained nothing from this class. It is manageable but very boring & difficult at times. However, exams are open notes. Lots of busy work, but only because Prof wants to boost ur grade. Prof is nice & passionate about the subject, but the class isn't worth taking--If ur a non-stem major, there r easier natural science classes w/less work.
easy class for non-stem majors. the information is complicated but the tests are all open-note. this could potentially be an extremely interesting and interactive class but most of the time it's just a boring, put-you-to-sleep lecture. prof is sweet and passionate.
Her lectures are solely based on her slides. You dont really need to attend class after she finishes her attendance checks at the beginning of the year. At that point you can just watch the lecture video shes posts afterward. My exams were all online. Most of the stuff on the exams are from the lectures kinda exactly.
Chemistry of art was interesting and manageable. Just pay attention to lecture slides - she lets you use them during quizzes but still don't go into the test blind. HW load isn't too bad. We got to see some fun experiments in class. Prof was super sweet and knowledgeable and I enjoyed her lectures.
TERRIBLE RUDE MEAN PROFESSOR Terribly structured course. professor IGNORES student emails asking for additional help or course feedback. MANY other professors of the chemistry department have expressed deep concerns and hatred for this course and its structure. You are told to LOOK UP information on your own during lecture. WHAT AM I PAYING FOR?!?!
Way to much work, for way too little credit, for way too rude of a professor. My TA was great, but I couldn't stand geeta for the life of me.
Get ready to cry
I literally took this lady because there is no one else, get ready to cry. its my last semester at RU, I hope she doesn't ruin it 4 me
She's nice enough but there's a LOT of work that is assigned in this class. The experiments are actually cool, my main issue is just the ridiculous amounts of work. Prelab, postlab, playposit, textbook homework, quiz, the experiment, plus an attendance grade... It's too much. Not necessarily hard, just a lot, and very annoying/time consuming
Prof G.'s class is a real grind - tons of busy work and confusing lectures. But unstuckstudy ai was a lifesaver for efficient study prep. The textbook is essential, but don't expect much hand-holding. Stay focused and you might just survive!
Worst professor at Rutgers.
LOT of work for 2 credits. 4 assignments, quiz, lab session every week. Get a good TA for lab and you'll be fine. Didn't go to her lecture once, just reviewed on my own and was fine. Quizzes/Final pretty difficult, and a lot for the amount of time you have to do them. Have to work hard even for a B, need to be on top of the material to keep up.
Govindarajoo's emails were so long and too much information just for a lab class. She put a lot of emphasis on her class as if students didn't have other courses to attend to. She's also very straight arrow and by the book which can be irritating. Overall not the worst experience just pick a good lab group and watch the lab videos.
Overall easy class! She's very passionate about chemistry and some lectures were interesting. Not much work to do besides online homework and one paper. Online, open-note exams and as someone who is bad at science subjects, this was a very chill and easy A class. Strongly recommend if you are looking for an easy class.
This is a really easy and fun class. You'll learn about the chemicals and bonds within different art supplies and pigments. She also has a lot of demonstrations done by the department that are usually quite interesting. All the exams are online and the quizzes/class questions are very easy. Would recommend if you're looking for an easy elective.
This class is as busywork-heavy and inefficient as possible. 1 hr lecture, 1 hr playposit, 1+ hours of her OTHER videos you must watch + take notes for the 3rd time.. quiz, pre-lab, post lab, hw assignment, assigned reading. Professor, please learn to condense your materials. Everyone would be happier with more straight forward learning
There's no point of going to her lectures when all of the resources are available on canvas... On top of that, she keeps telling you to look it up on textbook instead of explaining things during lecture. This class is horribly structured, but the lab itself is pretty cool! Lot of busy work for 2 credit course tho...
I think that she was good as a professor in terms of actual teaching, but she expected way too much from her students for a course that is entirely busywork. Quizzes, playposit videos, in-lecture questions... it was ridiculous. I don't know why she thinks so highly of this course like its an actual class.
She doesn't seem to realize that her class isn't the only one students are taking. For a 2 credit course, there was insane amounts of work each week, and it was all just busy work. Her lecture outlines were disorganized and confusing. I wish she dialed down on the work a bit. It was all really repetitive.
Attendance is required but the lectures are entirely pointless, especially since there are online versions of them that we are supposed to watch anyway. The workload is absolutely insane for a 2 credit class. I easily spent 5 times as much time on orgo lab homework than my other courses. The professor has no sympathy and is very strict.
Mandatory in-person lectures have the exact same content as the recorded lectures you have to watch anyway? All the work is easy, it's just very irritating to complete. To do any assignment, you need 20 tabs open bc every piece of info is inaccessible. On top of that, in the lecture videos, she tells you to Google 90% of the questions she asks.
Quite possibly the least organized professor I have ever had. Each assignment requires you to reference other documents and oftentimes the document she tells you to look at does not have the information you are looking for. A lab should not have this much busywork, much of which is wasted time sorting through her disorganized notes.
Great class, online midterm and finals. The professor responds well to questions in class and tries to make it easy for people to learn the content. However, the in class lectures are insanely boring and would make you want to use those 80 minutes to do literally anything else. You can probably get away with missing lectures, but it is an easy A.
As others have mentioned, the class is entirely too much work for a 2 credit class, the only positive is that the class ends about a month or so before the end of the semester, so you don't have to worry about it during finals. She was understanding when it comes to missed quizzes, but the pointless mandatory lectures were quite annoying.
This class is too much work for 2 credits. There are weekly quizzes every Monday, which are 20 minutes and always rushed due to having such in-depth questions in a short amount of time. The class is not curved at all, when there should be a slight curve if the final average is around a 76, and worth 20% of your grade. Worst lab taken at Rutgers.
Way too much work for a 2-credit course, about 7-10 hours of work each week outside of lab, but not terribly difficult to get an A. There is also a final for this lab. At least it ends a month before the semester ends. Lectures are just her reading off the slides, and she will tell you to look stuff up from the textbook instead of explaining it.
Course is tedious and laborious but the prof does a good job at guiding you towards the right answer. She literally makes a doc on how to answer every question, it is a lot of hand-holding but I think it's just. I wish more labs were as straight forward as this one. Prof definitely knows what she's doing.
She is a good professor and provides the necessary resources to complete each lab. There are a lot of assignments and can be tedious but if you stay on top of them, they aren't that bad. Her lectures can be boring especially for the people that already had lab before lecture. The course has a lot of busy work but it is possible to do well.
ridiculously heavy work load for a two credit class. takes a long time to complete prelabs and postlabs as they get longer as the semester goes. boring lectures, repetitive of the videos, so annoying that it's mandatory. quizzes are hard for no reason, one final that is hard due to the time limit. 0/10 recommend this class.
The amount of workload for 2 credits is insane. Instructions are extremely unintuitive and she makes you go back and forth between 3 documents for a single assignment. When doing a pre-lab, post-lab, lecture video, and hw assignment every week, it just gets tiring. The class itself isnt hard she just makes you wanna end urself
Avg for the lab is a B+/A. Anyone who has below that had to purposely aim for it. Its busy work but everything is online and open book even the exam. No reason to fail it get below the avg. Bonus the class ends a few weeks before everything else does.
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