I regret choosing this professor. She is ridiculously hard. Her lectures are poor preparation for assigned work. The first exam, the class median was 58%. The majority is below failing and she only curved 2 points. When most of the students are failing, it is not the students who are at fault. It is the instructor.

Sligar is an absolutely horrendous teacher. The first class I have ever failed in college. She assigns massive amounts of work that is worth minimal amounts of points, no study guides for exams that students fail by the dozens, and even assigned homework and quizzes during dead week, when does she think people have time to study? Awful teacher!

Her lectures are very good, but when it comes to her tests it is so confusing. She gave us a review for the final, she didnt finish the test key and most of the answers were wrong anyways. Also in class shes constantly mentioning how shes actually doing everything wrong so it is impossible to follow or trust her answers- making for unnecessary work

She had homework, participation points, daily work over material you had to teach yourself, quizzes, and confusing test format. I quit doing daily work because it was not worth the time or points. Tests were overly complicated. She was insecure about her own work and teaching so it was always a drag to go back and undo her mistakes. no study guide

Sligar has a very real superiority complex. She does not make herself approachable and she has a tendency to be facetious, short, and disrespectful. I've seen and heard her ridicule students and she seems to actively avoid holding office hours. I would recommend choosing someone else if you can.

Sligar was all over the place in her lectures and made it extremely hard to follow. She had so many mistakes, she laughs about it like it's okay. Some of her test questions that have been in rotation for years actually had no correct answer. Sligar was unapproachable and made me feel stupid for asking her questions. She actually almost made me cry.

She never was available to help students thoroughly. I always felt like a pest when approaching her, so I felt like it was more my fault for not knowing the material. She was very difficult to follow during lectures and sometimes when on bunny trails to the point where i sometimes didn't know at all what she was talking about.

I took CHEM101 this year and this has been the most stressful class I have ever been in. 1. She doesn't teach the material on the test. 2. She knows she doesn't have time to teach but still continues to put it on quizzes and exams. 3. She's a funny person but overall hate her teaching and her as a teacher.

She's all over the place and is very confusing. I've taken chem before and did really well but I transferred schools and it didn't transfer over so I had to retake it and she honestly teaches things so confusingly and its a 101 class and she goes at a 111 class.

Never have I so passionately disliked a class. In high school I loved chemistry and really understood it, but taking Sligar's class has been the worst thing this semester. She is extremely rude to students, very unorganized, and there is a test every other week that covers a ton of information. I definitely do not recommend taking her.

350 words are not enough to describe this professor. She's unorganized, she's always wrong and corrects herself during class, she constantly changes the dates on the class calendar so you're never really sure when the quizzes are due until it's too late. I'm making sure that when I retake chemistry next semester, I'm picking a different professor

I would not recommend this teacher at all unless you already feel strong in chem. Trying to learn within her disorganized, inconsistent class structure is super stressful. Timed tests every other week, many quizzes and confusing instructions make an already tough subject unnecessarily harder. It felt impossible to work smarter not harder with her.

Gives extra credit but doesn't specify where to submit them (will not accept electronic submissions). Talks super fast in lectures, she ends up confusing herself and will confuse you. Gives you homework and practice tests, but the tests don't contain the material she gave you to study from.

Often received "google it" as answer whenever someone asked for assistance on concepts/homework. Seemed to get annoyed with students easily when we asked for additional help/clarification. Chem is not easy and this professor did not foster my learning near what I expected.

Worst professor I have ever had. She was awful at explaining the material, gave a ton of homework, and tested the class on concepts we had hardly covered. During the final, she gave us a separate test on top of the final. My roommate, who was in a higher level gen chem class, said her class didn't cover a lot of what we were expected to learn.

Tests are nothing like the practice tests, and she will not grade on a curve even when the class average is very low. She can be very unfair with grading and can be super unorganized, which makes the information presented very hard to understand.

She is the worst professor that I have ever had. Study guides are nothing like the tests. She is very unorganized and did not have a clear grasp on this course. Do not recommend.

She is a very poor teacher, she didn't seem to have any sort of grasp on the concepts in class and made the information impossible to understand. Definitely the worst professor I have ever had. I feel like being in her class makes me understand chemistry less. Do yourself a favor and don't take this professor. Even her answer keys were incorrect.

She is really all over the place. She makes things harder to understand than they are. Khan Academy was my best friend this semester. She tried to make it fun with metaphors and such, but I couldnt focus because she kept switching things around so often.

Her workload she gives you is ridiculous; a test every 2 weeks, a quiz every week you don't have a test, a written homework assignment to turn in every week and on top of all that you have Alex topic goals to achieve basically every 3-4 days. A 3 credit class with a workload of 2 classes by itself. Difficult to schedule things with in general.

Endless homework and quizzes (which she loses) and Aleks work while you're trying to prepare for a test. Shes scatter-brained and disorganized. Gives wrong answers to the practice tests/HW. She doesn't explain things well. I've had to spend all of my time in the tutor lab learning the subjects and information because she's terrible at teaching.

She's a former high school teacher, and acts like one. She is not a respectable person, and makes class difficult not for the content but due to her extraordinary incompetency. She hasn't learned chemistry beyond the high school level herself. Boise State should be strongly urged to fire her as soon as possible, she is a parasite in the department.

Hands down worst professor I've ever had! She is so unorganized and does not cover all material to do well on a test. I'm sorry but if the class test average for every test is in the low 60's that reflects on the teacher. There has not been a single class period that she has been up teaching and a student has had to correct her. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Horrible professor, she is all over the place during lectures and expects everyone to follow her power points which she rarely post on time. If there is another professor take them trust me.

This professor did not truly teach the class, though she may have tried her best it was not good enough. Most of the test had an average and a median below 70%. Her lectures rarely taught anything after the first two weeks and the class relied heavily on the online tool, Aleks. Take physics or geology if you can.

Sligar messes up on equations more than her students do and is not great at explaining things. Learned way more working on things on my own.

Do not take Sligar; horrible experience in her classroom. She's very unorganized, lacks empathy and compasson and is scattered.

The absolute WORST professor EVER! DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH HER! She has absolutely no respect or care in the world for her students what so ever, I don't know why she is still teaching here. Avoid at all costs.

The absolute WORST professor EVER! DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH HER! She has absolutely no respect or care in the world for her students what so ever, I don't know why she is still teaching here. Avoid at all costs.

She is an awful teacher, she doesn't care for her students . There is no wiggle room and is unwilling to help. Our most recent test had average of 56% and she only gave the option to redeem 5 points of extra credit. Her lectures are very vague and she doesn't stay on topic and will jump around. Had to see a tutor regularly because she won't help.

Sligar frequently struggles to collect and communicate her thoughts. Her lectures gradually became harder to decipher than the Navajo code. She uses wonky analogies that make meaningless concepts more confusing than they already are. This is a good prof to take if you enjoy listening to incomprehensible abstract thinking. Have fun!

Let me start by saying YIKES. She knows her material, but teaches so fast that she often messes up and students frequently correct her. She assigns a ton of homework with a very small time frame to finish. I relied on ALEKS and Youtube to teach me her material and that is the only way I passed this class. If you take her class, good luck Charlie...

She doesn't think that her students are taking any other classes. we have 2-3 online hw's, 1-2 quizzes that she will change the dates and have due the same day as tests & 1 written hw due each week. the tests are impossibly long and the avg is always in the 60s. she is rude in emails and person, and will put things on quizzes and hw not taught.

She is very knowledgeable and her passion for chemistry is evident. However, her teaching style is something that did not provide a conducive learning environment. The way she explained things was all over the place. She would jump ahead and then back on different topics and it was very difficult to follow along/notes. Reasonable amount of homework

Literally so terrible. Professor Sligar is rude, sarcastic and doesn't act like she cares one bit about her students. She is horrible with giving instructions and explaining things. I think her directions were more confusing than chemistry itself. You can't even ask her a simple question without her treating you like you are an idiot.

I think taking this class and this prof was detrimental to my learning. everything was confusing at best and nonsense at worst. only one lecture out of the 30 lectures were good.

Sligar is the most difficult professor I have ever had to take. She won't answer questions before a quiz. She is not clear on specific things. Is kind of rude in explaining if you are unsure about things.

You are required to use Knewton and do assignments on this website to pass the class. Knewton assignments are hard and what she lectures on is only about 1% of the actual assignment. She teaches the bare minimum of Knewton and it can take up to hours to finish. If you are gonna outsource you class HW at least teach what is on Knewton

Is a horrible lecturer. She makes 0 sense and jumps around and expects you to know the answers & assumes we know the topic. everyday there is something due. Test is hard and not similar to homework. Class is harder than it should be. Youtube is a better teacher. She goes too fast at lecturing and teaches new topics at end of class. Horrible!!!!!

She is the worst professor by far. Her lectures are unorganized and don't line up with homework or quizzes! Don't expect any help from her outside of the classroom. If you need help on the homework, she'll tell you to contact the program instead of her. Her tests are not based off of her lectures or the homework. She shouldn't be a chem prof!!!!!!

I'd give Sligar a zero if I could. All over the place, not great at teaching the material. Homework through Knewton doesn't match up with lectures. Tests don't reflect what is reached. Sligar is not a good professor!

I took Sligar for Chem 111. She is a nice person and tries her best but sometimes she can be all over the board and unclear in her explanations. I did good on hw and went LA sessions but failed everyone of her tests because they made no sense to me. I would not take her again.

too many assignments. has high expectations. tests are hard. her lectures aren't clear. would not recommend.

Yeah, probably the worst professor I have ever had. Her emails back are passive-aggressive and she does not seem to care for students' success in this course. She makes absolutely no sense in her lectures, and her expectations of the course are all over the place and unclear. I am very disappointed that the university has allowed this to go on.

I would not take her class ever again. There is about two homework due every week, one online and one written. Her lectures are very all over the place and it makes it hard to focus and try and do well. I went to as many LA sessions as I could and I still struggled. If you can take another teacher please do!! She also has really hard test.

If there is any other professor other than Sligar, I would take them. The curriculum that's taught isn't super hard but Sligar made this class extremely hard to learn because of her strict coursework and inability to be lenient. She wasn't flexible at all when classes were put online proving she only cares about the coursework and not the students.

Worst professor ever. Was not lenient at all. Her transition to online was bad and classwork was doubled. Doesnt care about students. Unorganized and doesnt really lecture. Youll be spending hours just trying to finish one part of an assignment. Test not representative of what learned. You will suffer In her class. Dont take her.

Genuinely one of the worst teachers. She made me take a test while having just got a concussion (with a doctors note!), threatening to give me a zero if not. You spend HOURS and HOURS of time on her homework every week, incredible amount of busy work, and still have to self teach. If you try to ask her for help she will turn you away. Heartless!!!!

I would recommend any other Chem Professor over Sligar. I can not believe she is still teaching at BSU. Her class material should be easy to learn, but her tests never match the lecture material, I got my first B ever in her class! Her lectures make absolutely no sense, and she assigns enough pointless homework and quizzes for 5 classes-DO NOT TAKE

Prof. Sligar is extremely scatterbrained, and her lectures never made sense. She often gave rude responses to students that were brave enough to ask questions in class. Her grading system was extremely confusing as she had Knewton assignments, written homework, and quizzes on top of exams. Her Blackboard site was incredibly disorganized as well.

Sligar is the rudest and worst prof. Ive ever had. She does not care about you or your success. Her tests are way too difficult and dont reflect class. I would transfer universities before taking her again.. her class work is so time consuming it doesnt allow you to give an ounce of attention to other classes or you. Id give her a 0 if I could.

HORRIBLE TEACHER! Assigns too much. i spent my whole semester focusing on her class& still didnt do well. I do not feel this class is representative of what a 111 chem class should be. assignments and quiz and test not alike at all. you basically have to teach yourself the material bc she is bad at lecturing. she is rude and heartless.

Shes hilarious because of how ridiculous the class is. Impossible expectations of students. Class doubled coursework after going online. Any missed assignment or lecture your grade would go down. Prof doesnt care about students. Too much stuff to do throughout week. choose another prof for chemistry. Not worth ur mental health & sanity this class

Too many assignments all due close together. Test is not similar to practice test or homeworks. Knewton isnt helpful. Teacher was not accessible nor helpful. She expected you to know everything. She is not a good lecturer.

AVOID her at all costs. SIGNIFICANTLY worse than the other chemistry instructors. Despite the content being relatively easy, the massive amount of work she assigned combined with how disorganized she was made it enormously difficult to get a good grade on anything. Categorically a bad instructor, I can't think of any redeeming qualities.

She's a horrible teacher and condescending. She doesn't provide help or assistance to students when they don't understand topics. Too many assignments and quizzes to do weekly. Her tests are hard. If I could do this semester over I would do it with another teacher and one who can actually teach, is organized, and helps their students to succeed.

avoid this teacher like the plague. they assign too many homeworks, quizzes and assignments. you basically have to teach yourself the content because the teacher goes all over the place without explaining why. this teacher isn't nice when you ask for help. find yourself another chem teacher. and save your sanity for the semester.

Don't take CHEM101 with Prof. Sligar!! Her grading system is very confusing and the material she teaches doesn't show up on the Knowledge checks. She gives a crazy amount of homework every week so be prepared to spend hours on the class. She does respond fast to emails, but is very rude. Save yourself the stress y'all, pick a different professor!!

I really do not think she understands that if people cheat they will pay for it in the next class they take. I think she thinks she is teaching Jr. high school kids. Lectures are torture unless you love hearing "umm" every other word. More work for a 3 unit class than I have in two 4 unit classes combined. Can't wait to never take her again.

Worst class in my entire 4 year college career. More work in a 100 level Chemistry course than all 4 of my 400 level STEM courses combined this semester. Every 2 weeks there is a take-home test that takes 5-6 hours of work, and each question you get wrong she makes you do a 50+ practice problems on that topic or you receive a 0 for the question.

Do not take chemistry with this professor!!! HORRIBLE. Extreme amounts of homework. Quiz every week that never makes any sense and weighs your grade down. Then just to make things even better there are knowledge checks every few weeks that take 3+ hours. These knowledge checks make no sense and include nothing you learn in class at all.

Worst professor I have had. She makes the whole learning process so much more difficult than what it needs to be and if you run into an issue, it is a pain to solve. She knows chemistry but doesn't know how to teach in an effective manner. I was tutored by upper division chem majors and they were confused to why she was teaching what she was.

Do not take a class from her, I repeat, do not take a class from her! Her exams are so confusing! This was a 101 level class but there was material in it that my friend in a 400 level chem class hadn't learned yet. This was more difficult and confusing then any class I have taken.

Worst class Ive ever taken by far. Online Knewton assignments do little to prepare for the Knowledge Check, which is a glorified exam. 3 Knewtons, 1 activity, and 1 quiz, per week. KC every 3. Grading is tough, and when there was a problem, Sligar did little to help resolve it. Entry level class that single handedly ruined my first semester.

What can I say about Kristine that hasn't already been said. What a wonderful lady that gets off on having her students complete 4 hours tests that make me want to cry. Her lectures are boring, ill-prepared and make me want to change my major :) Get ready to hear her cuss out of frustration because much like this whole class the lectures are a mess

This was a 101 class and I have never had so much difficulty. The tests took me 4-6 hours to complete, homework and quizzes are nothing like the test questions, her lectures are engaging but do not prepare you for the test. Her protocols for tests and the final are extremely complicated and confusing.

I took this class this semester, and it was definitely my hardest class. Her lectures are engaging but typically do not help you. She has slide shows that do not help you on the test and her Knowledge checks would typically take me 4-6 hours. I would not recommend taking her.

Her Lectures are easy to pay attention to but her notes and teaching style are all over the place making it impossible to even learn anything you need.

The teacher really fails to connect with the students. If you have any problems that appear in life be prepared to tolerate them (including Covid) she sucks at working with students for anything. I had my grandma (help raised me) pass away and she wouldnt let me make up a quiz from the first week of class, that was the day my grandma passed.

SHE'S SO RUDE. you will not understand her class. lots of homework. one of the worst professors I ever had. Her response to the email is terrible. I always give my professors good reviews this is my first time writing a bad review for a professor because she deserves the worst review. tutoring section can't help u because they don't have the answe

This was possibly the most stressful class I've ever taken. She is terrible at responding to emails and is almost never accessible outside of class. My class was full online and she had no office hours which left me confused most of the time. She assigns a problem set and a quiz every week on Saturday preventing me from enjoying my weekends.

Grading system is a disaster. I went from having a 91% in the last week of class to having an 83% after the final. To make it simpler there was a final and then another test. Would not recommend.

I have subitted a request to the Administrative faculty to have this teacher reviewed and subsequently fired. I have learned nothing, except that I am wasting my money in College, and Honors no less.

The amount of weekly work is ridiculous and she made it very difficult to succeed. The assignments, quizzes, homework, exams, redo's are all incredibly overcomplicated and everyone in my class agreed. I spent insane amounts of time completing her exams and quite frankly they made me cry many times. Take Chris Saunders, I heard he is great.

I don't often write bad reviews, but Sligar has one of the most confusing grading systems I've ever had and my grade suffered because of it. Take-home tests are extremely long and overcomplicated. I always did test make ups to keep at an A but dropped 10% after her double final. She is very arrogant of her grading system and won't make changes.

-rote memorization -no leniency -more work is required than necessary -assignments are designed to be work-heavy and are extremely tedious

Organization makes very little sense and is more complicated than it needs to be.

Professor Sligar is not a good lecturer, she would go extremely in-depth on the easy objectives but would skim right over the hard objectives which were the ones on our tests. If you do all the makeup work you will be fine but she is so confusing. She is also rude when asking questions and does not answer respectfully or helpfully. Do not take her.

very hard, doesn't explain anything. expects you to grasp the concepts from just watching problems being done.

Avoid this professor at all costs, she is very rude and literally is the most passive-aggressive responder ever. If you have a clarifying question, she will make it seem like it is a stupid question. If you have any tragic event occur, don't even bother asking for extensions, she will not care

Kristine is the worst professor that I have had in college. Her lectures were unhelpful. Her tests took hours to complete. Her grading process is confusing and unnecessary. You are given work on the weekends (quizzes). She was often rude to the students when questions were asked. If I could go back, I would take this class with any other teacher.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER. Homework every single night. Tests take many hours to complete and her class is very hard to understand. Easy to fall behind in. Rarely get an A on quizzes. SO MUCH HOMEWORK. Too much for chem at beginners level.

If you want to fail a class easily make sure to take this one.

Avoid this women at all cost. She does not value your time or effort, will give out useless knowledge checks that will drop your grade, YES EVEN IF YOU STUDY. This is mainly bc her directions are extremly confusing. She should not even be allowed to teach, if you value your sanity wait for a better professor to teach the course.

Do NOT take this professor. Her grading system is completely made up and she gives out these pointless knowledge checks that took me, on average, 7 hours to finish. She spent a lot of time in lectures explaining the easier concepts that everyone already understood but barely explained the difficult concepts. Not much comes out of lectures.

I would not recommend Sligar to anyone. She makes the easy stuff hard and her canvas is very disorganized. She has a lot of unnecessary knowledge checks and quizzes. Be ready to read a lot and spend a lot of time studying on your own because whatever she teaches does not make any sense at all.

Very heavy on homework and extremely complicated exams. She calls them "knowledge checks" and are overly complicated for absolutely zero reason. Withdrew and taking it with a different professor, I do not recommend this professor what so ever, not worth my money.

Refuses to put my grades in from the course I switched from and will only put them in if my grade "needs it." Has quiz every Saturday that gets progressively harder. This course takes up majority of my time every week with the work. Has "knowledge checks" she makes up completely random questions that make no sense as well as her thought process.

Grading was so confusing she had to post videos about how to figure out what grade you had. For us online folks, she stopped posting lecture videos so we only got Youtube videos to learn a very complicated subject. Her knowledge checks have so many grammatical errors that it was difficult to interpret what she is asking. Avoid Sligar at all costs.

This class was honestly so confusing. The grading makes absolutely no sense, it seemed impossible to get full credit. She marks off for the most minuscule things. I honestly just stopped going to class because it was easier to just teach myself the concepts. She also accused me of using Google and took points off for it once when I literally didn't

When I started this class I was not expecting what I was getting myself into. I have always struggled with science classes ESPECIALLY chemistry but this class was nearly impossible. Professor Sligar seems like she loves to teach chemistry, BUT none of the information that she teaches makes sense. I would not recommend.

Her lectures are not helpful and she jumps from powerpoint to powerpoint and doesn't provide all the slides. shes very unorganized on canvas and does a bad job at making note taking easy. She's very strict on formatting in assignments because shes too lazy to grade on her own. she gives out way too much homework for a 3 credit class.

Professor that gives an insane amount of homework that makes no sense and is basically unrelated. If you want to on chem and not your major for the entire semester take this class.

A great personality but her teaching method is not good & the workload is SO MUCH. Her grading makes no sense & is so complicated for no reason. You will have at least 3 assignments a week including a quiz. Luckily quizzes & exams are online with redos, but take FOREVER to get through. Unless you have a scheduling conflict, I would not recommend.

She is one of the most confusing teachers I have ever had. Her lectures are all over the place and I never feel like i'm prepared for her exams because they have the most random questions. She is a really nice person and responds to emails fast but I honestly don't recommend taking her!!

The workload was overwhelming and when asking for help she was never clear. She offered redos but the hours put into trying to complete the necessary requirements to redo assignments took an incredible amount of time. I learned more from the CIC or the videos she gave us then from her.

Sligar is awful. She is poorly regarded by the other members of the chemistry department and hated by students for her excessive amounts of homework. Most of the work is handwritten and the instructions are exceedingly confusing. When I asked for extra assistance because of my mental health, she said "no", which is against university policy.

Deserves 0/5. I hated this class. I didn't learn from her and was constantly confused about all of her assignments. I spent 10 hours a week just trying to get all of her assignments done and even then I didn't have time to get a good grade on them. I called my aunt who was a high school teacher multiple times a week and I learned more from her.

Organization in this class borders on byzantine. The questions are long, but the main difficulty comes not from the actual material, but from the way that questions are worded or from the unnecessary steps. The lectures are mind numbingly boring, with only 15-20 minutes of each lecture devoted to new material. Good luck.

Literally never had a professor this terrible. Gave out so much homework, quizzes and exams even on dead week. So unorganized and is incorrect half the time. definitely should retire asap.

She manages to make simple material seem complex. Tons of homework; something is due almost every day, including Saturdays. Rather than getting a break for days like Labor Day, the lecture is simply online instead of in-person. Quiz and test questions are worded poorly enough to leave you with lots of 50/50's even if you know the content by heart.

Her knowledge checks are scored where getting 2/3 of credit on an objective is good enough to still get a 100; however, her grading is horrible and she is NEVER clear on what she wants. On one knowledge check I got marked for not explaining my answer enough, but on the next I got marked for explaining my answer too much. Emailing led to nothing.

This Professor's tests make absolutely no sense. The take home tests typically take me 7 hours to complete. The test is nothing like what she shows in class or on assignments. There are at least 4 assignments a week and a quiz on Saturdays. Way to much work for a 3-credit class. Wouldn't recommend Sligar's class.

Drop the activities and you get two stars. Tests are tests, and in the age of Open AI, I understand the need for overly complex quantum-theory-like-difficulty on every question type of instructions for answering test questions. But the activities are some high school stuff. Wasting your students' lives... Until then. DIFFERENT PROFESSOR. Stay away

Worst Professor at BSU, too much homework during the week so it's hard to plan that around other classes. Her knowledge checks take too long and there is one the same week as the final as well. All she did during her lectures was read from the slides.

whatever you do, do not listen to any of the positive reviews for this professor. I DO NOT recommend this professor at all. If you have literally any other option other than sligar, TAKE THEM instead!!

I went into this class thinking that all the ratings were just angry about getting a bad grade in the class, but this professor is EXTREMELY accurate to the ratings. She has 5-6 assignments per week. She is extremely weird with her grading, getting mad at not enough information and then getting mad at a lot of it. Overall I do not recommend Sligar.

do not take this professor. I have 4 finals due the same day. Knowledge checks take like 5 hours for like 12 questions. Absolutely horri

Just no. Knowledge checks every 3 weeks takes about 6 hours. Uses fake elements and hard hard questions on quiz. Never had time to correct. Spent way too much time on this class doing the bare minimum & got behind in others. DO NOT TAKE. Only good thing was optional attendance. Don't go to class- just do the hw and you'll understand just the same.

Sligar somehow talks for an hour without covering any material, you'll have to teach yourself everything. Hope you like the CIC. Knowledge checks are long and convoluted. The entire in person course is served online, might as well stay home and watch the zoom. Assignments are graded using AI software or Canvas. Avoid!

Professor Sligar is very unprofessional and truly does not seem to care whether her students pass or fail. The material of the course itself is not difficult if you study. Professor Sligar MAKES it difficult. Her tests are extremely long (3+ hours) and she's a very tough grader with no room to budge. Avoid her class at ALL COSTS.

Kristine Sligar is disorganized, lacks time management, and shows little empathy for students. Her teaching style makes basic chemistry hard to grasp, and she avoids helping effectively. Emails are sassy and unhelpful, and her demeanor in class detracts from learning. Avoid her classes for your mental well-being and academic success.

There is no good professor I've heard of for CHEM111, but Sligar is one of the worst. The way the class is set up is wayyyy over-complicated, making it hard to know how you are doing in the class. She spends half of her time explaining how to complete the heavy workload, and you spend half of your time figuring out how to complete assignments.

I do not recommend this professor. There is so much work for this course. Her instructions are overly complicated. There was a large test every 3 weeks and it took me over 10+ hours to complete each one. Each time I would email a question she would be rude in her response and act like I was an inconvenience for her to reply to. Avoid if possible.

I would not recommend this professor at all, even if it is your only option. She is rude and does not care about her students. It's not that the concepts are hard but the work load amount is absurd and will take you very long to complete. When you email she makes you feel as you are an inconvenience.

Gives out lots of homework and there is a quiz due every Saturday. Her exams/tests are called knowledge checks, which on average took me six hours to do but I had talked to others who took way longer.

The workload for this class was ridiculous. Knowledge checks (One assigned every three weeks) took me at least 5 hours. A 3-credit, 100-level class should not take this much of my time. Also, the canvas was made very poorly, and there are way more grammatical and spelling errors than would be expected from a college professor.

Jesus where to even start. We spend roughly 15min a day going over the history of famous scientist despite having an exam in two days. Then she won't have enough time to finish her lecture because quote, "I want to do something I enjoy, so I'll e talking about ____ which won't be on the exam."

Probably one of the most unnecessarily difficult professors. She runs and grades her class poorly. There are way too many assignments to keep track of along with her canvas being messy. She is no help whatsoever and the knowledge checks are graded unfairly. You have to learn a whole new grading system while also learning the content. DO NOT TAKE!!!

Take any other professor. I took this class online with some Chem knowledge already, and she does not teach the online course AT ALL! It is all YouTube videos that she links with very little tie to the exam content. She is very rude and her grading system is ridiculous and unfair. One of the exam averages was 40% and she does not curve.

This class was unnecessarily difficult for a beginning Chem class. She expects her students to complete hours and hours of homework each week. Her canvas layout and test grading system is extremely confusing. She often focuses on the simplest things in class and does not get into the more difficult subjects at all. I do not recommend this teacher.

The workload for a 3 credit 100 level class is INSANE. She is very difficult to communicate with, and is rude. I can't believe BSU is allowing this person to continue to lecture... what an embarrassment.

Canvas page is a nightmare, the way her exams are set up are a nightmare. I don't understand why she makes everything so complicated, it's chaotic for students and I can only imagine how chaotic it must be for her/TAs to grade everything. The content itself isn't too difficult, but it feels very difficult because her teaching is very unorganized.

do NOT take this John, this was the worst class I have ever taken!!! She is actually low key a nice lady but not very forgiving when it comes to ANYTHING. I got sick during an exam, thew up she asked me to leave then gave me a 0 and no retake. LIKE BRUH I LITERALLY THREW UP, but whatever... I have to retake the course over the summer. HUGE WASTE!!!

Teaches way too many topics in one class period. Tests are way different than the practice tests/hw given for review. Her canvas page is unorganized and hard to navigate. She is honestly so rude when replying to emails.

There is way too much work with too little reward. Each week has a portfolio assignment for the "Knowledge Checks" that are only worth 3 points but take 2+ hours for each, readings, homework, and then multiple Knewton Assignments. She barely covers all the topics in lecture and then rarely explains all of them well. Her grading is extremely harsh.

This teacher is dedicated, but the class is overwhelming due to the amount of information and numerous quizzes. It's best not to take another difficult class at the same time. Success in this course requires a lot of outside study I'm talking an average of 10 or more hours a week, those who received A's usually had no outside jobs or distractions.

This class made me question my whole life. Kristine should not be a teacher. She claims that she wants us to succeed but she genuinely couldn't care less about her students. She's the absolute worst chemistry teacher at Boise State, do not take this course. Even if she is your last option, take chemistry another time. Do it for your mental health.

Very rare that she isn't making some sort of mistake. Get ready to essentially teach yourself while spending hours simply trying to navigate her nonsense. A great class to learn how to deal with the incompetence of others but shameful on BSU for allowing her to continue teaching.

DO NOT TAKE. I took Kristine's class online during the Spring semester of 2025 and I cannot stress enough how much of a nightmare it is to navigate her course material. You will need to memorize pathways like a maze to find lectures, videos, and files needed to study for the exams. The class average for her 4th exam was a 36%!!!

have never been treated so awful by a professor in my life. has many typos on her test which make answering IMPOSSIBLE. she gives options to check off objectives with pages of work b4 the test but rarely gives u a good enough grade to get it ‘complete', so u waste time. Her only feedback ever is “wrong”, which is just so encouraging!

Lectures and slides are an incoherent mess and leave you with more questions than anything. She somehow makes reasonably easy concepts incredibly hard to understand. Exams are unnecessarily long and difficult, especially for being on a 3 week basis. She will treat you like you're dumb if you have the audacity to ask a question.

Honestly, so bad. Had a good understanding of chemistry before coming, but was so confused after each lecture because she bounced around topics even in the middle of solving problems, which she would mess up and have to be corrected by a student often. Would not recommend if you plan on enjoying to learn chem.

DO NOT TAKE. i cannot stress this enough she will make your life so difficult. I have never struggled in science or with a professor at BSU until her and it has been an awful semester. try to get ANYONE else online or take in person - do not take her

GOOD LUCK WITH HER!!!!! SHE IS A NICE HUMAN BEING BUT DOES NOT TEACH SUPER WELL. GET READY FOR A LOT OF CONFUSION ON THE EXAMS (KNOWLEDGE CHECKS) HOMEWORKS, ETC......ALSO, SHE TEACHES A WEEK BEHIND THE LAB. I HAD TO LEARN AN WHOLE NEW TOPIC IN LAB AN ENTIRE WEEK BEFORE WE LEARNED IT IN LECTURE. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND.

She is the most unorganized professor I've ever had. Most homework is done on Knewton, and she adds things to it that we never learned in class, expecting you to teach it to yourself. She bounces around during lectures and struggles to focus on one thing at a time. she complains about how difficult it is to grade our work when she set the system up

I have never had a worse experience with a prof. She was not understanding at all in any way possible. I had gotten sick the the beginning of the semester decided to power though and got take her proctored exam, threw up in the lecture hall and got an automatic fail with no retake because I had already seen the exam. She mixed up my later exams too

Same thing everyone else says. You will spend more time figuring out where things on Canvas are and actually trying to decipher what you have to do. As if the course content is not hard enough as is. DO NOT TAKE HER!

Very UNORGANIZED MATERIALS ON CANVAS. I have never struggled this much in a class, i wishhhhh i took other professors but she was unfortunately the only one left. Compared to other classes she is a very tough grader (used Gradescope for exams, a grading system i have never heard was very complicating) and VERY HOMEWORKKK HEAVYY. worse class ever

This class is a full-time job. Exams are brutally hard, impossible to study for, and include questions that seem to have been made up in a private meeting with higher beings. Exam averages were failing and treated as normal. Take this class if you enjoy confusion and academic trauma as a form of character development.

IVE NEVER STRUGGLED SO MUCH IN A CLASS!!!!! And it's less bc of the content and more bc of the proffesor teaching it. Very tough on students work. Her canvas setup is like a maze. Her test are UNNECESSARY HEAVY, no remorse if you get sick! Overall DONT TAKE HER if u want to succeed. Nice in person but not teaching wise!!