Avoid her at all costs!!! She doesn't teach, her tests are impossible, and then she blames you for not doing the work even if you put in the time. Other professors for the same class have tests that are actually fair and asses the material you learn in class. Chemistry is hard, but she makes it worse whereas others actually try to teach!!

absolutely the worst teacher ive ever had. she barely teaches in class, flies through her powerpoints then creates an impossible test where you wont understand a single thing. she doesnt believe in curving, EVEN WHEN THE CLASS AVERAGE WAS IN THE 30's!! dont ever take her, shes awful and will ruin your GPA

DO NOT TAKE HER!!!! She is an awful teacher, who is awful at explaining even when you get extra help. Her homework assignment take at least 5 hours to do, and they are nothing like what is on the exams. Also doesn't believe in curving even when her test averages we in the 40%. And a class average of 40%, that says something about her teaching!!!

This professor is the definition of a detriment to learning. Not only are classes useless, but the homework is boring and uneffective, and doesn't relate to the material that is on tests. Doesn't believe in curving, even if the average is in the 40's and believes it's the students' faults because they "didn't study well". STAY AWAY AT ALL COSTS.

Avoid this teacher at all costs. Drop the class now, take the W, change your major, take a different science course, postpone pre-med requirements another semester... Extremely difficult but if you do take her class make sure you remember every single word she says in lecture.

She is not helpful in office hours and refuses to curve, even when the class average is in the 40s. Her tests are all trick questions (hence the terrible average) and then she blames the failure on the students not trying hard enough. The numbers speak for themselves, don't take her class.

She is extremely difficult teacher, even if you go to office hours you will have lots of trouble on exams. Tons of homework that have no relevance to exam, lectures boring. Exams are super hard, not curved at all and has "content you have not seen before". Do not take her, unless you like chemistry/are a chem major. Take chem at a community college

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. She has a PhD in chemistry and youtube honestly teaches me better than her. The class average on the tests was a 49% and she does not curve. If you are in her class and cannot escape, good luck......

One of the WORST teachers I've ever had! Lectures are dense, graded homework takes hours, tests are unreasonably difficult (with avgs. below 50%), and she refuses to curve. Even worse, she wastes TONS of time telling the class why it's our fault we're failing and that it's because of our choices (ie "having a job, that takes away from study time")!

Ruined my GPA. I'm coming out of this class with very little knowledge of chemistry. When it came to exams she pulled random information and you never knew what to expect. Take the class over the summer if you get stuck with her!

This lady was an absolutely terrible teacher. In highschool I got a 4 on my AP chem exam. I took her class as a frosh engineering student to pad my GPA, and also because it was required. The class was the opposite of what it should be. As someone who did well enough on a standardized test to place out of this course, my grade in no way reflects it.

This professor wastes most of class talking about her running marathons, and often times gives incorrect information while explaining problems on the board...(even though she rarely actually solves the problems).

Professor McClary tries to help students succeed in her class, but it is difficult for her to see where students go wrong with the material. She is not very accommodating in terms of make up exams and her exams are very long and difficult. I would recommend taking another professor for this course.

She is easily the worst teacher I have ever had. When a student does not understand a problem, she is very quick to blame their study habits as opposed to her explanation (or lack thereof more often than not). Attendance is mandatory. Despite having to teach yourself solely from the book, you still have to go to her waste of time lecture.

She is by far the worst teacher in GW history with little to no care about her students passing. She won't be staying at GW for long.. Terrible professor and very rude sometimes.

One of the worst professors I have had during my time at GW. Exams are tough and she is an extremely hard grader. Going to lecture is important but most times the class leaves more confused than when they went in.

I don't think a professor has made me had a subject more than McClary has. Not only does she undermine your intelligence in class but also couldn't understand why people did not understand concepts that she neglected to teach in class. She might be a decent human but she is a horrible professor. Avoid at all cost!

This professor knows how to turn you off to an extent you stop wanting to go to class. Teaching style is nice but it doesn't really help when it comes to the exms/ extra credit quizzes. Organic is hard but with McClary its UNCLEAR what she wants. Goodluck if you're still in Orgo 1 you have a lot to go through mentally & you'll need to grow so much.

Organic with McClary is awful! McClary doesn't really guide you for her exams. You are literally on your own. AVOID.

Take anybody but her for Orgo II. She'll only be specific about one concept and expects you to know the rest even though she barely teaches it. She doesn't give partial credit and is very rude in office hours. She gets mad and condescending when you don't understand something she's already explained. I highly recommend that you do NOT take her.

Please avoid at all cost. No matter how hard you study it is almost impossible to pass that class.

Seriously, don't. This class actually ruined my life. I saw the rating and thought I could do it; do not make this mistake. I withdrew in the 7th week because it was horrible, she embarrasses students on purpose, makes you feel dumb, expects you to know tons of material she doesn't teach. Now I have to retake this and it's super inconvenient.

Chemistry itself isn't that challenging, it was just how she portioned the test. For example, if you have a good general understanding about chapter 5, she wont test you on all the different aspects on it. She will make like 20% of the test on 1 combustion analysis problem, but not have any other thing on the other things she taught on chapter 5.

She was extremely difficult. If you had not taken ap chem, you had to self teach yourself all the basics. Tests are extremely difficult. Try to find a different professor

Do not take. Simple as that

I really tried to give her a chance I really did, but this was the worst class I've ever taken by far. DO NOT take any class with her if you want to pass with a good grade and not put in excessive work. She is very inaccessible outside the classroom and not helpful when asked questions. Her tests are impossible.

To give you an idea of what this class will do to your GPA, the average on the first exam was in the 30s. McClary explains concepts in a really confusing way, even if you've already done the material in the past. You'll end up teaching yourself everything and just being confused on what she wants. **Make sure you go to her review session**

She asks you stuff in puzzles. The tests are never give me percent composition. It would be like give me the amount per whole of the amount of hydrogen in this reaction that involves you taking steps to decipher what she is telling you just to figure out how to do the problem itself when you find that.

There is no curve for this class, another surprise, McClary says the curve is your lab grade, which is pretty substantial but not enough to make you feel comfortable. 3 tests and a final determine your grade, and ALL are cumulative. Partial credit is UNLIKELY. Expect any mistakes you make on a problem to equal 0 points for that question.

Don't take this class under any circumstances! your GPA will go the ground, and you will be depressed the whole semester. The lecture is a thing, and the tests are a completely different thing.

She just doesn't teach what is relevant to her exams and compared to other professors, her exams are at least twice as hard. He curve doesn't really exist and in past years I was told other people had to grade her exams so they could actually pass.

This class was awful, If you ever want to feel worthless everyday then take McClary. Her tests reflect nothing that you learn in class, and forget about going to her office hours unless you want to feel like you are stupid and worthless. Partial credit? Not a thing, she will give you no points even if you understand what you are doing. Avoid this!!

This class has been almost impossible. I have never studied harder for a class yet there is no good results. The class is fully based on tests and they are extremely difficult. I would never recommend to anyone taking this class.

By the first week you realize that McClary only responds to questions by blaming you for not being prepared and telling you to review your notes. Mcclary's tests are the hardest relative to the tests of other classes and make you wish you hadn't been a fool and not checked rate my professor before signing up for her class.

This class made me never want to ever do chemistry ever again in my life. Get one of the other more reasonable professors, avoid this class.

She's nice, she can explain the concepts well but her tests are insanely hard. She expects too much of the students. Ask for as much help as you can, always go to her review sessions, stemworks, and office hours. Basically, take all her advice on how much you should study. If that doesnt work at least you have freshman forgiveness.

The other reviews are correct. She is a really terrible teacher and and even worse lecturer. Expect no help out of class and insanely harsh grading. Avoid at all costs.

Worse professor I had in the university. Will make you hate chemistry for the rest of your life. Even studying hard and giving your best will not be enough, you won't learn a thing. Any other professor will be better, avoid her.

WORST TEACHER EVER! In order to PASS this class you have to be on her good side. If you do not participate in class and go to her office hours then she will not know your name when she is grading and grade you harshly! I withdrew from the course the last day possible and then to reward all the kids that had the balls to stay, she gave extra credit!

Do not listen to the comments that if you are on her good side she will grade you less harsh. You should not have to be on a professor's "good side" to be graded fairly. Do not take this class if you want a good gpa. Other professors have a 20+ better test grade avg on every test. Obviously, something is wrong. Anything is better than this class.

Shes a terrible professor. Has two words on her slides. and the exam is like from chegg but the hardest questions which i wonder if she can even do considering the fact she obviously has solutions and her teaching doesnt correlate the hear heavy exams. She really needs to understand that if shes going to give a hard exam she has to teach properly.

SHE IS THE WORST PROFESSOR

McClary is a very difficult teacher. She goes over topics very fast and overcomplicates almost everything. The exams are very difficult and the multiple choice is brutal. Beware!

Do not take this class online if you want to do well chemistry. She's a nice person but is too smart for the class she teaches. She speeds over topics and expects you to know things she is teaching. Office hours and review sessions don't help and are not accessible to everyone. Trust me, the positive reviews are either chem geniuses or class pets.

She is a terrible teacher. She has review sessions and office hours at times that I couldn't always get to and she would straight up teach new topics in those review sessions and would just skim the over in the ACTUAL lecture. If you want proof of how bad she is, the exam average for our first two tests the averages were a 62 and 59 respectively.

Lectures are very unorganized and unclear. Exams are primarily multiple choice and no partial credit is given even on questions with multiple parts. The online ALEKS homework is fine but should count for way more of the final grade just because of the time it takes. No curve or extra credit was given. Don't take this professor if you don't have to.

If you take this class with this professor, there is a 100% chance that you will not learn anything. Expects you to be at the level of expertise in chemistry as she is and don't dare ask any questions because she will grill you. The exams are impossible and I genuinely believe she does not want her students to succeed. Avoid this professor.

Avoid Dr. McClary if you can. Her class was extremely difficult, and was even worse since we were online due to COVID. Our class had the lowest exam averages of all 3 CHEM1111 classes and she was not helpful. After reaching out to her SEVERAL times, her only advice to the class was "keep reviewing." Also, barely any partial credit and no curves

If you can't come to office hours, or the study sessions she has (where she teaches new material and where she stops she continues in class from the same place) like fam this isn't my only class. When we brought up how there was a grade difference with her other classes, she told us to study harder, even though we spent so much time studying.

This professor is a nightmare. The ALEKS homework takes hours to finish and you don't even learn things that are related to the class or exams. Her explanations of concepts and problems was mediocre at best or completely unhelpful as she thinks the students are at her level. Exams had negative credit with averages of 50-60%. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

If she is your only option for a chem1111 class, I strongly recommend you take it next semester with another professor. I did not feel supported as a student or was provided resources to succeed. She has the lowest test averages of any chem prof and discourages questions of any kind. She is not good at teaching and not worth your $80k education.

Terrible professor. Exam averages were the worst out of any professor. While the exams might be the same, she is a much harsher grader than the other professors. I'm 99% she doesn't know some of the stuff she teaches. Other students have pointed out flaws in her explanations.

The worst. Grading is punitive. Almost impossible to receive above a B due to her absolute grading. I came to class twice at 9:00 on the dot (when it starts) my grade dropped automatically to a b-. One of those times it was the first day and I got lost. I am not exaggerating. I have never heard a single person say a good thing about her teaching.

I urge you to take any other chem professor. Her lectures are so hard to follow and you have to be a teachers pet to get on her good side. She actually recommended to my class that we consider dropping a class if our workload was too much. She pretends to care about the well being of her students but refuses to take any accountability for herself.

Racist professor towards arabs. She thinks this is a chemistry timed competition. I took her 4 and she still makes me mad I hope she loses her job.

Part 1: If I could give professor McClary a 0 I would. This lady has done nothing but make my life a living hell. I don't understand how anyone can be such a lousy professor. She gets sidetracked very easily, contradicts herself continuously, and fails to teach the class. We are in general chemistry there is no reason to talk about Organic Chem

Part II: She is very unapproachable and even when you go to her office hours I was met with nothing but a nasty attidue. The conversation between us did not feel like a teacher and student but a friend to a friend. Her tests are very hard, and she is a terrible person and teacher overall.

Part III: I will never understand how GW will allow someone like her to teach a class. She is actually the worst person that a chem person can come across. If you have the option, please PLEASE avoid taking her class at all costs. Find a different chemistry teacher or get your gen chem credit elsewhere. The tears and stress are not worth it.

She is the worst teacher I have had in my entire life. I genuinely do not understand how this university hired her. I could not advocate for you to take ANY OTHER teacher more. She is unbelievably unfair, her test grading includes ZERO partial. credit. 20% of class was passing... barely.

Worst professor at GW. Her grading policy is cruel and disheartening, no partial credit, no extra credit. Seems nice in class, but it's fake- go to her office hours and find out. Exams are not based on anything from lecture, not that you'll learn anything from lecture anyways. If you care about your GPA take this with literally anyone else PLEASE.

You can read the other student's ratings, I just have to say that she's the only professor I've ever thought was evil. She does not want her students to succeed, she wants you to fail. She thinks she's better than you and wants you to know that. Take with anyone else or take anywhere else.

This best describes how I feel about this woman: "And I don't even want you back, I just want to know If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal And I don't miss what we had, but could someone give A message to the smallest man who ever lived? Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead? Did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed?" - Taylor Swift

If you couldn't tell by the 100 other 1 star ratings, do NOT take this class. I have studied EVERY DAY since the semester has begun, yet I'm still failing. The grading criteria is so terrible, it's impossible to pass. If it's the last thing I do, I will warn everyone else in the world to do ANYTHING but take her class. Don't find out the hard way.

I think having this professor was the worst experience I have had college. She is truly just out to get you- does not want to see you succeed. Like half the class dropped before the grades got scaled up (which she never told us would happen) and still a lot of the class hardly passed. Take ANYONE else, the emotional trauma is not worth it.

She clearly resents having to teach gen chem instead of orgo. Tests are completely unfair and unrelated to the aleks assignments. She was being investigated for unfair treatment and grading. You can work your ass off, but you still aren't going to get the grade you deserve. The test averages were in the 30s.

She is the absolute worst professor at GW. Aleks is long and annoying: you basically have to teach yourself everything. There are 3 tests and NO partial credit nor leniency. Homework and lab adds up to maybe ~30% but if you do poorly on tests, she doesn't count that 30% of Aleks or mandatory lab. Don't take her, she is a horrible professor.

I think she honestly has a lot of loneliness in her life that she takes out on students. Over half the class was failing and she emailed saying when she was in college she had to drop a calc class even though she got an A on the first exam. She also randomly said she never has guests over at her house which was kinda telling if you ask me.

Where do I even begin with her? Taking her class feels like walking on shards of glass every day. She is the most discouraging person you will ever meet. She never fails to boast about herself while bringing you down. I beg you, take any other professor. She's not worth the tears.

I don't know if you could tell by the other awful reviews, but there is no way this lady should be teaching. She will make sure that you know she is smarter than you and go on different tangents about her boring life. I need her to have a wake-up call and quit; she is not meant to teach any class, let alone be ahead of the department.

This lady was a nightmare. Her exams were so random no matter how much we prepared. It was like a gamble guessing what was gonna be on the exam. We never had proper lectures, it felt so disorganized. Never take her. If there is no other professor, wait another semester. Spare yourself of the PTSD.

This professor genuinely made me want to drop out of college fully because she demotivated me to the point where I thought I was incapable but in reality she's just sad with her life and takes it out on teenagers. She is impossible. Don't take this class and save yourself.