Harder one .. Wordy questions on the exam.. keep away from here. she is rude person..

AVOID AVOID AVOID her. If you want to have a good grad take it some where else. she is the harder teacher I have ever seen in my live. she is never care about her student. Just want you to read and read and read and her test is so hard and wordy question. I got A on all bio but because she teaches this course I end up with C+. go a way from her.

Lecture was spent doing group worksheets that did nothing but confuse everyone, we did not receive feedback from these assignments. She talks so fast and won't provide clarification when asked (probably bc the worksheets take up so much time). I took the whole 21x series from her and it was bad, bad, bad.

slides are posted but they're awful and don't make any sense

Lori kayes designed the biology series as if it is the only class you are taking. There is so much busy work that you dont have time to actually study for the stuff you are learning. She talks way to fast in lecture and I never can finish writing down all the notes before she moves on. This biology series is a mess.

While the whole BI21X series is a mess, Dr. Kayes teaching style didn't help at all. You will do many worksheets that are never finished and use Learning Catalytics that are allegedly for "participation points" but will actually bring your grade down if you don't know the answer. Grit your teeth and get through it I guess.

If I could give Lori a -10/10 I would. This is one of the WORST professors that I have ever had at Oregon State. Lecture is a waste of time but if you don't show up you won't pass the class. Instead of using TopHat for participation, you have to use Learning Catalytics that actually make your grade go down if you don't know the answer. AWFUL 0/10

If I could rate a 0, I would. Lori Kayes is quite possibly the worst professor that I've experienced at OSU. She gets her own questions wrong, shrugs off students questions, and, when I was in her class blatantly ignored male students that asked questions. Apparently this is what OSU looks for in Bio professors. POS school.

Worst professor I have ever had at OSU. I honestly do not know if she is qualified to teach this course considering we had to have another professor finish the second half of the term for her.

If I could give Lori a -50/10 I would. She is mean, not outgoing what so ever, replies to emails with rude messages, makes zero sense in any assignment ever, and tests material don't even correlate to lecture at all. Terrible teacher, not a nice person.

Talks very fast and is generally condescending toward people who ask questions. Not a great teacher. The labs associated with the BI21X series were the biggest waste of time in my college career. Labs were all Busy work and served absolutely no purpose

I'm currently writing my first professor rating in four years at this university because I'm so irate. It's week four of fall term and I feel like I'm losing my mind every time I try to interact with Professor Kayes. She is consistently rude, unclear, and very obviously uncaring about the success of her students. I'm out of characters, so goodbye

Not a single topic discussed in the lectures end up on the quizzes. They are formatted in a way that she thinks is to "apply what we have learned" when we have zero practice using what we have learned let alone applying it. The worksheets make no sense, the quizzes are impossible, I have a 4.0 and im barely passing the class. Do not recommend.

Beyond challenging & defeating by its quizzes. I just received an A+ on my A&P midterm and have not gotten higher than a D in Lori's Bio class. I am not a D student! Lots of reading that she confuses you on in lecture later. She describes topics as simple in class and in her open book quizzes your notes cant even help you. need more time on quiz!!

I have never been so at a loss with a class or professor. I have never studied so hard in my life and been more present during a class and Im still getting Ds. Lectures are pointless and barely over test/quiz material. Everyone in the class has been saying the same things too. Just super disappointing to have an educator be so careless.

I am teaching myself all of the material, leaving me with absolutely no free time. I sleep 5 hours/night. The lectures are not equivalent to the textbook or quiz/test information at all. If you want to succeed, you must spend hours reviewing textbook notes and youtube videos. If you contact her, you will get a rude or delayed response. Defeating.

Rushes through content during lecture. Goes through the text book out of order. Be ready to read a lot on your own because she doesn't teach. Quizzes are super hard. She has said "it's hard, there's trick questions, but I believe in you guys". Never responds to emails. Makes midterm right after halloween and doesn't care about anyone having a life.

She can't lecture to save her and the class weighs heavily on four quizzes and the midterm and final. There is so much homework outside of class and it's a lot of work for a general biology series.

The worst class Ive taken in my career here; Ive never been so frustrated with all aspects of a class before. It's very poorly organized and ineffectually taught and she wont ever take responsibility for not teaching a concept well enough, writing a poor test, etc. If there is any possible way to not take this class, do it.

Way too heavy workload and poor job explaining

class was incredibly disorganized and made topics way harder than they should have been. im sure lori is a very nice lady but she is not a good teacher. she was very rude in email responses, wrote all of the exams with many typos, and was very hypocritical. she expects students to be flexible with her mistakes but will not do the same for you

Awful at lecturing. Extremely hard to follow what she is teaching. Treats students as if they are middle schoolers.

Goes through the lectures too fast, unable to take notes. Content of the lecture does not match the content of the readings and the homework so throughout the entire class, I've felt very confused.

Lori is a horrible professor, even the lab TA's agree with the students. She moves incredibly fast and only covers the important topics in the last 30 seconds of class. Her quizzes have very long questions, and assigns us reading and doesn't even go through them in class. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS or at least not this professor!

Expects 400x level performance out of 200x students, talks down to the class when she's performed terribly at explaining something. Only has a 3/5 rating because that 5/5 is mysteriously written in the teacher's writing style.

her tests, quizzes, and exams are extremely hard, nothing we were tested on had nothing to do with what we took. would not take again

The worst professor ever! She rushes through lectures and doesnt answer questions clearly due to the rushing. Barely any content covered in lecture yet she expects you to know a lot. Avoid her if possible (probably not cause she the only professor for this series). Your grade mostly depends on 4 quizzes, a midterm, and the final. AVOID! AVOID!

She rushed through just about the whole five weeks she taught. Incredibly hard to follow along and her lecture slides are very unprofessional and unorganized. Extra credit is offered which helped a lot because you barely learn enough during lecture.

The optional reading for studying is useless, you DO NOT need it.

Didn't have her for bio series and after seeing all the comments, I'm glad I didn't. However, I've had some interactions with her that left me with a bad impression every time. I've worked with many different characters throughout my 20's and by far I find her demeanor to be very unprofessional. She's unapproachable, rude, and a bit short with you.

She goes so fast! Bad timing with how she explains things and when she realizes she's out of time, she speeds through the content within the last minute. It is so hard to follow along with how she explains things and the readings are too much. The study guides aren't consistent. If you can choose, take a different professor!

She talks way too fast, teaches things in a difficult-to-understand order, gets visibly annoyed when people ask questions and is generally disorganized. Always 'behind' in lectures because she constantly says things like "We'll talk about this later but.." and goes on tangents. She confuses everyone and knows she talks too fast and still does.

Lori could not get through a single successful lecture. We wasted time on TopHat and worksheets, and she constantly had to correct herself after telling us certain things because she DOESN"T KNOW THE TOPICS. Always ran out of time, tests made no sense with lecture material, way too much stuff to do for a 4 credit class. STAY AWAY.

While I did fine in the BI 22X series, Lori Kayes could not be a worse coordinator of the series. The course as a whole is so disorganized. Instructors change every 5 weeks, so there is no time to adjust to the system. Lori is zero help with complaints or issues, even though that is her entire job

Professor Is unable to make it through a single lecture without being super behind. The textbook readings teach more than the actual lectures. Beware there are randomized assigned groups and seating. Felt like I would've learned more online then in lecture. The labs do not relate to the class at all but were much more engaging then the lecture.

I wish I could give Lori a higher rating but she is very difficult to follow, misspeaks nearly every lecture when explaining complex topics, and rushes often. Didn't feel like the lectures provided anything for me, the book was much more helpful. She can be a little condescending when students ask questions in lecture, seems nice otherwise.

Unfortunate she runs the series. Speaks so quickly that she is panting, not thorough, often misspeaks and has typos. Take class somewhere else. I find it interesting when you look at most of her higher reviews they all sound like her, punctuation, diction, and all. She runs the whole series, so people are afraid to complain in end of term reviews.

Not a good teacher, did not lecture well and the tests were pretty much nothing like what we learned in class. Good luck, this class took more time to study then Organic Chemistry.