Megan spends too much time thinking about how she will look cool to the students then actually caring if she does well. Her exams are too long, with questions bogged down by useless words and she spends a lot of time in lectures wasting time about the little things, but quizzing the most obscure details in the reading for that week. AVOID

Take a different section if you can. Wastes time in lectures on simple topics, just tries to do too much to make biology cool. The wording on pre-reading q's is often misleading, and whether you've done the reading or not won't matter because she will quiz on abstract stuff , but then spend the whole lecture talking about the easy stuff.

Exams are very wordy and you usually run out of time for them. Pre-reading is mandatory but prof goes over concepts in class anyways. Doesn't cover material similar to tests, only teaches the basics so be ready to go searching for other study material.

On the exams I found myself reading these paragraph long questions with so much malarkey, only to realize I just spent 5 minutes reading a multiple choice question. Lectures were simple, briefly explaining a few concepts out of many from the entire chapter. Exams are brutal, average is about 50-60%. No curving/scaling of grades. GL you'll need it.

expects to complete exams with a minute for each question even tho majority voiced that it wasnt reasonable for us, she didnt take our suggestion and kept exams lengthy and material on exams was unexpected compared to what we covered in lecture.

Avoid. Wastes time. Tests are not fair. I don't want to take any more biology classes thanks to her.

Don't take this class with her. Her lectures are so boring she makes you do group work in the lectures and it usually doesn't make sense. Get ready to read. The midterms/final is different from what you are taught so get ready to pull allnighters. This course is way to heavy to be a first year course.

This course is based off of you doing the prereadings, and if not you are screwed for exams because you can't study off her lecture slides as they are just pictures! Bio with her is a self taught course. Nobody has time to study the lengthy and useless readings, recommended. She does not believe in curving (heads up). I had to retake the course!

her exams are not related to what you read and learn. One of the shocking questions is that she was asking about Botox pillar treatment when I learned Digestion, Respiration/Circulation, Neurons and Signals, Muscles. Might be related concepts but for me, it doesn't make any sense to ask that to freshman students. We are not doctors.

Did not explain things in detail

Took this class in summer online. Awful experience, do not take it with her. Notes + lectures useless. Need to memorize textbook and self teach if you expect a decent grade. She gave the hardest practice exam and exam questions (when I searched up a few practice answers, they were recycled from previous UBC second and third year bio courses).

First of all, do not take this course with her if you are not ready to read. I taught myself 95% of this course, by reading the textbook and doing practice questions. Lectures were useless and I only attended to get my iClicker marks. Megan cannot teach, class time was wasted on clickers and "discuss with the person beside you."

so baddie nice

Hi all, I'd say to you don't take this class. She is a very difficult prof to deal with. She says one thing and brings another in exam. The slides are just pictures not helpful. Does not explain well. Only a lot of participation. Don't take with her.

she cannot teach so she makes us read like over thirty pages of notes every single class. class time is wasted by her saying “talk to your partner” like can you just teach us something?? and don't even get me started on the iclickers. they are so useless, they don't help at all but you need to show up or you don't get the marks. dont take her class

Cannot teach, she does this feedback about the course thing every week where we spend 30 minutes on it, and yet she doesn't even take the feedbacks seriously, you're gonna be so confused in class if you dont read 20+ pages she assigns due next day. Don't get me started with pre class quizzes. Don't take the class with her

her tests are way too long for a fifty minute period. it takes her 10 minutes to get everyone settled and hand out the test and then she yaps for another five minutes. the multiple choice questions are worded so weirdly and the grammar is off on so many questions. you'd think that since she's white her grammar would be better, but it's not.

Tests are ridiculous, 50 MC along with 36 points worth of long answers. The test is to be completed in 50 minutes. Do not take this class with her if you can help it. During lectures Megan fails to teach properly. Megan is late and untidy nearly everyday.

She claims her tests are fair but it's not, you need to do 60 questions (which is mc and written) under an hour, the ta's for that class also pmo, tutorials are useless, her grammer is so bad u don't understand the questions on the test, the slides are useless its all pictures, lectures are basically pointless, don't take the class with her

She's always late, and there is so much pre-reading to do. Almost every lecture, she is a pre-reading week behind, or she doesn't even teach what is on the pre-reading. We have these weekly journals that don't even benefit you. She's nice and makes us engage with others, but being nice doesn't make you a good professor.

She likes to think of herself as being relatable and kind to students, but if she really did understand students; she would not assign so much work. You have to do these reading guides every week and teach yourself, lectures are very unhelpful and boring. I don't know how she got all these high ratings.

Her lecture is completely useless. Every week we are wasting time sitting in her lecture to discuss question which the content she didn't teach us yet. She just made you read the entire textbook by yourself and basically study by yourself. However she loves to hear feedback from students by making us write this pointless weekly journal.

Instead of making her students do weekly feedback journals, she should just take a look at her rating here.

Her lectures are pointless and a waste of time, I don't know where she pulls half the question on her exams from. Assigns way too much reading from textbook and makes it really unclear how in depth we need to learn things. Overcomplicates the entire course, I recommend avoiding a class with her.

Dr. Barker is a great person, but not a great professor. In simple terms, she can't teach. Her lectures and weekly feedback journals are a waste of time, the pre-lab work is time-consuming and most of your studying will be out of class. The ppts are nearly impossible to study off, and the labs don't prepare you enough for the exam.

Class is a waste of time, the questions she puts on the written portions of her exams are always so extra compared to the material taught (sometimes stuff we have never even talked about). The questions always feel like a trick because they could all be right but which one is the “most” right…

this class is just the worst. majority of what is on the test is not covered in class. if it is, she goes over it for 5 minutes. the rest of the class consists of "talking to your neighbours". bro. avoid if possible. she sucks and lowkey I think she's racist.

she's about to cram a whole month of material into one week bc she wasted too much time making us talk to our partners. nice person but horrible at time management. avoid if you can.

She's actually so nice, but she's one of the hardest profs I've had in a long time. I don't understand what gets done from group discussions, weekly journals, or just not teaching. Exams are hard as hell, we're not phD students, so why are we being tested on things that are irrelevant? Idk avoid if you can, nice lady, but will screw your gpa over

Avoid if possible.

Materials on test is nothing we learned in lectures

Look, she's a nice professor and shows clear passion in her teaching. However, that doesn't excuse her from the fact that her tests are utter bullshit. Material covered in the lectures, which is crammed because of excessive "discussion" doesn't reflect what is actually being tested. Also, her dog is a massive distraction and should be left at home.

Avoid her at any cost, worst professor i ever had. The lectures are useless you will have no idea what to expect on exams they are out of no where and so hard. Also, the tutorials are bullshit TA doesn't even know what and how to teach and have no idea what is going on in the course. She should stop teaching and her dog should stay at home.

She's a nice person, but honestly one of the worst professors imaginable. Her tests are nothing like what she teaches in lectures. The questions are super complicated. The weekly journals and group discussions feel completely useless. The time she gives for tests is also really unfair. Please avoid her class if you care about your gpa.

Please avoid her class if you care about your GPA.

Avoid her class.

She is the worst prof ever. Decently nice but that doesn't when your grades and gpa are on the line. You can study your hardest, use every technique and still get below average. Averages are low 60s every test with only 5 people receiving 90-100.

One of the worst profs I've had at SFU. Constant “talk to the person beside you” during class instead of actually teaching the material. I have taught all of this course to myself. Her class averages for exams say more about her teaching than student performance- test material is nothing like the lectures. Avoid if you care about ur GPA.

The professor's teaching style made the course difficult to follow. Lectures often felt unclear, and key concepts were not explained in a structured or simple way.

I have never put so much time into a class and done so poorly. This class made me rethink my whole life. Would not take if you care about your GPA. Claims tests are fair but it's a self taught course and tests are unpredictable. ALOT of unnecessary quizzes,lab prep,journals. Not worth your happiness. Run while you can, not everyone has that luxury.

do NOT take her if you value your GPA. I love bio, studied a lot, thought I understood the material, only to have nothing we talked about in lecture on the exams. everything she structured was very pointless in my opinion.

Spends the first half of class yapping about things that no one cares about and only brushes over the important stuff in the last 20 minutes. An overload of pre-class/pre-lab quizzes every week, + the pointless weekly journal that doesn't help you in any way. Prepare to teach yourself EVERYTHING. Absolutely useless professor. Avoid at all costs.

Get ready to read a LOT, and prepare to teach yourself everything.

NEVER EVER TAKE A CLASS WITH HER THIS IS UR WARNING!!

If you're not religious, well you better start pick one and start praying. Megan's lecture slides are inefficient enough to cover ANY study material for midterms and exams; she expects students to know the entire textbook by heart. Yeah she's friendly and kind but that's not the point, we're paying for this education so I'd expect a good education.

the tests are completely new things never seen before. Her lectures consists of her telling us to talk to our peers about what we think the answer might be. her slides are all pictures and no actual notes. she is not teaching you anything and has weekly journals which are so time consuming and not even helpful with the class itself. avoid class!!!!

It's so bad I'm actually just sitting here laughing. Like how is she getting paid for this LMAO

Please avoid her class. Worst professor ever. Too many course journals which are completely useless. The test concepts are different than lectures and it takes forever to get through all the pre-class readings.

Lectures are useless, you basically teach yourself everything, she's is always behind. I literally don't know how she is a prof. I'm not denying that she is a great person, but that doesn't make up for how bad she is at her job. I just want to be done with this class already.

Do not get me wrong, she's a kind person. Except, there is infinite pre-readings, weekly journals, lectures really don't help with the textbook and exam material. If you want to take this course, prepare to become independent, because you will be teaching yourself everything.

worst professor ever, doesn't know what she's talking about. too much group work, cant teach for the life of her, her dogs annoying asf big distraction, thinks it'll help us cus "cuddling with animals helps with stress bs", like YOU and YOUR DOG CAUSE the stress? dont ever take a class with her. I could care less if she's a nice person, she sucks

A disgrace to all professors, how are you here? She teaches absolutely nothing and expects you to know the entire textbook. Her lectures are useless, and her dog barks the entire class. If you thought you were good at bio before, think again, cause you're not. Even if you study all day, all night, you will barely pass. Just pray you get a good TA.

I honestly don't know how she is a professor. Her lectures are so useless and you have to teach yourself everything. The lecture slides are bio12 level and the test is far more complicated than you can imagine. Not to mention there are so many pre-class work you have to do before each lecture including a very useless course journal.

i'm paying like 4k a year to teach myself everything in this class. megan absolutely cannot teach, her time management is horrible and she brings her dog to classes after people tell her theyre allergic and it barks and she pretends to be annoyed. my ta teaches me more in one hour tutorials than her three hour ones and she gets paid way more. js no

do NOT take this class with her. shows "cute animals" during the horrid tests she gives us to "relieve stress" as if thats gonna change the monstrosity of the test she gave that has nothing we learnt in class. lecture slides are all pictures and expects us magically know everything from the hundreds of textbook readings she assigns like be so fr.

Yall know that scene in mean girls when Regina is writing in the burn book? Yeah, that all I have to say about this professor.

I was praying to Jesus she was a good professor, she made me lose my faith in the lord.

So unrealistic that I am paying $500+ for a course only to end up self studying the entire textbook. Other classes actively have 20-50 slides that ACTUALLY contain material that is on assessments and are also material heavy, so there is no reason why Megan cannot do the same. There needs to be a lot of reflecting for better teaching and learning.

Do yourself a favour never take her. Ridiculous i payed $4000 for this only course as an international and she is so bad at her job. I wish i could have my money back

She does not know how to teach; her slides are very shallow, and you can't really study or learn from them. You have to do so much reading every single week, and all she does in class is test your pre-reading knowledge.

This course has been very underwhelming and very ridiculous. I have no clue as to why she made us throw paper across the lecture hall during exam review. Why are you making the custodians' job even harder than it is? She expects everyone to know the textbook in and out like its ABCs and assumes everyone had a PhD in biology. Save your sanity.

genuinely hate her with all of my heart. her slides look like they were pulled from a kids book + have nothing of note on them. stupid fking preclass quizzes/journals every fking week + those GODDAMN iclickers. in love with "talk to the person beside you!!" stfu tests do not correlate to taught material AT ALL. she just yaps n yaps abt random sht.

Don't do it

no comment. dont do this class

If we get 3 hrs to write the final exam then give us 3 full hours why only giving 2 hours to complete 60 questions. It doesn't even made sense and plus it was so hard something we never learned in class.

she is the worst prof i have ever had in my entire life. she makes us do weekly readings from the textbook and makes us read like a gazillion pages and we never know to what extent we need to learn the info. then, during lectures, she does not teach anything she just makes you talk to people around u, then she makes us do course journals every week

Save yourself and never do this course with her. As she will never teach anything about what to expect on the test and you are on you own.

First off, why was the exam time halved/shortened drastically?? It was stated that we would have 3 full hours to work on the exam but we were actually given 1 hour and 30 mins to work on the actual exam while another 30 mins for the group component. This is so unacceptable and frustrating. If an exam says it's 3 hours, I'd EXPECT it to be 3 hours.

DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE. Megan seemed more confused than me throughout the semester. She doesn't teach anything while assigning over 30 pages of pre reading. The whole lecture consist on her getting us to “discuss” with the people next to us. Don't even get me started on her course journal and feedback atp she really needs to take that feedback.

Her dog could teach better.

If the schedule says we get 3 hours to write a final exam, then we should get the full 3 hours. Not 90 minutes.

She is bad at her job no matter how sweet she tries to be but can never teach. We pay fee to be taught not to have a sweet person to talk. She didn't teach us a word the whole semester like 1% from 100%

What for the reason to give us only 1:30 hr to do the final exam when the exam schedule literally said 3 hrs. Thats so so unfair what does she think we are some kind of machine to think and do 60question with several parts in 1:30hr.

My worst experience couldn't tolerate her. She should actually see these feedbacks and maybe work in future.

Dr. Megan is a nice person but doesn't teach any content and tends to waste time of lectures through discussing and very disorganized. It's a textbook focused course as it's the only way to learn. Both midterms she didn't give the students time and cut the final time in half. The lab exam had 8 stations for 5 mins each which made many not pass.

she is a good person but her lectures are very unhelpful . Nothing from lectures is on exams and all you will learn is from the pre readings which takes all your time. The course journals has no point, very time consuming. Try to avoid if possible. There are so many things you need to do each week, so don't fall behind.

Megan is a kind/enthusiastic about teaching but is not is not good at it. She rushes and this class is very reading heavy with avg 30 pages a week. On the final exam we were supposed to be given 3hours for the exam but she split the test in 60 minutes solo and 30-45 minutes with groups. So gave us half the allotted time for finals that sfu said.

She is a mediocre teacher. Very unclear about what the wants to teach and waste of time. Spent a lot of time going on side tangents about other things. She is not good at teaching as you learn more from textbook than her. You spend hours on the reading to have proper reading comp.

Cares about biology a lot but is not good as a teacher. You can sit through and entire lecture but if you did none of the pre reading you won't understand anything. She wasted my time and will probably yours as well. It was mediocre of class due to her specifically. Even the TA's didn't know what to do. They tried helping but confused students more