Her tests are very hard and her grading method is unpredictable. I would not take another class with her and wouldn't recommend her to anyone. I had a tutor and learned from her more than the professor.

Ignore previous posts!! She used to give extra credit but doesn't anymore. Pop quizzes are given at almost every lecture. Impossible to get an A so don't even try. I am an A student with a 4.0 GPA and didn't do well with her. It's as if she tries to fail everyone. Dropped a full letter grade on exam because I forgot to initial first page of rules.

Nicole's a tough professor. She's very condescending. She does NOT work with students, even during extenuating circumstances, so you're screwed if you're forced to miss an exam due to an emergency. She offers NO extra credit anymore, and she grades exams very unfairly. Even if you do A work, she'll make sure you will never get an A. DON"T TAKE HER!

Worst professor I have ever had. I'm in school currently for teaching and couldn't believe how unclear she was all semester. Every morning she would jump into a new topic and zoom past things that were later a bug deal. It was so hard to talk to her about anything because she was MIA during her office hours. In lab she was snappy and unhelpful.

Worst decision in my life. The worst professor ever. She is very rude and does not know how to teach to save her life ..

toughest teacher in chemistry department, hard to get A or B and never give you what you disserve to get. her grading so unfair and treat student differently. she never answer your question and 0 help. if looking good GPA go another teacher. I am A student but hardly got C in this class. please don't even try to take her class.

Terrible teacher. Would not recommend. If you do anything right, DO NOT take from her. She is unwilling to help period. I'm a straight A student and struggled to pass.

Waste of time, I took the same class at a real college (not some silly community highschool 2.0) and it was easier and better. The instructor treats you like a 1st grader. She fakes being nice, but her harsh attendance policy and condescending attitude say otherwise.

Exams are super hard. They are completely different from the examples she teaches in class. She knows her stuff but not good at explaining it to the class.

Lectures are useless, textbooks are going to be your best friend in this class.

Nicole is a great person, but not a great instructor. Her teaching style is very old school - copy down what she is writing. She was strict when it wasn't warranted and lenient when she shouldn't have been. Overall very inconsistent. Tests are 70% of your grade, and the hours upon hours you spend on homework is only 10%. Steer clear for 1061.

does not clearly explain course material. everyone in class did not know what they were doing. I took the course again with a different teacher and passed with all A's when in gingery's class i was getting c's and lower.

Avoid this professor if you can. She doesnt care about the students. I understand this class is supposed to be hard but her teaching style makes it even more harder. You cant use any electronic in class and she keeps repeating the rules like were children.

She has SET zoom meetings for ONLINE classes but does not tell you when they are until the class starts. Then if you have work or are already busy (and can't change your work schedule) she DOES NOT let you makeup the exams and expects you to take them. She is very unorganized and no hand out of when things were due. You had to search for due dates

she is horrible at answering your questions. She likes to see student struggle. Her 3 -credit class makes you work like you are in 5-credit class.

Do not take this professor. Avoid her as much as you can. She doesn't care about students and doesn't know how to sympathize even though their is a pandemic. You can't use a phone or laptop in her class and you can't be late. Acts more like a high school teacher because of all her rules.

Homework every week. Quizzes every Monday. Exams every 2 subjects. Expects you to KNOW everything in class. ROUGH GRADER. Forget to include something F, doesn't even care how long you took. Rushes in lecture videos and expects you to know everything already. Uses old lecture videos and test which doesn't match with book. Overall bad professor.

She is not sympathetic or caring in the slightest, controlling- telling you to memorize or go back and review when there is absolutely no point. Her quizzes and exams are hardly related to the material. The textbook is terrible to read. Barely teaches anything in lecture and expects to know everything. WORST TEACHER I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!!

Terrible terrible teacher. Very unflexible. Feels like you are in a prison handing in a million things a week, no feedback given EVER (unless it's to study more) and impossible work. She does not teach and expects you to know everything for tests and exams that have questions who knows where they fell from. Tons of work and hard labs- worst class.

Please save yourself the time and stress by not registering for her class. There are plenty of other professors out there who can do a way better job at teaching the material than Nicole. She does a horrible job at explaining things and expects you to refer back to the poorly written notes she posts or to ask another classmate. Waste of time.

Barely able to get through the material, did not give concepts behind what we were learning, did not accommodate different learning styles, wants to micro-manage students, it was her way or the highway, felt like a nagging parent, she was very passive-aggressive in the hundreds of emails she sent over the semester and that is how she was in class.

The content is easy - Nicole is unpleasant. She teaches unstructured lessons by handwriting notes and insists everyone copy everything down. Expect 6-8h of tedious online homework a week Phones/laptops are not allowed - she will call you out. She practically begs everyone to pay attention to her at all times, clearly has control/self esteem issues

If u have the opportunity to choose another chem teacher, do it. So close to getting a grade above but she does not care at all. Her lectures are so boring, the exam questions are intentionally harder, trying to make you fail. If you do take it, good luck. I'll forever regret this. If you see any good reviews, I get the feeling she's making them.

Nicole is very difficult to work with and does not like to explain how you did things wrong or email back. I would never take a class with her again. Very hard grader and doesn't want to help other then telling you to go reread it until you understand information.

She is one of the worst professors I have ever met. She consistently and constantly creates quarrels with her own students. There was somebody in my class who was hospitalized, and she would not even reschedule their final because it violated the syllabus. Also, she cannot teach. She constantly messes up during lecture and acts like she's right.

While taking this course, I had a lot of other STEM heavy courses harder than general chemistry. Yet, in all those courses the professors were much better at teaching and grading than Nicole was. She would make sure you never got a 100% on anything, by nit picking your grade. She doesn't want her student to succeed and its very apparent.

It's very disappointing to pay money and only get her one bad in-person class. You should not sign up for this class. This is honest advice. She always complains if you're 10 minutes late to the lecture and makes you sign a paper agreeing to follow all her policies.

Trust me, choose a different chemistry professor. She is definitely knowledgeable in chemistry, but expects her students to also be masters after one or two lectures in chemistry. If you do take this class with her, don't expect to have time for any other classes. Her lectures alone are over 10 hours a week and mandatory.

STAY FAR AWAY! Chem is easy but Nichole makes the class difficult. Choose another professor if you have the choice. You will not get a good grade with other responsibilities outside of this class. Expect 5-10hrs of mandatory lectures and 5+ hours of tedious online HW. Professor is very passive aggressive 4 exams+ final and lab final.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Please Please PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS I ONLY TOOK IT BECAUSE OF MY TIGHT SCHEDULE ITS WAY TOO OVERWHELMING ITS AS IF WE DO NOT HAVE A LIFE OUTSIDE OF THIS CLASS IF YOU SEE THIS TRUST ME AND MY PREDECESSORS WHO HAVE LEFT THE SAME MESSAGES AND IF YOU SOMEHOW DO (why would You)TAKE I HOPE YOU DO THE SAME AS I AND PASS IT ON(WARNED)

IMPOSSIBLE TO PASS

DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID THINKING THE RATINGS WERE JUST HARSH PROFFER GINGERY IS THE WORST. CONENT IS EASY PROFESSOR GINGERY ISNT. PROFESSOR GINGERY IS CRUEL, COLD AND CONSIDERABLY RUDE WHEN U ASK FOR HELP. CHOSE ANOTHER PROFESSOR! U WILL NOT GET A GOOD GRADE UNLESS YOU HAVE 20+ HOURS TO SPARE ON CHEM IDK WHY SHE HASN'T BEEN FIRED.

Worst teacher I've ever had to deal with. She'd say one thing and then instantly change her mind without informing anyone. Her lecture videos are horrible as well because you can't skip around in them and they're in 240p so it's basically impossible to see on an average monitor.

I feel awful for anyone unfortunate enough to end up in her class. She clearly has favorites in the class and she will kill your grade if you're not apart of that esteemed group.

I could not think of anything that I've hated doing more than watching her lecture videos

Words cannot describe how difficult this class is. Nicole will tell you to focus on one thing and when you get the exam, that concept will be one footnote

Her lecture videos bring me genuine pain. She sounds very condescending and passive aggressive in them whilst writing at the speed of light. The textbook isn't much better as it is super dense. Don't make the mistake I did and take her class.

DONT TAKE THIS CLASS UNLESS YOU HAVE NO CHOICE IT IS NOT WORTH IT AND IF YOU DO HAVE TO TAKE THIS CLASS I 🙏 FOR U.

So so hard. Hw takes forever!!! Expect 5+ hrs of Hw every week. Lectures are awful no notes super confusing skips steps has no clue what she's talking about and handwriting is very illegible. Mandatory lectures can't skip very old school writes on a piece of paper. Professor is very lazy!!! Expect 4-5 hrs of mandatory lectures every week.

Expects us to spend 2-3+ hrs a day when it seems like she couldn't give a sh*t about the course. Inconsistent amount of reading/hw each week. Used youtube lectures from someone else most of the semester. Study guides didn't include everything we got tested on. Cumulative final. I could type a novel about how horribly organized the course was.

Oh my… Just…NO

Pls for your own good DON'T TAKE

She forces us to learn her way which holds us back She's way too harsh Shes just cruel I'm telling you not to take it and I mean it

It's rough

Insufferable Way too strict vids are forced to watch She wastes sooooo much paper in her videos like I'm not exaggerating

Sometimes I really wonder why she decided to become a teacher

The lectures were dry and felt like a chore to sit through. Nothing interesting about the way the material was taught. And the homework there's a lot and the website for the it sucks. It was difficult to answer questions on there What made it worse was how rigid the professor was. We were forced to learn everything her way, even if it didn't work

Overall, the class felt like it was designed to make learning harder, not easier. Would not recommend unless you enjoy memorising slides and being micromanaged.

The average class grade was a 73% (70% is passing btw) so you can imagine how great of a teacher she is

Would rather drive into a brick wall than subject myself to another minute of a class with her.

She genuinely killed any interest I ever had in chemistry through her dictatorial teaching style.

A person with no formal education could teach this course better than her

This is the worst class I have ever taken.

I USED TO DRIVE WITHOUT A SEATBELT ON MY WAY TO CLASS HOPING SOMETHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN TO ME.

She will turn into the gestapo if she sees you learning in a way different from her teaching style.

Actively hinders your success

She runs her class like we're all middle schoolers

Nicole will make sure that you have no free time to do anything (even other classes).

Clearly it's the teachers fault and not the students when almost half of the class couldn't earn a C or higher and ended with Ds and Fs

HW takes around 5 hours a week but only accounts for around 10% of your grade. Meanwhile tests are worth 40% of your grade and you only get 50 minutes per test.

This is the only D I've ever gotten in my academic career. That should tell you how awful Nicole is as a professor.

MAKES CLASS WAY MORE DIFFICULT THAN IT IS

Avoid if you wanna be successful in chemistry

I really really wonder why she thought teaching would be a good job for her.

Would rather commit hate crimes than take ts again

I really hope I never have to take this professor ever again or ever see her again on my life

Of all the possible teachers how on gods green earth did I end up with the worst possible one.

Why why why why why why me????? What did I do to deserve this????????

If your reading this it's too late if your signed up for the class currently drop immediately and look for a different teacher even if you have to wait a semester or have to take this class in the summer trust me

P.S if you're reading this rn it's too late

Wasted hours of my life only on homework only to find out it was 10 percent of my total grade

She like Kanye after he melted down on twitter

You could miss an exam with a legitimate emergency and Nicole would tell you to take the retake

Workload is ridiculous. 5-10hrs of lecture can't skip 5-10 hrs of HW must watch lecture vids to open HW. Required weekly problem sets. Reading textbook is required. Must hand write lab procedure to do lab.Pre lab quiz too. As well as in person quiz Professor expects you not to have a life outside of this class. 55% is considered a D but 70% is a C!

Professor loves to over explain things and complicate things on her vids. She loves to force u to learn her way (HER WAY DONT WORK FOR MOST PPL)!!! she makes concepts way harder than they are. I stopped watching her vids and using the textbook and organic chem tutor after not doing so well on first exam. Next exam I got A and ended with A.

Pray pray and pray 🙏 if u have her

If the class average is a 73% and 70% is passing, there is no way that it isn't the professors fault

Nicole lies very frequently, for example: she claimed we would receive important equations for the lab final (we didn't get anything other than PV=nRT)

Her videos are unbearable to watch and they are the lowest quality possible (both in the sense of content and the actual video quality). SHE WILL MAKE YOU HATE CHEMISTRY

4 exams + final exam and lab final 6 total exams!!! Lab every week quiz every week as well as about 8-10 HW assignments a week YOU DID NOT READ THAT WRONG pre lab quiz too and 5 hrs of lecture! Work is way too much about 15hrs of work a week . So manny exams but professor dosent let u see your exams or hand em back so u don't know what u got wrong.

Nichole is very rude especially when u ask for help she seems frustrated and often sighs really loud when u ask questions. She seems as if she dosent wanna help at all and often times won't answer questions and will yell at u or won't answer. Or she will tell u to go back and reread till u understand. Nichole also lies a lot about deadlines etc.

There's a very good reason that all of the other chem classes are full, and nicholes aren't. She is by far the toughest grader i have had. Unless you're ready to drop 20+ hours a week, you'll be lucky to get a c

You're gonna be absolutely miserable the entire semester if you take this class with Nicole

You'll get more value from burning your tuition money than you will by taking this class

You'll get locked out if you show up to lab even a minute late

Even a masochist wouldn't take this class with her again.

Nichole will straight up lie about deadlines and what will be provided on tests.

Nichole hated me bc I couldn't do good on her tests that were meant to make u fail

I did the math and roughly 75% of the class got a C, D, or F in gingery's class. The math also indicated that only 2 people managed to get an A out of a class of 44. THATS 4% OF THE CLASS RECEIVING AN A.

u know things are bad in her class when the average scores of her exams are: 72%, 65%, 68%, and 73%. nichole would tell us to study more on top of the 20 hrs per week she already expected. THOSE ARE THE FINAL GRADES (SHE DOESNT CURVE THEM AT ALL).

nichole did not provide the class with a professor evaluation at the end of the semester, which is odd since all of my other teachers did. I wonder why considering the final email she sent the class included the final average grade which was 73.8%, which is absolutely abysmal. I regret taking Nichole's class as it has done irreparable damage.

Nichole's classes are designed to make you fail and will ensure that your GPA will plummet.

Clearly it's the teachers fault and not the students when almost 50% of the class couldn't earn a C or higher and ended with Ds and Fs

4 exams + final exam and lab final 6 total exams!!! Lab every week quiz every week as well as about 8-10 HW assignments a week YOU DID NOT READ THAT WRONG pre lab quiz too and 5 hrs of lecture! Work is way too much about 15hrs of work a week . So manny exams but prof dosent let u see your exams or hand em back so u don't know what u got wrong.

Clearly it's the teachers fault and not the students when almost half of the class couldn't earn a C or higher and ended with Ds and Fs. It's also crazy how each test was worth around 10% of your total grade and we got 50 minutes to do the test.

If only we got a student evaluation at the end of the year. Nichole runs the classroom in a similar fashion to how Stalin ran the USSR, she makes every moment in the class absolutely miserable

Nichole will withhold crucial information regarding what is and isnt provided during summatives. This makes passing her exams near impossible no matter how good your 1 note sheet and prep is. The tests are diabolically difficult. Nichole would also send out the class averages once all were graded and all were sub 75%.

The lectures were absolutely dry and felt like a chore to sit through. Nothing interesting about the way the material was taught. And the homework there's a lot and the website for the it sucks. What made it worse was how rigid the professor was. We were forced to learn everything her way, even if it didn't work

You'll get more value from gambling your tuition money than you will by taking this class

If the class average is a 73% and 70% is passing, there is no way that it isn't the professors fault. The numbers don't lie. Your GPA will tank if you take this class

She forces us to learn her way which holds us back She's way too harsh She's just cruel I'm telling you not to take it and I mean it.

if it wasn't for organic chemistry tutor, I would've failed. her lectures are awful since she doesn't let you use any technology for note taking. I've been in middle school classes that are less regressive.

You could miss an exam with a legitimate emergency and Nicole would tell you to take the retake.

HW takes around 10-15 hours a week but only accounts for around 10% of your grade. Meanwhile tests are worth 40% of your grade and you only get 50 minutes per test.

Clearly it's the teachers fault and not the students when almost half of the class couldn't earn a C or higher and ended with Ds and Fs. The tests are so difficult that even if nichole let you use google, you would still barely get 60%

nichole did not provide the class with a professor evaluation at the end of the semester, which is odd since all of my other teachers did. I wonder why considering the final email she sent the class included the final average grade which was 73.8%, which is absolutely abysmal. I regret taking her class as it has done irreparable damage to my gpa.

It's appalling how bad of a teacher Nicole is.

Nichole is so bad just hope u don't have to take her

Nichole will try her best to make sure you don't get a good grade in her class

I honesty believe I would be better off just buying the hard copy of the textbook skipping all of her lectures and only showing up for labs and exams and quizzes and teaching myself

Nichole really knows chemistry but I don't think teaching is a good job for her maybe she should do research etc

If you take her just know that you will not have a life outside of this class especially if your striving for an or higher

I am convinced that Nichole wants you to fail

Professor loves to over explain things and complicate things on her vids. She loves to force u to learn her way (HER WAY DONT WORK FOR MOST PPL)!!! she makes concepts way harder than they are. I stopped watching her vids and using the textbook and organic chem tutor after not doing so well on first exam. Next exam I got A and ended with A.

Just whatever you do hope you don't end up with this teacher

We had about 44ppl in this class the average final grade was a 73% if you do the math almost 80% of the class received a grade of a C D or F. That should tell you how great of a teacher Nichole is

Nichole's classes are designed to make you fail and will ensure that your GPA will drop. Nicole has made this the toughest class I have ever had the displeasure of taking.

u know things are bad in her class when the average scores of her exams are: 72%, 65%, 68%, and 73%. nichole would tell us to study more on top of the 20 hrs per week she already expected. THOSE ARE THE FINAL GRADES. IDK WHY SHE DOESNT CURVE GRADES IF THE AVERAGES ARE SOOOO LOW

its absolutely wild that most people that took a class with nicole, struggled greatly. Its almost as if the 20-30 hrs per week on this class was worth 10% of your total grade. (most people have other tough classes)

So so stupid I have to retake this class again I ended with a 69% but Nichole wouldn't round me to a 70% C which is the pre req for chem 2 the average grade was a 73% idk why she didn't round grades Nichole simply didn't care. She made this class very difficult taking this along with physics and calc I was spending by far all my time on this class.

Nichole is the Worst professor I've ever had in my life. I knew how to do every single question on the review and study guide and for 95% on the practice test and I still did bad on the exams. I would go to office hours and Nichole would tell me u will be fine don't panic… she lies constantly she says it'll get easier… but each exam got harder.

If only I could've had her husband David gingery

If Nicole's class is the only one available, then it's better to just wait and take this class next semester with someone else who isn't as miserable.

You'll get more value from putting all of your tuition money on red than you will by taking this class

Nichole lies often whatever she says assume the opposite she says something will be given on exam and it will not be given or 2 study this for exam and u will be fine and will test on complete opposite She also says there are no dumb questions it's normal 2 have questions every time u ask question she will yell at u and is often times very rude.

Nichole will do everything in her power to ensure you struggle. Once you think you're finally understating the concepts she will find a way to make sure you aren't. By adding ridiculous amounts of HW and over explaining things to make it really confusing. It is quite evident she dosne't want her students to succeed

I really wonder why Nichole thought this would be a good job for her she is knowledge in chem but def would be better at being a chemist 1) Nichole dosnet understand how to teach her vids are torture 2) she's very rude when u ask for help 3)she dosent know what assigned hw looks like 4) she constantly crests problems between her and her students.

If u have the opportunity to choose another chem teacher, do it. So close to getting a grade above but she does not care at all. Her lectures are so boring, the exam questions are intentionally harder, trying to make you fail. If you do take it, good luck. I'll forever regret this. If you see any good reviews, I get the feeling she's making them

So so hard HW takes forever exams are impossible

Taking chem with Nichole will be the biggest regret of your life

Nichole's class made me realize that depression is real

It's crazy how one teacher can make you hate a whole subject.

So happy don't need anymore chem for my major I had a different teacher for chem 1 and enjoyed it chem 2 with Nichole was an awful experience. I have lost all interest in chem bc of her. This was my last semester here, got all As in stem Calc Physics Static etc and this class was my only C that should show you how good of a teacher Nichole was.

You will be overworked like a sweatshop worker in this class

I struggled so much with understanding the work. I felt like lectures were not explained in depth and reviews/homework were extremely harder. I did feel like tests were trying to trick me vs measure my understanding of the material. Would warn off taking this course with Nicole.

You will get very little time for tests making them almost impossible if you don't 100% understand something

I had Nichole for chem 1061 last spring. It's funny how she teaches most of the courses for 1061 which is a big class needed to transfer out especially for science chemistry and engineering majors when she is by far the worst teacher. Clearly the department is short handed.

I really had big expectations for her, and yet she was successful at getting me dissapointed. She has a PhD, which means she knows the subject. But, does she really know how to teach it without being DISRESPECTFUL to students? She created drama between students and her during AND after the semester, that is very unprofessional from her.

this teacher might be the reason i have clinical depression