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Very nice lady, and the most organized prof in 2nd year Bio. study those FIGURES!

i curse the final!!

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wow sooooooo nice and friendly!! Her lectures are interesting and she makes a difficult class seem pretty understanding. I'd recommend her any day. She drops by labs to see how u doing.

Amazing Prof. She's organized, very helpful, and very understanding. She actually wants you to learn. Her students come first. She has a passion for what she's doing, so don't be surprised if you're actually amazed at what you're learning.

Very good prof. Her tests are EASY; you can bring a sheet of notes to exam. Well use of pictures and videos. She writes out the notes the same time as you do. So we are all in the same line and pace.

the midterm was easy.the exam was killer!! it was brutal!! she even lowered the lab marks for the class ,so that people cant score much overall in this course.teaches well but will kill you on the finals.

A pretty organized and very helpful prof. Her tests were not that hard, but make sure you knwo all th diagrams that she shows in class.

Easy midterm- brutal exam!!! Wow! She got us all there! The average was 59% and she lowered the lab grades too! Killer exam, all right!!!

She's very nice but the course is one of the biggest bores you may ever encounter. I actually spent lectures thinking of how much fun it could be to jump off a cliff or go for a root canal!

Dr. Pat is one of the best professors I have had in university. She is very helpful and encouraging. You learn great presentation skills in her class and I recommend this course for any upper year biology student

dr. pat is one of the best profs in the bio department. She explains things clearly in class with her own notes and refers to many diagrams and videos which give lots of clarity. She is also very helpful and kind. Overall take a class she's teaching.

easy midterm ,hard final.good lecture notes. she's really really nice .one of the best profs at york.

Dr. Pat is very helpful when u need the extra help b4 tests or exams. She is very approachable :) Her notes were very clear her tests were very fair with 1 or 2 trick questions. She has the heart for students as can be seen with allowance of crib sheets to bring into midterm and exam. This helps the students study effectively.

Very nice course. There's a lot of information to absorb, but if you take the time and read your notes and some of text you will do very well on the tests. The exam is actually easier than the tests (ALL multiple choice). Compared with the horrible BIOL 2020 (bad prof), taking this course was surely chillin. May the force be with you lol.....

She is a good prof but i found her midterms so tricky and she expects you to know every detail.

She talks with passion and presents notes with diagrams and videos for entertainment. Her tests were easy and cheat sheets were allowed. The final was however difficult even with cheat sheet. There is alot of material to cover in this course but if you join her notes and notes you made in the text then you should do well in this course

it's a good course, but requires a lot of time. even though shes allows cheat sheets, they aren't that helpful for the midterm but were helpful for the exam. Exam was fair but her midterm was hard!

interesting lectures. includes visuals and videos to make everything interesting and clear.

She's pretty hard, true. But if you attend all your lectures and make a minimal effort to read your notes and consult the text, you'll do fine. I'm not a particularly studious person, but I got an A. Read all her exam questions very, very carefully. Try to think about what each option would signify.

A little confusing since the sections to read from the book are all over the place. Extremely hard test/exam. But you get cheat sheets, which are helpful A LOT if you know your stuff. Must attend lectures. They are not posted online. Test all multiple choice and with your cheat sheet and knowledge it is possible to do well. It is hard, very hard.

She is very approachable... will make sure your questions have been answered. However, she goes a bit too fast in lectures and covers A LOT of material in one lecture. Tests are really tricky... i.e. is the answer just A or is it A AND B.

Great prof. I got an A in her class. Make sure you attend all lectures and read txtbook material that was discussed in class. It's that easy.

She's a great professor very clear and you will not believe how much she knows about biology, she's what every professor should be like. Her tests aren't really easy though so study for them. You HAVE to go to class tests are straight from there, and don't get freaked by the huge text, you don't end up covering most of it.

Amazing Professor. Extremely knowledgeable and class attendance is a must. Takes notes for you to copy during lecture which is what all the tests are based on so put it all on your teach sheet. Best prof I've had yet.

Amazing prof, but really hard tests/final.

i think shes a very nice woman and a lovely professor. however i for one didnt like her teaching method. we spent 1hr1/2 writing down whatever she wrote down on the overhead. her tests are tricky with too many options. we were allowed cheat sheets which was only helpful if you put every little detail on it.

I did not enjoy her teaching style. She moves through the lecture too fast and copying down what she wrote on the overhead wasn't helpful because it's just keywords. I think most people recorded her lectures so that they could go back and study all the details. I ended up taking the course in the summer with Dr. Nivillac-much better imo.

Go to all the lectures! copy everything down and study your notes plus figure captions no additional detail from text. Tests are fair but not easy you have to know the material well! The good thing is that she is clear about her expectations "know my notes"

Dr. Lakin-Thomas was a nice prof and knew her stuff well. However, I did not like her teaching style. She wrote on the doc cam and her notes were incomplete and difficult to follow. Tests were fair, don't rely too much on the cheat sheets!

I guess I'm in the minority but I absolutely love her lectures. She's very clear and you must take detailed notes to do well. I've done extremely well on the midterms. They are not tricky, but rather fair and a very good overview of the course material. She's quick to reply to questions and offers an explanation whenever asked. I enjoy this prof.

The tests are tricky. You don't have to read the textbook, just make good notes in class and study off them. Only use the textbook as a reference or to study for the figures she gives in class. I felt like no matter how hard I studied I still fell for few off her trick questions. She is quick in replying to questions and the 2 assignments are easy.

Great professor and a very nice lady. Tests and MC are tricky. To succeed you have to go to all classes and take down her notes word for word, just memorize those and you will do fine. Make sure you read all the figure captions in the textbook, they will be invaluable and some are on tests.

For the love of your GPA, stay away. Straight A student. Ended up with a B (struggled to get it). There was 1 rating for this course on this site and I decided to ignore it. Tests are ridiculously hard (even though everything is open-book). Stay away..

Absolutely loved her way of teaching. You just copy whatever she writes and make sure to copy figure caption numbers. Textbook is great and explains everything ( if you still don't understand something after the lecture) her test are not tricky at all, but you have to know your material and read carefully. Material is not hard,lots of memo.

Great prof; her lectures are VERY clear. BIO4141 is really interesting. The class is really about understanding molecular biology papers, learning current lab methods and honing presentation skills. This class should be a prereq for all biobiomed students! Tests are all openbook so the emphasis is on understanding, not blind memorization.

She is amazing! I really enjoyed taking this class and would do so again. She is willing to help her students in any way possible. Her grading criteria are very fair and clear. This is one of the best biology classes at York!

Amazing prof! She's there for you! Lectures are super clear & understandable! All you have to do is to read the papers BEFORE class & be ready to listen carefully, take detailed notes about the methods and results of each figure during presentation. Also ask questions & take additional notes from her talks after presentations. Easy A challenging A+

The course is open-booked but you have to make sure you read the articles and know the method and results. It sounds hard but the prof is always there for you. Make sure you arrange an appointment to meet her before your big presentation to discuss about the article since it really help you to know what to talk and what she expects from you.

One of a kind. If York had few more profs like her, York's ranking would be much higher. All profs have the knowledge, but MANY of them DO NOT KNOW how to teach. Dr. Pat DOES KNOW how to teach. Just take the course, put effort by reading the articles before each lecture and you'll end up with a big smile on your face at the end of the semester :)

Loved her lectures, she goes into detail and explains everything properly, couldn't have a better prof for cell bio!! :)

Dr. Pat is AWESOME! For how detailed this course is, she did her best at covering it all during lectures. Take good notes, then each night after lecture redo the notes while referencing the textbook and making sure to ACTUALLY understand everything. Cheat sheets are allowed; make them detailed (include lists) and don't wait till the last minute!

Amazing professor! She made me fall in love with cell biology and was my favourite class. I received an A in this class, but worked extremely hard. Taking excellent notes in class and studying regularly is a must to receive an A. Textbook- I used only as a reference and for figures. You must understand everything she teaches, not just memorize.

Like many others, I found Dr Pat's 2021 course difficult, but that's the nature of the course. However, I really enjoyed this class. The class involves a presentation and 2 midterms. You will read around 20 scientific papers and evaluate them, the course teaches you an important skill. Take it! Fair Grading. She's super sweet, and a top professor

She's a good prof. Unfortunately, she doesn't post her slides, so you have to type them really fast. I rewrote her notes and added in information from the textbook to help me understand the topics better. The course really got me re-interested in science and made me remember why I love it. It's a lot of self-studying though. Put in WORK!

Dr. Lakin is a wonderful prof! You read 19 papers throughout the course and you have to present one of them to the class. There is only one midterm and the exam is not cumulative! Coming to class is a must since there are quizzes right after every presentation. The articles are not difficult but if you have any questions she is always available!

For it being Dr. Pats first time teaching this course she ran it well! For a final project she gives you 3 options. There was only 1 small textbook required, rest were articles . There are quizzes *every* class but she takes the best 16 out of 20! If you attend all classes, pay attention & take good notes, theres no reason to not do really well.

This class was great and she taught it well! You have a presentation by classmates each class on different scientific papers and then there is a quiz after each one. The quizzes were easy and could easily be found from the information in the journal articles. On the midterm and final you had a choice of which questions to answer.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING professor. I was unsure about the group project at first ~ didn't want to get penalized for my group slacking. Dr. Pat made the group project an individual mark where you only got grades for what you did. If the slides were bad but you didn't do them, you didn't get penalized. LOVE this prof! Don't pass up on the best class ever!