Most unclear professor I've ever had. Labs are a mess. Horrible organization, very unclear about everything. Usually modifies the lab procedure, but does not tell anyone until they get to the lab. Lab write ups are long and worth very little. Really hoping I don't have to see her in second year.

Super unclear and unorganized. Labs rarely or don't reflect content in class, thus you often have to learn concepts completely on your own. Has decent lab tutorials but is not enough. Resources provided to you for the labs are either unclear or just simply absent. Lab write ups are long, hard and tedious but still worth very little.

Her labs are absolutely horrible, chaotic and are designed to test you more on your ability to understand what on Earth she is talking about than the actual course material. She was extremely rude when a situation regarding marks was brought up to her and presented unrelated excuses for her reasoning. I would rather take another year than have her.

Avoid if you can. Super disorganized both in the lab and in class. Would spend an entire lecture on the simplest question. Tests are an absolute nightmare. If you find yourself in her class, don't buy the textbook (not worth the money) and opt out of the sapling homework, a lot of it doesn't have anything to do with what she goes over in class.

If you'd like to lose any interest about chemistry in general take Rashmi's class. She was a horrible teacher when it came to lectures. The labs she coordinated were always chaos. I'm still trying to figure out how this class was so difficult when it was entirely review from high school. I feel bad for chem students if this is what it's about.

the amount of work she gives for labs is just obscene.

Rashmi does not teach anything. Everyone in the class shouldve gotten an A+ for teaching themselves the entire course. She is very unorganized and does not finish the lectures on time. We learned every chapter AFTER doing the lab so we had no clue during the lab. I would rather drop out of uni than ever take her again.

if you want to save your marks and time opt out of everything including the online textbook its doesn't help at all , attend HER discussion groups instead of lectures since that's where she actually solves problems instead of uselessly rambling off. if you want to do good practice all of her past exams and make sure you understand those concepts

Didn't actually teach. We were expected to teach ourselves the material outside of class and she would just go over examples in the lecture. Textbook is necessary since it is the only way to actually learn the material. Avoid if possible.

Not my prof but she was my lab coordinator. PRAY TO GOD that you have a good TA. These labs are ridiculous and so time consuming. They have barely anything to do with class material. The three hour lab sessions are a literal headache and they do not show students how working in a real lab in the future will actually be like. Major updates required!

speechless

Do yourself a favour and take a French class so you can enrol in the French stream with St-Amant

I never took class with her but she is the lab coordinator. Orgo labs are a WASTE OF MY LIFE :(

I honestly don't even know where to start with this class. The labs are super long and extremely stressful. By the time you finished part 1 you have 15 minutes left and 8 more parts to do. Needless to say I never had the time to learn wtf was going on. Also, the lack of time and pressure make the lab pretty unsafe since we're all RUSHING!

She would waste lab time at the beginning then get mad if you didn't complete on time. She told everyone to buy lab goggles, but didn't specify they couldn't have ventilation on them, and thus most people had to purchase a new pair. Then she would tell you and the lab TA's that goggles must be worn at all times as she walks around with lab ppe.

Dr. Rashmi wasn't very sympathetic to students adjusting to the online lab system and the schedule for labwork was unrealistically tight and content-heavy that requires 10-14 hours of work (she said we need only 3). She doesn't listen to students' concerns about the lab issues and even raised the late penalty when asked for an extension. Avoid her!

Dr. Rashmis teaching style is one where she belittles students. The online labs are ridiculous and take between 12-16 hours or more to complete. When asking for an extension, her remarks are condescending. The TAs also have absolutely no clue what theyre doing. The Science stream at Ottawa U hasnt changed in 4O yrs. Opt for another university.

Dr. Rashmi has a ridiculously tight schedule for the long labs that she assigns, requiring 10-12 hours of work (she claims we only need 3). She wastes class time with unnecessary info and only gives a few pages in the online textbook to read as a form of learning the material for labs. She has done nothing to ease the transition to online classes.

Dr. Rashmi's labs are very time consuming (10-16 hours) and procedures are very unclear. There has been many times where a part of the lab was not indicated in the procedure, and when she could not attend a class the TA that took over was making statements contradicting the ones made by rashmi herself. This course will bring you lots of stress.

Her reply in emails are so rude. No understanding whats so ever. Given us lab due midterms with only 24hr extension coming with a penalty of 20% during thanks giving weekend. Her TAs dont follow her rubric and create rubrics off their head which leads to terrible final marks. They give us our 1st lab back on the due date of our 2nd lab submission

AVOID AVOID AVOID if you can. She literally increased the amount of work in each lab this year (I looked at other labs from the previous years; she added sections). Theory isn't covered in class, you have to search it. Unclear instructions, condescending when asked questions, vague, truly the worst prof I had this year, 30 hour labs. Ridiculous.

Labs are 4 experiments/report. But the lab time is meant to be 3h, but it takes forever to even get to each experiment. She tried to prove us wrong when we said it takes longer than 3h, by using one of our lab tutorials to prove us wrong. She barely got through it. She then refused to give extensions after realizing she was wrong. AVOID.

I signed up for a chemistry class not an English report class. In fact, the English report classes at UOttawa are still marked easier than this... Thank god I'm not majoring in chem.

We found out that the French Chemistry course did not have to write lab reports. They simply had to do lab simulations and complete a quiz ar the end. The quiz can be done as many times as you wish so the lab component is a guaranteed 20/20 of your mark. This is extremely unfair. English students spent 25-30 hours on each lab reports.

Belittles her students, condescending, keeps changing the lab formats after we've started, labs take MULTIPLE HOURS (not 3 hours like she claims), procedures are unclear... The French Chemistry Lab course did not have to write any lab reports!! Run away if you can...

I asked for clarification on a lab report as I did not understand the grading I received, and she literally replied like a child, using capital letters and condescending phrases. Also threatened to take away any 'pity' marks if I made the same mistakes again. If you can avoid having her, please do. The labs take hours and the grading is ridiculous.

She was a nice person during her tutorials but when it came to her labs she really wasn't lenient. if you were to be late to hand in your lab shed cut 20% off. this is a mandatory class, id recommend doing these labs well before they are due, as they do get time consuming and tiring

Horrible labs. Makes me want to give up on trying.

AVOID IF POSSIBLE. Incredibly condescending towards her students. Made the transition to online university nearly unbearable with the work load. Each lab has four separate components with nearly 12+ hours of work, and with the tough marking, it barely pays off. The TAs all mark with separate criteria which leaves some students with harsh markers.

This lab coordinator is terrible. Claims labs need only 3 hours which is an insult to students like myself who are working our rears off to complete these 20 hour lab reports. As indicated in previous comments, is condescending to the extreme and considers her students a nuisance. If I never hear from this coordinator again it'll be too soon.

This professor is my 13th reason why. The lab is scheduled to only take 3 hours to complete but here we all are spending over 15+ hours of work. Not only is she condescending but she does not know how to give proper instructions. She also doesn't care about any of these ratings, as long as she keeps her job. Don't take her class luv.

Rashmi is AWFUL. She doesn't care about her students' wellbeing and refuses to admit that her "teaching" method is heavily flawed. She claims her labs only take 3 hours to do, but in reality they take over 20! Her reports require ridiculous amounts of detail and she is very condescending to students. If you can avoid her, DO IT.

Horrible. Absolutely horrible. takes me days to finish the labs.

Horrible. Everything negative said about her is true, and anything positive is not.

she seems like a nice person, but her teaching style is severely flawed, and the labs take forever. I took 20 hours each to do my lab, but i know some others who took 30+. the labs take more time than the lecture component. and the french students didnt have to do it. unfair, condescending, and very strict. good with email though!

I am someone who genuinely loves every other professor, but this woman needs to lose her job. I am this close to switching my major so I never have to deal with her again. Rashmi assigns more work just for labs than my actual chem prof. Went to the hospital? Sorry, submit at 11:59 or get a zero. Late penalties are 20% and she rarely offers them at

Dr. Rashmi's chem lab was completely unbearable to work with during the semester. Lab reports and the online simulations with tophat could easily occupy your whole week. Talking of the online simulations, unless you've been a detective for 20+ years, good luck trying to get through her useless instructions for how to do the experiment.

to sum, the lab takes a hot min to do, shes plain rude, her labs are irrelevant to course material and very repetitive, didn't learn much, this lab portion of the course is an English class, all u gotta do is be able to write a lot, french students are babied in any science program, i.e they don't do any labs! pretty unfair for us who spend 20+hrs

oh boy where do I start. CHM1311 labs are HORRIBLE. I cannot stress this enough. she is the WORST. These labs were a nightmare and very time consuming. Rashmi says they take about 5 hours but I disagree ALOT on that since it takes me a day maybe even more to be done with a lab. Lab reports are terrible because they are insanely long for no reason.

AVOID HER IF YOU CAN!!!!!! She is not understanding at ALL and thinks that we only have labs to worry about. lab reports take forever to finish meanwhile the french section dont get to work on one! Chem labs are a nightmare and I cant wait for the day where Rashmi is not my lab coordinator.

She makes the labs unnecessarily complicated and changes the requirements frequently, very confusing. She says the labs will take 5 hours max. but they take 10-15 hours. She was not very understanding of students technical issues and gives a 20% penalty if you late at all. I spent more time on these labs than i did in all my lectures combined.

Super condescending. Her labs were unnecessarily long and hard. Avoid.

She seemed so nice at first but she is a terrible, useless prof. Who the hell gave this woman a job?

She was extremely condescending and the labs were incredibly difficult. Be ready to spend 15+ hours on each lab and hope for a good T.A. The instructions for labs often changed close to the due date of the lab as well.

She assigns labs that takes one week to be finished and then claims it only takes 2 hours. Dont take it with her no matter what.

Okay where do I start. First of all, nothing can ever go wrong in a student's life. If it does, expect no accomodations or extensions. Instructions were all over the place. Biggest lie she will tell you is that your lab should be done in about 3-5 hours. Umm, nope! Thats how long it takes us to understand the instructions and watch her tutorials.

At the beginning of the semester, I thought she was so sweet. Boy was I wrong. She gave speeches about being approachable & understanding. Ended up being awful. The labs DO NOT TAKE 3 HOURS - more like 18. Very condescending & childlike in email responses. Go to the tutorials - you'll learn 8 new requirements for the lab. Hope for an easy TA.

She did not adapt well to online learning. The Lab was a nightmare. She said one report would take 3 hours but it look 18+ hours. Would never ever ever ever take this class again.

Lab component was so terrible that I dropped the course

The course portion was easy, the lab portion was the worst. She would say one thing then get mad at students for doing what she said. Overall the lab part was tedious and the written part was not well explained.

Such a rude lab coordinator. In my 1st year I received an F on a lab I thought I did good in (she said because my partners "bad" evaluation of me) which was a lie. She wouldn't give me the time of day to prove I wrote most of the lab and she just told me to suck it up and that one F wouldn't ruin me. LSS: I proved that I was right and got an A+ <3

Imagine having Regina George as your lab coordinator and that should give you a pretty idea of what Rashmi is like. She tries to sounds nice in her written communication, but it reeks of fakeness. The amount of work required absolutely ridiculous considering that the lab component is only worth 20%.

Labs are extremely long

I could write a 20-page essay on Dr. Rashmis failings as a lab coordinator and it would take less time than her so-called 3-hour labs. Wastes our time with tedious, disorganized labs and lacks basic decency and respect. Went in loving chemistry, came out finding it a chore. If you speak even a word of French, I suggest you take the French strain.

The amount of work needed for each lab is absolutely ridiculous! It takes 10+ hours to complete a lab that counts for about 2% not even. Marking is rough, the labs feel like a whole course to themselves. My time would much better be spent studying on the chem course and on my other courses than writing labs. Online makes everything much harder.

These labs are the most confusing, all-over-the-place, time-consuming, and overall worst thing I've had to do all of uni. Do not expect clear instructions, and if you're told the labs take 3-5 hours, expect to spend hours per day everyday for the 2 weeks to even get a decent mark. I haven't even learned anything, I always finish more confused.

Does she think she is running her own class? Her labs take up more time than the chemistry class itself, 10+ hours a week. With 7 labs to do, each worth only 2%, its a waste of time and energy. She sends agressive and unprofessional emails about how no one included certains things in the lab which were never mentioned and takes no accountability.

30 hour, confusing, horrific lab reports worth 2%... the labs take longer than the rest of the course. only positive imo is the fact that she responds to emails very quickly... but the replies are confusing... like the labs are... like the quizzes are... confusing and ridiculously hard. did i mention confusing?

horrible professor with horrible labs. 12 hours on one lab? they also build on each other more and more, leading to the future labs being a lot longer during the harder part of the semester. Oh and no matter how hard you try, you usually get the same god-awful mark.

The labs take unreasonably long to do for only being 2% of your grade. Data and resources for labs were not given on time and there is no leeway/ extensions given ever, despite being told time & time again we are facing unprecedented times. The labs seem messily put together, had to consult many, many outside resources to get a good grade.

Ridiculously long labs, unnecessarily complicated, and each lab is only worth 2% of your final grade. Avoid at all costs

Everything terrible in a class. No pity for students, the workload is insane with 12+ hours labs EVERY week. Horrible graders that take points left and right for fun. Prof like Rashmi are the reasons rate my prof should have a 0 rating. If ya'll are stuck with her, run while you still can.

Labs are unnecessarily long, she's not helpful at all, and slightly passive-aggressive. TA's love taking off marks for mundane things like repeated figure numbers. Also expect your inbox to be completely BOMBARDED with spam emails about surveys, events, and other things that nobody cares about.

i would say avoid at all costs, but considering she is the lab coordinator, there is not really much avoiding to do. her labs are ridiculously long and hard for no reason and is super passive-aggressive when it comes to replying to emails (that is IF she replies)

She gives incredibly long and draining lab report, honestly I cannot even describe how torturous they are. Expect to spend more time per week on just these labs than on all your other classes combined. Gives unclear instructions that change often, and is not understanding. She extended deadline for a lab after the due date lol:) Hope for a good TA.

Extremely disorganized. Labs don't make any sense. Unclear grading criteria. Super passive-aggressive for no reason. Not helpful at all. She says labs take 3 hrs/week - LOL no, more like 15-20 hrs (to get A+). She limits our lab reports to half a page when we need 3 pages just to mention the 10000 things she requires us to discuss. Absolute trash

worst lab coordinator in the world cant even begin to explain whats wrong with her. if i had energy left from the 6 labs and 40+ hours spent on them i would be as passive aggressive as her emails are but here we are. pray for a good TA who doesnt dock marks for dumb things and remember! your efforts will not mean a good grade. not with this lady.

The labflow system does not work properly. The errors it gives when you are correct are your own fault. The teacher is not accommodating to fix the errors at all.

She is the worst professor that you could ever have.

Horrible professor, her labs are a complete joke. The grading scheme makes no sense, and yet she enforces it for no reason. if you email her, she's rude asf and does not understand the amount of pressure and stress a student is going through.

Heads up: the English section labs take around 40 hours to complete. Labs for the French section are completely different. They consist of doing the lab virtually (like the English students) but the lab report consists of answering multiple choice questions that can be redone until they get 100%. Welcome to U of O where unfairness reigns.

Do not recommend. Her labs are hard and very time consuming especially the discussion questions. She also seems a little passive aggressive.

I regret taking this class with her... tests are just stupidly difficult while labs take way too long to complete even if they are worth almost but nothing...

Basically self learning...

Not at all accommodating, even though online classes and the pandemic have severely messed up the accessibility and ease of lab courses specifically. She seems nice on a superficial level but has been super passive agressive in class announcements and emails. Any positive experience I had in this course was thanks to the ta's and no one else.

She is the prof of your nightmares. If you take her class beware. She cares about a few stupid things here and there but overall, she's not that accommodating considering the day before the midterm, lab flow crashed and she wouldn't give extensions saying "You had 2 weeks". Really watch out. Get your grade and never look back.

Bruh her labs are ridiculously hard and don't expect help from her unless you catch her on a good day. I'm not even doing bad in her class, she's just not a good prof. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Im done with this prof. Emails consists of sarcastic and rude remarks. Her labs are very vague and she has 50+ ta's which cant seem to agree on the right grading scheme and lab procedure. You can have a good grade with another ta's marking and a bad grade with another. Rashmi please do your job better.

I will be brief. This professor does not care about her students. She excels at miscommunication and does not take responsibility for her shortcomings being the reason for failing her students. She has many TAs, none of which can give the class a straight answer and when being confronted through emails, she replies rudely and vaguely. Not helpful.

DeAndre Jordan, the most useless center in basketball on Earth, would be better at managing the lab part of a chemistry course, and DeAndre Jordan would be more polite in replying to emails than Rashmi the karen.

She comes up with 7 labs for us to complete that are due on a biweekly basis. The thing is that each lab is worth 2% of our final CHM grade, but each lab takes 15 hours if you actually want to do half well in them. Then the TAs that grade us take off marks for formatting errors even when instructions clearly stated that we would write as such. >:(

Despite having to do no work whatsoever due to labs being moved online, professor Rashmi has no compassion whatsoever for her students. She REFUSES to go out of her way in any sort of manner to help her student, mores with how she grades. An out right shame that there's no other professor teaching the lab component of the Chem courses

She has no compassion and understanding for students and i had her labs for 2 terms now and i rather lose credit than have to take her section in a chemistry lab ever again. The TAs take marks off for no reason and there’s no way to predict how well u do in a lab even though its on labflow. 0/10 do not recommend

Does not put proper instructions in for the lab reports and then takes major marks off. Hard marker and has no compassion for when you email her about your grades. Try to avoid if you can!

Little to no explanations for the labs. If you need to email her be EXTREMELY polite or else she will be so rude. My class average for one of the labs was 48%...Also, I asked her why I lost marks for one question formaly, and told me that I was agressive and impolite. She does anwser emails quickly, but her anwsers are no help. Avoid if possible.

I had Rashmi for my lab portion. They are the least understanding and are rude if you email them. Make sure you follow EXACTLY her directions or you will do bad. She does not understand and sees you as a number and will make that clear to you.

She is very rude and not helpful at all when you ask questions. She refuses to give points when you argue for lab grades despite the proper explanation of why you think it should be right. Tons of complaints about this lady. uOttawa should consider selecting another lab coordinator. She is just not right.

WAY too much work for a first year lab. Very long and annoying labs that only get more time consuming as the term progresses and are graded strictly. The amount of work made it difficult to find time to study for the lecture component of the course. Software glitches and unclear requirements for labs just added to the stress. Pray for a good TA.

Made me reconsider my entire life choice of doing health science. The labs are terrible, not relating at all to the content being covered in the lecture portion of the course. The labs are unnecessarily difficult and hard to comprehend. The labs confuse everyone for no reason, the TA's don't even know how to do them.

Disorganized labs, unclear & inconsistent marking scheme, labs take too much time, useless TAs I'd tell you to avoid her if she wasn't the only lab tech for 1st year CHM

All you are is a number to her, she doesn't think of you as a human being with real sentiments. Sometimes if you email her she doesn't reply. She doesn't know how to treat TAs or students well at all. It is one thing to be strict but a totally different thing to expect students to act like robots. 350 character limit is not enough to describe her.

Was a TA AND a student and since I'm done at uOttawa I can say Rashmi is a HORRIBLE coordinator. TAs are lost cause she has no marking scheme and makes up rules on the fly. Students are lost cause she changes her rules at will. After 25 years you would think she has her stuff together, but nope. 350 characters isn't enough to explain how bad it is.

For anyone wondering why TAs are bad, the department literally has an internal policy that TAs can refuse to work with a prof after they've worked with them once (made because of Rashmi). She provides no consistent guidelines for TAs and we all hate working with her to the point grad students do our "jail time" and run to TA other courses instead.

Made me reconsider my sciences degree within the first week of labs. Rude, does not care about students, and expects 1st years to already fully understand uni lab procedures & reports. Super harsh marker. If your observations aren't what she wants you lose marks. Need 80% on prelab or automatic 0 on report - 79% due to typo? too bad, autofailed.

Very condescending and not helpful at all. Very disrespectful of students time.

This lab had me regretting ever having taken chemistry. The Labflow setup is unnecessarily convoluted and take way too much time. Most of the time the material makes no sense, and the TAs have no clue what's going on half the time, so you can't really count on them. Would not recommend, but there aren't really any other options so good luck.

Rashmi may be the worst person I have ever come across. She is the spawn of the devil from the depths of hell. She hates every student with a burning passion and wants everyone to fail. She dissed on the homie Lawrence and personally I wouldn't tolerate that disrespect. She the opp.

did make me cry and write on my arm for a lab exam :)

Awful. doesn't care about anyone and expects first-years to know everything about labs and reports. Lab-flow is awful and so complicated. she makes up rules after the fact that have resulted in people getting a 0 on the report. rules change from person to person and reports are VERY time-consuming and difficult. She is horrible.

Don't let her smile lure you into thinking that she is a nice lab coordinator. Her responses to emails were always so passive-aggressive/sarcastic, and she seemed to have little to no interest in helping her students, and even the TAs.

She does not care about you and will find any excuse to give you a 0. Avoid her at all cost if you can.

she is awful , don't enter her class

Rashmi was always super quick in replying to emails and concerns, but the TAs are AWFUL. They will tell you either nothing at all or the wrong information.

She has no sympathy for you if Labflow isn't working. Once it wasn't allowing me to submit photos, Labflow support took 2 days to respond (past my due date) and proceeded to give me 30 minutes to submit it while I was in another lecture, and when I tried to resubmit, the issue was not even resolved. Also a 5th of the class got a 0 on the first lab.

don't let her personality fool you, it's like she's praying for your downfall rather than helping you get a good grade

RUN FAR AWAY FROM HER! I had her last term and it was awful. Literally the worst prof I have ever had. She is so rude. She won't be clear with her instructions and then blame the students. She literally has 0 empathy for students. I ran into a big issue that wasn't my fault, and her and the TA both refused to help. She shouldn't be a prof.

If an event of which would impact her state of waking up in the morning, which I would never which upon anyone, I would consider doing a little dance on a spot if soil which may or may not be correlated with her current or future state of physical being :)

Very rude when responding to students.

her lab reports are pretty difficult and take a lot of time to complete so if you can, write it with your partner. her chemistry labs made me rethink my program, and she can be... harsh in her emails.

First year chemistry labs are absolutely awful. Reports given out by Rashmi poorly reflect class material and you often end up having no clue what you're doing in the labs and struggling to get through the work on time. She expects everyone to know how to write a lab report without telling us how. ATTEND THE LAB TUTORIALS they'll save you!

I was surprised to see her rating was so high (2.5) That's incredibly generous for this being... Also, she doesn't speak french but she will pretend she does. My partner was from France and I studied in french my whole life, we sat there for 25 minutes trying to understand one simple step in the protocol of the lab.

Emailed her cuz of unclear instructions and took marks off and she basically told me it's my fault for not reading her mind. Labs are extremely hard & lab report is worse. TAs take marks off for "dexterity in the lab" and you will never find out what that is or why. Mark depends on TA to the point where it can go from C+ to an A depending on TA.

She was the lab coordinator for CHM1321 (winter 2022, online) and was not helpful at all when answering emails. Passive aggressive, not understanding nor accommodating at all. Everyone I know has had poor experiences with her. Labs themselves were alright on LabFlow platform, some more tedious than others.

The lab reports take too much of your time to complete it, as a university student we have so much studying to do and other homework to complete we shouldn't be spending days on a single lap report.

I feel like she got nicer this winter term - new year, new rashmi haha. Nobody in my section finished their first lab so I emailed her on what we should do, and she was pretty nice and insightful. However, as the term went by, her emails got more passive-aggressive, and usually had a "I do not care" or "not my problem" attitude to her emails.

She changes her due dates without informing the students. If you go on the web you will find that she changed due dates without telling anyone in class.

Sucks

Rashmi is hated by all students I've ever talked to. For her labs, she will assign you a pre-lab exercise on an expensive website, and for each pre-lab you need to try to answer questions with answers and formulas that are nowhere to be found in lectures or any provided reading material. These things should be provided.

failed me

She is not understanding at all about anything. Does not care about her students, I've seen her yell at students a couple of times. Her labs are more than 3 hours and she does not let you leave if you have an exam of something after her lab hours. During her ''3 hour'' labs, she talks for an hour.

AVOID TEACHER AT ALL COSTS. HARD GRADER AND BAD TEACHING

She is really mean. This woman speaks about nothing for 30 minutes to an hour before each lab and it doesn't contribute to anything. She's also very scary and yells at people. Every time I saw her, my hands would start shaking. She brings terror to the world. Also she expects everyone to be able to spend the whole week writing her lab report.

She is very rude and makes students very scared. She yelled at a classmate for having an empty notebook after telling us to empty our notebooks. Would not recommend. Yells at a lot of people. Made me really anxious. Expected us to dedicate the entire week to our lab reports.

Quickly replies to emails. Probably the devil.

Quick replies to emails, probably the only good thing about her but you probably won't even get an answer you like.

Will be the worst semester of your life

Rashmi is rude and not accommodating at all. My TA is the only thing that got me through this semester of labs. If it weren't for the TA's I would have failed this course because she explains her labs so poorly.

In these poorly conceived labs it's common that everybody in your section gets results opposite to the notion you're trying to verify experimentally. The workload is double that of the lecture component. Felt more anxiety/stress thinking about these labs than any final. Really hard to say anything positive. If your TA is good it might be better.

I will not recomend any one to take this course with rashmi. Every class she shows us a movie scene like flash and ant man and ignore teaching us the important materials. Also she looks like the devil character from Monesters Inc. 2001.

Harsh and strict, will give zeros for entire labs over the smallest missed detail. Expects you to know everything before the labs so prepare to do lots of reading before and after to complete reports. Instructions in labs and what is needed for report is not clear. My TA was horrible but friends had better ones and said the labs were much better.

Disorganized, doesn't care about students (it makes big classes easier), and you probably won't finish labs. A good TA is a lifeline. Her content doesn't teach, you are graded on what you already know: she told my TA not to give us lab advice despite this being our 1st. She sells you her textbook. I did 7 labs first year; Rashmi's were the 2 worst.

Does absolutely nothing besides talk into a mic. Every time I spoke to her she hurt my feelings. Never can avoid because she basically runs all chem labs. Comes off very passive aggressive but seems like a sweet lady. Only thing that made it good was my TA, shout out to Samira!

Avoid talking to her one-on-one unless absolutely necessary because she will hurt your feelings. If u need help, ask the TAs, not her. Rude. Won't treat you like an adult and will just tell you everything is your fault. Try and keep up with deadlines and due dates as much as possible.

Terrible teacher. Dont' know how she still has her teaching licence. Doesn't care about her students. Her labs reports take 4 000 567 320 576 years to finish and it's not even worth 5% of your grade.

RUN FAR AWAY

Poopy.

The way these labs are done need to change, truly. Throughout Gen chem and now Orgo 1, I have not had a single lab that has gone swimmingly where I am in a low-stress environment and understand what is going on.

Is not understanding at all of students' circumstances... truly a nightmare

Everything about it is just illogical. I have spent more time studying her labs (which are always a module or two ahead) and completing her ridiculously long lab reports (that are worth 3% each LOL) than I have studying for the chem exams... make it make sense. Dr. Rashmi, the structure of your lab components need remodeling ASAP.

What a nightmare of a lady.

Unless you have to take chem don't take this class, very rude and condescending professor. You can tell she doesn't respect you. I didn't mind chem in high school so I enrolled in this course but dropped it after the first lab, simply not worth dealing with her for a semester if you don't have to.

This professor's lab section uses stember as the grading tool - and this automated grading system gives you the exact same copy-and-paste four references a result of two correct and two wrong. For the discussion section of the report requires you to learn what you should really be discussing by receiving a very low score on your first report.

failed me on my first lab I submitted early and perfectly because I submitted an incorrect photo that had nothing to do with the lab work.

Just awful

If you can, run. Labs take forever, and she's a super tough grader, so be ready to work 10h+/week for labs.

If you want to despise chemistry and develop a strong dislike for the University of Ottawa, you're more than welcome. The study standards here are a disgrace, and it's an embarrassment for the university to operate at this level. I can only assume the dean is asleep at the wheel

Worst class I have ever taken in university. She does not care about her students and makes life feel like hell. She is extremely rude to her students, and does not care about you. It seems like she wants you to fail, and hates you. I hope she gets nothing in life.

better called her Harshmi but not Rashmi, if you want increase your hatred of UO or chemistry labs, come on and join. btw i'm on my way treating my depression and anxiety, she made my conditions just worse, maybe i should have no complaints about her, cuz it's my responsibility choose biochemistry as my major and have she as my lab tutorial.

Took this as an elective (CHM 1311) and the lab portion made me severely regret it. Professor Rashmi should not be the coordinator. Simply she is much too strict, unreasonable etc... and the whole setup is made to fail students. From false academic fraud allegations from my TA to 0's on reports for minute mistakes to unclear instructions/criteria.

an impossible woman. hands out zeros for things that have absolutely nothing to do with your understanding of the course content, unnecessarily hard on students.

OH MY GOD AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DIE. people who take her course willing hate themselves. She will crush your spirit. Chem labs are hell feels like war you may not make it out of. Does literally nothing and is so lazy hires TA's who are horrible and who mark you like they want you dead. They will fail you for the smallest details.

passive aggressive.

My TA, Abhishek Patel, unfairly deducted marks from my grade due to an invalid data value. I attached my calculation to prevent further deductions but my TA didn't provide a reason. Loose pages aren't allowed, so I use staples every time, except on the final lab with only one page, which they still consider loose and require stapling in the labbook

She just hands out zero without any warnings. She is not flexible at any means. Imagine you get a bad experience with having A+ as a grade. She thinks it is okay to ruin student's co-op availability by giving them zero for literally small reason. Make sure you follow every syllabus like a robot if you do not want to get zero.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS but you can't cuz she's the only lab coordinator for this class. Her labs are terrible and take so long to complete the lab report only to end up with a 50%. Help sessions aren't really helpful. Makes assumptions in chem labs that aren't clear so u go searching for hours.

Very condescending over emails. I nearly got a zero on my very first lab because my file corrupted after the lab submission date. While trying to appeal this decision she insisted it was my fault and I was deserving of my grade. If my TA did not step in and save me I'd have dropped out of the course. Why do our lab assignments get graded by AI???

this is a rite of passage.

Labs were made to be extremely frustrating. Sometimes took 2 days to write a report. Rashmi can speak in a very condescending way, especially when you don't understanding something. TAs grade harshly without justification. Worst of all, it goes through AI grading, which is unethical and has automated responses that always detect at least 2 faults.

Let me reassure you, you shouldn't fear losing 25%ish for little mistakes. No no, Dr Rashmi is so magnanimous that she will take a whooping 100% off if you don't turn in the photos of your lab notebook. Isn't this just great??? Also, if you ever happen to score 0 and write to her abt it, she will gladly write back to mock you. #riteofpassage

She's literally the worst lab coordinator at the uni. Just so rude and unorganized

For labs she's bad. Underperforming. Can she do better? Kilos of works if you have HER. AND no it's not an exaggeration at ALL. I would not do lab if she's here. Neither will my friends. Do not take! I dropped after week one. And get this, she still will take away your marks. No one should suffer this fate. Seriously if have her just run.

Dr. Rashmi should not be in charge of french sections. There are always mistakes in her french protocols and on Stemble. And guess what, you answer correctly to how the question is formulated, but you get it wrong cuz that's not what she meant to ask. The grading criteria is NOT clear and she doesn't answer specifically to questions.

She is unclear in the lab steps and on what she expects for lab reports. The TAs have a list of criteria on which to grade that we don't know about. She changes the lab procedure while in the lab and posts pre-labs after the labs which are mandatory to enter the lab. Be ready for you and your partner to 6-8 hours each working on the lab.

You can't say that you didn't know something, because everything is stated in the 7 pages of 38 rules of her lab syllabus, BUT she is so demoralizing. It's great when first years frantically email her at 1 am because they forgot to send pics of their data (it's their first lab) and she replies with "Your grade will be 0. Take care...Rashmi."

She is the chem lab instructor for first-year students, so you can't avoid her. Make sure to NEVER get on her radar. Don't cause any problems during the lab, never submit anything late, and hope you get a good TA.

She is by far the least forgiving person i've ever met. The lab instructions and post lab work is an absolute mess to read, and when you mess it up she will tell u to refer to the .5 of a sentence in the corner of the bright space and give you a zero. There is no leniency at all, even with mistakes that are extremely simple to fix.

Run far away. She does not care about students. she is not understanding at all

She only shows up once and disappears for the rest of the semester and her assistant the angry man with the red lab coat bullies students avoid both of them at all costs

She has the lowest reviews in the entire faculty for a reason. Her labs are poorly managed

you will get that zero if you don't submit things properly, they are not lenient at all, super harsh.

I'm a first year student taking CHM and her labs are awful. Her lectures are could be better. She does NOT care about anything and is not very nice 1 on 1. We are giving no lab criteria but given poor marks when we don't “follow” them. I hope I never have to have her as a prof or lab coordinator again!

Pray you get a good TA in her labs. Most of the TAs are useless and don't help at all.

The labs are disorganized. The procedure was confusing. Seemed like the Ta did not read the procedure before coming to the lab since they are always confused and surprised on how poorly written the procedure is.The prof was not there during the actual lab, that does not stop her from yelling at you every once in a while though.

Very extreme and unrealistic with lab grading expectations. She gives out 0s like it's nothing for the smallest, most nit-picky things and doesn't care about how it impacts students' grades and their futures. If you have her as your lab coordinator, you better start studying 10x harder for your other classes because this one will be TANKED.

Terrible Teacher

RUN FAR AWAYY, i feel bad for her children

Horrible to deal with. She uses AI to grade your lab reports which is ironic coming from a school and prof that emphasises staying away from the use of AI in your work. If ever you want to dispute a grade or even UNDERSTAND where you went wrong, she will refuse to meet with you or explain to you why you lost marks. How is this even allowed lol

While I didn't interact with her directly, she was horrendously mean to others. Would yell at TAs and students alike in labs in front of everyone for the smallest things. Her reputation is quite accurate, and be sure to follow every protocol so she doesn't have cause to yell at you.

I got a 0 on a lab worth 20% of my grade because my graph looked similar to my lab partner's (we had the same lab data). She also made the practical exam way more stressful than it needed to be. She was yelling at everyone the second we entered the lab. Just pray you get a good TA like I did. It will make the class bearable. Read the pre labs :)

Very stressful lab. During the practical exam she yelled at students, making it unnecessarily tense. Extremely tough grader with unclear expectations points lost for not writing exactly what she wants, even when not in the rubric. Meeting with her doesn't help. Avoid if possible. Pray you have a wonderful TA.

Rashmi makes her chemistry labs unnecessarily difficult, stressful and confusing. Rashmi and her staff are rude, dismissive and harsh. She yells at people and TAs over very minor issues, gives out zeros like they're candy for formatting issues, and makes 6-page-long lab rubrics you MUST follow by the letter to avoid a 0. Avoid her at all costs.

WAKES UP EVERY MORNING AND CHOOSES VIOLENCE. SHE WILL FAIL YOU FOR BREATHING THE WRONG WAY. PRAY YOU GET A GOOD TA. IF YOUR TA SUCKS LIKE MINE DID AND FAILS YOU DONT EVEN BOTHER CONTACTING HER BECAUSE RASHMI WILL BACK UP THE TA AND FAIL YOU. SHE PROBABLY GETS HAPPY DOING IT TOO. 1ST YEARS GOOD LUCK BC SHES THE ONLY LAB PROF SO YOU CANT AVOID HER