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“She's absolutely the worst”
BIOL1115 - 1.0 rating“Worst prof in the health science department by FAR”
HSCI2216 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
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100%
Attendance Mandatory
79%
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Reviews (101)
Sara is the one of the best teacher i ever have. She helps students alot to get a good grade in her class. So if you wanna get a good grade then i strongly recommend her.
One of the best teacher in langara, she cares so much for his students.
She was honestly the worst professor Ive had during my two years here. Worst prof in the health science department by FAR. I was sick and missed the class where we chose our groups and was stuck with a HORRIBLE group and she was not understanding of my situation at all. Midterm was filled with bad multiple choice (which of the following is true?)
I took Sara for spring 2020. Initially, I was so worried because Sara was new professor at Langara, so I didnt find any reviews about her and it was kind of risk choosing her and now as we have reached at end of term I am so glad that I chose Sara. She is so caring and try her best to explain lectures clearly. If u wanna take HSCI go with Sara.
Sara is an amazing prof. She is extremely helpful (both in class and office hours)! The best thing about her is whenever you need help she is literally an email away! She is quick with replying to emails and makes sure that you understand every concept related to a topic . If you're willing to work hard then Sara is the right instructor for you.
Took her class online during Covid. She is all over the place when it comes to zoom lectures. A scheduled 2hour zoom lesson can end within 30min if she didn't prepare anything of importance to teach. PowerPoints for each chapter & recordings her explaining them is the main source of lessons. Assignments are easy to do if you study the PowerPoints.
I have never seen such a worst professor in my life . She is not at all caring just gives the powerpoints and never explains them properly . Very tough grader . If you want to score good in your course never take her .
never take her if you want good grades . she don't care for her students .Just give powerpoints and want us to study by ourself . worst professor
She is worst professor . She dont care about students she just upload slides and never explain them just come for 30 minute in meeting asking about only doubts .
Dont give marks till the end of the semester and she is so confusing and hilarious professor I even got till now .Her classes are boring and what she speaks god knows . Such a strict marker and dont understand the situation of students .
She is a nice professor . She cares about her students
This course really challenges your knowledge and understanding of the topics. The exams have around 8 short answer questions that require more than just memorizing the terms. There's also a group PowerPoint presentation as a project but it's not too bad as you are prerecording the audio, then you have the live class discussion afterwards.
Her teaching style is questionable. She doesn't really teach. Shows us notes. Took her course online during the pandemic. One group project. Three pop quizzes. Two midterms. And a final exam. No textbook required which is a bonus. Everything is based on her lecture notes. Super chill course. I barely put in any effort and managed to get an A-
Sara is a very unorganized teacher and you wont get your marks back until a few weeks later. Its very hard to get a decent grade because marks are mainly on exams and 3 hard assignments. The exam was 13 long answer questions and 4 marks each so you don't know what she's expecting so its hard to get a high marks with exams.
If you want a class where you have to put in an hour of effort for the entire semester, take this one. Just be aware that youre not going to learn anything and youll get your midterm grades over a month after youve taken it lol
Discussion during presentation suppose to be 20mins according to outline however it ends up being 40mins cuz she cancels her lectures for useless discussions, feel bad for the group that were the only ones presenting when usually its two, that had to do an 1hr20min discussion, yes you heard that right!!! Like wtf
Takes eternities to mark and return grades. She does not give feedback since she said she already published the answer which is fine to me. I took the class in Fall 2020, I had quizzes that were for particiption only, 3 assignments and 2 midterms. She checks attendance any random day she feels like.
Took her class during the Summer of 2020. She clearly has no clue about the material and cannot teach for the life of her. Honestly don't know how she got a teaching degree.
would personally never take a course with this prof ever again. does not care about her students and when challenged with questions, is at a loss for words or just asks questions back to the student to cover the fact that she honestly has no idea what else to say or do. also talks about unnecessary details that are irrelevant and wastes time.
Worst prof Ive ever had. Doesnt care about her students succeeding. When asked a question she wont answer it because she is just as confused. She even said to our class that the questions on her tests dont really make sense. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HER!!!!!! You will regret it!!!!!!
she is good professor but class participation and discussion board matters a lot and her exams are not at all cumulative.
Sara is a good professor!! She has a clear grading criteria and is very fair. Although, she returns your grades later than usual time but that doesn't matter if you know how you have attempted your exam. Otherwise her course material is enough to score well in exams!!
tough grader and hard to ask for help when needed.
She is not a good teacher, the course is very easy but PLEASE DO NOT TAKE HER. She is such a hard marker like no joke. they look for specific words in tests and doesn't give any marks if you got the answer partially right. She gets mad for no reason and doesn't listen to students.I didn't do that bad in her class but she not a good teacher for sure
She is unclear and has a very particular way of talking that's just hard to understand, she takes a month to mark exams and when she finally does so they have so many marking errors that your grade can change up to 10% if you ask her to review it. Exams are so unclear that she feels the need to go through them and explain every single question.
Find another uni that is teaching a course equivalent to this one. The professor is the problem. Graded by only our 2 midterms (20% x 2), final (20%), and group project (20%) and participation (20%). Class average for first midterm was 50-60%. Participation is filled with meaningless comments/questions on randomly chosen topic presentations.
Awful professor, she does care and is very intelligent, but cannot teach, I mean cannot teach! She uses TA’s that are an*l about grading, not sure why but she is terrible at teaching and can’t get the concept across without rambling along about irrelevant topics. She needs to be teaching PhD candidates not Associate or Bachelors!
I thought Sara was a great prof this semester. Her TA was a terrible marker, but she met with me and adjusted my grade for each midterm, and also is changing the weight of the midterms in order to raise everyone's grade. Participation is worth a big chunk of the grade, so it's an easy 20%. If you work hard, she is not as bad a prof as people say.
She has a terrible TA this semester but she went out of her way to fix his marking errors and is changing her weighting scale so the lowest exam grade is worth much less (from 20 to 10%). She's extremely intelligent and cares about her students. Participate in class and that's another 20% of your grade.
you need to show up to class and pay attention in lectures and you'll do fine in this class. she always made time for me to come to office hours and replied to my emails quickly and thoroughly. she's kind of a tough marker but her grading makes sense and she can clearly explain to you why you got marks taken off if you review your exam with her.
sara's a good prof but she has bad TAs. more than willing to meet with students to fix her TAs grading however. she's putting in tons of office hours and reviewing everyone's exams again to make sure they're getting the grade they deserve. come to class because she often puts topics on the exams that she talked about a lot.
people are being crazy dramatic about sara's teaching! show up to class, participate, and study major concepts and you will be fine. always review your exams w her because her TA is bad at marking and she will usually raise your grade. i'm not the best student and I am doing fine in her class. you can tell she cares about her students
Her TA is terrible at marking so hopefully he's better next semester or she gets a new one. Other than that, Sara was super knowledgeable and she seemed to actually care about me succeeding this semester. If something is confusing in class, she'll give you a really great explanation if you go to her office hours. Exams are all short and long answer
The material itself is not hard but the way she teaches the material is often unclear which makes the course hard. Assignment and Midterm questions are also confusing sometimes because it is worded incorrectly or are just unclear. Her TA does the marking so there's often errors and takes a month or more to mark things.
Simply horrible marking style, I wonder we are not paying such a heavy tuition fee to get marked disastrously by TA marker. She deadly needs to change the style or else she is simply pushing students to lose their interest in doing better next time. Exam questions are hardly ever clear but they definitely want a straight forward answer, ironical!
DO NOT TAKE HERRR please all of her tests were short answer and 20 questions. please find a better teacher
Very intelligent professor, I mean very intelligent. Downsides, she takes for ever to mark and will say exam marks will be out this week and they are two if not 3 weeks later! Lectures are boring. if you mess up your exams you're kind of screwed... if she has more than two classes she gets flustered and disorganized.
Her lectures are kind of boring and not well organized, and her TA is horrible. I would prefer not to take her again
Sara is a very smart prof, she tries her hardest to help the class and gives clear examples in the lecture (which come up in midterms). There is a lot of content in the course to cover, so she tries to simplify it. The course was difficult because of it, but she tried to give extra marks to class where she could and that helped a lot!
Pay attention in class, a lot of what she mentions (as extra) does connect to potential questions on the midterms! There is a group project, 2 midterms, and final exam. Midterms= 8-15 short answer questions. She's a great prof, and does care for her students!!!! Her TA was just really bad this semester, but she took the time to look over each exam!
Work hard, pay attention in class. Class participation is not too bad. Take the time to review the lecture slides, and don't fall behind. Otherwise, you won't do good in the course. Midterm 1 had the biggest chunk of material, so be careful. But after, the course gets easier. Group project is important, pick smart people to be in your group....
Teaching style is not very helpful and is very unorganized in terms of getting your marks for your exams. Received marks for other exams and assignments a day before the finals.
the absolute worst prof you could ever have. Please save your money and your time by taking the class with someone else. she is more confused than the students she is teaching. extremely unprofessional and does not even answer questions. tests make no sense and are irrelevant. I do not understand where she got her degree from. Absolute worst.
Uninspired, unmotivated, and monotone.. Sara literally just reads off of slides all class and casually asks students "any questions?" at random intervals in order for it to feel like she's keeping them in the lecture.
Interesting course, clear slides but tough grader. Exams are 5 pages short answers. Participation matters a lot. Even if you show up to class every time but did not say anything you will get 0 on class practice and class interaction.
She is the most boring instructor i have ever come across. She knows how to make everyone asleep in the class, there arenot too much things to boost your grades in the class. avoid taking her classes.
Please do not take her course if you want a high GPA. -Quizzes are harder than tests somehow -Unclear marking criteria -She won't give you participation mark even you do attend the class -Boring lecture
She should have at least a 4.5 / 5! Take her, don't let discourage!! Go to lectures, take notes, and participate to get the +5 Bonus. Study (MEMORIZE LIKE ROBOT) from the slides and you can get an easy A+/A on this course. Answers and questions are very straightforward. The content is divided into 3 modules, the final is not even cumulative.
I enjoyed this course. Put attention to the lectures, not to understand the material (you do that on your own time), but to take notes on what she adds from the slides. The material is only from slides, no book. Her exams are SUPER VERY AMAZINGLY straightforward. She's nice once you get to know her, might be intimidated at first.
The course is divided into 3 modules. Each module has an assignment, a quiz, and an exam. All are due in the same week. WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT THIS YOU MIGHT ASK? You do the assignment a few days before, you study for the quiz on Tuesday, you have the content fresh for the exam on Thursday, and you're done. Next week another module, new content.
Tips to avoid zoning out: take notes from the computer, and chew gum. She doesn't give breaks in between the 2-hour lectures, because her lectures end sooner! Take this class, she is great, contrary to what other reviews say, she does know her stuff.
Quizzes are super easy. They are just straightforward (you can't BS the answer). If you read the slides and understood them, you are good to go. Her answers and questions go like this: if you know, you know, if you don't know it, you don't know it. Reasons you might not know it: you didn't study enough, or didn't go to lectures.
Participation means to PARTICIPATE. If you are just sitting in the back of the class and she doesn't even know the sound of your voice, of course, she won't give you participation marks. just say something in the class, ask whatever question comes to mind, and you will be okay.
she does answer questions after class. she is also available in office hours. you just have to ask!
she is knowledgeable and you can tell by the examples she gives in class. very cool if you are interested in health sciences.
Sara is NOT a good teacher, if you have the opportunity to NOT choose her, DON'T. She suffers from dyslexia and ADHD, which make her class a little difficult. The tests contain grammatical errors and sentence problems, and she makes a lot mistake during correction. Quiz and midterms are not difficult, but they don't match the assignments it gives.
Half of the class was zero in the last assignment because people used the internet to answer the questions. Zero is a whole question of 10 marks from me, because I added MORE to the answer than she had explained in class. UNBELIEVABLE. RUN!! Sara is not a good teacher, if you have the opportunity to NOT choose her, DON'T.
Please do not take this professor at all. I advise you to just pick a different prof instead and I made that MISTAKE by choosing her. Lectures are very BORING. She tells you to speak what's on your mind when you are doing an assignment but when she comes to grading it, she'll give you no marks bcus half of it wasn't professional for her liking.
Awful professor. Does not care about her students and spends the whole class just reading what's on the slides. Occasionally stops to ask if there's any questions but does not always give useful answers. I do not recommend her if you care about your grades or learning.
Sara teaches good, as per me but if you want to pass easily, that's not gonna happen. I felt slides were interesting and she told lot of stories as well. She is tough marker and you need to give one line answer because all her quizzes are like that. It's both an advantage n disadvantage. She give bonus marks for participating and was reachable.
worse teacher in world
please donot ever take her lectures the worst professor for health science you will ever get
so bad of a prof and racist mark exam by shooting darts Don't never take her class
She is knowledgeable and her content quality is good but she will never never give extentions for your assignment quizzes no matter what the reason is. Class participation is must for participation marks and she likes to the point answers in one or two lines.
Oh boy, where do i start? First off, her lectures are VERY BORING. Her tests are quite hard and it's very hard to understand her sometimes.
Since this course relies on lectures, it can be hard to remain engaged as Sara's teaching style is reading off slides. I can tell she tries her best but she struggles to give good lessons and her exams are solely memorization based rather than application of learning. She has a specific marking scheme and does not like to give partial marks.
worst teacher in my entire life who doesnt care
She is the toughest grader in the college.Never ever take her class.And her classes are too boring
She's absolutely the worst. Teaching a BIOL course for the first time doesn't excuse her incompetence. She's consistently rude to her students and lacks the basic skills to effectively teach the material. Her exams are a mess, filled with grammar mistakes and lacking clarity, and she's unwilling to give any partial marks. AVOID AVOID AVOID
Extremely disorganized. Does not make announcements or give any reminders about deadlines. I have had her for three different classes (not by choice) and she never says when the quizzes are besides the first day and deadlines always change, so do not rely on the syllabus. Memorize everything that is bolded in her slides and you'll be fine.
Do not take her class. Her style of teaching is very confusing . Everything very hard to understand. Concepts i knew before taking this class are more unclear to me now because i took her class.
One of the worst professors in langara #1 nevere take her.
Well the motive of this professor is to fail as much students as she can
She is the toughest grader in the Langara College #1
WORST TEACHER IN LANGARA NEVER TAKE HER COURSE.
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very very bad teacher ever had. too boring lecture, too tough even she is too confused with her own content she explain simple things in this way its become too tough.. very bad experience i had. main focus of this professor is to fail.. never take this aweful teacher
Today is first March 1st, over halfway through the semester, Sara has not provided any marks to us. Today is the last day to drop any classes and I have no idea what I am getting in her course. The ridiculous amount of money I have paid for this class to not have a single idea of what is going on. She makes all of her content confusing.
makes easy content way too hard
this class is so hard
This is the worst teacher i have ever seen she just don't give mark and the exams are just so irrelevant. She would just give random fill ups without any context also she is really poor in engagement of students no activity no exercise just a long boring lecture and then a worksheet which is also very poor Sometimes even she forget about the topic
Sara seems like a nice person, but is not a good prof.
Sara is nice lady, but does not have a good teaching approach.
She's just clearly does't know how to teach
Sara is a bad professor. She's very disorganized when it comes to her lectures; her syllabus and her actual course schedule do not align at all. She's very condescending and does not care if you're actually learning anything. She can discuss one slide for 20 minutes and go absolutely nowhere with those 20 minutes. Don't take her course.
Worst teacher every. Don't know how teach. Don't take her class. Worst experience every. Alway confused about her own lecture. She has a dementia. Even cycle has a stand but she doesn't. She want's to fail as much as students she want. If you want to pass the course don't take her course. Her exam was totally different from what she tech in class
she is a mental professor . cant be defined if she is a male or female. never take course with her .
she herself is confused with her gender .
I Swear never take program with her . she will make your future in Danger. as she have no cares about the students. boring and tiring lectures. never never ever take her in your life . i took her 2 courses and she failed me in 2 . really dissappointed . but i really work hard but still cant even able to score 50 percent.
never take this professor in your life . worst worst worst worst worst professor ever i seen in my life
She is very helpful and whenever I need help in my assignments, she is there to help me. She is nice and her lecture slides are very easy to learn and understand. She gives worksheets in classes which help students to revise all the lecture.
She was a bad lecturer, unable to transfer knowledge effectively. Her disorganized teaching style failed to engage students, leaving many struggling. Despite thinking she was clever, she dismissed others' input. She is not suited for this job and doesn't have the qualities of a good lecturer
Never ever take classes from sara she is worst professor she forget their slides and just read same sentences from slides she never show quizzes and midterms back I dont know why she is professor-999 LACK OF TRANSPARENCY in this course
Langara needs to take accountability and fire her
Dr. Sara is a nice professor and accessible outside of class. She has a good understanding of her content but fails to provide students with the amount of support needed. Her formatting of course content is disorganized and leaves students with many questions. Her test style is very confusing and would be difficult to get an A in her course.
Sara's teaching style is awful. The lectures are long and confusing and this is more like a biology class than health science. The quiz and exam format is AWFUL, basically all fill in the blanks of confusing sentences. It is currently Nov 5 and we have not received back any marks to know where we stand in the class. AVOID at all costs.
Worst professor by far. So difficult to even get a C grade. Boring lectures and her formatting of the quizzes and exams are very confusing, especially the fill in the blanks. She was late by 50 minutes on our exam day because she was printing it out and told us we were the ones wasting time. Never ever take this professor.
i don't even understand what she did for this entire semester. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. IT IS BY FAR THE WROST CALSS EVER
No words just dont take her at any cost
Langara needs to fire her immediately for the sake of students future. She has no idea how to teachh.
This professor was not very supportive. Midterms and quizzes were not returned, making it difficult to understand performance to improve. Lectures were often unclear. She made courses more stressful & challenging than necessary. I strongly recommend avoiding this professor. It is disappointing that the college has not addressed these concerns.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
79%
Textbook Required
0%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
C+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.70 avg changeRatings by Course
HSCI2216
3.0
(13)HSCI2214
2.4
(8)HSCI1130
2.2
(64)HSCL1130
1.5
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1.0
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HSCI1180
5.0
BIOL1115
4.5
HSCL1130
4.1
W01
4.0
HSCI2216
3.8