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“She is a nice prof, but she always seems very tired, or more specifically, in a state of lassitude”
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BCH210 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
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Textbook Required
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This course was the worst course i've ever taken at U of T. Period.
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the lady talks way too fast! she is quite nice though. all the professors for this course is great though.
Her stuff was easy, and it mostly made sense. After studying, I thought it all did. Where on EARTH did those test questions come from?
talks and talks and talks, too fast, not clear, mentions way too many details, talks and talks some more. makes a lot of mistakes during lecture without noticing...can be confusing!!! in her defense it's a new course - but damn it's insane
did not enjoy her lecturing
For BCH210, have her right now it is very hard. She talks so fast that you cant understand her. Its so hard to be awake in that class.
lecture notes are annoyingly disorganized and confusing. mumbles and is very hard to understand
Nothing here than what's been said already. Test questions are stubbornly difficult. Lecture notes are relatively disorganized, and keeps giving off the wrong impression of what the tests will be like.
She was a very passionate prof who was also very hot...:P
awesome
Talks way too fast, makes lots of mistakes during lecture and seems to not care whether you understand her or not. A terrible prof overall
Okay lecturer. She thinks she's better than she actually is. She needs to learn to write a good test rather than a hard one and bell. Overall, Don't take this course if you don't have to (BCH311H1), she is the administrator as well and she's very disorganized.
Great prof. Amazing once you get to know her!
She's an ok prof, not anyone you'd remember once the class was over. Her tests were fine, except for a couple of tricky questions and one or two cheap questions about little details, but she bells the grades, so it's fine. Overall, a good prof who gets the job done.
She was an awful professor. Her slides were extremely disorganized. All she gave you were a bunch of figures and nothing else. So if you didn't write everything that came out of her mouth (which was difficult to do because she spoke so softly and quickly), you are screwed. She also didn't seem to like what she was teaching.
Worst undergraduate prof I've had so far. Her lectures are tedious and her test questions don't reflect the difficulty of the material discussed in class. But worst of all is the way she interacts with her students. When I went to her office hours to see my midterm, she quickly dismissed my questions and was downright rude.
Not a great prof, but she tries her best. Her tests are mix of gimme questions, cheap little detail questions, and some tricky questions. If you take good notes and study the lecture notes, you should be fine, because she usually bells the grades.
Her material wasn't bad. Too detailed however, and you couldn't tell if she was emphasizing one thing over another, basically needed to memorize everything. Slides were horrible. Two seperate files for each lecture, had to switch b/w the two and you could never tell which one she was using and if you needed to write it down or not. Relisten to lec!
She tries her best best but it's very disorganized. Despite her telling you that she has all the notes for you, TAKE YOUR OWN NOTES. The notes are not nearly enough nor is what's on the test. Her test section always has the lowest grades and even with the bellcurve will most likely lower your grade by a letter.
Her lectures were often from the textbook, WORD FOR WORD (Biochemistry, sixth edition by Berg, Stryer). Record the lectures. Listen to them in detail. And read the textbook. Memorize EVERYTHING. Otherwise you will FAIL. Overall a very bad prof and terrible lecturer. Doesn't seem to care about the students or the course material.
Worst prof I've had at U of T. Didn't like her split slides nor her method and style of mid-term writing. Terrible
Good teacher..nice voice, clear and concise..her material can be tricky and overwhelming at times. Study hard!
Great prof, high clarity
lectures well, but the material on her exams do not reflect the material covered in class. very nice person, but brutal on exams. Students beware!
Nice person, not so good lecturerWould go over quite complex biochemical / enzymatic reactions in such a way that it was really difficult to understand
Below is correct - she sounds like a nice person, but as a prof she's very quiet and mumbly so record the lectures!! Also, memorize EVERYTHING in the textbook - down to the numbers in the charts... if you want a good mark.
Horrible professor. Cannot teach to save her life. Needs to speak up. Needs to be more kind with her students.
The previous comments were too generous. She could not present the material clearly or annunciate, her "notes" were horrible scribbles and she cannot write coherent exam questions.
Don't know what's with all the hate about her. Personally, I thought she was great. Explained concepts thoroughly and concisely. Yes she may speak softly so listening to her lectures is a must. Otherwise, her test questions were fair, what she hinted during lecture was on the midterm. Also very helpful outside class!
Worst professor ever.She could not explain concepts clearly. Lots of mistakes during class. She could not even finish her section. She didn’t care about the students. She was very rude when I talked to in person. She didn’t keep the promise.I went to her office after appointment, but she was not in her office.
Worst professor I have had in my life. She does not know how to teach. She is mumbly. Mysterious marking scheme. Lousy work ethic. Terrible.
exam questions ambiguous and tricky. not very clear when teaching the material, but a nice person.
If you go to lecture she really emphasizes what to study for the exam! Great Prof!
She was super rude one time I went to go visit her office hours
Worst professor ever. very rude. she does not respect students. I just wonder who wrote the generous reviews below....
Dr Andreopoulos was amazing this summer! She taught the material well, wrote down key points and was super clear of what she wanted us to know. She is super helpful during office hours and had some funny science jokes every class! She also gave us chocolates :) Great prof!
Wonderful prof this summer! Her test were fair, tested details but what do you expect, you're at UofT for a reason! Great prof, made me enjoy BCH
This person is very critical and hot very helpful. When asking questions about anything related to grades, she will shut you down and tell you your wrong even when you may have a valid point. Her teaching style is dry. Overall one of my worst profs.
She is not helpful at all and very rude person to talk to. She thinks she knows everything which is very far from reality.
This person ( not prof.) is very MEAN, RUDE and ARROGANT .. The last things she cares about are fairness and students' feelings. She makes university more difficult than it already is !!!
She's very clear on the material.
Horrible professor. Still remember how horrible she is, even after graduating from UofT.
I don't understand what the reviews about her in the past are about. She really is helpful and clear. She makes time for students if they do not understand. I feel like the people who bad mouth her may not have taken advantage of the resources or didn't put in the amount of effort needed.
All that I could ask for in a professor - clear, accessible and engaging. My only complaint is that her wording of review/practice exam questions tends to be vague and unclear (though the actual exam was fine). I don't get where the hate is coming from on here, it's probably anger at the difficulty of the course overall.
Really impatient and unhelpful Prof!
From what I've seen she does not care about her students and does not make anything clear in lecture
I have graduated from UofT over a year ago, but I still remember how horrible this professor was! Very rude!
Nice person and prof
She is a nice prof, but she always seems very tired, or more specifically, in a state of lassitude. When you talk to her, it feels as if she has just taken a long nap.
Wonderful professor! So clear on all her lectures and is super nice. Don't NEED to show up to class but I did and it does help! The tests are reasonable but won't be easy if you dont understand the info deeply. She also has a good aura and just gives off positive vibes :)
Boring lecturer and unlike some other profs, make intriguing topics as dull as wonder bread. Test questions are reasonable though on the whole (although term test difficulty also depends on the difficulty of other profs' tests).
I took this course during the fall semester but had to drop it due to extended illness. I had this prof for a couple weeks before then and had a VERY negative impression of both her attitude and teaching abliity (AWFUL slides). Now taking it again during the summer and while she seems much friendly now, her teaching is just as terrible.
Taking this course this summer. Her lecture is heavy and she rushed to next slides before making it clear on previous point or let everyone think about what she had just talked or take it down. Felt like she was lecturing and writing notes (which is hard to recognize) on slides to herself only, not to the students in front of her.
The Pace of her lecture was too fast. It seems like she was rushing to finish the material. She wrote notes on the slides without giving people time to copy. It's hard to read her writing too. But, her tests are fair and pretty straight forward, probably because I took it in the summer.
I took this course over the summer and it was the best decision ever. Everyone says she is a really hard prof, but her test was easy and she mentioned things that will be on the exam. Overall, a good prof, explains stuff really well and clearly states what you need to know.
Liked the other profs that taught this course, but she was the worst.
The instructions for the only assignment of the year were too vague, have to read the comments section to be able to actually do it correctly. Very poorly organized, unfortunately cannot take the mandatory class without her.
She wasn't terrible, but definitely the worst of the 4 profs that taught this course. She went really fast in lecture, you need to add a bunch of notes to your slides (go to class), and her test had lots of confusing questions and grammatical errors. You could tell she rushed making the test. Assignment instructions are vague too
This woman literally raps her lectures in a monotone voice and emphasizes things by putting a star on (every) slide. Probably the worst prof ive had in this field in terms of how lecture material is conveyed. Some of her midterm questions are really specific and doing the past tests are a must. She made mistakes on the term test too. Amazing prof.
Short answer alone will murder you, she goes by an "all or nothing basis" meaning no part marks whatsoever. She is incredibly unfriendly and doesn't take into account that we are students taking other courses and not just hers. No point taking this course to torture yourself.
Definitely adopted a quantity over quality approach to her lecture material. Its possible to do well on her section granted you put in some effort.
I think she's a really good lecturer and clearly cares about her students. The class was hard, attending every and reviewing content often was essential for me to follow what was going on. She gave us candy and told jokes; I think shes a pretty good prof :)
Took BCH210 in the summer. Very well designed course! Weekly quizzes really helped me keep on track and the tutorials were very helpful. It's a really tough course but, the way it was set up, I found that by the end I really knew what I was talking about. This prof gets a lot of hate but I think she made this course manageable.
i mean she has a terrible terrible delivery methods. The lectures are given in this fast paced, monotonic and dull way that really makes them hard to follow. The slides are also missing many important details.
I don't have a problem with her delivery method in lecture and I don't find the lectures excessively dry or monotonous as someone said. But the organization of this course is atrocious. T.A.s make problems themselves that are often outdated, and the textbook problems don't relate to lecture material at all. Not well thought out.
Lectures can get very dry and you must attend them as not everything is on the slides she gives. However, she is straightforward with what she teaches and doesn't talk at lengths on unnecessary points. As with all biochemistry courses, the exams are very tough and but nothing surprising shows up. Very approachable and willing to talk to students.
Dr. A is a prof with few strengths and many weaknesses. Her lecture objectives/summaries are useful, and the course material isn't hard. That said... she lectures in a way that's like textbook recitation (boring), she's an unfair grader (likes to force averages near 70), and not particularly kind (ignores half of students' questions on Quercus).
She's too smart for us mortals, doesn't explain the concepts clear enough. She drags out words during a lecture when she is trying to gather her thoughts and find what she wants to say next, which makes her lectures very hard to listen to in my opinion.
I don't mind the lectures and content. The questions on quizzes/tests are just sometimes beyond vague. Said questions and their answers are justified based on assumptions, not written in the question. Avoid the guessing game that is this course.
A very knowledgeable prof but can't seem to care or understand that we're merely undergrads. Please actually teach instead of reading the slides out to us. Many of her quiz questions are also highly confusing, almost as if it's made to make you get the wrong answer.
bro like the quizzes were nothing like what she taught in lectures. for example in automated DNA sequencing she talked about how it worked, but tested us on how it's terminated??
I will not sugar coat it. She is very vauge, clearly annoying. Her e module instructions are contradictory to the actual submissions. She contradicts herself several times in a lecture. She purposely puts trick questions in the quiz and midterm. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS UNLESS YOU NEED TOO
She is a kind person, but her lecture style is not particularly clear and coherent.
Half of her lectures consist of "umm," "ahh," or silence, as she desperately attempts to formulate her next coherent thought. Content is not hard, but the delivery is egregiously unsatisfactory.
The lectures are content-heavy, which is generally expected, but they are so monotonous and lack structure/flow which makes it incredibly difficult to follow through. This also made it difficult to understand the difficult concepts. As a result, a 2 hour lecture video almost takes me 4 hours to get through sometimes.
The lectures are pre-recorded videos clearly taken for the pandemic but still used today. The videos are incredibly lackluster with recordings being around 2 to 3 hours long each week. In addtion, on midterm and quizzes in particular she would test content that was mentioned for 5 seconds.
Should prepare to dedicate sufficient time into this course. Although dense, students end up learning a lot things. But if you truly understand the material, you will do good.
I had her in 2023 online (I heard it's better irl). The 2h long videos were the MOST painful thing to watch. She is a very boring and passive lecturer, nothing was engaging. Content wasnt clear (mistakes on slides), no textbook, practice questions were useless, gives hard/tricky tests. Re-used recordings from 2020. Also, she doesnt take criticism.
No recordings, boring lectures, treats student unequally, just bad.
brutal lectures. belinda chang level bad. slaps a picture of an protein on a slide and just talks.
Roula was feeling a little bit greedy this year mandating a $70 book assigned with 5% of the final grade in tophat questions for a 600 person class.
Y'all don't let the 1 stars scare you or take them to heart (like any RMP reviews). If you ask her questions or attend her office hours, she is so caring and sweet and truly wants her students to genuinely succeed. She goes out her way to help students (like extending quiz time) and offering a review session to prepare for the midterm.
Worse than Belinda Chang since she makes you buy a $70 textbook. To be fair, the textbook is helpful because of how useless her lectures are. She splats a picture of something, then mumbles about it for a couple of minutes, but will test you on the smallest detail. Don't take this class if you don't have to.
The teaching staff seems to only put in effort when it comes to finding marks to detract. Precise enough to individually dock fractions of 1% participation marks in a class of 450 students, but can't be bothered to release homework/quiz questions with coherent answer choices or proofread the textbook to make it consistent with lecture material (1)
Clearly 350 characters are not enough to say how bad this course is. In addition its terrible grading, inconsistency, and administration, the lectures are genuinely very boring. As someone who is actually interested in biochemistry, it's just two hours of dry, monotone rambling. The worst in UofT life sci. This course has no redeeming qualities (2)
Hated her. She has no empathy towards students and will not help you or accommodate you if you are going through a rough time personally.
it's crazy how the worst textbook i've ever read still delivers information more coherently than her
shhhhhhhhh
five big DOOMS
If you are having a rough time and can get documentation, make sure it covers as long of a timeline as possible. Do what you have to do, even if it inconveniences her, bc she definitely will not be empathetic toward you or considerate of your situation otherwise. Allow yourself to prioritize coursework for profs that DO care, instead.
Her lectures are fun, engaging, and clear; theres never a dull moment. She makes fair questions that test critical thinking and understanding of key concepts, not just memorization. Goes above and beyond to support students (even rounding up 0.25% with a smile)! The textbook is also worth every penny. Truly a generational prof. Happy April Fools!
What I hate the most about this class is that not only is she unreliable in teaching content, but her textbook, which I'm relying on to study, is full of errors. I keep having to check the canvas discussion page to see if TAs and students noticed the mistake and corrected it - it's exhausting to know that you can't rely on ANYTHING in this class.
the type of professor that makes you question why you are paying tuition to UofT. the textbook was written by an undergrad for crying out loud and still explains concepts with more clarity than her. she needs her PhD revoked
I got a perfect score on MCAT biochemistry and still found BCH311 unbearable. Honestly, I'd rather retake the MCAT every Friday morning whilst being run over by a Line 2 train than spend another minute in her class.
Feels like she doesn't know what she is talking about. Puts a 3D electron imaging of a protein and yaps about it for 5 minutes x 50 slides. So damn boring. Grades terribly, clearly to curve the class and only allow like 2 students to pass with a 90+.
she negatively regulates my will to live
Bewilderingly bad. I'm genuinely confused how she's allowed to teach let alone run a course :( there needs to be more regulations around people like her
All her courses are boring and illogical. The teachers she teaches with, de melo, are both bad teachers, but her lectures are particularly confusing. There is no course video. There is only a textbook that is not detailed enough and not very clear for the exam. It's hard to start reviewing for the exam! I hate her!
She could have made the textbook optional/supplementary for a semester to get student feedback. She could have at least proofread it. This seems like a no brainer. But Professor Andreopoulos would rather charge everyone $70 for ChatGPT slop as soon as she can. A case study in greed, ignorance, and malice; a disgrace to the University of Toronto.
A bunch of the information she teaches in the course is straight up false, I think I now know less biochemistry than when I started lol
Why am I being tested on something she mentions for one second in a 2hr lecture, that doesn't seem fair at all! If the prof is teaching something that isn't in the lecture slides or the required textbook/material I shouldn't be tested on it PERIOD. it feels like she's setting up her students to fail. This course truly made me hate biochem.
The issue lies not in the professor's teaching style but in the course design. The notes and textbook are vague and overloaded yet lack detail. Although lecture attendance is required, it offers no valuable insights beyond the readings. Additionally, BCH closes Quercus before finals conclude, unlike other departments.
I would compare her to a certain German dictator, but not even he would mark 0.25 off my e-modules.
Tested on stuff that wasn't even in the course. She should not be allowed to run a course!!!
My class is so bad that I think she should pay me as her student. EMOTIONAL DAMAGE
ABYSMAL. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. IF YOU NEED HER FOR YOUR PROGRAM, CHANGE YOUR PROGRAM
I would maybe find it amusing to see a professor receive (deserve) so much hate, but it cost me my GPA and a fortune in international fees. I hope she gets fired soon or reconsiders teaching
you make Alexander Fleming roll in his grave.
I didn't think she was that bad until the final, which was filled with typos (at least 5) and details not in the slides or $60 also typo-filled textbook. She and De Melo assigned “testable” readings and homework but were never actually tested. instead they tested us on confusing, poorly worded questions. Assignments are easy but i'd still AVOID
Lectures were so bad and the biggest waste of time. If she didnt grade attendance, her lecture would be empty lol. She wants to see everyone show up for her ego. Im surprised nobody brought rotten tomatoes to throw from the audience
its impressive how often she stumbled and struggled to clearly explain molecular biology concepts that arent too inherently complicated. she doesnt know what shes talking about; if you took BIO230 with Yip, the difference is night and day. someone else said it perfectly: her PhD should be revoked. and make her repeat undergrad, starting with BCH311
She will test you on the most minuscule details that she mumbles for a second in lecture, that are NOT the slides nor on the $70 textbook that is full of errors. So petty and frugal that she will not give out full marks on a 1% e-module assignment that provides no rubric and vague instructions,
Her testing style makes BCH311 an ultimately meaningless waste of time. Students are expected to rote memorize trivial details that we'll likely forget the day after the exam, like residue numbers, angstrom distances, and consensus sequences, instead of thinking critically about key concepts. Her carelessness and hypocrisy add to the frustration.
The course got worse every week until the end. don't wait for things to get better or reach out to her for help. she doesnt care about her students, she might even hate us
A once in a lifetime professor. Hopefully.
The Biochemistry equivalent of Belinda Chang. You WILL be tested on small details (both from slides and textbook) and big picture concepts, so be sure to study regularly! The course has MANY assessments to boost your grade. You can do well by using BOTH the lecture and textbook (which complement each other but each have their own extra details).
Barely provided support during the course and really did not seem like she cared about her students doing well.
One of the worst professors I have ever encountered, she will go out of her way to make your life miserable
Avoid taking classes with her. Will go out of her way to make your life miserable.The type of prof. you'll avoid after taking one of her classes
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
84%
Textbook Required
57%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
A-
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.68 avg changeRatings by Course
BCH370
3.5
(2)BCH210H
3.4
(5)BCHL010
3.0
(1)BCH210
2.6
(41)BCHM311
2.0
(4)Difficulty by Course
BCH370
5.0
BCHL010
5.0
BCH311
4.5
BCHM311
4.3
BCH210
4.0