Simply said, she can't speak English. I don't understand how she teaches a lecture. There is z real language barrier and you will not bad able to understand her

This professor is a tough grader; tests are ridiculously long for no reason with a minimum of 80 questions plus short answer sometimes;the professor reads directly from the power point word for word; she has an accent which makes it hard to know what she is talking about; Must the book plus 100+ slides to pass the course. I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!!!!

Lecture is pointless because she just readers it from the powerpoint. Her accent is also VERY hard to understand. She does not reply to your emails also. AVOID !

DO NOT TAKE HER. She's responsible for a good amount of my mental breakdowns. I decided to see her during office hours & the whole time I was there made me feel horrible about myself. I was struggling & she offered no support, made me feel like I shouldn't be a nursing major, and rude. Won't tell you where you stand, pointless lectures and homewrk

Horrible

I have never hated a class more. Do not take her if you can avoid. Lecture is the worst. I only learn from lab. She shows up late everyday. Trying to report her to the dean.

She shows up late to class and reads slides and shows pointless videos from youtube. She offers no extra credit to compensate for her lack of teaching. The only way to pass this class is to read the textbook outside of class. Test questions will be tricky if you don't read the book and really know the material. The lectures are useless

Be ready to read the text book only way to pass

remember in high school when the group of slackers made a project together and all they did was copy and past and read from the slides and had no idea what they were talking about. That's her

Literally worst professor ever. Its already a hard course and she is terrible at teaching it. No use showing up to lectures because she always shows up late and is a scatter brain. I never went to lecture, just read the chapters and did the online homework. PICK A DIFFERENT PROFESSOR.

Really bad professor. She just reads off the powerpoint. Literally no point in going to her lectures. It's even worse that she is the only professor available for this course. The only way to pass is to read the textbook and go over the homework.

Pretty terrible. Took her for Cell lab and she never once answered any of my emails and would give me wrong answers when I asked questions about the lab. Never explained the lab, would get frustrated when you didn't understand. If I had the option of taking this class again, I would rather take a Friday night lab instead.

Hard to understand and lectures will put you to sleep. Consider this class a self study

Doctor Batish is an unforgiving and poor lab instructor for Genetics. Although she hardly can comprehend what she has to be doing for the students she doesn't miss any chance to grade students unfairly hard. It is best to try to avoid having her as your lab instructor because she is the hardest grader of all of them.

She sucks. Don't go to class you'll get a better grade studying on your own and teaching yourself out of the textbook.

Her class is overall easy as long as you go over her power points. Her lectures are pointless. She is horrible at teaching, which is why no one shows up to her lectures, but her tests are easy. Just make sure to go over the power points and read the text book and you will get a good grade. Other than that, she's pretty much useless in the course.

She is a horrible professor who cant even grade exams without a glitch. Cant barely understand at lectures, find a different professor as shes a joke and makes this class unbearable

she sucks. fall asleep in class on the regular. just reads off the powepoints and her accent sucks.

Not worth going to lectures, just read the textbook. The lectures are all over the place and your time would be better spent on anything else. Don't take this class if you don't have to. Batish is not very capable and the lab is tedious.

Lecture is disorganized and not worth your time. Lab was tedious for such simple concepts. If you learn and study solely from the textbook, you will succeed in this course. Dr. Batish is a very nice person, but not good at teaching this course. I would not take again.

Do yourself a favor and DO NOT take Dr. Batish. HORRIBLE. She does not respond to emails and does not teach. Don't go to class, you will learn more on your own. During COVID-19, she was inconsiderate to her students wishes and time. And in the time of online classes she still didn't answer emails. I can't stress it enough, HORRIBLE.

I'm sure Dr. Batish is an amazing person. But people just aren't meant to be professors. Like the majority of people said, the lectures are not worth attending because she just reads off of her PowerPoint and does not add more information to them. This is a self-study class so be prepared to be nose deep in that textbook and do mastering biolog HW.

I did not enjoy this class, and the professor made it so much worse. She does not tend to the individual needs of her students especially online. Technical difficulties took up a majority of the class. She reads straight off the slides and goes on tangents that take up an unnecessary amount of time. Would not take again.

Does not respond to students and is bad at answering questions. The lectures are just reading from a powerpoint. Teach yourself. She is very unhelpful.

Dr. Batish was by far one of the worst professors I have ever had. They are unreceptive to any feedback given by students and puts in very minimal effort. There have been several instances where students have been ignored by them both inside of out of class. Instead of lecturing they often play videos instead. COVID or not, do not take her!

The classes themselves are horrible. We've stayed on a chapter for 2 weeks and then when we got close to an exam, she sped up and finished a whole new chapter in 1 day. There are 5 exams (lowest ones dropped) and many homeworks online. She gave pop quizzes and did polls during class which count for our grade (prob cause of COVID)

Absolutely the worst professor I have ever had do not take her. She is the most uncompassionate professor. She does not answer emails, will ignore questions, if she does answer questions its by being rude and making you feel badly for even asking one. She is not a good teacher and also switched up our test taking procedure middle of the semester

One of the worst teachers I have ever had. One of the most uncaring teachers. Does not answer emails, even after multiple attempts. Office hours are during class, so you cannot go to them. When asked if you can make an appointment to meet with her, she does not answer. Not like you can even pick a different teacher because she is the only bio prof.

Never met a more miserable professor in my life. Sets you up for failure and argues with students. Gate keeps slides and doesnt want you to succeed. Lectures are pointless and shes gives pop quizzes which are timed and tough. The stress will be real!

She reads directly off of slides during lecture and you have Pearson homework due before each exam. Almost none of the material she teaches or assigns homework on is on the actual exam so you have to read from the textbook and teach yourself. Pop quizzes in class sometimes too.

Honestly, I've never had a class this bad. The professor just reads off of the slides and the slides barely have enough information to begin with. Everything is in the textbook but none of that is gone over in class. No one cares about the continuous low averages on exams. There are no extra resources for students.

One of the worst professors I've ever had to deal with. She only sets her students up for failure. Tests combined were worth 60% of our grade leaving no room for any other assignments to boost your grade. She just reads off slides in lecture (copy&pasted from textbook). Hard to reach and does not help. Tests contain content we didn't even learn.

You have to take a science elective to graduate, and Biology is one of three options offered. With that, CST doesn't do a great job hiding the coercion when you have a professor like this one be one of your only choices for the elective. Studying class material felt useless when exams were on minor details of articles to be read outside of class.

Professor Batish is so uncaring. She is genuinely terrible teacher and does not want to see her students succeed. If you have the option do not take her. Hardest class I took at Temple.

RUN. Professor batish is awful. everything i learned i taught myself from the text book. the class as a whole asked her for tips on studying and she gave no help just blamed the FAILING class average on the students. the material does not need to be as hard as she makes it with her inability to convey the information.

save yourself and take this class anywhere but with batish's

awful. the only way to learn anything is to read the textbook. she has not told us the grading scale and its far past the withdraw date. she promises a curve but forces you to play a game of chance in doing so. the class average on tests has been below passing more than once to no fault other than HER own. take this class anywhere else.

dr. batish really is not the best teacher. she refuses to help students who are struggling in anyway. the whole class was failing at one point & when we all asked for extra help she straight up said no & to just read the text book. her lectures are her just talking at us instead teaching us. ur gonna have to calculate ur grade urself the whole time

if youre struggling good luck. she is impossible to contact outside of class and is uncaring. she is awful as teaching and just reads the slides. dont bother learining based on the human body bc the exams are on random animals. useless

She knows how to teach but yet reads things off of a PowerPoint and shows videos for half the class. I found studying on my own to be more effective than going to her class.

I am thrilled to be done with Professor Batish for good. The only thing I appreciated was the hefty curve applied at the end of the semester after nearly everyone was failing or at least doing very poorly. She does give pop quizzes but honestly I did not mind because they helped my grade a little. Homework was super easy and online.

terrible class but easy to finesse. dont need to go to class but there are pop quizzes so be aware if you dont go

Prof Batish is not a good choice I'm sad to say. If you have trouble understanding an accent, this one is gonna be rough for you. She gives pop quizzes and 5 exams that all have spelling and syntax errors and are based on random details of the daysssss of reading you're gonna have to do to pass. Don't even get me started on the Lab.

You basically dont learn anything in lecture and your best bet is to study on your own. She gives pop quizzes but unannounced so you have to go to lecture to look out for that. Shes very uncaring and if you miss a quiz she wont let you make it up at all.

seriously the worst professor i have ever had. she reads of the powerpoints and does not actually teach anything. she will give pop quizzes with a code even though going to the lectures will not help you succeed at all. she seriously she not be allowed to teach these courses!

All I'm going to say is that I studied the course content in depth, took extensive notes, and did countless review questions. Wanna know what a non-insignificant amount of test questions were based on? The captions on the random photos in the textbook. I guess it's too much to ask to be tested on the actual concepts lol

I am sorry to say, but if you can avoid having her do so. She is the worse professor I have very had. You have to study on your own, her lectures do not help, she has random pop quizzes, she does not post the powerpoints or homework until she is ready.

Only good thing I can say about this professor is that she does curve. Other than that, exams are tricky and difficult and she gets upset when the class does not do well but it literally isn't anyones fault but hers.

If you can avoid professor Batish as your professor RUN!!! She is by far the worst professor that I ever had. The lectures are 100% pointless and even when you take time to understand the material and teach yourself you will still somehow fail her exams. The only good thing about this class is the curve she provides at the end.

In class, when we took exams, her test material did not reflect 90% of what was in the textbook. These were not the general understandings that we covered in class, her tests asked questions that no one had even heard of before. She did not prepare anyone for her exams, despite reading hours of the textbook and practicing on the homework site.

She did not teach effectively, it was difficult to understand her handwriting, and I had a tremendously hard time understanding what she was saying. She put ridiculous info on her tests that she did not teach in class. The exam questions were hyper specific & didn't reflect many of the main ideas. This kind of assessment isn't helpful for learning

Really unfair to students, and rarely answers her email. Pop quizzes throughout the year and you have to read the book to do decent on the exams. Reading her powerpoints and doing the homework is not enough to get an a in the class. I dont recommend.

Biology has always been my favorite subject but Dr. Batish is the worst professor I have had at Temple. Her lectures are awful due to the fact that she often uses too many words to describe content or just plays a Youtube video. Her PowerPoint slides are also dull & fail to keep students' attention. Biology can be fun, just not with Dr. Batish :(

She is not open to feedback and is not very concerned with her students failing. My entire section failed the first test and she blamed us. She said we were not studying hard enough or taking advantage of office hours. A student stood up to her and said obviously the issue cannot be one-sided since the average score was an F. She dismissed us.

I can go on about how terrible she is. Pop Quizzes/Exams never align with what is being taught in lectures. Exams questions do NOT make any sense or connect with materials that we talk about in class. She depends on poorly put-together slides and videos to help teach during class. She doesn't care if you're failing either. Don't take her class!!

Suman Batish is a terrible professor, her lectures are not helpful at all and the only point of going to lectures is to know if there's a pop quiz or not. There's so much material to know and she doesn't explain them well at all. Basically, the whole class is failing or bombing the exams besides one person who keeps getting 100s on these exams.

Batish's lectures are hard to follow, get ready to read because the textbook is the most helpful thing in this course. There are frequent pop quizzes that are only given about 10 minutes to complete. She also is difficult to reach so it is helpful to find someone in the class to help you with the content. If you can avoid this class, please do.

read textbook and lecture slides, do the homework questions as a studying technique not to just do it for credit, do dynamic study modules in online textbook and outline each module and u will be fine for every test. pop quizzes are open note. repetition of these materials will do u good. she does not teach well so be prepared to teach yourself

Regardless I think anyone who takes bio 1011 will be stuck with her. Read your textbook and look over the lecture slides. As stupid as it sounds this class is just repetition. Most of it is zoology will not lie. Lab is okay it follows lecture for the most part, but there really is no direction. The curve for fall semester was about 13%.

It is okay to have bad grades bc school is the time for you to challenge yourself. If you have all As, you are not challenging yourself enough!!! Remember this: if you have bad grades, you will be fine! you will get into grad school and you will have a job! I got into grad schools with bad grades and I have a job :)

shes actually the WORST ever. she gave all of us a satisfactory midterm rating even though we're all still failing so that way she would make herself look better. if you can take love do it because you will actually learn with her. im so disappointed in whoever hires these boof professors.

DO NOT TAKE if you can get prof. love do that!! This prof is the worst lecturer I have ever had to sit through. She's boring, confusing, and does not care if her students are doing well or not. She curves the christ out of the ending grades bc everyone basically fails the class and she needs to make herself look better.

Unbelievably disorganized and lectures were a complete waste of time. I'm a good student and I got in the 60s-70s range on all our exams. Most people I talked to were failing, but because of this she puts an insane curve at the end of the course. You'll have to teach yourself the material, but it's not terribly hard. Avoid her like the plague.

In all the writing assignments, she don't really tell what she expects from us or give any type of guidelines and grades very harshly. The class is very unorganized, when asking any questions to her she is so rude and makes faces. Be ready to get yelled at for asking any types of questions or just avoid this professor.

She is the worst teacher ever. Just reads off slides and can't even give her own answers to things she says. Everytime I went to her hours and looked over my exams that I failed every time; she just told me to learn the concepts. like wow thanks let me teach every single thing to myself. good luck soldiers may God be on your side.