She jumps around a lot; students were correcting her.

So much readings to do, so little explanations during lectures.

Students corrected her. She doesn't know the material and there are tons of readings. Not a hard course though.

has been corrected multiple times by students on simple material, seems out of her league with the content. Bounces around topics and doesn't explain seemingly anything from the textbook readings in class. Often students just leave part way through when she appears to get flustered.

Very unimpressed.

She confuses herself and has no idea what she is talking about. Continuously gets corrected by students

Vera Tai sucks. She does not explain anything properly, but when she attempts to it is a sight to see. Many student shave corrected her during her lectures and have found her to skip over important information without explaining her thoroughly.

Her slides are terribly designed and are nearly blank, but they have different information than what is in the textbook, so you realistically need to read both the chapters and the slides.. worst prof so far.

Terribly unclear instruction in her lectures. Students would be better off staying home and reading the textbook from front to back.

She is no help what so ever. Her slides are terrible, and she only talks about the simple concepts and not the things that are difficult to understand. Better off reading the whole textbook.

Awful prof, lectures slides contain no important content and the little content provided is often wrong according to the textbook. Testable material is often never covered in lectures and most students are likely better off to memorize the textbook. She confuses students every lecture as she makes extremely frequent errors on explaining concepts.

I'm not one to skip class, but Tai makes it so hard to attend her lectures. There was a lec that involved solving calculations, and the students had to correct her results three times after she kept trying to move on. Seriously? I've heard she's new so maybe she'll improve eventually. Tip: read the textbook. That's your only hope in her class.

SHE IS AWFUL IN CLASS! LONG STORY CUT SHORT IF YOU DONT NEED THIS CLASS DO NOT TAKE IT. IVE BEEN TO HER OFFICE HOURS AND MOST OF THE TIMES SHE CANT SOLVE THE QUESTIONS AND IS CONFUSED AND CONFUSES THE HELL OUT OF ME. SHE EVEN POSTS WRONG SOLUTIONS AND THEN CORRECTS THEM LATER. CONFUSION PURE CONFUSION.

after the first 2 weeks i decided to not go to class and use that time to study her material and do the readings and i have found that ive been doing better than others because she continued to confuse them but not me... main tip do your own thing dont follow her slides or class notes

Absolutely miserable lectures. Literally incoherent slides. Not even sure if she knows the material herself. I wouldn't take this course again for a million dollars.

I leave class being more confused. Don't go. Just do the readings yourself & you'll be better off.

She is completely unorganized and unclear when teaching lecture material. She makes the material more complicated than it is and i end up leaving the class more confused then when i entered. She doesn't know what she is talking about and multiple times students have had to correct what she is saying. Worst prof i have.

class midtern avg 44% before she curved it up

Horrible, one of the main reasons I dropped the course. Her lecture slides are very un-clear and un-organized. Would NOT recommend taking this course if she is the prof. I attended all lectures and multiple students have had to stop her to correct her on the material she was attempted to cover.

She' terrible

First university prof I ever had and she left a very sour taste in my mouth

Really nice prof, but isn't great at giving lectures.

I did not mind her even though everyone complained about her until before our first test. At the Q & A I had asked a few questions and she responded each time in a very sassy manner. I think it's super important for teachers to make students feel open to asking questions and find it really rude the way she would answer the students questions.

She is a mess. she is all over the place and doesn't seem to know what she is talking about half the time

I probably went to class 3 times. She posts all of her lectures online so there is really no point in going. She did not teach me anything though, had to read the textbook and relied on youtube videos to teach me concepts! Most exam material comes from her lectures tho! Overall, worst prof I've ever had.

Awful at teaching and exams are very difficult

Dr Tai makes a lot of mistakes in her own lectures and her teaching style is brutal. Would not take this prof again

Her teaching style is disorganized and lacks structure. Her powerpoint slides are incohesive and make little sense.

Finished this course with a mark in the 80s, No point of going to her lectures because it is very disorganized and quite frankly not related to anything that will be on the tests. You might as well go watch those 5 minute, cartoon crash course videos on Youtube than go to her lectures, it's useless. Just read the textbook and your Gr 12 bio notes.

She is not a good prof at all and was not meant to teach. She can never get a point across in lecture and always leaves the class more confused when they leave. There is no point of going to her lectures because you learn nothing and need to teach yourself the whole course from the book.

Seems lost in her own lectures. People do not show up to class anymore. Don't even bother coming to class anyways because she posts her lectures online so you can self-teach from home. Too many readings, tests and quizzes are extremely difficult

Be ready to read the textbooks because her lectures are basically useless

Her lectures are very confusing and she teaches concepts in more complicated ways then required. Literally no point in going to lectures (she posts her lectures) and anyways, you're better off teaching yourself. The weekly quizzes and lab component really help your grades.

Her lectures are absolutely pointless and will definitely confuse you more since she doesnt really know what shes talking about half the time. Read the textbook, the weekly labs will help your mark

Idk where you can buy a PHD but she clearly did. I'm sure Vera Tai is a lovely person, but a professor, absolutely not. I've walked out of her lectures more confused about subjects I've aced in highschool and don't get me started on her prep sessions. She is absolutely brutal at explaing C-value, Hardy Weinberg and everything else biology related.

Lectures are posted online, which was the only good thing about the class. She spends too much time on unimportant stuff and rushes through difficult concepts. She does not explain concepts in a clear or easy to understand manner, and spends more time drawing with her stylus pen than necessary. So far, this is the worst prof I have had.

Lectures were confusing and not helpful. I stopped going after the first week. I love bio and Dr Tai made me very frustrated by making it incredibly dry and difficult

Don't like her, she has no idea what she's talking about.

A lot of people dislike Tai and I can understand where it comes from. Entering into Uni, she's a good prof to start with, all of her lectures can be found online - since her talking can make you confused. it would be better if she'd prepare her lectures more. If you did well in 12U bio - and can review/learn your stuff, then you're pretty set.

Horrible professor. Does not explain things properly in class and exam questions do not reflect the level at which she teaches. Because of this the class averages for the exams are also always quite low.

Professor Tai is not the best lecturer- I walked out of her lectures more confused on topics than when I walked in. Most of the class stopped going to lectures quickly once they realized the textbook could teach us better. Tests were not too difficult but since you won't get anything from her lectures be prepared to regurgitate the textbook

Lectures are not clear and does not explain concepts well.

This rating may be bias in terms of the course being online, but I had a very difficult time learning the course material from Dr. Tai. All respect to her as a person, but I found she was a very difficult professor to understand and an even more difficult grader. Biology has been my best subject for a while and was the worst this semester.

I would rather drop out of university than take this woman's class again. No clear structure, rambles on in lectures, goes off on so many tangents, nothing she says is ever tested on and you have to go out of your way and search other resources if you want a decent grade. Had no idea what she was doing and it showed.

Horrible professor. Said it would be asynchronous lectures, but takes down the lectures after 7 days without telling the class, and enough people email her and she uploads it 2 days before the midterm. Rambles on in class and hard to listen to. I would strongly recommend not taking courses if she is teaching.

Though she may be a nice person, her teaching style is not much to rave about. She does not answer questions clearly and tends to ramble. Not much feedback either. The course content has potential to be interesting.

The course content was interesting but would never take her again. Her lectures are well organized but she's hard to listen to (rambles, takes a long time to explain a simple concept). Feedback and marking are horrible - docks marks for random reasons. She also made the midterm (mostly short answer, describing graphs) much longer than she said

Teaches all necessary and relevant information but she rambles to an point where it is hard to stay focused, especially with asynchronous lectures. There also is so much stuff that she talks about that is unrelated to the course itself. This makes it even harder to retain the information that matters

Only reads the slides during lectures, horrible multiple choice questions, overall bad prof

Not clear in her lecture. She doesn't know what are the key things of the lecture that should be addressed to the students like Niki does deliver her lecture clearly..... She need classes on how to deliver a lecture... her questions are trick and not a good way to test a students learning

Crams so much info into each lecture that she spends the last ten minutes speed-reading the slides without explaining anything You might as well teach yourself the content She also corrects herself every 20 seconds, which makes learning super confusing She seems like a nice woman but she just has horrible lecturing skills

About 30% of her lecture vocabulary is "okay". She rambles way too much and her lectures are very hard to sit through regardless of how interesting the content is.

I had both Tai and Sharan, there was a huge difference. Tai just kinda yells the entire time and can be really difficult to hear and understand. I also found her lectures to be very disorganized, I felt like she was just rambling the whole time. Her quiz questions were also less clear and more difficult (stuff that wasn't really taught in lec).

Vera Tai will repeat the same concept 3 times over in lecture, which sounds helpful, but the way that she doesn't isn't helpful at all. Rather than teaching information, she seems to be just clarifying information. She never finishes on time and will proceed to fly through 10 slides in the last 2 minutes of class.

I took a bioinf coding course with her that is not listed in the options, but she does not know how to teach effectively. Half of the questions that students ask her, she goes "Ahh I don't really know..". I simply can't trust her with the info she provides in class. She also tries too hard to take as many marks off as possible from assignments. Bad

I found her lectures to be extremely hard to follow, with lots of filler words. She did not sound confident when teaching her material, and a lot of the time, the questions being asked in class were answered with "I.. don't know.. hahaha". She may seem easy-going, but she takes marks off and she doesn't even remember why she took them off.

Lab Assignments are weekly and marked very hard - with minimal feedback and not a lot of guidance. There are 2 presentations which are also marked arbitrarily. Lectures are very dry and there is no midterm so come final you're overwhelmed by all the content. I wouldn't take it unless you absolutely need it.

Horrible professor. Went to her office hours to clarify a couple of things for an exam and couldn't even explain why properly she took off marks. Would not recommend.