She goes rediculously fast, hard to understand accent and just overall wants us to know a extremely high amount of things. Doesnt curve grades, gives a quiz EVERY week.

She is the worst teacher ive ever had!!!! I didnt understand her... she moved entirely too freakin fast and she didnt curve her tests so the entire class was failing... i dropped her class b/c i was failing and now am making deans list. DO NOT TAKE HER IF U CAN HELP IT!!!!

impossible

Avoid her! She is HORRIBLE! I went to her for help so many times and got nothing. There are no attendence points, no homework. Grade is based on quizzes every Friday and exams. At one point more than half the class was failing and that was with a curve! She is VERY unclear and doesn't want to teaching under grad students I will never take her again

Never ever ever ever take this class. It's pure torture.

OMG!!! IF YOU ARE NOT LOOKING TO KILL YOURSELF THEN DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS.. ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO PASS.... EVEN ALBERT EINSTEIN COULDN'T(*lol)

EVEN GOD WOULDNT UNDERSTAND HER TECHNIQUE OF TEACHING. HE WOULD WITHDRAW FROM THE CLASS AND NEVER MAKE SUCH THING AS STUDYING EVER AGAIN.

very boring and wont ever help students....

Take this class at a community college if possible. This is my third time taking this class and she does not make it easy to pass. Ive gotten 30% on her exams when I usually am a straight A student. Be prepared to work hard. If you don't study for more than 10 hours a week you will not pass.

Easily the worst woman I have ever experienced. I made the mistake of crying in front of her one time and she told me, "to get away from her she doesn't get paid enough for my tears". I recommend avoiding her like the plague! I took this class at a different school and got an A. It was actually one of my favorite classes ever taken.

I never knew the word intro was a subjective term! Take this course elsewhere. Dr. Irani is by far the worst professor Ive had at IUP. As soon as you think you begin to grasp the information, the exam tells you otherwise. It surprises me how one person can make learning so undesirable. This is not how higher education should be presented.

She is by far the worst professor I've had here. All of the test averages are failing grades and she doesn't care at all. There is so much information to know in such little time, so you need to study 24/7. She doesn't care about her students failing and half the class dropped out already. DO NOT TAKE unless you're looking to fail

Dr. Irani is by far the worst professor I have ever taken. I went to her office hours, read the book, and understood the material but her test do not match anything she has taught you in class or what you have read. She expects you to know everything about micro even though she never taught it. Do NOT take her class, you WILL FAIL, take it online.

she only helps the nerds. but people who struggle and need help she ignores them. She is the worst ever

She's a nice person, however, a straight A student will get a C in her class. Only had her for lab but the quizzes and exams don't match at all with what she teaches. Grading wise, one of the worst teachers at IUP. Quizzes were all fill in the blank and exams are just ridiculous. She had grammatical errors on exams/quizzes too, just unprofessional

Shes the definition of exam material not matching what is taught. Just absurd how she expects you to figure material out on your own that she never even remotely went over for the exam. Save yourself the headache, frustration, and stress and dont take her.

Very frustrated with the fact that I cannot have physical classes because I can't learn very well online, but I get it with COVID. It would be very nice if she could have the decency to have zoom classes but no, she decided to just post power points with a voice over. She is very strict about the format of our assignments but doesn't explain well

Horrible prof. She assigns things and does not explain how to do it, then gets mad when half the class doesn't do it correctly. Is not at all considerate of what students are going through with COVID. Exams test you on tiny little details that are easily missed or not mentioned in lecture at all. Easily the worst prof I've ever had.

A lot of lecture material to study for tests, and not a lot of time given for quizzes. Be prepared for ethics questions tied to the chapter book you read for assignments and discussion posts. Hard grader for small points. Very harsh during review sessions, make sure you bring questions to ask. If zoom, "cameras on at all times." Would not recommend

It is a miracle that I passed this class. The only thing that kept my grade decent was the discussion book (which she used for her BIO104 class with the same discussions & assignments). For lab, we only had 3 quizzes and they were open ended so i failed all of them. She only posts slides with a voice over for both lab and lecture, & it didn't help.

WORST prof I have ever taken. I don't know why IUP continues to keep her to teach. Very rude, class is set up very poorly. Makes me disgusted.

I am confused by how some professors continue abuse the power they are given and still feel they are a good teacher. Yes I'm making this personal the amount of nonsense occurred in this class, absurd. it took one BIO 241 by her to completely wanna drop out with a 3.8 BIO GPA. Did a lil mistake you get 0 wanna ask what you did wrong get outta here.

Dr. Irani is the worst professor I have ever taken. She grades very roughly and if you make a tiny mistake you will get zero points. She has random assignments based on the book we read, which you have to write about. She took off points on my assignment for "not following directions" when I cited my sources. Overall, do not take this class.

Absolutely horrendous. The book you use for the class has nothing to do with the course work. Shes a nitpicker when it comes to grading. She definitely abuses the power in the position she has been given. Please try to avoid taking her for any course if you actually want to learn and succeed.

Dr. Irani is the worst professor I have ever taken. She abuses her power. This class is very hard. Any tiny mistake and she gives you a zero. This class has nothing to do with microbiology in general. Please avoid taking if you want to actually pass.

Please do not take this class!! Due to COVID the class was online. However she did not physically teach lecture material. Instead she used powerpoint slides and voice over. She just read the lab manual and then gave us quizzes that was not on material taught. She is also a picky grader over ridiculous things. Save your self the stress!! Do not take

Don't ever think of taking this class unless you want to get stressed and an F grade!! It is extremely hard!! The professor is not professional at all, and all she wants is to make sure that everyone is failing in her class. Don't take it.

Dr. Irani tests at a mastery level. She will say to ask her anything but gets frustrated when you dont understand. I have never failed a course but I failed BIOL241. As a class we told her we were all going to fail and she simply did not care. DO NOT take this course with Irani.

Do you desire undue stress? Then step right up for Micro with Irani! She makes her exams literally impossible because of methods of trying to prevent cheating. You don't have enough time to read a Q and discern btwn SEVEN possible answers to make an educated guess even if you know the material. NOT an introductory class like it is supposed to be.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR! I recommend taking this class through Geneva. Geneva is online, around 900$, and you have a year to do it. Nobody did well in this class, no matter how hard they tried. Lecture consisted of quizzes, exams, reading homework, and discussions based on reading. You cannot catch a break in this class. Passing is rare

This professor made me want to drop out of my very last year of school. I have never had a problem with a professor until I took her class (there were no other available classes).She yelled at me because I asked a simple question even though she told us to ask questions. She gave no clear instructions. The book also has nothing to do with the class

This might be the worse professor I ever had to take. She cares too much for a class that is only worth 1 credit. She only gives you 20 minutes to do the quizzes and basically talks during it. She grades way to hard for small points. You will feel like you never get a break from this class.

Dr. Irani is terrible. She grades with absolutely no thought behind her process and just throws out terrible scores. She constantly tells her students that none of her exams or quizzes will have any information memorized, yet throws questions on there that you need to memorize. It was a lab class and I did 5-6X as much HW than the lecture.

I have not heard ONE good thing about this women lol

Beware that she may teach things that are just downright false, if you actually care about what you're learning in this class, then fact-check her. Also, her quizzes are quite intensive. They are usually about 10 questions each, and you only get around 1 minute per question.

Very strict and does not work well with students. Lecture are extremely boring and makes the quizzes and tests much different than lectures.

you are set up to fail. grading and feedback is extremely unclear. no one can do good or get good grades. she is miserable all the time and will make sure you are too. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROF

This professor is awful. She gives zeros for papers that aren't even turned in yet and gives no time for exams. She is a miserable human being forcing everyone else to be miserable. She will fail you no matter how hard you try. Do NOT take this professor unless you want to fail!

Apparently she sued the university (lost) and now she has free reign. Her homework and test requirements are nonsense and unrelated to anything in textbooks or about intro biology. She threatens to fail students instead of offering any assistance, and IUP is too afraid to hold her accountable. I'm maintaining a 3.8 GPA and failing this class???

This is the type of professor that makes you want to transfer from IUP. The only reason that I put the tag hilarious to describe her is because it's hilarious that she still works at IUP let alone any school. Oh yeah she's also graded by few things because she'd rather fail you then look at the work you put in. At this point let a caveman teach.

I would not recommend her to anyone. She is very hard to hear/understand and grades VERY hard. Although I received a B in her class it was super hard. Tests are all online but there are a few pop quizzes she does in class.

Irani was difficult to understand in her lectures. She would not let you take a photo of the notes that she wrote on the board that were not a part of the PowerPoint. Also, make sure you do not have any emergency during her class time because I missed an exam because I was in the hospital and she refused to give me a makeup time, so I got a zero.

This is the worst professor I have ever had. I have her for lab and she lectures and talks for about 2 hours each week and then sometimes we will answer one thing and leave. She also made us read a chapter book and do three book reports during the semester. I have an A in the lecture yet am failing the lab. Avoid taking her if you can.

She talks like my grandfather and thats saying something cause my grandfathers dead. Youd have an easier time trying to understand your dog. DO NOT TAKE AT ALL COSTS. IF IT COMES DOWN TO TAKING THE CLASS OR DROPPING OUT, JUST DROP OUT

Dr. Irani is not the professor to teach a 100 level class. She is obviously very intelligent, but does not lack the simplification skills to teach many majors who, to be honest, don't really care about biology. I am only 4 weeks into her class, and I find myself focusing on biology more than my actual major. Very stress-inducing.

She is just a bad teacher. The tests are extremely hard, she can be rude at times and shut down ur opinions and ideas. People will ask questions in class and her tone of voice and how she responds makes it seem like she thinks they're stupid. She also talks too quiet.

She goes through slides very fast makes it hard to keep up. forgets that it's an entry level class. Tests are very hard unless you are studying and reading the book every day. First exam the class average was a 65% and all she said is now you know what to expect. I was not able to find an effective way to study.Would avoid like the plague

Would give random pop quizzes at the beginning or end of class about material she just taught, and if you weren't in class, you would get a 0 no matter excused or not. Exams are extremely hard and our class got terrible averages on them. Powerpoint are filled top to bottom with information, but it is somehow never on the exam.All exams are online.

Cancelled so many classes.Sometimes I would go 1-2 weeks without going to her class from how often she cancelled. She was extremely rude to students and embarrassed them in front everyone if they took a picture of the board or were just trying to audio record the lecture. Don't expect any sympathy or accommodations from her no matter what.

By far my worst experience ever with a teacher. I consider myself a student who gets good grades and for a 100 level class that I had to take, my major isn't even related to science, was insane. not responsive or helpful when asked questions and won't allow you to better your grade so good luck. If you get this teacher i would drop/switch teachers