Reviews of professor Rana Akiel

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her lab procedures are riddled with typos and grammatical errors. Her lectures are recorded with a potato microphone. Very hard to understand and does not explain herself clearly when asked. There is a constant attitude of "you are doing it wrong" whenever you try to message her about her confusing lab procedures.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Akiel is a solid teacher. She goes above and beyond to make sure everyone in class gets the concepts. She is very patient and caring. Zoom meetings are not mandatory but crucial for success. She holds office hours after class. She also holds additional office hours before exams. Highly recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is proud of her 50% test average, and only gives 2% extra credit which will not help. During exams, you use proctorio which will always either kicked you out or somehow mess up your test-taking. Her lectures are filled with mistakes and meaningless because tests are 10x harder. Overall, avoid her at all costs! She also had an exam with no PT.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her lecture and quizzes always having mistakes. Her quizzes and exam also very heavy. Skip her class you won't pass.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really enjoyed this class! Prof. Akiel was very knowledgeable and a great teacher. The class was very engaging and for sure I learnt alot about chemistry. Prof. Akiel is very helpful inside and outside the class. She promptly answered emails. She was Always ready to help. She even held extra office hours.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Watching her lecture videos are wasting time, lots of information but none of these are related to quizzes and exams. Her study guides for exams are also meaningless. and not helpful at all. Keep making mistakes during zoom meeting when showing example problems, wasting a lot of time to make corrections. I would never recommend taking her class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
SO, her office hours are always changing and only work for her schedule, she cant explain topics for you to understand, always technical problems, homework is easy, but her labs and exams are 20x harder. You cant really get help from her, and you need to hire a tutor to pass.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Akiel is great! I took her during the summer. She is always available for help. She made hard chemistry concepts seem easy. She gave sample exams that helped a lot to get ready. I am not sure why people say she makes mistakes all the time. This is not valid.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Akiel is a great professor and definitely cares about her students. She will spend extra time to explain concepts you do not get. The in-class problems are very useful to grasp the concept. The in-class and homework problems are a good representation of what is on the test.