Reviews of professor Melissa Gibbs

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you're looking for a completely honest review...here it is. To earn an A or a B with Dr. Gibbs, you really need to love and understand Biology. That means doing your assignments on time, studying everyday to prepare for your exam, and participate. She truly is the toughest teacher I had in awhile. She does not post her PowerPoints and refuses.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had her for lab and she was OK in class, but was never clear on what she wanted for the lab reports. There was always something wrong with them even if you emailed it to her before the due date to look over. She is just a really tough grader for not being clear with what she wants.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
To pass this class you will have to put in a lot of effort and even go to the tutoring. Some of her worksheets do not make sense. Her grading style is tough and refuses to change. Be prepared to work in groups !

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
After my original teacher had a baby, she stepped in and went entirely off topic. I would consider taking her for a higher level biology class, but this was intro Biology and she was teaching at a level that was entirely incomprehensible. We would be learning about plant structure and she would spend an hour lecturing on the structure of an ear.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I had Gibbs in an Introductory Biology course and I felt like I was in a 400 level course. Test expectations weren't very clear, she won't post slides so you have to take notes extremely fast, and she puts way too much material into her tests and lectures so it's extremely hard to know what to study and what the main points of the lecture are.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
never gave rubrics or gave an unclear and vague descriptions of what she expected from the students. was unapproachable and never clearly answered questions. gave quizzes with no warning or study guide after only giving a brief, confusing lecture on the topic the class before.