Reviews of professor Kathleen Hess

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The work and extra office hours I had to attend were nuts. There's a lot of lectures to watch on your own on top of going to the required zoom classes. She's a very tough grader and is not specific about what she wants so then just deducts points. Get ready to study a lot, she expects you to connect the dots in concepts instead of explaining fully.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I have taken Dr Hess for two classes now, Orgo and biochem. I would take any class she is teaching. She is solid in her expectations and grading. There is no reason not to get 100% on the work which takes pressure off the tests. Don't take if your not ready to work and learn- these are hard subjects. No easy A here you need to put in the effort.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She made me thankful of professors I've had in the past because she made my bad professors look 100x better. She expects a lot and be ready to learn on your own and study 5-6 hours a day. Exams had the lowest average I've ever seen and she will NOT curve them. Literally avoid at all costs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not my favorite professor. If I had another option, I would go back and choose a different professor. She worries more about people cheating vs actually learning. For example, If you use one or two words too similar to what is in the book when typing up your lab report. You will not get points. I didn't learn much. I remembered enough to pass.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If any one are planning to take Kathleen Hess, I would say DO NOT TAKE HER AT ANY COST!!! unless you wants to lower your GPA. Her exams are way difficult, and you would never see  anything from lectures and from worksheets on exams. even you won't see anything from textbooks as well. I had never seen the tough grader and tough professor like her.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
As a normal professor for Chemistry I took during one of the previous terms, she had us students do lab experiments on our own. Personally, I wasn't to go to College of DuPage campus during this time, and I ended up doing a lot of the Chemistry labs by myself. It would however be very beneficial if labs were open at start of term and had due dates.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She wants students to succeed, you can feel she cares, its why she pushes hard. However as someone who hates chemistry & just needed transfer credit, its not fun. Intense lectures, lots of time doing in-class review sheets by urself while she checks your work. No curves. I am barely passing, still have to take the ACS orgo 1+2 final. Pray for me.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hess moves at an extremely fast rate. Her notes are unorganized and hard to understand and useless worksheets. Exams do not match what you are taught in class or the homework. Average exam grade is a 50% or close to it. She does not curve or allow extra credit. She is a very tough grader/takes lots of points off. You need to put in A LOT of time.