Reviews of professor Meredith Jackrel

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Biochemistry should be an interesting topic covering many materials essential for students' future careers. However, Jackrel and Pakrasi made this interesting class a terrible mess. The lectures are poorly organized. Unclear criteria grade problem sets. Exams contain topics not discussed during the lectures. Pretty annoying.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures can be best described as her reading off slides full of text. She didn't post her own practice exams but rather the exams made by the old professor , which were of no use because her exams were significantly different. Also, on one occasion she posted exam material less than 24 hours before the exam with no answer key.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures were sometimes a bit dense with material, but it's a 400 level class. At office hours she was really helpful and gave great explanations. Do the problem sets- they help with big concepts. She spent an hour outside of office hours going through an exam I had trouble with- really helped for the final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I found Biochemistry to be one of the best classes I have taken at WashU! The material was very interesting and presented well, with a focus on concepts rather than details. I found the slides to be very useful. There was enough detail provided that I could listen to the lectures and just add a few notes. Really helpful prof outside of class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
BIOCHEM 1: She is bad at lectures and presenting content, so her test questions may seem irrelevant. However, she is a generous grader and often curves the final grades to have 30% of the class obtain As and the majority of the class obtain Bs. Some obtain Cs, and she does everything she can to help students not get anything lower than that.