Reviews of professor Balakrishnan Viswanathan

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a very nice person, however a very terrible professor. I have to take this class in order to graduate and ill be lucky if i even earn a passing grade. He is very unstructured and unclear on his lectures and teachings, proceeds to ramble on about irrelevant information during class time, and does not provide actual lecture slides and material

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
struggled to understand what he thought in this class all the time, no lecture slides for class, no information for the test was given. If you are to take his course , expect to teach yourself all the time and even after teaching yourself he does not give what he teaches in class on the paper. This class is also test heavy.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a good guy and the work is not too difficult. If you study you will be fine, sometimes knowing what material will be tested on is unclear.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Knows a lot about chemistry but not a lot about teaching. Does not use slideshows and information discussed in class does not correspond with textbook or powerpoints. Very confusing, lectures make students more confused than they were before. Very unclear about chapters being covered on midterms and exams.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Bala is a nice guy who cares about his students and is available outside of class in his office (even outside of scheduled times). However, there were no lecture notes/recordings (no slides), and Bala did a terrible job explain content in lecture. CHEM 2500 learned next to nothing in class, you will be teaching yourself the course w/ the textbook!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Doesn't know how to teach. I'm sure he's a great guy but his lectures are difficult to follow and full of irrelevant and useless information. Lectures do not reflect material on assignments or tests or labs. Basically have to teach yourself using the textbook (which also sucks and is confusing). 

Praying I pass

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
No Lectures, learn everything by reading the textbook, and barely gives examples.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great person, his teaching does not reflect his personality. He does a few examples on the bored but does not show you the steps on how to do it. He tends to jump around topics very quickly.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Bala is a very sweet guy who cares a lot about his students, but he lacks experience in teaching. If you respectfully ask him to teach the class in a way that is beneficial to your learning he will, but if you don't you may have a hard time following in his class. Go to his office hours as much as possible and USE THE BOOK!! it's extremely helpful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's all over the place with lectures, he doesn't prepare a formal lesson plan to follow