Reviews of professor Linda O'Reilly

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
her exams are worth your entire grade, and i failed EVERY single one no matter how much i've studied or read the textbook. they were mainly application-based questions which made them so difficult. take the time to understand her lectures, take notes from the book, and take EVERY extra credit opportunity she offers, and you should be able to pass.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. O'Reilly is fine, lots of opportunities to succeed (points back on homework, dropping lowest exam grade). But lectures are mainly group work and not really any teaching, learning primarily comes from prelecture videos that are hard to understand and very time-consuming. Overall not the hardest class, but you have to put the work in to do well.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Knows what she's talking about; she's prepared every lecture and can answer whatever questions you have, but she also treats a majority of the content like review, so if you've never taken biology before you're really really going to struggle. Grading is super confusing because I thought I was barely passing the entire semester.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very unclear and demeaning when teaching if you even want to call it that. She spends more time threatening to fail people for cheating than she does lecturing. The course is implemented in an awful flipped classroom style which causes you to do tons of work outside of class between tophats and watching her pre-lecture vids. I wouldn't recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really liked Dr. O'Reilly. Her lectures were very structured, though she did go fast on some things. She had prelectures we had to do before class, alongside questions that were split between the prelectures and questions that went alongside the lecture. I really enjoyed the TopHat, as it made studying easy. We also got a cheat sheet on midterms!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Most of the class is independent learning. If you don't feel comfortable teaching yourself almost all of the material, I would not recommend this class. Lectures are mostly group work and feel more like a review of material. Exam heavy, they are worth 77% of your final grade, but you can drop your 2 lowest of 6 exams.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I did not like how the classroom was a flipped method of teaching. The class was offline but so much homework was given to us on tophat, but the grading was clear. She used to spend at most 20 mins on lectures, and the rest 30 mins were wasted on tophat questions and solving the questions while making our team.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
O'Reilly is a really good professor. She really cares and if you put in the work to really study and if you pay attention in class you should do well. One thing I have to say is READ THE TEXTBOOK. Its not required but it really really helps.