Reviews of professor Alanna Durkin

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible teacher, tries to fit painfully long lectures, labs, and quizzes all in one sitting. If you miss details on any writing assignment youre going to get a bad grade. Does not care.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although she is very friendly and smart, if the "average test grade" for all her classes is 62%, that says a lot. Read each chapter and teach yourself.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Durkin is by far one of my favorite professors I have taken at Montco. She is funny and extremely caring. Content can be a little bit hard to grasp at first but if you study and take notes you should be fine.(First week/unit or so is overwhelming but it gets better, hang in there) She will respond to emails and feedback from the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you take her class, you will NEED to study like crazy. There are no study guides & the tests can be very difficult. She is a great person & has a wonderful personality but as a professor, ehhhh...... try to look for someone else if at all possible because if you miss a class, you will receive a zero for any labs / tests given.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Durkin is very nice and has a great personality. Her tests were very hard and very long. The beginning and end was very rushed and overwhelming. She doesn't have great teaching skills. She is very intelligent, but doesn't know how to answer questions directly and relay the information in a sufficient way where students will comprehend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She really had you all buttered up. As soon as she reached to a topic she did not know herself, she would speed right past it. She might even wow you and google the answer right infront of you. There are other professors for a reason and do not let her be one class you register for. To say the least, she thought a failing test average was okay.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
if you like doing homework, having terrible lectures, having no fun in class, then this teacher is not for you.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Durkin is the BEST Biology professor I've ever had ! She is detail oriented and VERY good at making the concepts clear and easy to understand. This professor is also extremely organized, which makes it easy to follow her lectures and assignments week to week in a very intense course. You will always know when work is due and how to do it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not a good teacher, take anyone else.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I do like her as a person and as a teacher. She is very nice and if you have a question she is pretty good at helping you solve it. The class is general is a hard class because it is a lot of information to remember. At the beginning of the school year the class was very quiz heavy but they eventually got spaced out.