Reviews of professor Samantha Robinson

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I honestly don't know why she has low reviews, I personally loved taking chem 237 with her this quarter. Good lectures, all material covered on the final, very kind and approachable, answers questions well. This class is just really tough, heavily weighted on the exams, and the HW was very annoying. I'd say read the textbook and youll be fine.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Just save yourself the stress and take this class with another professor.  Looked over exams given by the other ochem professors, and they were much more comprehensible than her tests. Unless you are already good at chemistry, this class will be difficult for you. Shes a nice person though, but her teaching style wasn't the best way to learn from.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Generally a pretty difficult class with 3 midterms plus a final. There is a lot of assigned reading you need to do to  in order to succeed, and the exams can be challenging. However, Dr. R is great and always answers questions in a clarifying manner that makes a lot of sense. If you are willing to put the work in, you will do fine in this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'd recommend taking the Chem 142 series instead. This series is ok, but there isn't enough practice for the content we're learning, and our learning is really packed in/rushed at times. We're given learning objectives, but they change the day before exams. Practice tests are nothing like the exams; occasionally tested on what you haven't learned.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Homework heavy and test heavy

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Robinson's lectures are engaging, and she's great at answering questions. However, the exams are extremely challenging, with questions covering concepts not thoroughly addressed in class. Definitely use unstuckstudy ai and the textbook to supplement your prep.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good at teaching during lectures and answering questions. However, her exams are very challenging, in length and concepts. There were detailed questions on the exams that she never talked about during lecture or quiz section. No way to anticipate exam difficulty and outcome.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She was a nice person and seemed to care, but she was awful at teaching. Lectures were confusing so you had to rely on the textbook/HW to learn. She overcomplicates things and spends too much time on random topics and ?s so there isn't enough time left for the more challenging topics. The tests were very hard and didn't align with practice tests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Robinson made o chem easy for me. I can tell she really cares about learning, and she explains things clearly. This is the only class at UW where I've gone to office hours.