Reviews of professor Elana Leithold

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Historical geology was an amazing class especially with Leithold. Lectures were interesting, attendance was not mandatory, and the tests were not super challenging. The final essay was interesting because there recent discoveries that you're writing about.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Leithold gives near impossible exams with almost identical answer choices on the multiple-choice section just to confuse students with similar answers. Unfair in grading short answers, no partial credit is given unless you give exact answers. Even after her double test score policy, most students barely passed the course. I would avoid if possible.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Decent professor, I guess, but her tests are pretty challenging, to say the least. Seven to eight chapters' worth of material is crammed into each test, so it's not exactly easy to remember every single thing, but doable I guess. Also, her TA Lillian Slajus is just awful, constantly took unnecessary points off of every lab for most students

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Has test that you can barely complete in the allotted time and when we told her this she made the test longer.  Partial credit is hard to come by on short answer questions even if you word it slightly differently than her notes.  For the final paper, when asking her about my topic, was told she hasn't read the paper she assigned.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She goes a little too fast during lectures but cares about the content she's teaching. Most of the grade is tests but participation is part of it along with a 6% geologic time scale quiz which is just straight memorization.