Reviews of professor Julia Zaikina

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Yulia was kind of hard to understand in class with her accent at times and she would go through slides pretty fast. If you don't download the lecture pdf before class, it's hard to keep up with notes if you are a heavy note-taker. I would go to all the lectures because you will have TopHat questions in nearly every lecture.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Julia is kind and caring. She gives fair grades to everyone and is always happy to help. I bought textbooks but found that just listening to her lecture and reviewing the ppt she gave is totally enough. Although quizzes may be too many, it's ok if you review the materials she gave in class. And she gave a booster quiz to improve the grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Literally have no clue what she says half the time. She goes through her slides quickly, so hopefully you have an iPad otherwise, you will fail. She blames the class if they do badly on exams, even though we all don't understand. Even the SI leaders say she doesn't go over the right things. Go to SI and tutoring if you want to AT LEAST pass.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Zaikina has been one of my least favorite professors. Extremely tough grader. I had a 4.0 GPA before this class and I'm a junior. Very test heavy, prepare for the lowest exam scores you've ever received. Tests have some multiple choice and some short answer. Homework takes at least a few hours every week and recitation quizzes are terrible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This woman is horrible and just blames her students for failing on the students even though the whole class is failing. it is so exhausting, and i hate going to her class because her lectures or long and boring and unhelpful

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Julia is nice, but there are few homework assignments and she only selects a few problems from each assignment to actually grade, so not all your work will count. The tests are worth a large majority of your grade

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Homeworks take forever to finish especially if you're having trouble understanding the material. Her tests are very hard, especially the final exam and her lectures are hard to follow. But she does give extra credit for each test to make up points you lost which is nice.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
goes through slides so fast, and just expects you to figure it out. be prepared to teach yourself all of the information! incredibly boring lectures and weirdly hard top-hats. she will blame you for not doing well even though the whole class is failing, test average was 60% and she blamed US! dont even get me started on the 15 min limit on quizzes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's the first Chemistry teacher that I actually understand. The lecture slides are very clear, you don't need the book. It's better if you pay attention to what she says rather than write what's on the slides. Quizzes and homeworks every week. TopHat. Exams are hard if you have little chemistry knowledge.