Reviews of professor Donna Bassolino

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She is not the best at teaching, but tbh, for most chem classes you are supposed to learn on your own from the lecture videos posted for each topic. Also she is super lenient on deadlines, i submitted so many labs and assignments late and she gave full credit. Tests are really easy. If you have a background in chem in high school you'll be fine

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Donna Bassolino has a daughter who attends TCNJ as a Freshman. If her daughter was confused, she would make sure to go over in class. She gives a lot of small quizzes. Do the connect homework! she takes some questions and puts them on tests! and they count as quizzes. Stay after lab, she will do the post lab with you. Email her, she answers!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was warned not to take her for chem, and wished I had listened. I had to teach myself everything and she was no help at all. She doesn't even lecture in class and the lecture videos for homework are no good at all. She just wastes our time with practice problems without even teaching the material.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Bassolino isn't the greatest TEACHER but she's a good professor to have. When she lectures she mumbles, randomly points to things, and barely finishes her sentences which can make it hard to understand. Her class is very disorganized and scattered. But she is extremely lenient with grades and due dates making her a good choice for a good grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Awesome professor <3 super chill and even gave us cookies.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr.Bassolino is a nice person, but the class just has so much homework, video notes between every class, along with regular homework, take home quizzes and labs and prelabs between every class. The tests aren't hard but she is picky about showing work. Shes not great but all the chem teachers do the same assignments so it's a lot of work either way

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Bassolino has a very nice personality and she's easy to get along with, but she is not a good professor. Every class she simply read off of the powerpoints, rarely taught us how to do the problems on the board, and never curved any exams. If you have trouble teaching the material to yourself, I highly recommend choosing another professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a very nice lady and is easy to work with but not the best at teaching. You can score full points for lab reports but her lectures and assignments won't prepare you much for her exams so be prepared to self study. For chem 201, if you took AP chem before it is doable but without any prior experience it can be difficult.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures were amazing! So clear and easy to understand. I am a chemistry major since general chemistry, I haven't found a class that I enjoyed until now. She is hands down, my favorite professor in the chemistry department.