Reviews of professor Penny Carroll

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Studied for a week and a half for the final exam and most of the test were things we barely went over in class or section. Cannot admit she made mistakes. When you email her to clarify something, she copies from the textbook. She is a nice person but not a great teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Penny is so so sweet. She cares deeply about her students' success. Sometimes lectures can feel convoluted, but the content is not super difficult and it's easy to catch up on your own

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
terrible prof dont take her. her lecture slides sre just copy and pastes from the textbook. if you email her asking for help she just refers you back to textbook

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There was a huge midterm misgrading where everyone with version A got 60-70%, and she was sooo stubborn about there not being an issue until she found the freaking issue and "felt terrible". I solely went to lecture to participate in the iClickers. I had to go back and watch webcasts in order to understand anything because she flies through slides.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If anything about new teachers, a lot of people in the class will have that fake it till you make it mindset and they are unpredictable. Penny wasn't an exception, her lectures were disorganized, too much class time was wasted on "active learning." Tests were terrible as well. To the people in her 20A class, DROP NOW AND WAIT FOR TAMKUN NEXT FALL

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Trust, avoid her if you can. Her lectures do absolutely nothing to explain the material, as well as her lecture slides. I taught myself everything for the exams. Wait for Dunkin if you can. She has an active learning style that doesn't work when she doesn't explain the material. Not worth the stress.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lecture is so DISORGANIZED. She doesn't seem like she truly knows the material well enough to be teaching this class. Bring back Dunkin PLEASE

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lecture slides are the messiest and most disorganized lectures I have ever experienced. We talked about plants the entire second half and while studying for the final, I would search my laptop for a definition term and it would come up in 5+ lectures. Each lecture would say something different about the term. AVOID PENNY AT ALL COSTS

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Penny is a nice person. Not a great professor. Tests are ridiculously confusing and lecture is a waste of time. I'm doing well in the class but I teach myself. She tries to teach us "study methods" during class which is a waste of time and also you just wouldn't be in 20B by now if you didn't have good study habits. Avoid her class if possible!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Awful exams. She tries to make her class engaging by using 'active learning' but it just doesn't work in a class of 300 students. She takes material that shouldn't be difficult at all and does the most to make it incomprehensible during tests. I got an A on the first midterm and bombed the final because she words questions horribly. Nice person tho