Reviews of professor Yasmin Trout

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Neat material organized by week, lectures were prerecorded but tests were a different entity. Class average was <70, tests were hard. Lots of supplemental (opt) videos, group challenges. Will help you with lab write ups if you ask. Online quizzes were the worst. Practice exams given. Again, tests were horrid! Not my first choice, but she's chill

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Go to her office hours, she helps a lot and barely anyone there. Her tests were pretty hard, she would give study guides that were no where close like the test except for the format. Some of the problems we've never done before as well. She gave maximum 7 points extra credit, pretty generous grader. Work hard for the grade you want!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures were very in-depth and long but didn't really help in the long run. Most of the stuff covered wasn't on homework or exams so it felt a little pointless. The exams had a LOT of similarities to the homework so study the homework until you really understand it and the exams aren't too bad. Multiple extra credit given, generous grading curve.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She's a caring teacher but tends to mess up on lectures or forget minor details she teaches the way she does because she tries to prepare students for chem121 there is a lot of homework and have to do a lot of studying and learning outside of class otherwise you will not pass

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I wouldn't recommend her for science major students because she won't prepare you well for further research. But others can take her because the exams are relatively easy. All questions are practiced, no surprise. I hope she could improve her teaching methods and depth. She goes through slides quickly and she only touches the surface of chemistry.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I felt like her lectures were unallied to the exam. I like how she offers office hours at night, which is quite helpful. Although, you need to watch videos online to help yourself. Tons of homework problems. During exam day, she gives many problems and completes them with minimal time. She doesn't provide any examples for lab calculations.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I entered this class during the Spring semester of 2021 hearing good things. I don't truly know if it was that specific semester but we had become overwhelmed. Prof. seemed to get frustrated when we weren't understanding the material. We were assigned 3 labs that were due both the Sunday before during and the weekend after the week of finals.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I like her as a person, she is very caring and will take the time to help if asked. I will say that I was a bit frustrated with her lectures though, as I felt they were unrelated to the material we needed to know for exams. I would recommend to expect reading the textbook and getting a tutor if you don't have a strong chemistry understanding.