Reviews of professor Mahi Aravind

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mahi is a good teacher and she knows a lot about chemistry. Her slides are detailed and she gives lots of practice questions and does examples in class. This class is like a normal chemistry class, it is not easy but it is not overly difficult if you attend all lectures, do practice problems, and review your notes before quizzes and tests.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a caring teacher and I believe she really does want her students to succeed. The issue is, her lectures are unhelpful and it's clear she's just reading from the powerpoint. I am doing well in her class from all the online resources I've found, but you cannot rely on this instructor to get the material across.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures are too fast, she just reads off the PowerPoint and tries to explain but not well. Expect YouTube to teach you. The notes are mind-boggling, you'll need to dissect them and make your own if you want to do well for tests, because they make no sense and unorganized. The grading is hard, she takes off marks for the smallest things.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you don't have a strong Chem background, I would suggest a different prof. The only thing that got me through with a good grade was my high school Chem knowledge. That being said, quizzes are free-bees because you get the Q's beforehand. Midterms are mostly textbook questions that were not assigned. Labs are breezy. Lectures are very fast.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I appreciate that we were given recorded lectures so that we weren't just reading from a page and we could rewatch them. The way the grading was distributed made it so that no one bad day can ruin the course. She was friendly when I asked for help and the instructions were always clear. Its a lot of material but that isnt her fault.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She's a nice lady, but she's an awful teacher. She just reads off a power point and doesn't actually explain what she's reading. There's not really any value in attending the class since she doesn't even teach anything. The only reason I have a good grade is because I spend hours online after each lector teaching myself the material.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mahi is a very nice person but not a great teacher. Her marking system has no real reasoning to it, she just takes off marks where she likes. She reads off PowerPoints and doesn't explain any further. She refuses to give more than 90 min to write midterms even when the whole class asks. Do not take her class unless you have a strong chem background

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Mahi is very kind and seems like a nice lady. However Im not sure if shes just new to being a teacher or if shes just terrible at teaching. Entire lecture is her just reading word for word off a PowerPoint. She gives no explanations and there is a huge language barrier as her English is not fantastic and her accent is hard to understand.