Reviews of professor Alexandra Paxton

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Despite Dr. Alex's friendliness, her class is structured in a confusing manner. No in-class lectures, comically time-consuming class preps, difficult tests which include content unrelated to material provided. The amount of effort used to get an "A" bundle in this gen-ed level 1000 was honestly ridiculous.  Save your time & don't take it with her!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Paxton despite being a very nice person has an interesting class.  You basically teach yourself everything and she has this grade bundle system that is so complicated and unfair.  In class you have group assignments where if you do one assignment wrong you get unsatisfactory.  I would recommend NOT taking her class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a nice person, but that honestly made it worse bc she graded so horribly. The class is a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory basis where you could get an Unsatisfactory for the smallest mistake in a multi-step assignment. A 74% on exams is a U (basically a 0), and there's a reason no other prof does this. Bad criteria for how much a student knows.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took extremely detailed notes of the textbook, video lectures, and lightning lectures so I could keyword search during exams since they were open notes. Yet they were still extremely difficult and I would often barely pass. Good luck if you get stuck with a bad group for projects. Also, you'll fail assignments for missing minor details. AVOID!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
While Paxton is very nice, you have to play her game if you want to get a good grade in the class. You have to watch the lectures on your own time and come into class with a good understanding of the content. You should always have her check over the in-class assignments, as she normally won't give you credit for it if it's not perfect.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Out of all of my classes this semester, this was by far my hardest course and it's only a level 1100. I received so many unsatisfactories on in-class activities for only getting one small part wrong. I managed to meet the A criteria for every part of the grade bundle except exams. Because of this, my grade was a B+. Ridiculous.