Reviews of professor Monica Montes

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have to say her in person classes are terrible. She makes you watch the lecture online and you're supposed to show up to class 3 days a week, except she doesn't lecture. She does "activities" that are supposed to help you learn but they feel like a waste of time. Terrible organization. Labs feel useless. Take online !

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Class is structured terribly. Her quizzes are exams. Lab has nothing to do with lectures at times. Quizzes fall on the same week as practicals so good luck memorizing 200 + terms. If you have to take the class for grad school prereqs consider taking less units if you want to do well. Not good at teaching.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It's a Human Anatomy class. The class is tough. If you don't put effort to study for the class, you will fail, and it is easy to blame that on the professor. Her lectures were great and she was passionate for teaching this class. If you followed her lectures, came to class, and actually studied, you would pass this class without complaining.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good teacher but I dislike her grading system. She gives out quizzes every other week over 2 chapters but the number of points per question and total amount of points make it very hard to get a good grade. A 20 question quiz is worth 60 points and the points arent distributed evenly so you can end up with 4 wrong answers and get a C rather than a B

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She provides pre-recorded lectures so you can watch them ahead of time before going to in person lecture. These were really helpful for taking notes and studying. Anatomy is tough since there is an insane amount of terms to learn but if you study and partcipate in the activities she does in class, you should pass with no problem.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took in summer 10wk online. Prof is slow on replying and requires many screenshots if you email her. Online is easy if you take time to study her lectures and pay attention to the online lab program. Class is simple. a couple assignments, 1 quiz per week- matching questions on quizzes sometimes. Lecture and lab are ONE grade so don't procrastinate.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Incredibly disorganized. Promised we wouldn't have a practical and an exam in the same week, but it happened twice. Scheduled practical, exam, and final all within the same week. Very frustrating class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I personally liked this professor, she provided fill in notes for the class and her tests were pretty straightforward from the notes. I will say that the tests were somewhat difficult, this is not a class that you can lightly study to get an A.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is a good teacher. Repeats ideas but explains them in different ways. Has quite a bit of homework.