Kimberley Gilbride - Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

Professor: Kimberley Gilbride

Department: Biology

College: Ryerson University, Toronto, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BLG304
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She likes application based tests. She's always very specific for her short answers. If you don't write exactly what she wants you get a 0. She also does not tell you what to expect on the exam. Her lecture slides were filled with mistakes, which she did later correct. In the group test does not test you evenly on topics. Some not covered at all.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

she is genuinely the worst professor at ryerson. If recommend that you avoid her. Her tests (and especially the final exam) are not good representations of the material learned in the course. I have had her twice now for two different courses and her exams were awful for both. she also doesnt know what she is talking about majority of the time.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BLG151
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She's a very helpful and caring professor. Attendance is highly recommended as her lecture notes have fill in the blanks. Overall, with good studying ethics and revising her lecture slides on a regular, her midterms and exams questions shouldn't come across as too difficult. Group tests are definitely a mark booster! Getting an A is achievable.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This course was lecture heavy! Go to every single class and review the notes after each lecture so you don't fall behind. Dr. Gilbride is a sweet lady. She's approachable and helps you out when you go to her for questions. The course breakdown is: 3 in-class group quizzes (30%), 1 midterm (25%) and final (45%).

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BLG151
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She can be a little disorganized in her lecture notes and is extremely picky when it comes to the short answer questions on the midterm and final. She doesn't give clear guidelines on what kinds of topics/questions to expect on tests. The course is content heavy & the end can be rushed. Studying the textbook and you can do good.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This course is very lecture heavy. We covered around 14 chapters with 8 of them on the final and 8 of them on the midterm (2 chapters from the midterm were covered again on the final). I found the lectures boring and studied and made my own notes from the textbook thats the best thing to do. Group tests help ALOT! Overall the course was pretty good

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She is a solid professor, her lectures go hand in hand with the textbook. Her multiple choice can be quite over-barring, especially since her final exam is weighted heavily (45%). She is also very picky with short answers. I highly recommend reading the textbook chapters since her lecture slides can sometimes be bare bones.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I had Gilbride for 143, 151 and 307. While she does give challenging tests, they're only challenging because she focuses on minute details. Her grading scheme is ambiguous at best. As for her rude personality, I think the people are over reacting. She isn't rude during office hours, but she does expect you to attempt a question before you ask her.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Even though I got away with A+, I won't take her course again ever. Reading 20 chapters twice was not just fun... Last year students got really lucky with Charlotte teaching the course.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

In my opinion, one of the worst biology profs at Ryerson. Extremely hard midterm and final. I had her for both Microbiology and Molecular Biology. She gives a couple group quizzes to try and "boost" the marks up, however they too are quite hard. Lectures are boring and she can be rude when asking questions during office hours. Don't take her class!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I'm in the art program i didn't sign up for this, reddit told me it was an easy a

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Worst prof, unorganized, marking is unfair, gives some things on test she has never done... AVOID HER

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BLG307
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Extremely condescending, unorganized slides, and teaches wrong information, followed by excusing herself, saying "she hadn't had her tea yet." Midterm was not fair and too long for the amount of time given. Put a sub-question under a question that was unrelated and sneered when she took it up with the class. That's her type of personality. BEWARE.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BLG143
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Easy course material, awful professor. I wish she cared about her students the way she cares about herself and her image. Lots of readings and the course is very definition based. Exams are tough.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: BLG143
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Get yourself a textbook and get to reading. Assigns a ridiculous amount of assignments. If you are taking biology and other courses - get ready to do only biology and nothing else. Complicates simple matter. Obviously doesn't have good basics because those that do - they make art out of it - not a confusing puzzle.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BLG151
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She got behind and crammed at the end, but crammed materials were given as bonus questions. Her M/C is not hard, and short answers are not difficult, but detail oriented. There are alot of chapters to cover, and that's why she crammed at the end. Otherwise, she is a good professor.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BLG151
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Her lecture slides are based from the textbook. Her slides were fill in the blank. Her midterm and final consist of both short answer and multiple choice. M/C wasn't that hard at all. S/A you need to know in depth, but she barely tells you what to study. Also, she was behind her material this year. However, overall it was pretty good for me.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BLG151
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Lectures are not helpful.. study the book

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CBLG143
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I really enjoyed Dr. Gilbride's class through the Chang school. She is very approachable and helpful with questions. Most of the material is review from grade 12. Big on definitions and processes so if you pay attention to her notes and the process images, you shouldn't have a problem. Midterm was fair, the lab was easy, final was harder though.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: BLG143
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Generally pretty easy to understand but went through material really quickly. Made a lot of analogies which were pretty helpful. Notes posted online. Don't need textbook.