Rangaswamy Meganathan - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Professor: Rangaswamy Meganathan

Department: Biology

College: Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I read the horrible reviews but decided to take the class anyways bc I thought he couldn't be that bad. However he was that bad. The teacher is hard to understand and powerpoints are very long and boring. He doesn't post any grades so the whole semester you are wondering how you are doing in the class. The class is curved bc everyone does so bad

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BIO313
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

AVOID. AT. ALL. COST. Not exaggerating. THE worst prof. I ever had. He assigned 17 chapters and they're soooo long. Each exam is over 7+ chapters. No study guide. He just says "read the book." If you don't have time to spend HOURS reading and looking for external sources for practice, you will not do well.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He's hard to hear and hard to understand. All lecture consists of is him reading straight off his PowerPoints. Some of his power points can be over 100 slides, and he will not specify what will be on the exam or what is important. Get the textbook. You'll find yourself reading it a lot and teaching yourself b/c he is terrible and delivering info

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

We only had two exams the entire semester and a cumulative final. Studying from the book and the presentations will be your only hope to do well. He does curve at the end and won't post grades until the very end of the semester. And grades are based upon the class's averages.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This is the worst professor I've ever had. Half the class is spent trying to figure out what he's saying, and the other half is spent trying to figure out what he wrote. The tests are almost impossible considering there's about a thousand slides to study for each one (there's only 2 throughout the entire semester, plus the final). Avoid this prof.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BIO313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

One of the worsts teachers you can hope for when taking a bio class. He will mumble on for the entire class period through the powerpoints. He barely has any real enthusiasm which makes the class incredibly boring. The only way to pass is to teach yourself through the book, the study guides don't really help. Avoid this class if possibl

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BIOS205
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

HORRIBLE TEACHER. you spend half the lecture tryin to figure out what he just said and the other half trying to read his horrible handwriting. It's almost the end of the semester and I have learned NOTHING!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MICRO313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The hardest I ever had to work for an A. The lab is really easy but the lecture is ridiculous. He gives power points but just reads over them. He will answer questions if you ask him but the amount of work put into the class compared to what I got out of it is not worth it. He is very smart but just not a good teacher. Has funny stories though.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Just don't do it. I've never had as much trouble in any other class as I've had in his. His number one problem is that he can not speak English very well and he doesn't do anything to compensate for this fact, like typed handouts or power points or anything.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BIOS205
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very interesting

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BIOS308
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Yes he does have an accent, but if you print off his notes you know exactly what he is talking about. Lectures are a little boring but he provides an excellent practice test that helps tremendously for preparing for test. He occasionally made jokes in class and was very open to asking questions. To do well you just have to get over the accent.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BIO313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Horrible teacher. This guy doesn't use power point but his notes have no structure. He just rambles (more like mumbles) for an hour and tests you on it. After break (from the shooting) he never e-mailed us about a test schedule. Class was on Tuesday, he tells us we have a test on Thursday and there's no study guide. He said to read the book!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BIOS316
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

WORST TEACHER EVER.. DO NOT TAKE HIM FOR MICRO.. PLAESE BE WARNED.. HE WILL LECTURE FOR 30MINS ABOUT SOMETHING PROCEED TO TELL YOU IT IS NOT ON THE EXAM.. THEN TESTS YOU ON IT. IF YOU TAKE HIM, I WARNED YOU. HIS SECOND TEST IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE..

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BIOS205
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This teacher needs to he came speak any English. He mumbles and has an extremely strong indian accent. The class size was orginally over 100, when he started teaching, roughly 20 people showed up and down to like 10. Do not take this teacher if you actually want to learn something and do good.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: BIOS205T
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He is terrible. I couldn't understand much of what he said, his test had things on it that were not anywhere (book, lecture notes or his posted notes) and he teaches about many things that are not important for the test. AVOID THIS TEACHER!

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BIOS313
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Explains concepts very poorly, awful lecturer, writes a word on the overhead, mumbles a bit and gives some scatterred facts. Studying from your notes is hopeless because you can never decipher the main points or much else for that matter. I truly believe that if I studied the book for a while and put together a lecture that I could do better.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BIO205
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Easily the worst professor I've ever had. He can't speak, he makes the class extremely boring, and on top of everything, microbiology isn't easy.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: BIOS205T
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He was one of the three teachers teaching this class. you cannot tell what he is saying at all and i'm not joking; it's horible. he is also rude. avoid at all cost.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: BIOL
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

good