Cecilia Kutas - University of Toronto - St. George Campus

Professor: Cecilia Kutas

Department: TBD

College: University of Toronto - St. George Campus

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CHM136
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Doesnt care about students. Cares about keeping a 60% class average for the course. She has a serious attitude and actually made me dread chemistry labs despite doing relatively well. I dont know why the university has her teaching a first year course. This is exactly the type of person who should NOT be an educator.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The worst professor and most inconsiderate person I have spoken to in this institution. Her lectures are all over the place, not good at explaining complex concepts yet she is demanding and condescending. Avoid at all costs.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• 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:

Only had her as a lab coordinator and avoid her at all cost if you don't want to feel horrible about yourself. Very glad that I didn't have her as an instructor.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CHEM247
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

no comment. wish i could give 0!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

rude. arrogant, doesnt know how to teach :/

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CHM136
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I am extremely considerate before classifying someone as rude, and this woman literally pushed the limits! She was disgustingly rude, arrogant, and just utterly brutal! Was difficult for me to remain professional and respectful while interacting with her! Ive had many profs who are chairmen of departments who are sweeter than family, dk her issue!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CHM136
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Rude and mean-spirited. Does not seem to care about her students, for all her educational theorizing.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She doesn't answer any of your questions and she goes through orgochem as if this is stuff you already know.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: TBB199
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This class can easily boost your GPA, but its probably not worth it. She's quite rude, and the entire class is based on reading the dense, confusing readings she assigns, and then parroting back the opinions given in the readings in class discussion and essays.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The worst prof I've had in my 4 years here. She's a bad lecturer and doesn't pace the lectures well. She'd kinda rude when you talk to her and doesn't answer questions well. Labs have unclear marking schemes and you seem to just lose marks without explanation. Overall, she's unhelpful and the course is more work than it needs to be.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: TBB199
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She's pretty chill in this seminar course. Just do the readings and connect it to some random personal experience and that's usually enough to get an A. Definitely recommend taking this course to boost your GPA if you're good at spitting out essays and other "deep" reflections on readings.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: TBB199
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

"Innovative Teaching Methods in Chemistry" seminar. Utter garbage. The whole point of seminars is to encourage discussion, but if you say anything she remotely disagrees with, she'll just cut you off, and tell you to re-read the weird, dense articles she assigns. Class is brain-dead easy, just figure out what she thinks, and write that in an essay

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CHEM247
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She wants her students to fail. Tests are fair but often have mistakes. Marking schemes in the lab manual don't mean anything because she deducts marks for anything that she thinks should've been done. So you can get all the marks for a lab, but then get a 0 because of random deductions. Worst of the 16 profs I've had so far.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: TBB199H
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I was glad to have her before taking CHM247. She seems kinda nice in the seminar course. Any first year students looking to do a seminar course, do not take 'Innovative Teaching Methods in Chemistry' unless you are very interested in the subject. The course load is heavy for a first year seminar course, but easy marks with lots of effort

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CHM247H1
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She's one of the rudest instructors that I have ever had in U of T. She will destroy your experience in U of T and she can also destroy your GPA in her tests if you don't work hard. If you want to ace her class, read the whole textbook before coming to her first class

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Terrible at teaching and scribbles on the board in tiny writing. Test was fairly easy

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Cecilia is an amazing prof. Her teaching style is not simply to give all the information we need to know, but to help us start to figure out how to think about problems. Orgo is practice based and Cecilia makes sure to go through problems in class. I find that by studying lecture material alone you can get an easy B in this class.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• 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: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Absolute garbage. I went in scared about orgo and she was absolutely unclear and made no efforts to prepare the class before starting problems. Sometimes she would ask "Does anyone know the answer" and the class would laugh and whisper angrily. When she realized no one knew she was talking about she just said "this is easy, you should know this!"

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I went into this class scared that I would have the worst prof ever. Professor Kutas is extremely helpful and approachable, and you can tell she really cares if the students get the material. I think her tests are fair. She's not hard - it's the material that's hard.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CHM247
• 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:

Probably the worst prof i've had in all 4 years of undergrad. Not only does she not know how to teach, but she's brutally judgemental when someone doesn't understand something. No method to her teaching, just throws information at you and expects you to 'get it'. There must be SOMEONE else more fit to teach such an important, intense course??