Melekeh Nasiri

School: UC Davis
Department: Chemistry
Location: Davis, CA
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Extremely poor teaching. Hard exams with lots of errors. Does not want students to do well in her class. Avoid her class at all costs!
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Pros: In depth lectures, really explains the mechanisms step by step and tells you what she expects in terms of what will be on the exams
Cons: Tests are very difficult
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Pros: Very good lecturer and willing to help
Cons: tough quizzes and exams
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Pros: Wonderful professor. She's funny and wise. You definitely "know your stuff" after taking her class.
Cons: Makes mistakes during lecture. Leaves notes ambiguous on purpose. Tests are difficult, but not impossible.
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Pros: She really tries to give real life examples in a normal situation, so that you understand the concepts.
Cons: The tests are hard, and it makes you wish you studied harder, but she only gives you one practice test.
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Pros: very helpful, truly wants each student to succeed
Cons: exams are very difficult and require a high level of understanding
Read before going to class - her lectures are very clear but you will get much more out of it if you have read beforehand. If you have questions, go to OH. She is happy to help!
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Cons: She's a hard teacher. You really need to memorize EVERYTHING in this class. Her tests are really hard as well.
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Pros: lecture material very close to the textbook
Cons: practice exam is not very similar with the actual exam
exam are fair, very good curve
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Pros: Very enthusiastic about the material, very clear during lectures!
Cons: Tough tests! Accent, but you definitely get used to it very quickly. :)
OChem is OChem--it'll always be hard. I avoided Nasiri until my last quarter of OChem because of all the terrible rumors I had heard about her and her tests, but she was actually great! Very clear, and the fact that she expects a lot out of her students only encouraged me to work harder for my grade.
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Cons: Accent is hard to understand.
Practice tests are manageable, but the actual exams are much tougher.
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Pros: Funny and interesting lady, not boring at times.
Cons: Hard to understand her and not really a good lecturer.
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Cons: her notes on the board are getting messy
it's nasiri. her tests are hard. avgs are low. final grades don't make sense. but she is better than other teachers
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Nasiri is a great professor. She's interesting and tries to make the subject easy....but it's not. Her tests are ridiculous though. I still recommend her.
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Pros: Tries to be entertaining, very sweet as a person, makes her diagrams very clear
Cons: Thick accent, hard to understand, not very approachable, teaches theory but not application
Dr. Nasiri doesn't seem so bad until you get to the exam. She teaches all of the theory and the steps that go with it, but very little in the way of thinking and problem-solving - and her exams are HARD. Some of it seems like it is intentionally hard or tricky. I attended every class, studied on my own with the practice exams, and went to every review session, and barely made the average (which was a FORTY, in a class of ~200 people!) on each exam. If you want to learn concepts, she's great, but if you want to learn application (or get a good grade) stay away from her.
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Pros: She is nice. Averages are pretty low most of the time.
Cons: She expects you to know everything you are suppose to know up to 118B.
Overall, CHE 118 series is no joke, especially with Nasiri. This quarter we had a 6 quizzes, all taken during your lab time. Subject matter is pretty difficult to retain; that is, some of the material was just so overwhelming and unless this is your priority class that could be trouble since there are a lot of reactions and mechanisms to memorize (emphasis on "a lot")
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Pros: She is very knowledgeable on the subject
Cons: The language barrier was a bit difficult to work with sometimes
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Pros: Her lectures clearly present the material.
Cons: It seems as though she wishes to punish her less enthusiastic students.
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She's a great teacher but watch out for her tests they are tricky. Make sure you pay attention to detail.
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Very knowledgeable however her tests tend to throw students off guard

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