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Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A Anonymous 11/20/2024	She's an outstanding professor and clearly knows her stuff. Very friendly and wants the best for each student. Underlines what she's looking for out of each assignment and if you have a question, her or the tas are very approachable for support with any of the assignments. The only thing about the class is the exams are pretty impossible to study for because of how much niche content is extracted from the textbook, but they are curved. Overall, great professor and I recommend 10/10 for 301
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2024	She is so sweet and also an amazing lecturer and professor. I would not take 301 with anybody else!! The exams are hard but everything is stuff she prepares you for, you just have to pay attention in her class.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2023	Professor Karake is a kind and caring professor. She cares about her students and believes in their success in her class. She broke down all the excel functions well in a way that made the coursework pretty easy if you go to class and pay attention. The exams are pretty difficult, but she curves them a lot so I never got lower than a B. You're also allowed to bring 2 doubled sided cheat sheets for each exam so I didn't need to study a lot, just complied the information and found what I needed during the exam.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/21/2023	Karake is a professor who is clearly very passionate about teaching information systems. Her lectures are pretty engaging and she does a decent job of getting the material through to the students. The main caveat to taking her class, and this is a pretty giant caveat, is that her exams are near impossible to properly study for. While a solid portion of the questions are things that you have learned and will understand if you have paid attention, she always includes a handful of questions that contain the most niche, useless, and unpredictable information from the chapters in the textbook. And when you're asked to study ~4 chapters of maybe a hundred pages, you'll never realistically memorize EVERY SINGLE word and minor anecdotal detail, no matter how many hours you study. Literally every single exam ends up being curved. Overall, I think most everything about Karake's class is fair and enjoyable except for the exams. Too bad the exams make up half of your grade.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A Anonymous 06/01/2023	Professor Karake genuinely cares for her students and their learning. She is engaging and helpful.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting a B Anonymous 05/21/2023	I honestly did not know nothing about excel, and as an international student some of the terms were very hard to understand, but by studying and writing down things I manage to get a B though I was about to fail after the first exam. Just put yourself into work, see the TA's early for your projects, go to the office hours, you can earn an A!
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/03/2023	she was unresponsive towards students and didn't try to make class engaging. never answered emails, and made the exams impossible to do well on without the curve because they were filled with the smallest facts from the book that were hardly mentioned. This class was insanely boring and I feel like I didn't learn even though I did decent in the class. Excel projects were super hard compared to her class examples. I would have failed without the TAs!
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/24/2022	I don't recommend her because she talks down to people. This class is unnecessarily difficult and she can't teach well. The exams are filled with the most random stuff. Take a different professor!
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Anonymous 12/22/2022	Probably the worst professor I’ve had at Maryland. She is extremely condescending and unorganized. While she gives you a study guide and note sheet on the exams, the study guide has very little to do with the actual exams. The questions on the exams are extremely specific. If you don’t read the book you will struggle. She also doesn’t respond to emails. With that being said she does always say she wants her students to do well.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Anonymous 12/18/2022	she’s incredibly sweet and wants all her students to succeed. all the exam material is either in the slides or discussed in class, and she lets you have a sheet of notes. engaging lectures and useful, applicable material
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting a B Anonymous 11/17/2022	I don't understand how people like her so much, she can be pretty condescending. Exams throw in random concepts that are never/rarely mentioned in class. She doesn't care about the success of students and expects people to understand excel right off the bat. If you aren't good with excel and data, I would strongly recommend taking this with a different professor or community college.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A Anonymous 11/14/2022	She is actually such a good professor. She genuinely cares about her students and if you pay attention you'll do well
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/06/2022	She reads off the slides and then whizzes through excel without a break-the excel projects are pretty difficult and the most helpful resources are the TAs. She never replies to emails and the lectures are very very boring, exams are difficult and contain very specific questions from the book.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting a B Anonymous 12/14/2021	Karake is very sweet and tries to have a relationship with her students. Unfortunately, this class is relatively difficult unless you really like excel. Her lectures tend to end in tangents and don't really help with class content. Exams were kinda difficult since you never really knew what you were walking into.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/21/2020	Genuinely the worst professor I’ve ever had, is incompetent teaching online and then blames students for issues. Is unresponsive to emails and when she does respond is unhelpful.
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A Anonymous 04/07/2020	Her grades are given out by ranking you on a curve compared to other students. While this may help out some students, the majority of people in my class were dragged down below A level despite having a 95% in the class
Zeinab Karake BMGT301F Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/23/2019	I loved taking Karake's class. The things we learned about were super interesting. I will admit there is a lot of reading-- read the book if you want to do well--but it's worth it if you are interested in information systems. Her exams and quizzes are super specific so watch out for that.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/20/2024

She's an outstanding professor and clearly knows her stuff. Very friendly and wants the best for each student. Underlines what she's looking for out of each assignment and if you have a question, her or the tas are very approachable for support with any of the assignments. The only thing about the class is the exams are pretty impossible to study for because of how much niche content is extracted from the textbook, but they are curved. Overall, great professor and I recommend 10/10 for 301

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/10/2024

She is so sweet and also an amazing lecturer and professor. I would not take 301 with anybody else!! The exams are hard but everything is stuff she prepares you for, you just have to pay attention in her class.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/19/2023

Professor Karake is a kind and caring professor. She cares about her students and believes in their success in her class. She broke down all the excel functions well in a way that made the coursework pretty easy if you go to class and pay attention. The exams are pretty difficult, but she curves them a lot so I never got lower than a B. You're also allowed to bring 2 doubled sided cheat sheets for each exam so I didn't need to study a lot, just complied the information and found what I needed during the exam.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
11/21/2023

Karake is a professor who is clearly very passionate about teaching information systems. Her lectures are pretty engaging and she does a decent job of getting the material through to the students. The main caveat to taking her class, and this is a pretty giant caveat, is that her exams are near impossible to properly study for. While a solid portion of the questions are things that you have learned and will understand if you have paid attention, she always includes a handful of questions that contain the most niche, useless, and unpredictable information from the chapters in the textbook. And when you're asked to study ~4 chapters of maybe a hundred pages, you'll never realistically memorize EVERY SINGLE word and minor anecdotal detail, no matter how many hours you study. Literally every single exam ends up being curved. Overall, I think most everything about Karake's class is fair and enjoyable except for the exams. Too bad the exams make up half of your grade.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A
Anonymous
06/01/2023

Professor Karake genuinely cares for her students and their learning. She is engaging and helpful.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting a B
Anonymous
05/21/2023

I honestly did not know nothing about excel, and as an international student some of the terms were very hard to understand, but by studying and writing down things I manage to get a B though I was about to fail after the first exam. Just put yourself into work, see the TA's early for your projects, go to the office hours, you can earn an A!

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
01/03/2023

she was unresponsive towards students and didn't try to make class engaging. never answered emails, and made the exams impossible to do well on without the curve because they were filled with the smallest facts from the book that were hardly mentioned. This class was insanely boring and I feel like I didn't learn even though I did decent in the class. Excel projects were super hard compared to her class examples. I would have failed without the TAs!

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/24/2022

I don't recommend her because she talks down to people. This class is unnecessarily difficult and she can't teach well. The exams are filled with the most random stuff. Take a different professor!

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Anonymous
12/22/2022

Probably the worst professor I’ve had at Maryland. She is extremely condescending and unorganized. While she gives you a study guide and note sheet on the exams, the study guide has very little to do with the actual exams. The questions on the exams are extremely specific. If you don’t read the book you will struggle. She also doesn’t respond to emails. With that being said she does always say she wants her students to do well.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Anonymous
12/18/2022

she’s incredibly sweet and wants all her students to succeed. all the exam material is either in the slides or discussed in class, and she lets you have a sheet of notes. engaging lectures and useful, applicable material

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting a B
Anonymous
11/17/2022

I don't understand how people like her so much, she can be pretty condescending. Exams throw in random concepts that are never/rarely mentioned in class. She doesn't care about the success of students and expects people to understand excel right off the bat. If you aren't good with excel and data, I would strongly recommend taking this with a different professor or community college.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A
Anonymous
11/14/2022

She is actually such a good professor. She genuinely cares about her students and if you pay attention you'll do well

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/06/2022

She reads off the slides and then whizzes through excel without a break-the excel projects are pretty difficult and the most helpful resources are the TAs. She never replies to emails and the lectures are very very boring, exams are difficult and contain very specific questions from the book.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/14/2021

Karake is very sweet and tries to have a relationship with her students. Unfortunately, this class is relatively difficult unless you really like excel. Her lectures tend to end in tangents and don't really help with class content. Exams were kinda difficult since you never really knew what you were walking into.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/21/2020

Genuinely the worst professor I’ve ever had, is incompetent teaching online and then blames students for issues. Is unresponsive to emails and when she does respond is unhelpful.

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/07/2020

Her grades are given out by ranking you on a curve compared to other students. While this may help out some students, the majority of people in my class were dragged down below A level despite having a 95% in the class

Zeinab Karake
BMGT301F

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/23/2019

I loved taking Karake's class. The things we learned about were super interesting. I will admit there is a lot of reading-- read the book if you want to do well--but it's worth it if you are interested in information systems. Her exams and quizzes are super specific so watch out for that.

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