Chloe Garfinkel

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Chloe Garfinkel BSCI160 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/16/2025	Dr. G is a great professor! Her lectures are super informative, and her slides are well-organized and easy to follow. You don’t really need to buy the online textbook to do well in the class. She and the TAs offer several office hours each week, and they’re extremely helpful— they are really beneficial if you are confused on the HW, want clarification on a topic, or are studying for the exam. She also provides study guides, allows a notecard or sheet of paper during exams, and drops your lowest midterm grade. Definitely use these resources to be successful in the class and on exams, as they are worth 25% of your grade. Overall, she’s really nice, clearly cares about her students, and is very approachable and easy to talk to. I’d definitely recommend taking her class!
Chloe Garfinkel BSCI160 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/14/2025	Dr. G has got to be one of the best professors in the bio department! She holds lots of office hours throughout the week and every time I've attended, she was super helpful! She genuinely cares about how well students do in her class and wants to help out as much as she can! There are 7 hw assignments throughout the semester which are pretty spread out and can be a bit hard, but there are also clicker questions every class and exam reflections after each one which are a pretty helpful grade booster. She also provided study guides for each exam that accurately reflect what material will be on the exam. Overall, Dr. G is a great professor and I would definitely take a class with her again!
Chloe Garfinkel BSCI160 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/13/2025	Not really sure what the negative reviews are talking about. Dr. Garfinkel is a very sweet and very passionate professor. She cares deeply about her students and doing well in the course. It was her first semester teaching, so there were a few hiccups here and there, but overall I think she did a great job. The homeworks are usually a couple pages long, but to be honest they aren't hard as long as you pay attention and take notes. There were no practice exams, probably because she hadn't made exams previously as this was her first semester teaching the course. There were however, study guides for you to review and go over that covered pretty much everything on the exam. The exams are tougher earlier on when talking about genetics and DNA and stuff like that, but they get easier once you're in the big picture stuff. Office hours and the TAs were very helpful, as well as the online textbook. As someone who hasn't sat in a biology class in probably close to five years, I was absolutely worried for my grade in this class. But Dr. Garfinkel was super helpful and there are definitely enough resources that even I was able to pull off getting a B. It's a pretty cool gen Ed, especially since it relates to a lot of modern day issues. Would def recommend if you need a science credit.
Chloe Garfinkel BSCI160 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/13/2025	Dr. G is an okay prof, she's nice enough. She has a lot of office hours but doesn't know what she's talking about half the time. She will confuse you. She doesn't have practice exams up and I think most of her exams are written by ai, so use chat to study. Her exams are hard and are very conceptual. There will be fill in the blank question worth 15 points. Good luck.
Chloe Garfinkel BSCI160 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/13/2025	Dr. G is a very nice human, but her tests ARE SO HARD. She will give you so many options to meet with her but she will not explain herself and will often confuse you. Try to study concepts rather than definition, but that might not even help you. Use Chat to study for tests cause her tests are like the exact same (she prolly uses AI test).
Chloe Garfinkel BSCI160 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/01/2025	Dr. G is the sweetest professor at UMD. She is extremely helpful if you don't understand homeworks or concepts covered in class, she gives out participation points with clicker questions, and her slides and explanations are really informative. Her exams are way harder than they should be, and you really have to think critically about how topics connect rather than just what the topic is. Overall amazing professor, and if I could have her for other BSCI courses I would. 10/10.
Chloe Garfinkel BSCI207 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 04/08/2025	Dr. G is incredibly kind and a great professor. Her lectures are interesting and exams and assignments in the class are perfectly fair. Be warned that if you take her lecture, you have to socially interact with people about once a week in lecture hall, but it's not so bad. Overall totally recommend for 207. As for the class itself, it's really quite easy. It just contains massive amounts of information that you have to know. There isn't a lot of hard thinking and there are no puzzles or tricks, it's really more like listening to a long story.