Reviews for Millard H. Alexander
Average Rating:| hyeung1 Course: CHEM481 Grade Expected: B+ March 7, 2010, 9:06 pm | Dr Alexander would most of the time show a youtube video, an online model or some other things on the internet for at least fifteen minutes. He makes a lot of mistakes with his notes during class. He would derive equations on the board with minimal explanation. He doesn't go over or explain how to do homework problems so basically if you can't go to the problem solving session then you are really screwed. His exams are crazy. sometimes it will ask you to solve problems similar to the ones in the homework. sometimes it will ask you to derive equations. He did that thing where you would either get full credit, half credit, or no credit on a problem. The grading of the exams is ambiguous. Two people can have the same answers with different amount of points awarded. He lets you have a formula sheet, so that's good. write everything down. I did not learn anything from the course and it was a waste of my time. If you had to take a course with him, DON'T. Just take it over the summer. |
| Anonymous Course: CHEM481 Grade Expected: January 26, 2010, 5:41 pm | Dr. Alexander is not good at communicating the content of the course in an organized and coherent manner. Frequently he would start a problem on the board and then not finish it, and it was difficult to follow him. He would go off on tangents, or not spend the class time in a useful manner. Also, the tests weren't consistent so it was hard to know how to study for them. |
| Anonymous Course: CHEM481 Grade Expected: B December 23, 2009, 7:03 pm | Dr. Alexander is a really nice guy, but he isn't that great in teaching. I mean you can follow him in class, but most of the stuff he goes through in class won't show up on exams. The bulk of what shows up is homework problems. But still, it is unpredictable what he will put on the exam. The TA was awesome and held problem solving sessions that were very helpful. The curve was small, even when the average on each test was ~65%. Don't mess up early, cause it will be hard to catch up. |
| Anonymous Course: CHEM481 Grade Expected: December 22, 2009, 5:53 am | He constantly lectures off topic. He does base questions on his exams after homework problems....sometimes. If he says something in class about what's going to be on the exam, don't take it heart. He told us that there were going to be more questions from material covered recently than material covered earlier on the exam....then when the exam showed up, most of the material was from stuff covered earlier. His exam formats are very unpredictable. Every exam felt like it was written by a different professor and not just one professor. |