Reviews for Sameer B. Shah
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: BIOE120 Grade Expected: B January 1, 2011, 8:22 am | Eh, this guy was okay. There would be times when he would lecture for a few minutes and be like "wait, whatever I said in the last 10 minutes is completely wrong. Ignore what I said". But other than that his teaching ability is okay. Study his powerpoints religiously for tests. It might take a lot of effort to learn Anova from his powerpoints, they weren't always clear. His class is okay in terms of easiness. Tests will be doable if you study the powerpoints really well, and then his homeworks were free points. Do well on the papers, too. |
| Anonymous Course: BIOE120 Grade Expected: December 17, 2010, 2:28 pm | Dr. Shah is a great guy. He's REALLY nice, and he seems to understand what its like to be a student. Lectures/tests were based off powerpoints, so they were pretty easy to follow, and were great study material. I did not have to open the textbook once (however, if you havent taken AP Bio, you may need to). He was always extremely helpful during office hours, and a very approachable guy if you needed any help. His tests were quite challenging, but he was generous with curving. This class is definitely not like AP Biology, so don't go into it thinking you'll ace it because you got a 5 on the AP Bio test. I definitely reccomend taking the class with Dr. Shah if you get the chance. |
| jman729 Course: BIOE120 Grade Expected: A September 30, 2010, 7:08 am | Though this was his first time teaching the class Dr. Shah did well, he was very receptive to student concerns and the tests were reasonable. Because people had varying backgrounds going into the class it was very easy for some and hard for others. But if you put in a honest effort you should be fine. |
| Anonymous Course: BIOE120 Grade Expected: A December 11, 2009, 7:31 pm | A little bit of good, mostly bad. I'm sure Professor Shah knows his stuff in his research (neurons), but his knowledge outside that is sketchy. On one of his exams, he said that 3 Rubisco and 3 CO2 are needed to create a glucose. He took his acid-base dissociation lecture from wiki and barely understood it. Apparently he thinks ICE charts are wrong. His teaching of statistical methods was also quite atrocious. He glossed over sampling and what a normal distribution is and just gave out procedures for statistical tests. BIOE 120 goes into waaay too much detail on the stuff he does, like neurons, but doesn't cover transport across membranes or photosynthesis. Be prepared for a rough time, fellow bioengineers. |