Rani Vajravelu - University of Central Florida

Professor: Rani Vajravelu
Department: Biology
College: University of Central Florida
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very sweet and provided interesting lectures. Brought cuttings to class for examples. Do the homework! Master that to master exams! Felt like lecture didn't always reflect exams but was still great! Recorded but that makes it easier to slack off so don't rely on that. Easy to fall behind. Will drop some quizzes and assignments. Great professor!
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Rani is very passionate about plants. I loved when she brought plant cuttings to class. The lowest of a lot of assignment types are dropped. Everything is based on textbook material. You can study the textbook or watch lectures. I recommend attending the lectures live because sometimes she goes through practice problems while not recording.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
you get one drop quiz, 4 dropped homeworks (note that the homeworks can be time-consuming), and I think one drop exam. The quizzes can be challenging, but make sure to review what you got wrong, bc the exams overlap with quiz content. The class overall isn't super easy or hard. Rani herself is very nice and I highly recommend her!
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This class isnt easy. She takes the best 5 out of 8 homework quizzes, best 5 out of 6 online quizzes, and there are 3 exams. The online quizzes are harder than the exams and she uses ProctorHub. She doesnt post the PPTs so Id recommend going to lectures and taking good notes. Its very possible to get an A, you just have to study study study!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
This class was a good deal harder than expected. Quizzes were really difficult and it was hard to tell what would be on them. Take good notes on both the book and lecture, some information doesn't overlap. Luckily, the tests were based heavily on the quizzes and were easier. Dr. Vajravelu is very passionate, knowledgeable, and sweet overall.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BOT4850
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Rani is so sweet and you can tell how much she cares. Since going online because of covid, she has us do group work which is an easy A. You definitely need to view the lectures since all testing info is from them. The class is very intresting.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
even though she was a really nice and sweet lady, she has a strong accent and stumbles on her words and gets confused and mixes information in her slides. refer back to the book because even though her tests and quizzes are based off of mostly lecture and what she says, she does not put the correct info on the slides .
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Have to read the textbook, 3 test, several homework, 5 quizzes, do good on test and you will pass. She is a bit unorganized, began changing things around last minute which was super annoying. Sometimes she did not speak clearly as to what she wanted. Her quizzes seemed harder than the test. The McGraw hill test were better than her tests.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
there are 3 tests + homework (not a lot of questions)+ quizzes she gives you EC through online quizzes during the lecture (easy) try to take a lot of notes from her class since you need them to take the quiz at home. Also, read the textbook, and take notes from it. Her outlines are incomplete, so try to fill them with information from Txb + notes.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: ETHNO3802
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
useless and never wants to help.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: A-
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Definitely attend lectures as she does not post the notes online and some of the test material comes from the lecture. She is very passionate about botany and sometimes tells cool stories about lecture info. She replaces the lowest test with the final, tests are not too difficult, and some online quizzes (+ bonus point quizzes). Loved her class!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Just do yourself a favor and don't.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Rani is very passionate about the subject. Her lectures are VERY entertaining and contain information that you can use outside of school. Although your grade is dependent on tests, she gives good study guides. Get the textbook and READ if you want to perform well in the class and GO TO CLASS. She offers some bonus points, too.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Rani is only of my favorite professors at UCF. She really cares about her students and is proud when they do well. She knows so much about Botany and loves to tell you more if you ask. Her tests are tough but you read and listen, you can do well.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
This class should be easy enough. The material isn't difficult, but she doesn't provide PowerPoints for use at home. Her lectures are essentially her just reading the PowerPoints to you, which I wouldn't mind if she would just provide them. Homework is sporadic and unpredictable. She's a nice person, but just bad at communicating the material.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
This class should have been an easy A. Dr. Rani has a strong accent and does not provide her ppts outside of lecture, which is what makes the class difficult. This class should be an online class because I did not learn anything from lecture. I do NOT recommend taking this class with her. Her HW assign. and quizzes were not routinely scheduled.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I do not recommend this class. This class should not be as complicated and time consuming as it is. It should be an easy A as long as you study, but that is not the case. Also, no test grades are dropped. The HW assignments are all over the place it is not designated to a certain day during the week, so it is hard to keep track of.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3015
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
This was her first time teaching this course but she made it an easy A! She definitely cares about her students. If you ever had to ask her a question she would explain it until you understood it. I absolutely love her!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802BOT4850
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The Professor provides you with all the materials you need. Her given notes are outlines, but as long as you attend lecture, it is easily filled in because that same information is in full on the slides she shows in class. Her grading is only through exams, but she gives a study guide that tells you pretty much everything you should know to pass.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: BOT3802
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I took her fall 2018 and I wouldn't take her again because the tests. The class content was really interesting, but tests were like botched games of bar trivia. She writes the textbook so pay attention to it, she may sneak some of it onto the tests. She can also be a little passive aggressive about how the class did on tests, but lots of kids skip.
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