Gerald Frenkel - Rutgers - State University of New Jersey

Professor: Gerald Frenkel
Department: Science
College: Rutgers - State University of New Jersey
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: FDBIO201
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
The thing with Frenkel, it's not just basic science memorization (like it may seem at first). You have to learn the processes and the reasoning behind each action because his Exam questions are difficult. Show Up to class. Print slides. Take Notes. Record lectures. Review multiple days before Exam. Learn from your mistakes! Use strategies!
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
DO NOT TAKE FRENKEL. He is so unorganized, the lecture slides has no words on it, just pictures, and he's is no help. His exams are so hard and unpredictable. You must know EVERYTHING to pass his exam. Worst experience ever.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: BCHM360
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
MC exams that can be so confusing. Really need to take precise and good notes. Failed the first time I took this class. Often has many video lectures instead of actual in-class lectures, which is good. Study hard to do well. Sometimes old exams help a little so make friends.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: BIO120201
  • Grade Received: WD
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
DONT TAKE FRENKEL! Just saying if I wasn't arrogant, I would've never taken this class with Frenkel, it was nerve recking, his exams are literally unpredictable, and very tricky. Withdrew from his class and ended up taking it in the summer with Cervantes, the class was interesting and exciting to go to. DONT TAKE FRENKEL!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: B
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Despite what everyone says, I think his exams are very fair (though the wording can be tricky), you just have to study hard and make sure you KNOW EVERY DETAIL. Come to class and record his lectures. Also, DEFINITELY MAKE SURE TO STUDY THE PICTURES ON HIS POWERPOINTS!!! He can be all over the place so make sure to look up the things you don't get.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
took this class in fall 2015. i think he caught on that students have just been using past exams and not going to class. you now have to either actually go to class and take notes during lecture or diligently take notes from the textbook and memorize everything. beware: start ahead, because there may be 100 or more pgs of the textbook per exam.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: BIOCH360
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Worst professor in the history of academia. His slides are an unlabeled mess with no rational order. You cannot hear him or understand what he's saying. Material isn't hard but the fact that he's incapable of teaching makes it hard. Future students do yourself a favor and demand another professor to teach this. Would not take again.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Going to class is an absolute waste of time. I did not set foot in class between second and third exam. I did get an A given that I was a super senior at the time and I already knew my stuff. He is a disgrace in the teaching profession. Shameful slides, lecture, exams. I could teach his class better than him any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: BIOCH360
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
lecture slides are not labeled 98% of the time. The lectures consist of him going from one random topic to another without ever connecting the material. The level of teaching is poor. The average of the class was a D after major curves. I would have never taken this class at Rutgers had I know what it was like. Take it at NJIT and save your GPA.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: BIOCH360
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
It's important to go to the lectures. Keep good notes, detailed lecture notes. 3 points for extra credits, three midterms, drop the lowest one and a final exam. Pay close attention to his lectures, the materials covered in the lectures were tested in the exams. Study the lectures slides carefully and thoroughly. Record the lectures if possible.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: BCHM360
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Curved exams. Drop the lowest one. Three midterms and a final. lectures cover the content that needs to know for the exams. Study lecture slides carefully and thoroughly. Always go to his lectures. Take good lecture notes. Pay attention to what he says during lectures. Make sure you understand the concepts, not just memorization.
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I see all the reviews about this class being an easy A, but it's not. You have to show up to lecture, because without it, the slides are useless. They're mostly just pictures that he explains. He just sits up front with the pictures behind him and expects you to write everything he says. If you don't, you won't do well. Try to stay awake.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I found it very difficult to learn. He never caught my interest in bio. He clearly gets nervous with large classes. If someone has a question that might require him reaching from beyond the context of foundations, he quickly shuts them up and tells them they don't have to know it. He curved the 1stexam 7 points, 2nd by 3-4, and none for 3rd/final
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: BIO201
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Best professor ever!! The people who say he's hard are the ones that are too lazy to put in any effort. I went to every lecture, sat in the front, and took good notes, and I got above a 100 on the first exam. I barely had to study for the exam too. I love him, would def take him again.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: BIO120201
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Be warned, his exams are extremely tricky. Things you think are not important because he only briefly mentions are on the exams while things that he emphasis's are left out. I heard how difficult his exams are so I never missed a lecture and started preparing since the 1st class for exams and I still failed. There is no need for tricky exams.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: BCHM360
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Don't take him- awful professor. His lectures are long and Dr. Frenkel has a very mocking tone in his voice whenever a student asks for help. He's making his spring course take the last midterm WITH the final for the class due to his own carelessness. He's so removed from what it means to be a student that he simply doesn't care about our concerns.
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: BCHM360
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He gives three exams and a final. The third exam he had planned so late during the semester that he wasn't allowed to give it that late. So what does he do? He makes us take BOTH the final exam and the third exam on the designated final day. He goes slow and repeats the same things over again. His video lectures are better than his in class.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: BIOCHEM360
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Wrote down everything he said or wrote on the board and studied. I still failed the first two exams. The mean average in his biochemistry class is a 70 after the curve, there is obviously a problem with the professor or his method of teaching. I would go into every test confident of the material and would still fail. Avoid like the plague.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL205
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Okay, so the rumors of the class being an easy A are a complete joke. You have to honestly work hard for this class. I attended every lecture, took DETAILED notes and still found the exams to be decently tricky. I wont say hard, but tricky. If you come to lecture you will know the material and I suggest talking to past students on how to prep.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: BIOL201
  • Grade Received: Not sure yet
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
His lectures are very interesting. He uploads practice questions about topics after lecture and his ppt slides. Make sure you look at them as tests can be picture heavy. 3 exams and final. Drops 1 exam and curves each exam. Get previous exams for help on midterms, questions don't change but don't rely on them for the final, which is very hard.
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