This class with Jarrett is terrible. Easy, but terrible. For starters, she is an awful lecturer. She goes through her lecture slides in an extremely robotic manner that has no rhyme or reason. She rarely explains things on her slides, it's kinda like she has a script she just goes through. One particular thing that drove me crazy was her use of the same 3 phrases about 40 times in a 50 minute lecture. It really just shows that she doesn't really know what she's doing when it comes to lecturing. Honestly, the only way I managed to get good grades on the exams was by attending the remote lecture, then rewatching the recorded lecture the same day and taking notes on what she says WORD FOR WORD. But if the exams weren't open note I wouldn't have done nearly so well. That being said, she does supply a lot of EC so you could get by with B's on all the exams and still get an A. It's an easy class, but it's frustrating. Maybe try another professor if you're an actual biochem major.

The material can be difficult to memorize since it is very dense. However, the professor really tries her best to explain everything in easier terms. I took the class online so I really benefited from the recorded lectures since I was able to re-watch them until I understood the topic throughly. The grading was based only on three exams. There were no homework assignments but there were supplemental exercises if you need to work through more problems for practice. She offers extra credit which helps take some of the weight off exams grades. The exams are not necessarily cumulative but sometimes topics overlap. She also gives you practice tests that are very similar to problems on the actual exam. We met 4 times a week, the first day we briefly discussed the topics that would be covered over the week and the last day we reviewed those topics and did practice problems together. Overall, she really does hope the best for her students and is very passionate about teaching. You will be very lucky if you have her for this course as the other professors (from what I've heard) are not as great.

Overall, Dr. Jarrett is very sweet and accommodating, but may not be the best lecturer. If you *need* to learn the material well for this class (i.e. if you're a Chem major or something of the sort that requires you to use this foundational knowledge), and don't want to rely on solely self-studying, I would say consider taking this class with another professor. On the other hand, if you're not super interested in Biochemistry and want a manageable workload/exams, take Jarrett!

Her exams are very content-based and taken primarily from her slides, so make sure to take notes on them.