Lol waste of time if you've taken AP Bio. Don't sweat it if you get Dr. Gilbert as your professor, you'll be fine. Will it be the most fun you've ever had in a class? No. Did I pay attention to a single lecture all quarter? No. Does she get her point across during lecture and teach the material well? Meh, it's hit and miss. Just get over yourself and take the class with her.

Gilbert doesn't deserve this much hate tbh. She might be a big confused and make small mistakes sometimes, but we are all humans here. She is friendly and nice to her students, and she does want you to do well. The material itself isn't hard, although some concepts might take a bit more time to fully understand. But I do want to say that a lot of students in 7B don't even read launchpad and expect themselves to know everything but only to blame the professor when they do poorly on the test. It's really your own problem if you don't pay attention in class and don't read launchpad, so don't trash prof Gilbert around.

Background: not pre-med south campus student

While Dr. Gilbert was nice in office hours, she was often confused in lecture and gave convoluted explanations. However, as with the rest of the 7 series, the class is so standardized it doesn’t matter much who your professor is.

I found the exams to be quite tricky, and clickers did not prepare me for the level of difficulty at all. I did poorly on the first midterm, which got me the A-, but did better on the second midterm and final. Overall, I needed a lot more practice with harder questions that what they covered in class.

I would sum up the entire LS 7 series as Busywork and Self-Learning. I hate how lectures consist entirely of non-stop iclicker questions and 'peer-learning' (where confused students continuously mislead each other) and nothing ever gets explained (or the prof just isn't proficient at explaining anything), plus there's hardly any structure to the material covered. That's my big problem with it, you can only suck it up and read and learn from the textbook by yourself. Tests are all MCQ, which makes everything even more ridiculous, because you literally just use your common sense and questions aren't that hard in the first place. I don't know if other people actually learn anything in this class. If you've taken 7A you know what a pain launchpad is. This class is pretty much identical to 7A, in difficulty too. Labs were busywork, sometimes interesting but mostly they're made to just keep you there for 2 hours. Don't ever skip lab. Try not to skip lecture. ALWAYS do launchpad (with the help of quizlet if needed), even if you're on the brink of death. I don't see why anyone wouldn't get an A then. Also I don't think the professor matters for this class cos it's so standardized.

Dr. Gilbert explains the material well and paying attention in this class is the most important part, as the iclicker questions are the topics/concepts that are put on the tests. She sometime slips up but nothing major, everyone's human and she genuinely is excited to teach you something and is always ready to answer any question.