She is very humorous during lecture which does wonders on boring material such as botany. Overall she is an excellent lecturer, despite the singaporean accent. Her exams were challenging. Study Study Study!

Generally easy class as long as you catch up the powerpoints and memorize them. Its not a lot of memorization and TA covers everything you need to know in sections.

Dr. Finkelstein is a great teacher and is the most helpful person ever. Not going to lie, really tough but rewarding.

Way too hard of a class for a GE. Difficult quizzes in section every week that everyone does poorly on. Powerpoints are online but dont help much. No study guides given. 2 midterms and cumulative final. Tests are short answer, matching, multiple choice, and true false but if its false you have yo correct it. Avoid this class take dinosaurs instead.

I had her for 1A and 1B (they teach in sections) I love her as a human, not as a teacher. Shes hilarious and cute, but shes difficult to understand and her tests are HORRIBLE! I managed an A only because the class average was a 60%. You need to dedicate your life to this class if you want an A. She is a tough test maker! she tries to trick you.

Dr Finkelstein is very helpful and understanding if you talk to her. She will also give you hints by "clarifying" her tricky tests if you ask her intelligent questions. She is a very nice woman!!!!

Not really helpful. It is extremely useful if you attend CLAS. Her final was pretty hard. Be prepared to know every detail that lies within her slides and even more. Her tests make it extremely difficult to pick the actual correct answer because they will be formatted to be: A, B, C, A and C, or All of the above (this is an example of course).

She is really fun and cute, and makes jokes constantly during class. She does go through the material really quickly, so writing notes of everything she is saying was hard. Study a lot, her test is hard.

Her tests were very hard. But if you studied her slides very well and read the book then you should be fine. Her lectures were pretty funny but not the most informative

I enjoyed lecture, she made the class fun! The tests were straight-forward but be sure you STUDY THE SLIDESHOWS and READ THE BOOK!! It's a lot of information to take in in such a short amount of time but if you study you'll be fine.

If you listen to her lectures really well and grasp what she says then you should be able to pull a B.But READ the book. It enforces what she says because she can be vague at times.Her tests are meant to make you think. But she pulls everything off the slides.If you know the slides inside and out (Literally) then you can get an A. Very fair grader

Very smart and knows her stuff. However, her test questions are very tricky. 4 words: know everything about everything. Yes, plant physiology is boring, but this isn't her fault. SOMEONE has to teach it to us. However, the fact that she makes her test questions very tricky IS something that is in her hands. Again, know everything about everything

I liked her! I studied A LOT but since I did, the final was super easy. Just go over her slides a lot a lot a lot. Honestly, the hardest part about her test is that the answers are wrong because one word is off or something. But if you study you will do great! And she always answered my questions after class. She's really nice.

She has an affinity over plants, she really does; but teaching plants was just not her thing. She's very smart and knows everything about plants, but plants are just not something that many people enjoy. I liked her, but not plants. At least she tried. Teaching plant physiology is just not her strength at what she does.

BRUTAL final. Know everything about everything. She's really smart and knowledgeable at what she does. But that doesn't make things any better esp. when you're a premed and need near stellar grades for your goals of going to med school. booo

boring lecturer, horrible slides that fail to define a lot of simple processes or terms, and dull subject. covers a lot more depth than I needed for an intro class.

Her tests are extremely poorly written. They aren't difficult, but rather very unclear. She asks ambiguous questions and even if you answer correctly, unless you give the specific response she is looking for, which is not clear, she marks you wrong. To do well on the tests, instead of learning the material, you have to learn how to take her tests.

sweet lady! you can't help but smile if you talk with her in person - she loves to help people and gives proper direction. if you have any problems, or think the class is too hard, TALK TO HER! she will make it so much easier!

great class. she has clear lecture slides and she provides great supplemental detail! to all those people leaving (-) comments, they prob just don't know how to sort out supplemental detail from what she wants you to know, which she makes clear even in 1b. Very knowledgeable & a GREAT resource for plants, genetics, or developmental! give her a try!

Had her for mcdb 1b too. She's one of the smartest people I know - I don't just mean knowing the material. There is so much people can learn from her, and I think you have to take something other than an intro class of 800+ before you can properly judge anybody - she is so much better than these comments

Low is fantastic. Originally, I was scared to take class with her because of what I read on here, but I shouldn't have worried. She's been one of my fav's so far. Don't read the book. EVERYTHING you need to know is on the slides and stuff she says in class. Print out the slides & you're good!

She likes to trick you on the tests, she pretty much doesn't test on your knowledge but on how well you can take her tests!! Try to avoid her if you can that is because i believe shes the only intro bio prof for this class

She is really funny and interesting to hear lecture, but I think people are confusing that for a good professor. I like her lectures, but I dont get what I need out of them. She leaves a huge amount out, assuming we somehow already know. Also her tests are brutal- not so much what she asks but how, very difficult wording.

Good interesting lectures, she has a natural ability to hold your attention even when talking about complicated concepts, I find some of the other MCDB lecturers a bit monotonous but Lowe is one of the cooler ones and really funny.