Class was largely determined by two midterms (4/10 difficulty, 85 average) and a final (6/10 difficulty, 80 average). Your grade will be your ability to memorize/apply; memorize everything starting from day 1 including idiosyncratic one-line details on slides, USE ANKI!! The group project was unclear and based on others' efforts.

Notice how all her good reviews are from MCDB 6? That says everything about how bad 126 actually is. This class is a total mess. Don't let those intro-class ratings trick you. Stay away from this course and the Pharmacology major entirely. It's just not worth it. Save yourself!

I get it's a hard class, but the patient case study is a mess. 20 pts depend on peer reviews with zero transparency on the grading mechanism. What if our peers are malicious? This was added last minute, probably to curve since Case 1 was bad, but it's totally unfair. Grades should reflect work, not others' random opinions. Unfair.

Hardest class ever. Mentally destructive for my anxiety. Memorizing 200+ drugs/MOAs/side effects is insane. MCDB 111 is hard but at least it's not all memorizing! Studied 2 weeks + all-nighter and still tanked the final. If you aren't pre-med, I'd skip this class and major. Doubt the prof knows it all by heart. Total academic torture.

Very doable class if you stay on top of lectures. You can redo weekly quizzes, and she gives study materials for exams. Lots of content but she explains important things in depth. Biology is hard, but I thought her exams were true to the content. You can do this!

Olga is a queen!!! 2 midterms and 1 final, weekly quizzes that u can retake, and iclicker are what make up ur grade. If u go to lecture and pay attention u will be fine! She also gives so many practice resources and posts her lectures on canvas. She's SO FUNNY and genuinely cares about her students. These bad reviews are jealous of this stem baddie

Yall need to hop off with these bad reviews. If you're hating on her personality you're just soft. Yeah it's bio it's gonna be hard but if you take it seriously and study you will do well in the class.

Do NOT take as an upper div bio elective. Impossibly hard to memorize all MOAs, side effects, and drugs. Grades hard, lectures heavy, tests even harder. Final was unnecessarily difficult and required in-depth knowledge of every single drug/process learned this quarter. Unless its required for your major, do not take this course for an elective

Idk why there are so many negative reviews! Olga is super sweet and helpful and she's always willing to help out. In terms of difficulty, this class is a little hard but very doable. Her tests were based off of lecture content, practice quizzes, practice problems, iclicker qs, and the practice midterms. Not an easy A but def not impossible!!

I took this class for pre req for PBS. it is def harder than i thought. the questions on the exams are lowket random. about 80% of ur grade is from exams so just memorize and make flashcards for remembering. i spent SO much time studying for her exams and would only get the avg score on them. def one of the top challenging classes.

This course ruined me. The final was EXTREMELY hard with a lot of drug names to remember. I don't know how the other genius could have memorized these things. Probably I'm just a du//mb guy.

a huge amount of drugs(MOAs, side effects) to memorize with no cheat sheet allowed. That's definitely impossible for a short quarter!! Hope me and you guys all can pass