Gilbert is mediocre, and the LS7B course curriculum is subpar. Midterm 1 required lots of calculations, Midterm 2 was really vague, and the Final was ok. However, the class felt stale. Additionally, labs required lots of work to be completed in just short of two hours, and often the only way to finish on time was to copy off of each others' labs. My TA didn't care since she knew that was the only realistic way to finish on time. Launchpad has all the information so attending class is meaningless. Just go to get the clicker points. This class was so annoying it legitimately made me switch out of the Biology major.

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.

Launchpad is the most annoying and boring thing ever. You use it for all the LS7 series, it's awful-- for that part, good luck. You can get by most of the time if you just read the highlighted/bold terms, but if it doesn't make sense then def read the chapter.

PS: I'm selling all of my notes (from both the readings and the lectures) for $15, as well as supplementary practice worksheets, so hmu on ********** if you are interested!

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.