Rana Khankan
Department of Life Sciences
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3.8
Overall Rating
Based on 103 Users
Easiness 2.5 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.9 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.3 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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  • Gives Extra Credit
  • Engaging Lectures
  • Tough Tests
  • Participation Matters
GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS
38.8%
32.3%
25.8%
19.4%
12.9%
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39.1%
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26.0%
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38.5%
32.1%
25.7%
19.2%
12.8%
6.4%
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38.1%
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25.4%
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41.2%
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27.5%
20.6%
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60.0%
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77.1%
64.3%
51.4%
38.6%
25.7%
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39.4%
32.9%
26.3%
19.7%
13.1%
6.6%
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21.6%
18.0%
14.4%
10.8%
7.2%
3.6%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

22.4%
18.7%
14.9%
11.2%
7.5%
3.7%
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20.4%
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10.2%
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26.5%
22.1%
17.6%
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8.8%
4.4%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

17.8%
14.8%
11.9%
8.9%
5.9%
3.0%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

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Quarter: Fall 2019
Grade: A
Dec. 20, 2019

Khankan was a fairly average LS professor. Her lectures are generally pretty clear and she is articulate enough. However, I think Khankan sped too fast through explaining clicker questions and I wish she gave less time for us to click in and more time to explain the answer. Pre-test review sessions were also just 50 minute Q&A sessions which really are not helpful at all. Lastly, I thought LS7C tests were worded even worse than LS7A and 7B tests (didn't know this was possible) but I am not positive whether Khankan makes her own tests. Overall, standard LS professor and a standard LS class with launchpad, clickers, true/false questions on tests, etc. but slightly more difficult (more memorization, homework makes for a smaller % of the grade, worse tests).

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Quarter: Summer 2019
Grade: A
Sept. 22, 2019

Professor Khankan is one of the more engaging lecturers in the life science department. She knows the material very well and is able to answer almost all questions. If she is not able to answer a question, she knows where to direct you to find the answer. The format is the same as every other life science 7 class: Iclicker participation grades every class, discussion sections with worksheets, multiple choice exams, etc. Overall, this course isn’t too bad if you stay on top of the launchpad and know the discussion worksheets, especially the graphs and charts.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: B+
Sept. 17, 2019

Professor Khankan is amazing! She is extremely sweet and kind and she's just an amazing lecturer. I was scared to take her and Professor Zamudio's class at first because of her bad reviews, but I don't regret taking it at all. The class gets difficult at times with wording on tests, but I still learned a lot from Professor Khankan and her awesome TAs. Definitely take this class with her if you can

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: A
June 25, 2019

My favourite professor yet! She adopted the LS7 series format really well into her teaching style, which made me love the class and made my concepts really really clear. She collaborated what we learnt on Launchpad with the clickers in class, which was not always the case in previous LS7 classes. She gave us enough time during clicker questions, and explained them afterwards in a straightforward, knowledgeable, easy-to-comprehend manner. Take her if you can! And attend her office hours, whether or not you have questions - she answers questions that people have in a lecture-like style so it will emphasize the concepts that have already been covered in class and will make them stick in your head. Just attend all her classes and pay attention to the explanation she gives for the clicker questions and you'll be fine in the midterms and final.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: A
June 25, 2019

Khankan has such engaging lectures and she really explains the many processes well. She breaks down every clicker question and emphasizes what we need to know and what we don't. Definitely take her or Esdin if you get the chance.

The tests are confusing because of the wording, and the TAs can't really answer any clarification question which sucks, but I generally performed the same on 7C tests as 7A/B. Definitely focus on how to read diagrams and apply the information to problems- like if blood pressure rises how does it affect the production of this hormone, etc. If you haven't been to the LA learning sessions yet, this is the class to start going to them. In them you can practice with what kinds of diagrams will show up on the tests, and the LAs are good at explaining things in an understandable way.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: NR
June 15, 2019

As said before, I found this class to be the most difficult of the 7 series just because there's so much information. But that's not a result of the professors, - all 7 series classes use Launchpad and same exam format. Khankan explained concepts and clickers better than the other professors I've had for the 7 series, and her lectures are Bruincasted so you can always go and hear back how she explained something before any tests, which is really helpful.

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: B
June 1, 2019

This class is definitely the most difficult of the 7 series, but Khankan is good at explaining difficult physiological concepts. Launchpad can be tedious, but all of the answers are online on quizlet so getting most points shouldn’t be too difficult. Exams are definitely challenging but not impossible.

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Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: A
April 27, 2019

Took Khankan in fall 2018. She's a pretty good teacher, but there's a lot of material to memorize. If you're interested in getting the answers to previous launchpad PEQs and PCRQs, email me at *************

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: A
April 2, 2019

Took 7A and 7C with her and am so glad I did. Her lectures are bruincasted so you can go back and listen to explanations for things like clicker questions, which she also explains very clearly (better than the other professors according to my friends in another 7C lecture).

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: A
March 30, 2019

This class was surprisingly tolerable. I heard so many bad things about Khankan from other Bruinwalk reviews, but she wasn't that bad. I mean she wasn't amazing, but she wasn't too horrible. Yes, the class isn't the most exciting and she spends way too much time waiting for clickers, but that's not the worst thing in the world. Exams are hard as expected. The questions are stereotypically "tricky" like the rest of the LS series. You have to memorize more info than the other LS classes, but not too bad. Overall, she's the not the best, not the worst, but it's not the end of the world if you end up stuck with her. Plus she gives 8 points of extra credit or something at the end of the course, and also since our class did above 75 average, the class ended up not being curved. But like all the other classes just do the clickers, do the discussion section, and the launchpad stuff and you get almost half the points given to you free A, so you just need like an 88 or whatever to get an A. Overall, not that bad.

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Quarter: Fall 2019
Grade: A
Dec. 20, 2019

Khankan was a fairly average LS professor. Her lectures are generally pretty clear and she is articulate enough. However, I think Khankan sped too fast through explaining clicker questions and I wish she gave less time for us to click in and more time to explain the answer. Pre-test review sessions were also just 50 minute Q&A sessions which really are not helpful at all. Lastly, I thought LS7C tests were worded even worse than LS7A and 7B tests (didn't know this was possible) but I am not positive whether Khankan makes her own tests. Overall, standard LS professor and a standard LS class with launchpad, clickers, true/false questions on tests, etc. but slightly more difficult (more memorization, homework makes for a smaller % of the grade, worse tests).

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Quarter: Summer 2019
Grade: A
Sept. 22, 2019

Professor Khankan is one of the more engaging lecturers in the life science department. She knows the material very well and is able to answer almost all questions. If she is not able to answer a question, she knows where to direct you to find the answer. The format is the same as every other life science 7 class: Iclicker participation grades every class, discussion sections with worksheets, multiple choice exams, etc. Overall, this course isn’t too bad if you stay on top of the launchpad and know the discussion worksheets, especially the graphs and charts.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: B+
Sept. 17, 2019

Professor Khankan is amazing! She is extremely sweet and kind and she's just an amazing lecturer. I was scared to take her and Professor Zamudio's class at first because of her bad reviews, but I don't regret taking it at all. The class gets difficult at times with wording on tests, but I still learned a lot from Professor Khankan and her awesome TAs. Definitely take this class with her if you can

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: A
June 25, 2019

My favourite professor yet! She adopted the LS7 series format really well into her teaching style, which made me love the class and made my concepts really really clear. She collaborated what we learnt on Launchpad with the clickers in class, which was not always the case in previous LS7 classes. She gave us enough time during clicker questions, and explained them afterwards in a straightforward, knowledgeable, easy-to-comprehend manner. Take her if you can! And attend her office hours, whether or not you have questions - she answers questions that people have in a lecture-like style so it will emphasize the concepts that have already been covered in class and will make them stick in your head. Just attend all her classes and pay attention to the explanation she gives for the clicker questions and you'll be fine in the midterms and final.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: A
June 25, 2019

Khankan has such engaging lectures and she really explains the many processes well. She breaks down every clicker question and emphasizes what we need to know and what we don't. Definitely take her or Esdin if you get the chance.

The tests are confusing because of the wording, and the TAs can't really answer any clarification question which sucks, but I generally performed the same on 7C tests as 7A/B. Definitely focus on how to read diagrams and apply the information to problems- like if blood pressure rises how does it affect the production of this hormone, etc. If you haven't been to the LA learning sessions yet, this is the class to start going to them. In them you can practice with what kinds of diagrams will show up on the tests, and the LAs are good at explaining things in an understandable way.

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Quarter: Spring 2019
Grade: NR
June 15, 2019

As said before, I found this class to be the most difficult of the 7 series just because there's so much information. But that's not a result of the professors, - all 7 series classes use Launchpad and same exam format. Khankan explained concepts and clickers better than the other professors I've had for the 7 series, and her lectures are Bruincasted so you can always go and hear back how she explained something before any tests, which is really helpful.

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: B
June 1, 2019

This class is definitely the most difficult of the 7 series, but Khankan is good at explaining difficult physiological concepts. Launchpad can be tedious, but all of the answers are online on quizlet so getting most points shouldn’t be too difficult. Exams are definitely challenging but not impossible.

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Quarter: Fall 2018
Grade: A
April 27, 2019

Took Khankan in fall 2018. She's a pretty good teacher, but there's a lot of material to memorize. If you're interested in getting the answers to previous launchpad PEQs and PCRQs, email me at *************

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: A
April 2, 2019

Took 7A and 7C with her and am so glad I did. Her lectures are bruincasted so you can go back and listen to explanations for things like clicker questions, which she also explains very clearly (better than the other professors according to my friends in another 7C lecture).

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Quarter: Winter 2019
Grade: A
March 30, 2019

This class was surprisingly tolerable. I heard so many bad things about Khankan from other Bruinwalk reviews, but she wasn't that bad. I mean she wasn't amazing, but she wasn't too horrible. Yes, the class isn't the most exciting and she spends way too much time waiting for clickers, but that's not the worst thing in the world. Exams are hard as expected. The questions are stereotypically "tricky" like the rest of the LS series. You have to memorize more info than the other LS classes, but not too bad. Overall, she's the not the best, not the worst, but it's not the end of the world if you end up stuck with her. Plus she gives 8 points of extra credit or something at the end of the course, and also since our class did above 75 average, the class ended up not being curved. But like all the other classes just do the clickers, do the discussion section, and the launchpad stuff and you get almost half the points given to you free A, so you just need like an 88 or whatever to get an A. Overall, not that bad.

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8 of 8
3.8
Overall Rating
Based on 103 Users
Easiness 2.5 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 2.9 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.3 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
    (62)
  • Gives Extra Credit
    (61)
  • Engaging Lectures
    (55)
  • Tough Tests
    (56)
  • Participation Matters
    (52)
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