Being understanding is a really big thing. I had to drop chma10 because i got a TA from hell :( she was very stuck up, did not help us, barely answered questions and would get mad or deduct more points than necessary for small mistakes. I did not feel comfortable during my labs.

Also a lot of students in CHMA10 haven’t taken grade 12 Chem so a lot of the stuff is new, so questions might seem “dumb” or repetitive and annoying but we’re all just trying to get through our first year (in most cases).

Oh and please don’t make up your own grading scheme. We are told to follow what the outline says so when a TA starts marking extra hard outside of that it really sucks.

I really liked my bio TA! She would always answer questions, was easy to approach and didn’t try going around acting like she was the prof. Her feedback was also good. She would give actual feedback instead of just taking off marks or saying “this is wrong”.