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Biology

Alejandro Cortez

BIO1L · 25 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.2/5
Take again
26.92%
Difficulty
3.9

The decision

Skip if ; if you can teach yourself biology from slides and textbooks.

Best fit · Self Taught ProTeach yourselfHard to understandTest heavyExtra credit availableLecture heavy
  • Most students say lectures are due to monotone delivery, pauses, and .
  • Exams and with lectures, and require heavy self-study.
  • He is often called nice and offers or retakes, but many .

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

34/100

and occasional exam retakes help, but confusing lectures and hard .

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

22/100

Biology content plus hard-to-follow lectures and and practically tough.

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

30/100

and presence is tied to participation or .

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

28/100

Roughly one in , and most comments say teach yourself or choose another professor.

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Course guide

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Grading

Fair

46/100

He offers partial credit, , and some retakes, but and tough.

Format shift

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Workload

Heavy

34/100

, and exams create a heavy sustained workload.

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Poor

28/100

Students often , and feel forced to learn alone.

Format shift

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

86/100

Quizzes, free-response exams, and limited graded categories .

Format shift

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

26 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

and lecture biology where students must largely self-teach while .

Main concern

, and frequent frustration even when he is personally kind.

What students said

“ . It is very hard to understand him with all the pauses he does during his explaining on the lectures.”
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“If .”
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“His class is better suited for independent learners who can teach themselves, as quizzes and .”
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Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

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Exams are difficult free-response assessments that many say do not match lectures cleanly, though .

Test heavyFree response examsStudy guides incompletePop quizzesExam retakes or partial credit

Assessment risk

Strict

34/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In-person biology exams are test-heavy free-response assessments with uneven study-guide usefulness and .

Test heavyFree responseStudy guides often weakExtra creditRetakes or half-point makeups
“ as if they're meant to trick you.”
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“ , but he offers make up exams(you can use your study guide + original exam)”
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“A lot of what he gives on the study guides do not even appear on the exams.”
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Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“ !! If you have him, be prepared to teach yourself the material and not him.”

Voice snapshots generated from 26 in-person biology reviews with consistent teach-yourself and . Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

28/100

“You can tell he is passionate about the subject, he just doesn't know how to teach it. .”

📚 Self-Teaching Required

30/100

“His class is better suited for independent learners who can teach themselves, as quizzes and .”

📝

34/100

“ as if they're meant to trick you.”

👎 Recommendation

28/100

“ unless you want to fail and cry every time you come to class.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • difficult to follow the lectures, and he was constantly late to class
  • The professor talks very quietly and mumbles, making it difficult to understand
  • Very monotone. Does not prepare you for

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • This class is very hard and requires a lot of work, with lecture and lab

Theme 3

⚠️ About Student Experience

  • be prepared to teach yourself the material
  • He locked people out of his classroom
  • I had to withdraw because he would not teach us anything we needed to know

Data context

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Analysis sample

26

Recent reviews read by the AI

25

Lifetime ratings

86/100

Evidence confidence

26 recent in-person reviews with and self-study burden support high confidence.

Inside 26 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 53
4 out of 53
3 out of 53
2 out of 54
1 out of 513

Course coverage

bio-1L26 reviews

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

26 reported outcomes

A range

8

A+ 1 · A 7

B range

5

B 5

C range

4

C+ 1 · C 1 · C- 2

D range

2

D 1 · D- 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

7

Drop/Withdrawal 2 · Not sure yet 5