AI Rate Professor

Health Science

Tobey Colston

BIOL31 · 16 lifetime ratings

AI rating
14/100
RMP rating
1.6/5
Take again
5.88%
Difficulty
4.8

The decision

if you have any other BIOL31 option; the risk to learning and completion is too high.

Best fit · Self Taught ProUnorganized LecturesSlide ReaderTest MisalignmentLeft Mid-SemesterHigh Drop Risk
  • Multiple recent students say she left mid-semester and left classes weeks behind, delaying graduation for some.
  • Teaching style is repeatedly described as , and tests that do not match lectures.
  • , and widely labeled avoid-at-all-costs.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

Even students who pass describe self-teaching, no study guides, and exams that feel disconnected from class.

All evidence is in-person; no online reviews.

Is the course easy?

BrainBurner

12/100

Anatomy content is hard, and weak structure plus dense slides make it feel nearly unmanageable.

All reviews are in-person BIOL31.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

22/100

, yet students still say lectures .

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

8/100

Nearly every review warns others away; .

Uniformly negative in-person consensus.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

22/100

and little alignment between teaching and tests.

Format shift

In-person only.

Workload

Heavy

20/100

, labs, and high study demand.

Format shift

In-person only.

Teaching experience

Awful

12/100

Students report slide reading, vague answers, pettiness, and a mid-semester exit that derailed classes.

Format shift

In-person only; no online comparison.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

88/100

Reviews emphasize exams and .

Format shift

In-person only.

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

17 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

All evidence is in-person anatomy/physiology: , and mid-semester departure reports.

Main concern

Course disruption from mid-semester resignation plus tests that students say ignore taught material.

What students said

“This professor left mid semester and did not set class up for success”
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“CHOOSE ANY OTHER PROFESSOR IF YOU CAN!!!!! The ”
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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 hard, sparsely supported, and often described as unrelated to lecture delivery.

No Study GuidesTest HeavyMisaligned ExamsSlide Vocabulary DumpLab Manual Questions

Assessment risk

Strict

22/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

from book and slides, and high failure or drop pressure.

No Study GuidesHard ExamsTest HeavyTextbook and Slide Mix
“No study guide. No quizzes. Only exams and labs”
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“ lectures, and Lab manual”
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“More than half the ”
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Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“ . Resigned from teaching halfway through semester leaving all classes to be cancelled.”

Voice snapshots generated from 17 , and mid-semester exit. Credibility rating: High.

🚨 Mid-Semester Exit

5/100

“Had her for physiology she left mid semester which pushed back my graduation date by another whole semester”

📑 Slide-Only Teaching

12/100

“During lecture she would only read off the ”

🧪

20/100

“her lectures never lined up with the test”

🏃

8/100

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Theme 1

🧨 About Course Chaos

  • Unorganized. and never goes over definitions
  • we were 7 chapters behind
  • the entire class is failing

Theme 2

📝 About Tests and Self-Teaching

  • You basically teach yourself
  • Expect to study over 100s of slides and read the textbook
  • tests are so unnecessarily hard

Theme 3

😤 About Classroom Climate

  • Shes mouthed off to multiple students in front of the rest
  • She gets petty with people and can be rude at times

Data context

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Analysis sample

17

Recent reviews read by the AI

16

Lifetime ratings

84/100

Evidence confidence

Seventeen detailed in-person reviews from 2025-2026 show unusually consistent reports of , and mid-semester departure.

Inside 17 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
4 out of 50
3 out of 53
2 out of 53
1 out of 511

Course coverage

BIOL3117 reviews

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

17 reported outcomes

A range

2

A 2

B range

3

B+ 1 · B 2

C range

1

C+ 1

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

11

Incomplete 7 · Not sure yet 1 · Rather not say 3