AI Rate Professor

Biology

Adam Welday

51730BIO · BIOL101 · BIO51730 · BIO70474 · BIO101 · 14 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
1.8/5
Take again
21.43%
Difficulty
4.4

The decision

Avoid unless you have no other Bio option and and grind for a mediocre grade.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerTough graderConfusing lecturesGrades withheldDaily quizzesImpatient
  • and say he treats wrong answers as stupidity.
  • Grades and , so you cannot track your standing.
  • Heavy daily quizzes, homework, and support.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

Tough grading, test-heavy design, and quiz prep, and self-study.

Online and ; one strong in-person A+ came only from intensive daily study.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Content is dense biology with and expectations that students already know terms.

Difficulty is high in both formats; online adds camera pressure and timed written quizzes.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

12/100

and skip-class-you-wont-pass messaging.

and in-person reviews.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Most students say tone, and .

A small minority of ; online reviews are almost all negative.

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

18/100

and many students report C-range grades or withdrawals.

Format shift

and in person.

Workload

Heavy

22/100

, and lecture-plus-self-study load pile up.

Format shift

Online mentions multi-part study guides and timed quizzes; and reading.

Teaching experience

Awful

20/100

Students say lectures jump around, he blames the class, and often makes them teach each other.

Format shift

Online and in-person both describe impatience and ; a if they communicated a lot.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

68/100

Test-heavy and quiz-heavy with daily quizzes, written quizzes, and .

Format shift

Both formats emphasize quizzes and tests more than pure projects.

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

11 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person reviews describe messy lectures, late or , and a few students who passed only with extreme study hours.

Main concern

and grades withheld until the end of the term.

What students said

“he doesnt even know what he is lecturing on, and bounces from one place to another”
BIO101
“Doesnt show your grades till the very end so good luck.”
BIO101
“sends study guides late at night before a tells you to talk amongst yourselves and figure it out.”
BIOL101

Remote format

Online

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Online students report forced cameras, timed written quizzes, multi-part study guides, and .

Main concern

and pressure to .

What students said

“When doing a lecture, he would always ask people to turn .”
BIOL101
“HE DOES NOT POST GRADES UNTIL THE LAST DAY SO YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE!!!!”
BIO101

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Frequent high-stakes quizzes and delayed score returns create a strict, stressful testing environment.

Daily quizzesTimed written quizzesPop quizzesDelayed exam scoresStudy guides released late

Assessment risk

Strict

32/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and quizzes are frequent; scores and students blind to progress.

Daily quizzesPop quizzesLate score returnsTest heavy
“He never gave any of the so we can know in what question we did wrong.”
BIO101
“won't give you the first results until two months later and not give you the and three scores at all”
BIO70474

Online

Online students report short timed written quizzes and multi-part study-guide questions with camera pressure during lecture.

Timed written quizzesCamera during lectureMulti-part study guides
“7 question 5 minutes, written.”
BIOL101
“Always has study guides that have like 6 individual parts to 1 question.”
BIOL101

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“If . .”

Voice snapshots generated from 14 reviews (3 online, 11 in , and heavy quiz load. Credibility rating: High.

💥 Teaching Quality

20/100

“One word to describe this class.. a MESS!!”

🚫 Recommendation

18/100

“ .”

📉 Grade Transparency

15/100

“HE DOES NOT POST GRADES UNTIL THE LAST DAY SO YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE!!!!”

📚 Workload

22/100

“ , and lecture heavy.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • he doesnt even know what he is lecturing on
  • bounces from one place to another
  • treats you like youre stupid if you dont answer correctly

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Doesnt show your grades till the very end
  • study guides late at night before a

Theme 3

⚠️ About Classroom Climate

  • not patient and often upset at students
  • talk amongst yourselves and figure it out

Data context

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Analysis sample

14

Recent reviews read by the AI

14

Lifetime ratings

82/100

Evidence confidence

Fourteen detailed reviews spanning 2019-2023 with , and low recommendation.

Inside 14 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 51
4 out of 51
3 out of 52
2 out of 50
1 out of 510

Course coverage

BIO1019 reviews
BIOL1012 reviews
51730BIO1 review
BIO517301 review
BIO704741 review

Reported outcomes

C range results lead the reported letter grades.

13 reported outcomes

A range

2

A+ 1 · A 1

B range

3

B+ 2 · B 1

C range

4

C+ 1 · C 1 · C- 2

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

4

Drop/Withdrawal 1 · Not sure yet 3