Reviews of professor Michael Farris

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I wasn't passing the lab he taught and he helped me write a good final lab report to boost my grade. With Bio 205, the rule is if you fail the lab, you fail both the lecture and lab (a combined 4 credit course). I was petrified of that happening to me but he helped me and I passed by a few points. Very caring towards students I would recommend him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Made this class more stressful than it needed to be. Unclear about instructions and grading; very inconsistent. First time teaching a higher level biology class and it showed. There's 13 quizzes worth 5 pts. each, three lab exam worth 75 pts., the worksheets done in class can be started at home and finished in class; he grades those pretty strictly

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This instructor came off as chill at first since he doesn't lecture very long but then as the semester progressed we realized he wasn't. He always tells us before the lab that he is open to questions but when we actually ask, he tells us "Read the DIRECTIONS". He also is VERY picky with the post labs.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not the nicest Professor. He made lab miserable for a lot of us and never directly answered any of our questions but would rather answer them with more questions which wasted our time and made us stay in lab for longer than usual.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
This lab instructor holds review sessions that if you go to, you ask him questions about ones you don't get, he says go study it you will get it. Then what is the point for SI sessions, it is for the ones that we students don't get certain questions, he has a very bad mood and is always skeptical about Arabs coming to class, he doesn't even care.