Reviews of professor Tom Gribben

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Gribben made me really enjoy Biology and I looked forward to his attending class every week! Professor Gribben is a very kind and caring professor who always takes his students feelings and at home situations into consideration. You will have to work for your grade but as long as you study and ask him questions you will succeed!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Gribben showed me a new found passion in BIO taking this class. He is lecture heavy but provides fill-in-the-blank style notes and goes over the test a weekend before taking it. He uses hilarious examples and if you keep up with studying for labs and vocab you will do great! He also provides extra credit in hard units.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very test heavy. We would have a two week break before another test in a regular semester. Often went through over 100 slides on a powerpoint in each class. Not clear on what is expected for papers and has a mysterious grading process. Goes way too fast to absorb anything without many hours outside of class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good prof. Makes you work for the grades you get as far as tests go but goes over all test questions before a test. He is rather unclear on other assignments but pretty lenient on those. If you ask questions or email him concerns he will respect you more. An interesting guy, makes a few jokes to make his class more lighthearted. Dont buy the book.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I really liked this professor , he had a fun personality. BUT , his teaching methods were very difficult. He was a very tough grader, I still failed my tests even though I studied for hours. The PowerPoints were too long , and the assigned work he put online were very unorganized. Overall I would not take this class again.