Reviews of professor Neil King

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Follows the typical trend out weeding out students in his classes. Super difficult exams and very unapproachable especially to difficult wording questions during the exams. Do yourself a favor and take biochem at bothell or elsewhere! Why are you trying to make your students hate biochem, we are just trying our best, it should be about learning!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ehh, I wouldn't say he's the worst UW professor, but he's up there. Exams are pretty terrible and he does a bad job explaining concepts to the students so I spent most of my time on Youtube. Not very pleasant to work with and is VERY condescending. I asked him a question during an exam and he looked at me as though I was dumb and walked away :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures covered a lot of material but Dr. King was always passionate and enthusiastic which made them enjoyable. He was also great at explaining confusing topics and answering questions so office hours were quite helpful. Tests were fast paced but everything on them came directly from lecture slides. Overall this was a really enjoyable class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His lectures were slightly more helpful for exams than Dimaio's but studying for exams still came mostly down to memorizing slides and pre-lecture content rather than fully grasping and comprehending material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Neil taught the 2nd half of Bioc405 and his excitement on lecture content is infectious! It's clear he is passionate about teaching and answering student questions. A lot of his content is about various pathways that build on each other, so take notes on what he emphasizes. Class was structured in a hybird format with live q&a sessions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
King is a fantastic lecturer - super knowledgeable and enthusiastic. He uses a lot of analogies that make tough concepts easier to visualize. Just make sure you know everything on the lecture slides and you can basically ace the exams (his test questions are very fair and predictable). The class is a lot of work, but I HIGHLY recommend King!!