Reviews of professor Eric Folker

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Folker is a hard professor, but my favorite at Boston College. He forces you to change your way of thinking and approach problems more effectively. I had more success in classes I took after this class because it changed the way I learned and studied for the better. If you are struggling to understand in class, office hours make a huge difference.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Folker has to be one of the most irrational professors I've ever had. He gives no partial credit on multipart 25 point questions. And openly jokes about how poorly his students are doing and about "failing half the class" without making any effort to ACTUALLY help. Take this only if you want your self confidence and dignity slashed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is the worst I have taken in my academic career. I had to rewatch each lecture twice to understand the incredibly-in-depth-word-vomit that he spewed each lecture. Quizzes were weirdly specific and take home tests had no partial credit (failing was not uncommon). Please spare yourselves your sanity and never take one of his classes. Ever.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Wait for Weerapana to come back! Folker takes off points left and right and hates partial credit. And gets mad at you if you try to ask him for points back. Your grade is out of the average of the top ten students, but most of the top ten students have the old exams so don't take the class unless u have the old exams. :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Best lecturer I've had. Changes the way you think about biology (from thinking about probabilities to thermodynamics to forces). I could not stress how awesome he is. At the end of the day if you're whining about the grade it's probably cuz you have the wrong mentality going into the class. Also, I have no idea where those numbers came from.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Folker wants you to meet his standards. By that, I mean that the class will be one of the hardest, if not the hardest Bio you'll take. You need to consistently keep up with the material every day, focus on literally EVERY WORD he says, and go to office hours--he has hours every single day, 8 AM. You do that and you'll be fine. Book is useless.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid at all costs. HE DOES NOT TEST WHAT HE TEACHES. You can study 20 hours on his lectures, but then he'll test you on material you've never heard of. In the final he asked us questions about concepts we'd NEVER EVER studied, the questions are terribly worded, and he won't clarify the question if you ask. He's not an educator.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This man took over for our biological chemistry class it was the worst thing to ever happen to me. He is the least empathetic creature on the planet and his final asked questions that our class was incapable of answering since we never learned them. If you have the choice between getting hit by a bus or taking a class with him, choose the bus.