Reviews of professor Shawn Xiong

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This course is fairly easy. You have minimal homework and 4 exams. He also allowed us to revise our exams outside of class which helped boost our grades. You can miss class and not get deducted but he will take attendance by doing a worksheet. The TAs are super nice and helpful as well. It is a pretty easy course overall.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Xiong always responds to emails promptly and really wants his students to do well. Packback and Mindtap weekly assignments, discussions and quizzes make up the class. Very manageable! Highly recommend!!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. X is super cool and friendly, and he is very knowledgable as well. His class is not a class in which you are going to watch a video and call the day. You have work for it just alike any classes. He did provide all the opporutnities for you to succed like test revision and make up some works.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
First A- ever, a lot of help is provided and he is really nice and caring if you bother to study a little.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
BISC4 is a great gen-ed (gn) to take. Dr. Xiong is a really solid professor and spends a lot of class time explaining how what we are learning about directly impacts us, as well as current events. The exams can be a little tricky but you can make a single page cheat sheet and correct the exam for half credit back upon completion.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
It's an easy class and Dr. X is a good guy. Uses packback and the lecture can be pretty interesting. He let's you use a cheat sheet on the exams. Take the class if you can.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Xiong was great. He made it easy to get an A because he let us use a cheat sheet pre-Covid and then let us retake the exams during Covid. He handled the switch to online well. His TA Kristen was also very helpful and always available. Science classes are usually hard for me, but his class was an easy A. I would definitely take him again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is honestly a great professor. Genuinely cares about his students learning and grades. He is always available outside of class and happy to help. The material is not easy, but he seriously tries his best to make it easy. If I took this course with anyone else, I would probably have gotten a C or D honestly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The first time ever, this course is offered. It's a research course in which you collect and purify potential antimicrobials from soils. Super interesting, a lot of relevant stuff, and definitely makes sense to take it if you want to do research.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Biology is not my thing, but I have to say Dr. X has been a great help in this course. I go to see him whenever I have a problem, he always takes the time to help me. He offers revision so most people do really well.