Reviews of professor Adam Fry

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class content covers a wide range of topics in biology. NOT an easy class if you are bad at memorization. Guided lectures are easy, tests are easy, except for biodiversity exams - those will kill you if you can't memorize (like me). They are so unnecessary and ruined the class. Labs are okay, tests every week in lab.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid at all costs. Completely out of touch with the realities students face. Makes you memorize over 300 species of plants and animals with EXACT spelling.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
this was the most difficult class i have ever taken. we had to memorize 300 plants for an exam and 60 animal sounds for another. lectures lacked any critical thinking and analytical skills- they merely consist of writing word-for-word what he said. it was all about memorization. attendance mandatory, there were no online slides. wouldn't recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You will sit in lecture and furiously scribble notes on a handout Fry has given you. You will copy; you will not think. Your tests will require the exact wording as is on the worksheet for any credit. You will also memorize 50 animal sounds and the names of over 200 plants and animals on your own time for tests. Again, you will not think. Memorize

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was such a headache, I studied day and night and tried to memorize the 100s of species on biodiversity tests and still could barely pass them. He gives out a lecture outline each lecture which you need for the exams, they are open notes but you're only allowed to use his outlines and nothing else. Lectures are interesting thankfully.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
jeopardized my semester just by enrolling in his course. if you need a lab grade take anything, literally anything else. this has to be the absolute worst course at uconn.