Reviews of professor Olivier Devergne

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's super passionate about Dev Biology. Tests were more than fair. Given the lab, this was one of the more exciting courses I took at NIU.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
good guy who takes too much on himself and isn't able to return grades in a timely manner. NIU's genetics is notorious, any professor tasked to teach it is gonna be a pariah, so take reviews with a grain of salt bc he really aint that bad

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Devergne spent a lot of class time struggling to explain things. He would give us a LOT of readings to do and it seemed like his lectures weren't well-structured. His lecture slides were almost all pictures and he didn't explain them in a helpful way. He was available to talk outside of class, though, which was helpful. Take another prof.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Decent at teaching material. Unfortunately, lots of homework every day. He has a thing against Punette squares, which is interesting. Easy to see he cares about his students success, just a little off the mark with execution.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a nice guy but he hast a hard time explaining information. He rushed passed the lecture powerpoint and his exams were totally brutal. Do not take this professor if you plan on going to Med school or for Grad school. He will kill you GPA, its not worth it. Just take another professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His class made me question my major. Very unclear about the material covered, spent at least 25 hours a week just on the homework for this class. Gets upset when you ask questions about the material, rushes through lectures, and if you go to genetics club he will be late and miss your questions. He's very unprofessional.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I spent so much time on the work for this class and still did poorly. He was not respectful of student's time and other schedules and he assigned so many things with short deadlines that I had no choice but to half-ass because he only gave us a few days and I have a JOB to pay my BILLS because I'm a PERSON, which he didn't understand. Bad professor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He really does care about his students, he is really misunderstood, go to genetics club it helps! Do the daily questions in class for extra credit, dont be discouraged with low test grades, his exams are the homework and class handouts, i failed exam 1-4 but got a C on exam 5, Dr. D ran down the hall that day to tell me how happy he was i passed!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The only good thing about him was that he was accessible outside of class. He never grades on time or gives the exams back. He has a difficult time explaining certain topics and ends up over complicating them. He said that the final review guide would be very similar too the final, but that did not help at all. Worst professor I have ever had.