Although she was a caring professor, her exam did not reflect the information in her lectures or activities. After listening to all of her lectures, finishing her posted activities, and the LC from the class, the exam was 10x harder. For such an easy unit, she created a monstrous exam. The exam curve was so high that people passed, but still unfair

The worst of the three. I studied for 3 weeks and got 100% on all smokin notes quizzes consistently and got a C on the exam. The exam did not represent what was taught and was horribly written. Avoid at all costs.

I really do not understand how the test was so hard compared to the content she lectured on. By far the worst out of the 3 profs I had for this course. Her exam was significantly harder than the rest.

BSC 2010 is separated into three sections, all taught by different professors. After just finishing our last section (evolution) with Longo, I believe she should not be teaching evolutin. She does not even come close to the other two professors, and we were tested on things that were never spoken about. She has a heavy accent, and bad grammar.

She sucks. Her lectures contain little information. Her sentences are grammatically incorrect which information hard to learn when you can't figure out what she is trying to say as this is unfamiliar information to students. She goes over stuff in lecture that are not even relevant to exams. Be prepared to be asked obscure & arbitrary information.

Other reviews are too harsh on her accent, which was not the issue. The issue was the questions that she elected to put on the exam, which represented a history course more than a biology course. Questions were worded poorly and overall super confusing. If the whole class does poorly, it is more reflective on the professor than the students.

never again

One of the worst professors that I have ever encountered. Study for three weeks? That doesn't matter on the exam. You will spend most of your time rereading the questions trying to decipher what it is saying than actually answering the questions. She clearly demonstrated a lack of care for her students and was extremely lazy.

The other two professors were by far better than Professor Longo. She failed to prepare us for the last exam and omitted most of the information that you would learn by reading the book, which means that most of the questions I would have not known even if I studied harder. The exam was confusing and poorly written. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND HER.

She was an OK lecturer, but her exam absolutely did not reflect what she taught. Even though the material was easy, the questions were confusing and did not fairly test our knowledge. If you are taking BSC2010, be very wary of her! Make sure you do well on the other profs' exams, as Longo's tests are very unfair. You have been warned!

There is a great disparity between Longos lecture and exam. She does not truly teach us how to apply the concepts as she expected us to on the exam. Some of the greatest mysteries of life include the existence of god, the meaning of life, and, of course, how one could prepare for Longos exam. The last mystery is the hardest to solve. Good luck...

Honestly, I enjoyed her lectures the most out of all of the professors from Spring 2021, but she provided so little preparation/guidance for the exam. The questions were incredibly random compared to the major aspects of evolution and was not a good representation of what we were taught (class average around a 65), even with help from Smokin' Notes

Loved the unit, leading to the exam I was confident on my knowledge of evolution... then I took the exam. The exam was not an assessment of knowledge but more of your ability to understand the question and look past the abundance of grammatical errors. Would never take her again and I am so glad to be done with Bio.

Dr. Longos exam was a nightmare. I studied and felt confident. The exam had weirdly worded questions with deep application expected. There was also a significant amount of history questions. Just weird. Do not recommend Dr. Longo if you have a choice.

Test is absolutely nothing like any lectures or homework. Avoid longo at all costs if you can

Here lectures were not bad (and her accent isnt bad or her fault either), she even included some memes, but her exams were nothing like her lectures. They were poorly written and very confusing. She is not teaching because she wants to, she is teaching because it funds her research... In other words, shes a researcher, not a professor.

This lady makes the weirdest evolution exam for bsc2010. I studied hard, did well on the other exams from the other two professors, and got a 60 on her exam. I think the class average was around there. Why not just make a fair exam? Especially when we're all learning online in a pandemic. The questions she writes are ridiculous.

Test not representative of the material, good luck studying for the exam!!!

Her lectures are about as worthless as she is, but she'll make sure that you go into the exam thinking you know something, and then flip the script. Your grade is basically only based on the exams and half her tests have nothing to do with her lectures. stay away.

Her test did not compare to the lectures she gave. I studied way harder for this test than the other two in hopes to get an A in this one but no. It didnt lower my grade too much only b/c of how I did on the other tests. When asked for practice tests, study guides etc, she said knowing the learning objectives were enough. Clearly not.

The evolution material was relatively straightforward. I dedicated time each week to reading the textbook, going over my notes, reviewing her lectures, and working to understand the material. Yet, it didn't matter because Dr. Longo's exam was IMPOSSIBLE and did not reflect much of what we learned. The questions were ridiculous and unfair.

I watched every lecture, took notes, went to basically every one of her office hours, even had smokin notes. Her exam was unrepresentative of what she taught, and she provides little resources to her students

Studied very hard for the final biology rxam and the test was not reflective of the material learned.

Dr. Longo's exam was by far the hardest out of all 3 professors. Do well on the first 2 exams and you will be fine. I got a C on her exam and very high A's on the prior 2 so I did end with an A, but her exam was very tough. The material was not hard, but the way the exam was written made the content harder than it actually was. Good luck!

Dr. Longo is a teacher who only puts in the minimal efforts. Asking her questions and help clearing up concepts is difficult, and she does not seem to enjoy supporting her students. The concepts are not terrible, but her level of commitment is lacking in helping her students understanding. Just make sure that you truly understand before taking exam

While the evolution material in itself is not difficult, this professor makes her exams impossible to study for, and impossible to understand the questions. She wants her students to study from the learning objectives, and makes her final exam a history test about Darwin's life. No matter how much you study, be prepared to not get a good grade.

I got high A's on the other two exams, but for this exam I did awful. I studied about 2x as much for this exam as the other two exams and was 100% confident with the material, but the test was NOT representative of the material. Even the people who studied for weeks didn't do too well. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

easiest material but provides no study guide or practice, then refuses to curve the exam

Despite exam 3 having the lowest average, Dr. Longo did not provide a curve. The exam had oddly specific questions many of which were worded poorly. In one of the class sections, the highest grade was a 93 and she said that "we got perfect scores" so there would be no curve. Avoid at all costs.

Despite exam 3 having the lowest average, Dr. Longo did not provide a curve. The exam had oddly specific questions many of which were worded poorly. In one of the class sections, the highest grade was a 93 and she said that "we got perfect scores" so there would be no curve. Avoid her at all costs.

She is not giving us a curve even though her exam was the lowest average out of the three (66.1). Her reasoning was that it was because people got perfect scores, but in one of her sections the highest was a 93 and she is not going to give them a curve either so her logic does not add up.

Lectures were okay but were not representative of her exam as evidenced by the average which was a D. She also did not provide any practice questions or study guide, and her exam was full of vague questions and grammatical errors. She is unwilling to compromise and provide any kind of curve, despite her exam average being the lowest of the three.

As far as day to day work goes this class isn't difficult. Compared to the other lectures in this class, hers were pretty good. However, her exam was extremely vague, and had ambiguous questions with multiple technically correct answers. I studied a lot, but the class average was a 60, and she refused to curve even tho its in the syllabus

She is not considerate of her students. She does not teach in her lectures, and even if you read the textbook and do the learning objectives it is hard. She pulls the exam questions out of her butt. The exam average was a 66 and she is not going to curve it. Not a good professor. Dont take her if youre going to take bio!

Terrible. Didnt curve the exam even though the syllabus said she would because she was pissed about all the bad reviews on ratemyprofessor. She shouldnt be teaching at UF. Im convinced she wrote the positive reviews herself. Would give 0/5 stars if I could.

horrible teacher, she said she would curve exam 3 and then she didnt. The average was a 64 (that says something about her teaching). She gave no review material/study guide for the exam and her exam questions were extremely specific and some of the things we didnt even go over in lecture.

Her lectures are terribly boring, and the exam is unreasonably specific to minor points mentioned in passing. She is very unhelpful and so are her slides. She provided no study material other than a brief video (which just said to rewatch the lectures), so there was no way to prepare for her question types other than outside resources.

Avoid Dr. Longo at all costs. She clearly does NOT have her students' best interest at heart and does not care about teaching material.

Final exam was worded terribly. The questions were very wordy and hard to read. We were also given about 50 minutes for 30 questions, which is typically a good amount of time, however 30 questions with about 100 words each can be a bit daunting to look at on a final. Teacher did not curve the exam, even though she said she would about 30 min before

Very disappointed in this professor. Unfair treatment and lack of empathy. I would not recommend having a class with her for anyone. How are you not going to give a curve to the last exam when the average was a D?!

Dr. Longo is not compassionate for her students who recently were forced to endure a 15 week semester with no break during a global pandemic. Her exam was not reflective of the material emphasized during the lectures and the average was below a 65% with no curve.

In all of BSC2010, Dr Longo was the hardest professor. She graded harshly with little feedback and never offered extra credit unless required by administration. Her exam was poorly worded and there was no curve. She is very clearly a researcher who teaches solely for funding.

fast paced, goes through a lot of information in a single lecture and has learning catalytic questions in between so it is very important to pay attention the whole time,

Dr. Longo can't teach. The only contribution she made was reading off slides. Posted an exam review a day before the exam. When students asked questions on the review day about a topic she just said to go back to the slides that were already confusing enough. Too much information, and not enough explanation. Was vague about the exam content.

Awful lecturer, would go through around 60 slides a lecture and spoke so fast it was extremely difficult to take notes. Her exam wasn't awful but definitely had questions that were oddly specific. Gave us a bonus question on the exam she promised would be super easy so many people got it wrong that she had to give the points to everyone.

I had her for the second segment of BSC 2011. Her lectures made me feel like I was listening to a med school physiology lecture - way too much information for an introductory biology class!!! Studying for this exam was a pain, but doable if you're willing to memorize nearly everything on the slides.

Dr Longo taught us more information than required. It was beyond what was in the textbook. When it came to the exam, she used the things she emphasized against us to trick us with very subtle differences in the wording which is hard to discern when she emphasized a topic specifically. Do not take it with her.

If you want a decent exam grade use Smoking Notes, the amount of info each lecture went through was far too much and the exam itself asked tricky questions just to mess with you. Also unlike other semesters where there was a plentiful curve, there was no curve even after the professor herself said not to ask her because there will be one. AVOID!

There was no curve and everyone did horribly. Smokin notes was very helpful but not enough to do well on the exam. Worked so hard over spring break because this exam was the tuesday right after and did not do well. Wasted my time, money, and energy for no reason.

Did not give a curve when the exam was insanely specific and class did not do well. She lacks compassion for her students and was not interested in how they did.

She is your average professor when it comes to lecturing. Many of the questions on the exams were worded poorly and she tries to trick you. I would not recommend.

Her lectures were hard to follow through and the slides were poorly organized. She's a tough grader, does not have a curve and overall was the worst professor of the three professors for this course. Beware of taking her exam, you really want to do well.