Nothing from her notes is on the exam. Her tests are IMPOSSIBLE she makes you print out pages upon pages of pointless powerpoints that like I said ARE NOT ON THE TEST. And NEVER shows up for class. Has not attended ONE test yet. Yet she has the nerve to be strict on attendance. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

she just tells you to know everything and if you are not good at bio you are going to be struggling in this class also make sure that you dont have any classes that are hard because then you wont have enough time to prepare for her class also you have to print out all the power points because you will need them.

she is the worst teacher to have i told other bio teachers and they even said that they wish they had room in there class for me because unless you know everything about bio you are going to fail

i asked her for help and all she will do is say you need to study more and bio is only class i do study forand i have all a's in the rest of my classes and i am almost failing hers if have a choice do not take her also she doesnt care if you have anything medical problems if your not there you dont get to do assignment unless you go to dean of dept

If you are signed up to take a class with her...DROP NOW! Her class was by far the hardest one I've ever taken. I went into her office several times for extra help, and she always replied by telling me to study more or do more of the Learnsmart activities, which is what I was already doing. Terrible teacher. I wouldn't recommend her to anyone.

This instructor works far too fast and expects students to keep up without asking questions. At the beginning of the semester, she said she wasn't going to wait on slides for students to take notes. Isn't the point of class to take notes and ask questions? I'd rather just watch a video lecture...I could at least pause to research complex topics.

WORST TEACHER EVER

WORST CLASS EVER. barely goes over material. tells you to learn it on your own. Always says to just practice on learn smart. If you want to hate biology take this class. Any science actually. this class will make you hate science forever. Will always say she gives so many hints to whats on the test and they are completely different than study guide

Nothing on study guide is on test

She's a nice person but she's an awful teacher. Her tests cover things that she hardly touched on in class. As for the quizzes we take them online before we cover the material online.. the reason for this "so you know what you don't know". She grades nothing herself all done on connect. Do yourself a favor and don't take her classes.

Hardest class so far at ICC. Not very nice, literally told me to drop the class because of my grade. Was just a few points off from passing and wouldn't round it up, I'm talking .2 points people so now I have to retake the class. Tests are super hard no matter how much you study, lots of homework, and study guides don't help.

Incredibly tough grader and as everything is fill in the blank good luck guessing what she is looking for specifically. You may have one of the 5-6 terms used for a subject but if you chose the wrong one you are in trouble. Most quizzes are 10 questions one wrong answer puts you at a 90, miss 3 well now you have a 70. Not enough chances.

You will either fail or withdraw. By far the hardest class I have taken in my life. Her tests are extremely difficult and her lectures are long and hard to understand.

I was an "A" student in every single science class I took in high school. This was science class where I not only did poorly, but I felt stupid. Nothing that is taught in lecture is on the study guides/exams. All your homework is online, but doesn't really help to bring your grade up. She just sucks as a professor so avoid taking her class.

Canceled class a lot, didnt remind you of when things were due, and also the tests had nothing to do with what she taught or gave us a study guide over. It was absolutely awful class

I didn't have her directly but she was the one running the lab curriculum and she makes it so much harder than it needs to be. So many directions its insane, so many videos or papers to read that its unbearable and I don't think she realizes we have other classes and a life as well.. Always been an A student so believe me I tried in this class.

This is by far the worst teacher I have ever experienced at ICC. DOES NOT HELP YOU AT ALL! BEWARE! She does not care about your outside life or other classes. She expects memorization over way too many concepts. Took an online course that had 9hrs of videos a week(6hrs more than in-class.) TESTS ARE EXTREMELY HARD! STUDY GUIDES DO NOT HELP YOU!

Homework work 3-10 points, tests worth 100+. study guides are NOTHING like the tests. did better on tests i DIDNT study for rather than ones i did. time consuming and busy work that is worth close to nothing with little to no help. PLEASE look into other professors.

I had her for 205 and was scheduled to have 3 mandatory zoom meeting a week,we ended up having maybe 8 the entire SEMESTER. She has no interest in helping you, says look at your textbook when asked for help. Its your fault youre failing tests not hers, even though youre left to teach the placement level class to yourself. Find another teacher!

Her study guides sucked and didn't help me prepare for the test at all. Lecture videos are very long and it is hard to retain all of the information and if you don't stay 100% focused at all times. This class sucks.

One student to another, please don't take this class. I have never felt so frustrated in my life. If you are taking this class online the lecture videos are long and she grades like she wants to fail people. She marks you down if the paper covers any part of your face. She does not care on bit about her students. RUN THE OTHER WAY.

I am an A student thus far. This class was not passable to me. I was a little shocked to see what a tough grader she is. she expects you to memorize the material and be able to write it verbatim. she wants you to calculate your own grade. when i asked for help her responses were unhelpful and she clearly didn't care if i passed.

As a sophomore in college who has been able to maintain a 4.0, I would NOT recommend this professor! She was awful at showing up to her own scheduled zoom. The tests are NOT what is studied- so be prepared to know everything in the chapter. As well as does not supply enough material to do 'well' on her exam- 10/20 students had to drop the course.

This teacher was absolutely ridiculous. She demands way too much. She doesn't care if you work full time and carry on other classes or not. Makes unreasonable times to be able to meet for zooms when you are trying to take night classes for a reason. Unfortunately I will have to take this course again but I hope I never have her as a teacher again.

She, really loves what she does to the extent , I personally feels like she wants us to MAJOR in this class vs a prerequisite. I have taken this class with another professor and honestly she has questions my other professor did not cover or test over . She makes her own test vs a test bank which make it 100xs harder. The only plus is her powerpoint

Be very aware of the ridiculous expectations she has. She needs to be realistic about the fact that this is a pre rec class at a community college. She knows shes teaching people with kids, full time jobs, etc. If this was a masters level class then sure. the average ICC student does not have 20 hours a week to spend on ONE CLASS. avoid at all cost

She is the worst teacher I have ever had. I am typically an a student but when I dropped this class I had an f. She is not helpful at all and when you ask questions she will just tell you to read the textbook. She is extremely stuck up and I feel like she doesnt want you to succeed because she doesnt help! TAKE WITH ANOTHER PROFESSOR!!!!

RUN!!!! I didn't listen to the reviews I read about her. I love Biology but almost had to change my major. She is incredibly difficult. Her exams are insanely hard and often include obscure knowledge. For an intro class the workload is absolutely insane. She is very smiley but very mean, and offers very little help when you need it. DON'T TAKE HER!

only graded on quizzes and will not shut up

I took 6 six classes aka 18 credit hours before last semester and received a 4.0 GPA for that semester and have only received one B at ICC. This class is by far the most difficult class at ICC without any question. She expects a completely unreasonable amount of time for an ICC class, and her lectures don't help bc you have to do most on your own.

TONS of lectures, quizzes, readings, and modules. I am an A student and worried about not passing this class. Study guides for each unit are provided, but filling them out is almost useless. The tests are EXTREMELY hard and don't relate to study guides. Reading assignments (1-3 per week) take 1 or more hour(s) are only worth 1 point.

Too much exams with too much to learn. We had 5 exams+a comprehensive final, so we had every two weeks an exam in the last month. The tests were way too long, 40 multiple choice and 35 "short" answer, sometimes even a paragraph and all that in one hour. She has some rules that don't make sense and you feel like in 4th grade. She is too arrogant!!!!

I would not recommend taking this online lecture. Content was not very well taught, she would post all the content (which was very heavy), and you were left to learn it yourself. Many assignments that had no point, they were 50+ questions worth 1 point for the whole assignment. The online exams were very heavy as well. Def recommend Prof. Oliver!!

Professor Elizabeth Mays is the worst professor. Do not take her class if you want to pass! She gives test that are not lectured on and studying does not help you for what is on the tests. She is unbelievable.

I read the reviews on this site and I thought people were being dramatic so I decided to take her class anyway... I was wrong. I ended up dropping in week two for the refund. She talked to her class as if we were children. Nothing she lectured on was on our first test. Don't take this professor.. I am a straight A student and I dropped in week 2.

This professor was such an awful teacher. She used food and her kids with the Bio topic. She gave lots of homework, lecture preps took from 45 minutes-an hour and a half. The study guides were no help. I had to drop the class. I thought I could study another way and still pass, I was wrong. I do NOT recommend taking this class with this professor!

DEFINITELY stay away from this professor if you need to pass a bio class. I tried taking this online (I'm great with online classes) but need to drop it soon for my grades/GPA. She is truly unbelievable. She treats you like a child, is VERY fake, & does nothing to help her students pass her class. Elizabeth needs to remember she teaches at a JC.

By far the worst "professor" I've ever had in my life. I could honestly write a ten page paper on why you should never take a class with her. Mays is very disrespectful, rude, and I believe she's the same kind of person outside of teaching, just horrible.

Very few questions on the study guide were on her exams, assignments would take 50min- an hour. It was very hard to understand the material and she recommends studying every single day to pass the class. Even when I did study, the material on the exams would be worded completely different.

Our class average for grades the entire semester didn't make it out of the low 60s. Personally, I have always been a great test-taker but with how things were worded in these exams and the disconnect between what we discussed and what was tested I could not do well. HOURS of work went into that B. I understood the material the tests are just awful.

DON'T TAKE HER CLASS!! She grades solely off of 100 point exams. Homework is 2 hours long but only worth 1 point. She admitted to wording the exams differently than what you study for because she doesn't like students memorizing the material. When you need help her response is to "study more" or "check the syllabus". Majority of class is failing.

DO NOT TAKE ANY OF HER CLASSES! I had to take this class TWICE cause I failed the first time. She treats her students as if we can devote 100% of our time to her class plus exams are not based off the lectures and are 60% of your grade. And it's the students fault if the WHOLE class got bad grades. I wouldn't wish her on my worst enemy. DON'T DO IT

Would never take a class with this professor again. I'm usually an A student who knows how to study for tough exams but I barely scraped by with a C. Her lectures were long and wordy going off on tangents and stories about unimportant details. Nothing was clear and basically requires hours of work each day and completely teaching yourself.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!! I bet she is a nice lady outside of this class however… she is very difficult. We are expected to know all this information in such a little time period while also juggling other classes on top of our outside life. If you take this class I recommend you only take this class and this class only for a semester.

As many of the other reviews say, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH THIS INSTRUCTOR IF YOU ARE A BUSY PERSON. There is no chance for error in this class, the lectures are just her reading notes from a powerpoint and talking about anecdotes in her life, while that may work for some, it did not work for me.

She grades solely on the tests and quizzes, homework is only usually worth 1-5 pts and take two hours to complete. She expects you to reteach yourself the materials that were "lectured", because the quizzes/tests never match the study guides. The study guides she provides is all on a google sheet, and it is just what chapters to read in the book.

She was super harsh and told us most of us would fail and refused to do extra credit... I was so stressed and overwhelmed i ended up in thee ER due to her class. dropped it right after that cause i cared more about myself than i did the class.