Dr Camarillo is the worst professor I've ever had at Purdue. Despite his passion and knowledge for the subject (and friendliness) his lectures were dry and included an overwhelming amount of material that was not in the exam. Our final exam seating was posted 10 minutes before the exam was meant to start. Very disorganized

Worst professor Ive ever had. His lectures are monotonous and impossible to focus on. Attendance is not mandatory but there are weekly quizzes on Friday. Class is super disorganized and poorly structured. The lecture slides are boring and next to useless. If you dont have to, dont take the class, if you do, buy the book and read everything.

He's overall very unorganized. We didn't cover about 15-20% of the material we were supposed to cover in the class. He did not stick to the syllabus in the slightest. His lectures were extremely boring bc you couldn't really takes notes. He would often just put a diagram on the screen and barely explain it. Dont take this class unless its required.

He doesn't care. He's just going with the flow

Dr. Camarillo I'm sure is a great guy. His class is the most disorganized class I have ever taken and a very high majority of my peers have and continue to have issues. We collectively have reached out to him and the TA's and nobody is helpful or willing to accommodate students in order to help them succeed. The tests and quizzes are ridiculous.

This course was rough. The BIOL131 team told us they are trying to make the course "adaptive" since last semester was online, but it was just hard. If you can't go beyond what they teach you in lecture and expand upon it yourself, you will struggle. HWs have a different grading criteria every time, it is impossible to get 100% on every homework.

Where to start.. this class was a mess. Camarillo does not write the homework's or the tests and he seems pretty oblivious to what is going on in the class. His lectures are sub par and honestly painful to watch. the TA's control everything and they are undergraduates. Be prepared for tests filled with errors and no curves. Good luck :).

This was probably the most difficult class I have taken so far. This class is an absolute mess and the teaching staff was unwilling to work with students in order to help make it more bearable. The homework is graded on correctness for some reason and did not help boost most people's grade (as homework is normally intended). Pray for a curve.

Worst professor I have had so far, shows up late to class and lecture slides are poorly put together. The quizzes and exams are also often full of errors on grammar and content.

This entire course has me completely reconsider whether I should be continuing bio at Purdue. Completely useless lectures, cannot answer students questions, cancels classes while students are in the room, unable to review past quizzes and tests, unorganized class, worst class I've ever taken, hw not graded correctly and cannot find answers.

Worst class I have ever taken in my life. so badly organized. Every single exam had multiple typos. questions and MCQ's wouldn't match, question repeats, bad grammar. Its evident nothing was proofread. lecture slides were only pictures. class got cancelled 70% of the semester. The class average was a low C and they didn't curve the class. awful

horrible class. worst i've every taken at purdue. Most premed students in this class are rethinking their futures. Will look terrible on your transcript. Not because its difficult- it is the technical issues (poor grading, cancelled class, typos) that have made the class average a C- They also couldn't care less.

just don't take this class and live a happy life. lectures cure insomnia, and recorded lectures average to well over an hour long per video

This class unfortunately is much more poorly set up than that of bio121. The lectures are hard to follow, very boring, and almost useless. The textbook is not regularly encouraged, but can be a cheat code to the course. Camarillo cares about his students well-being, but not necessarily about their grade.

I personally do not feel as though Ignacio is a terrible person, however his teaching style and the way he formats his lectures are not helpful for exams or homework. Every exam has had typos, the low grade point average in the course is not a cause of concern, and he seems to refuse to respond to emails in a timely fashion.

really disorganized. undergraduate TA,s do all thr work and he has no idea what's going on. No one stays in class past the first 10 minutes of quiz. Exams have the type of typos that a single proof read could fix. Nightmare class

This man's weekly quizzes and his exams both had averages in the 60%. Which he decided was a 'good grade to have'. Every head injury I got from high school sports can't even begin to compare to the brain damage I got from slamming my forehead through my desk trying to understand this class.

This is truly the worst class I have ever taken. The class is insanely disorganized and ridiculously unfair. The same complains have been made since 2019 and yet there has been no change in the way the professor teaches. The only good rating are from when the class was online due to COVID. Attendance is mandatory for in person online quizzes.

This is the most unorganized class I have ever taken. The material itself isn't hard, but this class definitely needs to be run better. Bad exams with many errors (some of which aren't corrected) and homework that really overreaches the scope of what's taught in class make it incredibly frustrating. Not to mention the random lecture cancellations.

This class was an absolute nightmare. You are told not to use the quizzes or homework to help you study. There is such an overflow of material and a lack of organization making you feel like you have to teach yourself everything. Along with this, you never know how tough the quizzes will be. The slides also change from being useful to just diagrams

Class is ridiculously difficult for no reason. I got A's on exams, but I barely managed to keep a B- average for his quizzes. Quizzes are weirdly specific and lecture heavy. Everyone doesn't like the class and aren't doing well. Anytime students express concern the professor brushes it off because "some people are doing better than they predicted."

If you are not required to take this class, don't. The content that is taught isn't all that will be on the exams. Exams and quizzes tend to have numerous errors each time. Many people in the class have brought their concerns just to not be listened to. There is no curve despite majority of the class failing/being close to failing.

Professor is not organized at all and doesn't care what his students have to say. Graded so harshly it doesn't make sense. Exams have errors on their end which is not fixed or given points back. Attendance is mandatory for Friday quizzes, even if youre sick or bedridden. I reached out with concerns and was told to suck it up or drop the class.

By far the worst class I have taken in my entire college career. The content could be incredibly interesting and well-understood if a competent professor was teaching the course, but unfortunately that wasn't the case here. Exams and quizzes lacked organization, extremely strict grade thresholds didn't help either. Students were always stressed.

The most unorganized class I've ever taken. When I had a question about an exam question and asked a TA they didn't even know what was going on. Quizzes are weirdly specific and homework is graded harshly with no helpful feedback. Class would be randomly cancelled at times and they completely ignored the concerns of everyone taking the class.

He literally told us they changed the class because too many people thought it was easy. The content wasn't harder, but they made it harder to get an A because of the complete lack of organization. I started doing better in class when I stopped attending lectures. They completely ignored our concerns and made us feel stupid for having questions.

This class was a mess. Prof. Camarillo is a nice guy, but he is the most inarticulate person I've ever listened to speak. The TAs were worthless, most of the class didn't even go to lectures they were so bad. The exams are relatively easy, its not hard to get an A in this class, but I wish it was taught better.

Quiz and test questions are not based on the lectures, and almost feel like trick questions with the goal of you failing. The course is organized extremely poorly and they are constantly making grading mistakes. They even messed up the printing on one of the exams and we only got half the questions. They did not give a makeup exam or a curve.

Horrid class. The TAs could not answer questions, answers on the practice exams were wrong, and homework was graded harshly. There was an instance where I got a homework question right, but I got 2 points taken off because it was not in a format the grader liked. Don't take this class if you don't have to.

I cannot believe this professor is still teaching at this university. Many answers on his past exams and even on slides is blatantly incorrect information and the professor is incompetent in effectively communicating ideas, what information is the most important, and in answering questions.

There is a reason he is already in hot water with the university. While he has an amicable and docile personality, he is extremely poor in communicating, is known to ignore emails, only has zoom office hours which inhibits the flow of discussion at any other professor's office hours and highlighting how little he cares about students' success.

This course will make you rethink your decision of majoring in the life sciences. This course is required for Biology and many other majors. Camarillo has a unique way of lecturing where he can talk in .5x speed so it actually is more time efficient to watch his lectures on 2x speed online instead of going to class. Tough it out

Camarillo is a funny little guy. Unfortunately, bad dad jokes only get you so far in life. He will not answer your emails; TA's are unknowledgeable. Why take melatonin when you could listen to his lectures. Even in 2x speed this man somehow talks in .5x. Homework's are worth too much of your grade and even then, he refuses to give 100% credit.

A very very unorganized class

The worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Doesn't care about the student, shows up late, reads off the slides with no extra information provided. There is no extra instruction from the professor and he is very hard to reach outside of class. IF YOU CAN AVOID IT, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS.

There are quizzes every week, and the quizzes and midterms are all based on obscure information found in the lecture. He tends to ramble a lot during class. Grades are very slow to be put in, one HW assignment was put into the grade book the day of the final exam.

Very nice, but the worst professor I've had in my time in undergrad. His slides have little to no words and lecture consists of him stumbling over his words trying to explain them. He literally has to supply supplemental resources to go over the basic topics covered in class because he can't properly explain them himself. Avoid if you can.

SO BAD!!!!! He rambles and jokes through lectures then tests on the most minor of details. Not accessible outside of class. Do not take this professor if you don't have to.

Dr. Camarillo is nice, but the class is very unorganized with slow lectures where he mostly reads off the slides. Syllabus is often inaccurate and course policy is vague. Homework + quizzes are given every week with unnecessarily picky grading on homework. Tests are fairly straightforward using the study guide. Avoid this class if you can

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A very very disorganized class and TA's could not answer simple questions about the course and they weren't even sure about the total grade in class

taking this class made me genuinely question if I should switch majors. if you have the choice DO NOT TAKE!!! you're better off not going to lectures in person and watching recordings in 2.5x speed.

The class was completely disorganized, the worst part of the class was the TAs themselves. They weren't always prepared for content questions or syllabus questions apparently. Also whoever wrote the exams/hws ALWAYS made typos, it was infuriating. I did think the content was pretty straight forward if you studied all details of the lecture slides.

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only had a few classes with him and whilst he's super sweet, HE RAMBLES SO MUCH and goes off topic very easily. He'll start reading something off the slide then just go on a tangent and no one has any clue what he's saying. avoid him if possible

Doesn't know his content before class and just reads off of the lecture slides. He emphasizes that the study guide is going to have everything on the exam, and then expects you to know things he never went over. Every practice exam has at least one question that is wrong on them and he doesn't bother fixing it.

Dr. Camarillo is an awful lecturer. He reads directly off the slides adds big words to make it sound like he knows the material, but he really doesn't. He is extremely unorganized. We went from Chapter 7 to 6 to 34 to 35 and now are on 42. His lectures are all over the place and he does not help if you are struggling.

Do not go to class. Lectures are disorganized and you are better off memorizing the slides at home.

He mumbles during lectures and reads off the slides. Going to his lectures is so useless because you will genuinely fall asleep. Better off reading the slides on your own. Grades the tests super slow. The Chemistry exam that is HANDWRITTEN is graded faster than the scantron BIO131 exam... WHAT COULD HE POSSIBLY BE DOING?????

AWFUL. He's so unorganized and reads off of slides, scantron midterms are graded slower than handwritten ones for CHM. Midterm seating charts are sent out from 12-30 minutes before the exams, and he moved a quiz up to Wednesday so we could take Friday off for spring break, then rescheduled the lecture on that Friday an hour before it started.

Worst professor and course at Purdue. He didn't even know what he was saying during lecture (which btw don't bother to show up, you'll end up failing either way). TA's tho the worst part of this class since they created the quizzes and exams which never related back to lecture and were unreasonably difficult. AVOID THIS CLASS IF AT ALL POSSIBLE

wow...just wow. camarillo's lectures are incoherent mumble-fests if he's even there. slides are filled with so much information and a lotta diagrams, and you never know what you'll need to know for the exams. he throws in so much extra/unneeded info that note taking is really annoying.

Decent seeming guy, but awful at conveying the information in the course. Reads everything off the slides and comes off as not knowledgeable about the material.

Lectures were terrible and frankly embarrasing. The slides were worse after each exam. I essentially memorized everything since he didn't teach a single thing. Makes a biology degree from Purdue worthless. If I were an employer, I would never hire a bio student from Purdue.

Terrible class, and terrible prof. Lies about what's on he exams, gives us study guides that literally aren't accurate, and the most boring class of all time. Bad lecturer, unaccommodating, all in all arguably worst professor I've had this year.

Dr. Camarillo loves Hump Day and that's just about the only good thing about his class. The course claims to be dependent on the study guides but that is not true for exams. The course is so sloppily organized that you better have a group of friends to help each other through the class with the poorly written slides. Friday has the masses leaving.

I had to remind myself that Dr. C has earned a PhD. Does not explain concepts well, wastes 5 mins on his computer each class looking for the ppt, exam questions are sometimes incorrect and removed from the exam after we take it. TAs post scores late and are always confused. At least he tries hard to be funny in class, but it never made me laugh.

This course made me change my major from bio to engineering because I hated it so bad. This was the first B I received since elementary school cuz of my sheer lack of motivation to listen to dr C/TAs, but the work is manageable. Memorize all the terms/outcomes of processes w/o understanding the meaning behind any of it, you will do just fine.

I was NOT ready to rumble.

Course is incredibly disorganized. Tests, practice exams, and quizzes are riddled with mistakes. Often reads off of his slides, does not give the impression he knows the content well enough. Slides get progressively worse. Exam seating has come out as late as 10 minutes before the exam.

The lectures are boring because he rambles for ages, the slides are awful, and the tests are riddled with typos. The textbook will be your best friend in this class, because it is the only thing that makes the material make any sense. Also, make sure to save up for a new computer just in case you send your cranium through the first one.

I cannot with this guy.don't go to class if you don't have to bc this guy is a snoozefest and can't teach to save his life.everyone leaves 2 seconds after turning in the weekly quiz.i don't even know how they take so long to score exams and quizzes?they're on scantrons its not that hard? he reads off the slides which are terrible actual insanity

Some people simply do not have the spark for teaching. Lectures are monotone as he reads and rambles off the slides. The class was also extremely disorganized. Seating charts went out the morning of the exam (in some cases 15 minutes before). Luckily the concepts taught are simple so it isn't hard to teach yourself.

Somehow manages to take easy concepts and makes them impossible. Worst experience I've ever had being a student by a landslide. Doesn't annouce when he's absent 30 minutes after class has started. Lectures are a waste of time and you're way better off learning it on your own time. This is what shows up when you search worthless in a dictionary.

This guy is the worst professor I have ever had or will probably ever have. He takes like 4 seconds to explain things that are important and "will be on the exam", but takes 30 minutes to explain things that are irrelevant and just filler information. It sucks that he's the only professor for this class so you're stuck with him no matter what.

I went to almost every lecture and stayed for the whole time. The material would have been better if he would have been more enthusiastic about what's he's teaching instead of hump day. The TAs never came to class but made the exams and a lot of the questions were just flat wrong. Do not take this class unless you have to. Horrible teacher!!

The most disorganized class I have ever taken. Camarillo has no passion and just reads off slides. There is no point in going to lecture because he rambles about useless stuff for most of it and glosses over what the exams actually ask about for maybe 5 minutes. There are too many TAs for this class to post the seating chart minutes before an exam.

If you ever need to learn why good public speaking is so important, take this class. Lectures are unclear, and he goes on tangents so you don't know what is important. TAs seem lost in review sessions, and might give wrong information. Beware practice exam errors. Every bio student needs to take this class, so buckle up and GET READY TO RUMBLE!

Terrible lecturer, slides were awful and barely explained the topics. Difficult exams, and way too picky on the HW grading. Fight for your points. Unfortunately this class is required, and I don't think anyone else teaches it.

I didn't go to lectures and instead taught myself everything. His lectures are incredibly boring and while the content itself could be interesting, the way he teaches it is not. Before every exam, he spent time trying to get us to chant "let's get ready to rumble." I have never wanted to rumble just give me the exam. The TA's are useless as well.

He tells you to just study the content on study guides and you will do great on the exams, but then half of the exam isn't from the guide. One exam took a month to get graded (a scantron exam), and you have to request a regrade on homework often because the TA's can't grade. Exam seating comes out way too late and got messed up during the final. :(

No plus grades or curves, but some extra credit they begrudgingly offered. TAs are unfriendly and create bad practice problems with ChatGPT that didn't have any correct answer choices. My least favorite course I have ever taken purely because of the bland lectures, TAs, and instructor. Nice enough guy but awful as a lecturer.

This guy...... He mumbles, stumbles, and fumbles through every lecture. His study guides. Are full of deceit and lies. His explanations. Deserve damnation. We miss Minchella. We don't like this fella. He's not funny. He thinks he's punny. He talks about breasts. I just want to rest.

Dr. Camarillo is a nice guy, but his lectures aren't very helpful. I really disliked the grading system as I ended up with an 89.5, which counts as a B (not even a B+). He gave us extra credit which was nice, but I don't think it's fair to assign the same grade to people who averaged 90s on exams to people who averaged 75s.

He teaches very slowly and the concepts are not explained thoroughly. The TAs are very underprepared. The lectures are a waste of time, the homework is graded harshly and the homework can tank your grade. There was extra credit but it was harshly graded and not worth a lot. The study guides just have wrong answers and there is no curve to the class

Camarillo is funny and a sweet guy but the lectures feel like a waste of time. Also: - Exam grading takes eons (scantron??) - Unprepared TAs - Weekly homework graded harshly - Entire class just feels disorganized On the bright side, the exams and quizzes aren't too hard if you watch the lectures online or read. The study guide is very clear.

Genuinely so bad. One of the worst professors. Super nice guy but actually cannot with this class.

This professor might have been the absolute worst teacher I've ever had in my entire career as a student. He was extremely monotone and had 0 passion for this class. He showed complex diagrams and failed to explain them, and would provide a summary slide but would instantly click away. I've also never had to wait so long for a test grade to return

Actually so bad can't believe he has a job... Get ready to RUMBLE your way to a failing grade with no fault of your own. Worked hours upon hours to receive a B in this class and was forced to take a dip in others. I went to every lecture even when I came down with the flu in order to pass this class only to find myself teaching him basic technology

Worst professor I've had so far by a long shot.