Going to class was completely pointless except to take the daily quizzes with the i-clicker. You learn more by just reading the pp slides and the book on your own. His famous words "we'll go more into that later" and he never does. The only advise I have is to read the chapters for the tests over and over and know every single detail!

Jumbles his sentences together. If it wasn't for reading the slide after, I wouldn't know what he had said, he reads straight from his slides. Tests were tricky and the final was joke. His grad students even thought the final was tough!

HORRIBLE PROFESSOR. Based exams only on lecture material and what he voices in lecture. Textbook material is helpful but often times the material in the book doesnt even help with what he mentions in lectures. TAPE RECORDING heavily recommended. NOT helpful at office hours, he is stubborn. If u want a bad grade take this class.

Before this class, I was a 4.0 microbiology major. His lectures are ridiculous, and he goes through 100 slides in ten minutes. There is no retention, there is no teaching style. When more than half of your class is failing, maybe the students aren't the root of the problem. Attend for the clicker questions, they really will buffer your grade.

Seriously one of the worst professors I have had. His lectures are PAINFULLY boring and I had originally been excited to take this course as my major is micro and molecular biology. Some of his test questions honestly appear to develop out of thin air. He expects a deep understanding even though he doesn't provide the resources for this. Youtube!

This class was so tough and Singer was very unfair. Exams were random and tested on the smallest details. Never posted class averages, cause he knew everyone did bad. Recitation quizzes too hard & did not test on problem set problems. Grading was inconsistent between TAs on these quizzes. wORSE class avoid him if possible! it will bring gpa down!!

Singer has to be the worst professor I've ever had. He is very condescending and hostile during office hours. Students would ask him questions during class and he would say something like"I already went over that and I'm repeating myself". He hurries through his lectures so he can cram more information onto his already impossible exams. STAY AWAY

The only two people in our class that got A's on the exams were the two students that were retaking his class since they failed it the first time around. People in my class came in with 4.0 GPAs and they said they were going to be happy if they left his class with a C. We started with 110 students in the class and after exam 2 only 75 were left.

During an office hours visit with Dr. Singer he stated that if he were still an adjunct professor he would care about how many students got good grades on his exams because he could get promoted, but since he is now tenured it doesn't matter because he can't get promoted and can teach the class his way and at the level he wants.

This class is ridiculously hard. You could spend about 20 hours a week studying yet still fall between D's and C's

Dr. Singer is obviously intelligent, and has a remarkable understanding of the material that he teaches. However he does spend quite a bit of time talking about the famous scientists that he has met, and their accomplishments (as if it makes him more qualified than he already is). He tests on the minutia of each section so read thoroughly & often.

I think Dr thinks everyone wants to go to grad school and become molecular biologists and its his mission to personally weed people out. He said if people are having trouble with his class maybe they picked the wrong major. His class is that hard and he is proud of the fact that his exams are nearly impossible. Get ready to drop your other classes

He expects you to have taken Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry before Molecular Biology even though they are not prerequisites. Get ready to comb the textbook book with a fine toothed comb, read like 70 academic journals, attend lectures, and still have no idea what hes asking on his exams. I would not recommend him to anyone.

He tests and quizzes on things not covered in class and most of all an EXTREMELY TOUGH GRADER. He builds his tests to be extremely tricky and hard. Hes proud of the fact that his tests are guess proof and process of elimination proof.

He expects you to have a graduate school level understanding of EVERY process. You know the little footnotes at the bottom of the textbook that are size 2 font? Well, he will pull questions from those and expect you to know things you can't possible know. He doesn't hit on any key points in lecture; he just powers through 100 slides each class.

He blows past the slides so quickly there's no time to write or process what he just said. Frequently goes past the classes allotted time to cram more material in for quizes and tests. Quizes on things he never really go over. Is very vague about what we need to know for exams. It feels like he doesn't really care about teaching or being fair.

Dont take Molecular Biology with him unless youre absolutely passionate about it. His exams go beyond whats presented in lecture and the textbook. He seemingly expects a graduate level understanding of the contentmemorizing the basic concepts will not be enough. If you do take his class, record audio/video, despite him saying not to.

The class is tough. The material is doable, as long as you read the book before lecture (highly recommend!) and print out the lecture or have your laptop out in class. Recording his lecture was basically what got me through his class, considering he speaks a mile a minute! Do not miss a clicker question, they will save your grade in the end!

Virtual class-online worst cause barely lectures, expects you to read and know stuff ahead, gives you problem sets during class and 1-3 quizzes every class on each topic. Know everything before he teaches it cause he doesn't cover everything he expects us to know. Be prepared to devote lots of time and self-learning. Doesn't explain lecture well.

Worst professor ever. If you ask questions he wont even answer you, hell just tell you to read the book. Questions on midterms have more than one plausible answer.

While he gives plenty of opportunity to meet outside of class, and I see that he is genuinely passionate about the subject matter, his online format is simply subpar. During his lectures, he runs through the material at a lightning speed, and when he answers questions they are so convoluted that its hard to decipher what he's actually saying.

By FAR one of the worst professors I've ever had. Does not teach or direct student learning whatsoever. Gives no guidance, hates answering questions, does not lecture. You are expected to memorize the textbook and then he'll still throw new things at you on quizzes and tests just to see if you can guess right. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

Stay away! He lectures for 15 minutes then split people into groups to answer questions. After 20 minutes you have a quiz on the material. Typically 2 quizzes a day. His midterms are incredibly dense. He expects you to now every detail of the book without really lecturing on it. You are basically teaching your self with little to no feedback.

LISTEN UP! I'm taking BI-334 right now. The class is set up so that you learn on your own through a required book, and he only answers questions during lecture. He does not make it clear what you need to know from the book, so you are left to learn everything from a thousand paged book. The content isn't hard, the structure and the book are awful.

Problem sets have questions that he does not lecture on and are not on the slides. Does not specify what to read in the book and you are left to teach yourself with no feedback. Intimidating and discouraging learning experience. Expects you to be a genius and learn every detail on your own.

Class required for my major. 100% would not recommend if you can avoid him

Absolutely terrible professor that I wouldn't recommend to anyone. You are expected to basically teach yourself with the class's expensive giant textbook. His lectures don't cover much of anything that you get quizzed or tested on and he really is not much help at all in getting a better understanding of the material.

Awful. You will teach yourself everything. The lecture is spent doing a group worksheet and a pop quiz both worth a lot of your grade. He won't teach you anything, the class setup is unorganized and the textbook is expensive. Expect 10 emails before the semester even starts, and read 3 chapters before day 1. if you can at all DO NOT take his class.

Worst professor ever. Can't talk to students in a way that we understand. I spend 4x more time on this class than others and I'm barely holding on. Only resource is book and reiterates to "just read the book". We're 400 pages in at week 7. Book and slides don't line up, questions use both and don't cover the same stuff. Refuse to take him again.

This is by the far worst teacher I have ever had in my entire life. I took his class my junior year and he is not conducive to learning the topics. He does not answer questions and will instead direct you to the syllabus or chapters when you are confused. I dropped out of this class because it was affecting my mental health. DO NOT take this class.

One of the worst professors I have ever taken Bio with. He's very uncaring and his lectures can be summed up as him pointing at a power point and expecting us to immediately understand what he's saying. He also has terrible communication, oftentimes coming off as pretentious and passive aggressive when asked for help. By far my worst bio experience

You're teaching yourself using the textbook and slides while he provides the practice and supplemental material. Up to answering questions, but doesn't answer them simply enough for students. Love the problem sets, but felt unprepared for quizzes and exams no matter how much I study. Spent 2 hours daily all seven days learning and studying.

Singer? More like Dahmer with how he was eating our brains this term... bad prof.

Lectures are useless ramblings. Almost never explains anything. Just says "just draw it out". Claims not to test on memorization, but does. Wants you to buy a physical textbook for no reason. Slides are just pictures from the textbook with typos. Is very hard to talk to. Seems upset when you ask questions. Basically a self taught class. Avoid him!

This professor is not a good professor and wish he would just switch over to just his research. His expectations are to be experts in the topics even though he blows past the slides. He does not teach well and will contradict himself constantly when he says he is not focal about memorization even when he is. Don't trust the good ratings at all!!

I've taken two classes from Dr. Singer. The first one I dropped because it was not required and I was inevitably going to receive a harsh grade for group members not participating. Dr. Singer likes to emphasize that he will not help with this, will not lecture, and will not answer questions. I don't know why he's getting paid.

Dropped course after 1st week. Instantly knew my grade would not reflect the hours I'd spend reading and studying. He doesn't teach, you learn by yourself from the massive amounts of textbook readings per week. Very unorganized and unstructured. No lecture slides to study from-seems like class is structured for him to do the least amount of work.

This class is literally just glorified self-study with exams and quizzes in the middle......

you'd basically be better off learning from a textbook

Avoid taking this professor at all costs. There is no lecture at all. Class time is spent on group worksheets. The only learning you'll be doing is by reading the textbook. The professor doesn't teach, is rude and passive aggressive. First day of class and he expects us to read and understand 83 pages of the text. Half the class dropped first day.

If you want to go home in tears every day, this is the class for you. Would not wish my worst enemy the pain of learning from this guy.

Take this course if you want to tank your GPA He has yelled at 1 person MINIMUM every class so far Wont answer questions and makes you feel dumb for asking Never lectures Assigns insane amounts of reading Expects prodigies Half the class dropped on the first day Don't take him If you're already enrolled DROP NOW it only gets worse I'm so serious

Rate my professor is so important. I wish I had read these reviews before I registered. Thought I could stick it out after more than 50% of the class dropped, but I do not recommend. Don't waste your time or money. Either don't take or drop now.

This course is literally from the depths of hell. The flipped classroom model and exams that literally have questions the textbook doesn't go over will send any prodigy straight to the gutter. Half of his exam is literally on the most niche sentences and topics in the textbook, of which you'll have to read about 40-50 pages before every lecture.

Taking this class felt like self harm. Put in so many hours for so little pay off. Truly the hardest class I've ever taken. Couldn't stop thinking this class would be so much better if there was a lecture or at least something besides the book to study from, since not everything he tests on is in there. Just groupwork and the niche test questions.