BIOL 2020

A definite step below Kittleson as a professor IMO. I thought sometimes he tested on arbitrary material so see if you showed up to class. Go to class and take good notes and you should be fine.

Kopeny is very enthusiastic but sometimes bounces around a lot in his lectures. His tests are multiple choice and are generally fair with a couple questions you could question... But the final was not what he said it would be (just like any other test). It seemed like he purposely tried to find stuff to confuse you on and stuff that was not really mentioned at all in the lectures or readings.

Fairly easy class, but because it isn't as tough as BIOL 201, people tend to do better so the curve isn't as high. Final isn't cumulative.

Kopeny is the man. He's one of the best professors I've had at UVA. Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and fair. Everything you'd expect from a school of such high caliber. In case you couldn't tell, I'm kidding. Read the whole review next time, dumbass. He sucks hard. The class is easy, you don't have to come to lecture except for clicker questions, which are extra credit. I read the book the day before the exam and consistently got a 93. GO HOOS

Kopeny's lectures are useless. Go to class for clicker questions and do other work.

Tests are generally easy. This is complicated, however, by their poor construction, ambiguous answer choices, and material that was never covered. It's best not to study too hard and hope for the best!

Boring, lectures alone are not sufice to do well on the tests. Doing all of the readings is paramount. In fact, I rarley pay attention in class. Just do all the readings, and review all the slides before the exam.

Kopeny manages to make already dull material even more monotonous and pointless. He uses long words which he thinks makes him sound genius. He turns the lights way down in class, so it's very easy to fall asleep. Powerpoint slides and exams are always filled with typos and errors of all sorts. Some exam questions will have no right answer or will clearly state the opposite of what the textbook states. Don't bother taking notes or paying attention in lecture, just look over the powerpoint slides the day before the exam.

I worked REALLY hard in this class, went to most lectures, did ALL of the reading, but the tests were impossible. Kopeny was not a very good teacher and I had to teach myself the concepts.

This is perhaps the most boring lecture I've had to endure. It doesn't help that Kopeny dims the lights. I'll give him credit for enthusiasm, but it certainly did not transfer. Tests are EXTREMELY poorly written, and many questions can have multiple answers if you come at it from different angles.

This class was pretty difficult for me, probably because evolutionary and organismal biology wasn't an area of biology that really interested me. Dr. Kopeny's lectures were really dry, long-winded, and not especially informative. Most of his lectures were based on the book and lectures were supposed to highlight what you needed to know, except most of the time, he ended up having us just going to the book and reading about the topic at hand since he wanted to leave us to the details. His constant obsession with dimming the lights also didn't help. His tests were tricky because the questions were weirdly worded and multiple choices could be the answer. The final was the worst since a majority of the questions were application of basic knowledge. Read the textbook carefully and really understand the concepts.