Patrick Von Aderkas - University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Professor: Patrick Von Aderkas

Department: Biology

College: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BIO184
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Makes lectures really interesting, but be prepared to remember historical facts for a bio exam.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BIOL186
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Although I found his portion of the lecture material very boring, he made lectures interesting. Very enthusiastic and makes a lot of jokes. He also prints out fill in notes for everybody. He gives a lot of hints as to what he's putting on his part of the tests so listen closely and study his printed notes, those are the best test preps

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BIO184
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Patrick is amazing. He is very inspiring and engaging-he makes learning about protists and fungi seem fun and interesting! Really great guy. I would take any of his classes solely because he's the prof. His fill in the blank notes are very helpful and all you need to study with.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BIO184
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Patrick was my favorite Bio prof this semester! He provided note packages for us in class to fill out which was very helpful and kept me focused on the material. His exam questions were super fair as he only asked questions from these packages and nothing from the textbook.. so no extra reading was required. Overall he was a great and friendly guy

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BIOL184
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He had the best notes, easy to study. I hate plants but he made them interesting.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BIOL184
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Good teacher, he will print off the notes for that class and give them to you individually.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BIO 184
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I absolutely loved having Patrick as a lecturer! He was so passionate, that I actually wanted to listen during class. I definitely zoned out less during his lectures, and his print-out notes were very clear and organized!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: BIO334
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I have never written a review on a professor before but this class and the prof were so amazing I had to. This was my favourite class I have ever taken in university. Most fascinating material and such a fun class..I never wanted to miss a lecture. The tests are fairly easy, all multiple choice & some book questions but can get wo reading it all.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BIOL307
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Hated this class, he was unclear about what he wanted us to know. Tons of slides with pictures and no information. Spoke very quietly and hard to understand. Not very helpful.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BIOL334
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Great Prof! Very likeable and amusing. His lectures are so interesting and he really tries to relate to his students and lecture about topics students care about. He listens to his students and uses student feedback. Highly recommend this course as it is super interesting and a fairly easy course once you understand how to approach his tests.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BIO334
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The best prof I have had while finishing my university degree!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BIOL334
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Patrick is a really awesome guy and a very engaging and interesting professor. Each of his lectures were told like a story and class was looked forward to each day. His tests are a little weird, some strange questions that you wouldn't expect. I barely opened the VERY expensive text and got an A. I wouldn't recommend buying it.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BIOL190B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Nice prof. Cares about students. Notes are ridiculously unstructured and have not references to text book for further clarification. Notes contain details that are great to have in the lecture, but are not critical for understanding the concepts, yet he tests on them. Very irritating to be tested on trivia rather then concepts.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BIOL190B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Von Aderkas was a very enthusiastic, passionate professor. He was hilarious and kind, and his lectures were great. My only criticism is on his notes - they are a little disorganized at times. But can be deciphered quite easily! GREAT professor!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: BIO334
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

There is not enough room to describe how amazing and passionate Patrick is. I don't agree with some of the other reviews here unless those people were expecting an easy A for some reason. His lectures are like stories and you HAVE to go to really get a sense of it all. You have to dedicate yourself and study, thats all it comes down to.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BIOL334
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Took as a GPA booster, big mistake. Interesting class, but the multiple choice tests are BRUTAL. He tests your ability to memorize useless little trivia, with lots of subjective/incorrect questions. I can see bio students skilled at memorizing doing well in this class, but for the rest of us, stay far far away. Easy to pass, HARD to do well in.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BIOL190B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Patrick was a very nice guy, had printed notes at each class that were complete (no textbook referring needed). His notes were clear, but a little too wordy. What he wrote was very understandable and readable, and explained concepts and facts well. One bad thing is that his exam Q's were a bit much (focused on random details that weren't expected).

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BIO190B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

He's a nice guy but his exam questions are ridiculous. You can memorize important things like every formula and step involved in photosynthesis and the calvin cycle and it won't affect how well you'll do. He tests on things like how many leaves a certain plant has or the nickname of a certain tree. Brutal

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: BIO325
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great! Brings props to class, really passionate about his topic, funny, full of interesting information. Take this class.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: BIOL190
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

LOVE this prof!! He gives amazing real-life examples from his studies and usually brings something into class to show what we're talking about (such as grapes for all 360 students one day). Found him really easy to listen to. He really provided the class with everything we needed to do well.