AI Rate Professor

Chemistry

Richard Lavallee

CHEM10 · 27 lifetime ratings

AI rating
16/100
RMP rating
1.8/5
Take again
12.5%
Difficulty
4.6

The decision

Avoid Lavallee for Chem 10 unless you are already strong in chemistry and ready for brutal exams.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerHarsh tough graderExam much harder than lectureHigh drop rateCondescending toneTest-heavy Chem 10
  • Students widely report Chem 10 exams far harder than lectures or homework
  • partial credit or
  • and strongly advise switching professors

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

8/100

As and even Bs are rare; many dedicated students drop, fail exams, or finish with C/D despite heavy effort.

Both online and in-person paint As as .

Is the course easy?

BrainBurner

10/100

Students say intro Chem 10 is taught at Chem 11/12 difficulty with fast lectures and .

In-person comments dominate; online also calls it stressful and self-taught.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

45/100

while others say it is not enforced, but skipping is risky because lectures move very fast.

Mixed signals in both formats with .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

12/100

Most students say ; only a small minority claim the rigor prepares you for higher chemistry.

and in person; rare positives are almost all in person.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

12/100

, and tiny errors with little partial credit and no .

Format shift

and in-person Chem 10.

Workload

Overwhelming

18/100

, and Chem 10 sections.

Format shift

In-person students especially describe crushing time demands.

Teaching experience

Awful

18/100

, and teaching above the course level.

Format shift

A few older in-person fans exist, but recent tone is overwhelmingly negative.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

88/100

Exams and ; homework often fails to prepare students for tests.

Format shift

Test-heavy tags appear across formats.

Luni fit check

Weigh these signals against your actual schedule.

Get help balancing workload, grading, and timing when no option is an obvious fit.

Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

24 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person reviews describe unclear or and homework deductions, and high dropout.

Main concern

and .

What students said

“Simple examples, yet very complex/impossible questions in test.”
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“Please crash a .”
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“I have never worked harder for a C in my life.”
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Remote format

Online

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Online students report passive-aggressive help, self-teaching, homework bugs, and .

Main concern

and mocked for questions, with and homework.

What students said

“You're going to be pretty much entirely self taught.”
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“Youll be mock for asking questions. .”
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Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Exams are described as curveballs far beyond lectures, with punitive scoring and almost no safety net.

Exams harder than homeworkLittle partial creditTwo finals back to backHarsh lab deductionsNo extra credit

Assessment risk

Strict

18/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

or study guides, sometimes including two finals back to back.

Impossible exam questionsTwo finals back to backPoints off for tiny errorsStudy guides mismatch exams
“The study guides are nothing compared to the exams”
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“ .”
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Online

Online students report buggy tests/homework and strict failure for .

Strict gradingTest errors/bugsLittle partial credit
“He also sometimes fixes the bugs on the but when he doesn't he says your answer should still reflect the inherent bug.”
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“he will fail you for the simplest of things.”
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Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Do yourself a favor and .”

Voice snapshots generated from 27 , and . Credibility rating: High.

⚠️ Teaching Disaster

18/100

“Doesn't know how to teach and is very rude”

📉

12/100

“ ”

🧪

15/100

“Simple examples, yet very complex/impossible questions in test.”

🪓

12/100

“ as knowledgable as him”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • and I had to learn a lot of the chapters from YouTube.
  • Professor speaks very quickly.
  • He won't teach you anything.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Never worked so hard for a B in my life.
  • I am a straight A student whose GPA was absolutely destroyed by this class.
  • Makes Introductory Chemistry scary and way harder than it has to be.

Theme 3

💔 About Classroom Climate

  • He will make you feel stupid for asking questions.
  • Passive agressive when asking questions.
  • this class is an advanced form of self harm.

Data context

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Analysis sample

27

Recent reviews read by the AI

27

Lifetime ratings

84/100

Evidence confidence

Twenty-seven reviews across many years show highly consistent harsh-grader and ratings.

Inside 27 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 53
4 out of 50
3 out of 51
2 out of 57
1 out of 516

Course coverage

CHEM1027 reviews

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

23 reported outcomes

A range

1

A 1

B range

4

B+ 1 · B 1 · B- 2

C range

4

C+ 1 · C 3

D range

4

D+ 1 · D 2 · D- 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

10

Drop/Withdrawal 7 · Incomplete 3