AI Rate Professor

Physical Sciences

John Shepanski

PHYS12 · PHY12 · PHYSC12 · PHYS10 · PHYSC1 · PHYSICS12 · PHYS1 · 14 lifetime ratings

AI rating
24/100
RMP rating
2.3/5
Take again
100%
Difficulty
3.4

The decision

Avoid if , but exams and lectures leave most students frustrated and underprepared.

Best fit · Self Taught ProConfusing lecturesUnfair examsTextbook-heavyNice but unclearAvoid for most
  • Most older reviews slam and .
  • ; class time often rehashes homework.
  • One recent short positive exists, but the long record is strongly negative.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

Students say and class, so an A and luck.

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

and unfair testing make the course feel much harder than it should.

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Is attendance flexible?

Varies

50/100

older review set.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

28/100

and ; meta take-again data is unreliable here.

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

22/100

Exams often cover uncovered material; and tests unfair.

Format shift

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Workload

Moderate

48/100

and ; not assignment-flooded but exam prep is heavy.

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Poor

30/100

Often described as , and .

Format shift

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Short-answer tests, cumulative finals, and graded pop quizzes dominate outcomes.

Format shift

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

14 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

, and hard short-answer or cumulative exams that many call unfair.

Main concern

and class, and lectures often confuse rather than clarify.

What students said

“ if you have a chance.”
PHYS12
“All of us in the class felt the .”
PHYS12
“AVOID IF POSSIBLE!”
PHYSICS12

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

No stored summary is available for this format.

Main concern

No main concern is stored for this format.

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Hard short-answer and cumulative exams that students say go beyond class and the study guide.

Short answer onlyCumulative finalBeyond study guideGraded pop quiz

Assessment risk

Strict

25/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and ; pop quizzes reported; widely called unfair.

Short answerCumulative finalPop quizBeyond study guide
“forget about studying from his study guide for the exams. He will ask you questions that are not covered there”
PHYS12
“all tests are short answer, !!!”
PHY12

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“AVOID IF POSSIBLE!”

Voice snapshots generated from 14 mostly and clarity. Credibility rating: Medium.

⚠️ Teaching Quality

30/100

“This professor reads the book, and explains so poorly, I find wikipedia a better source.”

📝

22/100

“All of us in the class felt the .”

👎 Recommendation

28/100

“Do yourself a favor and .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Confuses himself and all students
  • he makes you basically learn everything by yourself
  • and conradictory

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • you need to know beyond the book

Theme 3

❤️ About Character

  • Teaches patiently and
  • He is a nice man
  • Great Professor

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

14

Recent reviews read by the AI

14

Lifetime ratings

55/100

Evidence confidence

Fourteen mostly pre-2011 reviews with one 2018 blurb; tone is consistent but age and sparse recent detail lower confidence.

Inside 14 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 52
4 out of 52
3 out of 51
2 out of 54
1 out of 55

Course coverage

PHY124 reviews
PHYS123 reviews
PHYS12 reviews
PHYSC122 reviews
PHYS101 review
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PHYSC11 review
PHYSICS121 review

Reported outcomes

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