AI Rate Professor

Economics

Roland Lewin

ECON102 · ECN102 · ECON101 · ES174 · 35 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.4/5
Take again
7.14%
Difficulty
3.6

The decision

Avoid if you have any alternative; expect and .

Best fit · Self Taught ProLots of homeworkTest heavyTeach yourselfTough graderBoring lectures
  • yet count little toward the grade
  • and often mismatch lecture content
  • Many students call him nice but and teach yourself from the book

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

34/100

Some curves and passable cutoffs exist, but and .

; one online review is purely negative on workload with no grade detail.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Econ content plus self-teaching, dense reading, and .

Online and ; in-person sample dominates.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

42/100

Some terms mark attendance mandatory while because the book teaches better than class.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

14/100

and comments repeatedly say avoid, teach yourself, or .

Online and in-person both discourage; .

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Strict

24/100

; correct answers can get zero without enough shown work and FRQs are harsh.

Format shift

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Workload

Overwhelming

12/100

Students report 200-350 .

Format shift

; online mentions 180-question sets.

Teaching experience

Poor

26/100

Often labeled nice but outdated, monotone, and ineffective compared with the textbook.

Format shift

; online agrees lectures do not help.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

88/100

Tests and final commonly form 80-90% of the grade while .

Format shift

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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

34 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person econ is lecture-heavy and often boring, with colossal McGraw Hill homework and from class talk.

Main concern

and outdated teaching style.

What students said

“The homework is way too long, about 200-300 questions per week, and is only worth about 10% of your grade.”
ECON101
“ POSSIBLE”
ECON101
“Prepare to teach yourself an entire subject.”
ECON102

Remote format

Online

1 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

The single online review says he dumps massive homework online with unhelpful boring lectures and .

Main concern

.

What students said

“He assigns homework that is 180 questions. This would be fine if he manually graded it.”
ECON101

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

High-stakes tests diverge from lecture and and little recovery.

Test heavyFRQs graded harshlyMismatch with lectureNo retakes

Assessment risk

Strict

28/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

, with harsh FRQ grading and .

80-90% testsFRQ hints in lecturePractice from textbook
“80% of ”
ECON101
“Tests and talks about in class.”
ECON101

Online

Online review and useless lectures rather than proctoring details.

Massive online homeworkLectures unhelpful
“His lectures are incredibly boring and dont help at all with the homework.”
ECON101

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“ . Terrible teacher. I learned more from reading the book than from his lectures.”

Voice snapshots generated from 35 reviews (1 online, 34 , and . Credibility rating: High.

📚

12/100

“The online homework is a terrible joke, it's about 4-5 hours of 300-350 questions a week in homework”

🧪

28/100

“Tests are 90% of the grade and I don't think he even writes them.”

👎 Recommendation Collapse

14/100

“ .”

Theme 1

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • He grades written tests very hard, gave zeros for CORRECT answers if not enough work shown.
  • grade is basically 3 exams one final
  • The .

Theme 2

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • his teaching methods are old and it is nearly impossible to learn from him.
  • He drones on and on and is just simply lazy.
  • Like someone said, good guy teaching hard subject.

Theme 3

📖 About Self-Teaching

  • Prepare to teach yourself an entire subject.
  • Your time is better spent just reading the textbook than going to class.
  • I taught myself most of the material!

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

35

Recent reviews read by the AI

35

Lifetime ratings

84/100

Evidence confidence

Thirty-five reviews across many years with highly consistent , and low recommendation.

Inside 35 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 57
4 out of 53
3 out of 55
2 out of 56
1 out of 514

Course coverage

ECON10124 reviews
ECON1027 reviews
ECN1023 reviews
ES1741 review

Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

15 reported outcomes

A range

5

A 3 · A- 2

B range

6

B+ 2 · B 3 · B- 1

C range

2

C 2

D range

1

D+ 1

F

1

F 1

No letter grade reported

0

No reported values