AI Rate Professor

History

Bill Billingsley

HIST17 · HISTORY20 · HIST20 · HST20 · HISTORY21 · HIST21 · HISTORY · HIST5 · HIS21 · 13 lifetime ratings

AI rating
52/100
RMP rating
3.5/5
Take again
0%
Difficulty
3.5

The decision

if you like history and and long lectures.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerTough graderLong lecturesDry humorTextbook-heavy testsPolarizing
  • Students split between loving his knowledge/humor and finding him harsh or boring
  • lectures and papers can be graded hard
  • Attendance and careful note-taking matter for many sections

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

32/100

and exams, with some strong students getting C grades.

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

35/100

Content and as challenging, textbook-heavy, and essay-focused.

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

25/100

Tags and comments say skipping class hurts and .

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Is this professor recommended?

Depends

48/100

Older fans praise learning and humor, while later reviewers warn of , and .

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Course guide

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Grading

Strict

28/100

Repeated tough-grader comments and reports that A papers come back as Cs.

Format shift

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Workload

Moderate

48/100

Quizzes, midterms, papers, and overload.

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Average

55/100

Many call him smart and funny, but others find lectures long, , or biased.

Format shift

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Assessment method

Balanced

55/100

Mix of quizzes, midterms, papers, projects, and essay tests from notes and book.

Format shift

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

13 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person history lectures with mixed praise for intelligence and , and .

Main concern

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What students said

“His lectures are .”
HIST17
“If you are a .”
HISTORY20
“best history teacher ever!!”
HIST21

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

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Exams often include essays and book-based questions; some sections share prompts early, but .

Essay examsTextbook-based testsMidterm essays in advanceQuizzes

Assessment risk

Standard

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and textbook material; one review notes midterm essays given weeks early.

Essay examsTextbook-based testsMidterm essays in advance
“ so we could choose whichever we want.”
HIST21
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21

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“If you are a .”

Voice snapshots generated from 13 in-person reviews spanning 2004-2020, highlighting polarized views on teaching and grading. Credibility rating: Medium.

📚 Knowledgeable Lecturer

55/100

“Nice, funny,and extremely intelligent;like a walking textbook, amazing!”

📉

28/100

“If you think you wrote a .”

⏱️ Long Lectures

40/100

“soooo boring, talks and talks so much the whole three hours.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Very smart teacher and has a great dry sense of humor
  • He's a great history teacher. He's easy going, funny.
  • soooo boring, talks and talks so much the whole three hours.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • .
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  • if you listen to his lectures.

Theme 3

⚠️ About Fairness & Access

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  • He claims he gives a lot of , this is false information.

Data context

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Analysis sample

13

Recent reviews read by the AI

13

Lifetime ratings

58/100

Evidence confidence

13 mostly older in-person reviews with mixed detail and inconsistent tone reduce confidence.

Inside 13 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 57
4 out of 51
3 out of 52
2 out of 51
1 out of 52

Course coverage

HIST172 reviews
HIST202 reviews
HIST212 reviews
211 review
HIS211 review
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HIST51 review
HISTORY1 review
HISTORY201 review
HISTORY211 review
HST201 review

Reported outcomes

C range results lead the reported letter grades.

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C range

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D range

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F

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