AI Rate Professor

Chemistry

Michael Martinez

CHEM107 · CHEM100 · CHEM112 · CHEM101 · CHEM113 · CHE112 · CHE113 · 142 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.0/5
Take again
24.65%
Difficulty
4.6

The decision

unless and tolerate long lectures and grade swings.

Best fit · Self Taught ProConfusing lecturesTough graderTest heavyTeach yourselfPolarized reviews
  • Most students , and force self-teaching.
  • Grade risk is high with test-heavy weighting and .
  • A and call him brilliant but awkward.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

30/100

, but most students report and C outcomes despite heavy effort.

A few recent CHE112 and online CHEM107 voices report easy As; .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

22/100

Organic and general chem with long lectures, dense labs, and for many students.

In-person OCHEM and CHEM sequences sound hardest; some online intro sections feel lighter.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

22/100

as required for labs and class, with .

Evidence is mostly in-person; .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

24/100

and a large majority urge students to pick anyone else.

Online has more positive outliers; .

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

22/100

and complaints about unfair late-term exam weight.

Format shift

A minority of ; overall still harsh.

Workload

Heavy

26/100

Long lectures, labs, homework, and .

Format shift

In-person OCHEM is especially load-heavy; some online quizzes are retakeable.

Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

Knowledge is respected by some, but most students say and leaves them self-teaching.

Format shift

Online video praise exists, but .

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Many reviews say exams and and homework secondary.

Format shift

Some online or recent sections use open-note retakeable tests, which softens the pattern.

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

43 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

, and many Cs; a few praise genius-level knowledge or easy take-home practice-style exams.

Main concern

your grade after the .

What students said

“ and identical to his practice exams, quizzes had unlimited tries, hw was very easy.”
CHE112
“DO NOT, !!!!”
CHEM112
“70% of ... and there's only 2 (+ACS). The last 2 weeks of class I dropped from an A to C.”
CHEM113

Remote format

Online

7 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

some praise video lectures and and confusing.

Main concern

Mismatched lab and video instructions can .

What students said

“ . He is overall very accessible and his lectures are online.”
CHEM100
“A lab assignment has instructions in the workbook, canvas, and a 45min video and they don't match so .”
CHEM100
“ and time.”
CHEM107

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

some report open-note take-home or and ACS finals.

Test heavyTake-home examsOpen notesUnlimited quiz triesACS final

Assessment risk

Varies

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

tests to brutal test-heavy courses with ACS finals and late grade crashes.

Take-home examsPractice exam matchACS finalTest heavy
“ and ”
CHE112
“70% of ... and there's only 2 (+ACS).”
CHEM113
“Focus on ”
CHE113

Online

Online comments include open-notes unlimited-try exams and .

Open notesUnlimited triesVideo lectures
“ and time.”
CHEM107
“most of the tests and and see the correct answers to get 100%.”
CHEM107

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“DO NOT, !!!!”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 reviews (7 online, 43 in , and minority easy-section claims. Credibility rating: High.

🚫

24/100

“I would find a new professor. This guy really does have a bad temper.”

🧪 Teaching Clarity

24/100

“ .”

📉 Grade Crash Risk

22/100

“The last 2 weeks of class I dropped from an A to C.”

🔀 Easy Section Outliers

70/100

“he made organic chem so easy!! doesn't grade hard AT ALL!”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • The
  • He takes 12 hours to verbosely explain in lecture what another professor can do in 2
  • This man is a literal genius.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • He grades too hard.
  • run forever
  • .

Theme 3

📝 About Exams

  • and
  • 70% of
  • and time.

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

142

Lifetime ratings

85/100

Evidence confidence

Fifty reviews with a large in-person sample and recurring themes of lecture quality and grade risk make the overall warning highly credible, despite some positive outliers.

Inside 50 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 530
4 out of 51
3 out of 56
2 out of 58
1 out of 597

Course coverage

CHEM10713 reviews
CHE11212 reviews
CHE1139 reviews
CHEM1126 reviews
CHEM1004 reviews
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CHEM1014 reviews
CHEM1132 reviews

Reported outcomes

C range results lead the reported letter grades.

48 reported outcomes

A range

16

A+ 8 · A 6 · A- 2

B range

5

B 5

C range

24

C+ 1 · C 21 · C- 2

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

3

Drop/Withdrawal 1 · Rather not say 2