AI Rate Professor

Mathematics

Octavio Chairez

MAT5 · M11 · MATH35 · MATH65 · MAT53 · MATH10 · MATH52 · STAT10 · MAT12 · MATH90 · MATH53 · MATH11 · STATISTICS · MAT11 · MAT35 · MAT48659 · MAT10 · MATH25 · MATMAT · MATH36 · 43 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
1.9/5
Take again
7.69%
Difficulty
3.9

The decision

Avoid Octavio Chairez unless you can teach yourself the entire course from other resources.

Best fit · Self Taught ProReads from the bookTeach yourselfLots of homeworkTough graderNice guy bad teacher
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Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

28/100

Getting an A means teaching yourself, grinding long homework, and .

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Fast pace, abstract math, and lectures that for most students.

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

22/100

and warn that skipping leaves you lost because lectures are the only class structure.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

12/100

Would-take-again is under 8% and most comments say if you care about GPA or learning.

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

24/100

and low and strict marking even when answers are correct another way.

Format shift

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Workload

Overwhelming

18/100

Students report 100+ book problems, multi-hour online homework, and .

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Awful

20/100

Dominant theme is that he is nice but , and .

Format shift

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Assessment method

Balanced

55/100

Heavy homework plus tough quizzes and review before exams.

Format shift

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

43 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

board examples from the , and .

Main concern

and and low grades.

What students said

“WHATEVER ! Mr. Chairez is a great guy but the .”
MATH25
“Do not his class unless you're ready to basically teach yourself all semester. His lectures are useless, he just reads off the slide.”
MAT12
“Reads . "Why" questions are answered with "it just is".”
MAT48659

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.

Tests are widely called tough and sometimes mismatched to lessons, with little structured review.

Tough testsMaterial differs from lessonsNo useful exam reviewIn-person quizzes and tests

Assessment risk

Strict

32/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and tests are hard, often feel different from lectures, and rarely come with helpful review.

Tough testsMaterial differs from lessonsNo useful exam review
“ . 50% already dropped and 25% passed”
MAT12
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MATH10

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“WHATEVER ! Mr. Chairez is a great guy but the .”

Voice snapshots generated from 43 in-person reviews, , and low recommendation. Credibility rating: High.

📉 Teaching Quality

20/100

“He's a nice guy but the class was awful. I'm not sure he actually understands math. Doesn't actually teach you anything.”

📚 Self-Teaching Required

18/100

“Get ready to teach yourself in this class! If not, you're screwed because this course was tough to pass.”

📝

18/100

“I am not kidding when I say each hw assignment takes 10 hours.”

🚫 Recommendation Rate

12/100

“If you want to keep a good GPA or even .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • He just reads everything off the book.
  • It's a struggle to understand his lectures because it was too much!
  • Bland, boring and useless.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • This class has taken over my life and there's so .
  • he is a if a problem has 2 ways you can solve it and you dont do the way he wants it even if the answer is right he will mark you down.
  • Expects you to already know everything about the class.

Theme 3

❤️ About Character

  • Professor Chairez was nice, but could be improved.
  • A nice guy but .
  • Though Octavio is a .

Data context

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Analysis sample

43

Recent reviews read by the AI

43

Lifetime ratings

88/100

Evidence confidence

43 detailed in-person reviews across many years and courses show strong consistency that but ineffective as a math teacher.

Inside 43 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 54
4 out of 53
3 out of 55
2 out of 510
1 out of 521

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Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

13 reported outcomes

A range

0

No reported values

B range

1

B 1

C range

3

C+ 1 · C 1 · C- 1

D range

3

D+ 2 · D 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

6

Drop/Withdrawal 3 · Incomplete 1 · Not sure yet 1 · Rather not say 1