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Accounting

Kelly Hickman

ACCT1A · ACC1AA · 3 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
1.0/5
Take again
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Difficulty
5.0

The decision

unless you can teach yourself from the textbook.

Best fit · Self Taught ProUnprepared lecturesTextbook readerHard to understandNo hands-on helpFirst-semester struggles
  • All three reviews rate quality 1/5 and difficulty 5/5.
  • Students say and does not break concepts down.
  • Feels like self-teaching; better avoided for beginners.

Key questions

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Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

15/100

Students rate extreme difficulty and .

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Is the course easy?

BrainBurner

12/100

Material is hard and unexplained for students without prior accounting knowledge.

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Is attendance flexible?

Varies

50/100

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

8/100

Every review is strongly negative about preparation and teaching clarity.

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Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

25/100

No grade relief is mentioned; course is described as extremely hard with little support.

Format shift

In-person only; and frustration.

Workload

Heavy

25/100

Students feel .

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Awful

12/100

Reads slides, stumbles, and .

Format shift

Teaching criticism is unanimous in in-person reviews.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

70/100

Reviews emphasize textbook content and .

Format shift

Assessment style is only described in-person and is not highly detailed.

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person accounting students unanimously report unprepared, textbook-only lectures with little help for beginners.

Main concern

; class feels like buying the book and self-teaching.

What students said

“Very poorly prepared for class, she just pulls the premade lectures out of this text and reads them aloud”
ACC1AA
“better off doing an online class because it feels like one.”
ACCT1A
“She did not know how to break things down for people that have no prior knowledge of accounting.”
ACCT1A

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

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Main concern

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Exam style

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Reviews do not detail proctoring, but the course is described as hard and poorly taught with textbook-only instruction.

Textbook-heavyNo hands-on lecture

Assessment risk

Strict

30/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

; students only stress hard, poorly explained textbook material.

Textbook-only instructionHard material
“Taking this class is pretty much like buying the book and trying to learn yourself.”
ACC1AA
“NO hands on lecture and incomprehensible teaching.”
ACCT1A

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Taking this class is pretty much like buying the book and trying to learn yourself.”

Voice snapshots generated from 3 highly consistent negative in-person reviews. Credibility rating: Medium.

🎯 Teaching Quality

12/100

“Very poorly prepared for class, she just pulls the premade lectures out of this text and reads them aloud”

📉 Recommendation

8/100

“better off doing an online class because it feels like one.”

📚 Self-Teaching Burden

15/100

“She did not know how to break things down for people that have no prior knowledge of accounting.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Very poorly prepared for class
  • teaches solely from the textbook
  • NO hands on lecture and incomprehensible teaching

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty

  • like buying the book and trying to learn yourself
  • does not break the textbook down
  • First semester teaching & it was apparent

Data context

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Analysis sample

3

Recent reviews read by the AI

3

Lifetime ratings

48/100

Evidence confidence

Three fully consistent negative reviews with rich detail, but all from 2011-2012 and a small sample.

Inside 3 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
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1 out of 53

Course coverage

ACCT1A2 reviews
ACC1AA1 review

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