AI Rate Professor

Physics

Alfonso Lam

ASTR1 · ASTR106 · 5 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
2.0/5
Take again
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Difficulty
4.0

The decision

unless you already have strong physics and math skills and can teach yourself.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerUseless lecturesHard physics homeworkMandatory quiz attendanceThick accentAvoid
  • Lectures are widely called useless and full of tangents about careers.
  • unprepared for.
  • and enforced with quizzes, while .

Key questions

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Is this an easy A?

HardWork

22/100

but rarely explained, and students say the class is hard to pass.

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Is the course easy?

BrainBurner

18/100

Content feels like physics with complex problems and little useful lecture support.

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

15/100

and enforced with quizzes every class session.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Most students say stay away because lectures fail and .

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Course guide

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Grading

Strict

25/100

and unexplained, with dropouts and little sign of .

Format shift

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Workload

Heavy

22/100

problems.

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Poor

22/100

Students say lectures go nowhere, examples are nonsensical, and he claims everything is common sense.

Format shift

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Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

35/100

and in-class quizzes drive the course .

Format shift

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

5 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person ASTR1 students report , and steep dropout, with only one older ASTR106 praise.

Main concern

Lectures do not prepare students for .

What students said

“Terrible teacher on all accounts. His lectures go nowhere.”
ASTR1
“The and requires advanced mathematical skill.”
ASTR1
“Lectures are basically useless but session).”
ASTR1

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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Reviews emphasize graded homework and .

In-class quizzesGraded homework

Assessment risk

Standard

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and hard graded homework rather than proctored finals.

In-class quizzesGraded homework
“ session)”
ASTR1
“The , but never explained.”
ASTR1

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Terrible teacher on all accounts. His lectures go nowhere. The , but never explained.”

Voice snapshots generated from 5 in-person reviews, highlighting lecture failure and . Credibility rating: Medium.

📉 Teaching Quality

22/100

“His lectures go nowhere. The , but never explained.”

🚫 Recommendation

18/100

“I would stay away from this class.”

📚 Workload Pain

22/100

“The and requires advanced mathematical skill.”

📍

15/100

“Lectures are basically useless but session).”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • His lectures go nowhere.
  • claims everything is 'common sense.'
  • uses nonsensical examples to solve problems

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • and requires advanced mathematical skill
  • His class is too hard to pass.
  • Class started out with around 30 students, the last class mieeting I attended only had 6 students.

Theme 3

⚠️

  • session)
  • Lam may not be the but he does care about his students

Data context

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Analysis sample

5

Recent reviews read by the AI

5

Lifetime ratings

48/100

Evidence confidence

Five detailed in-person reviews from 2013-2014 are mostly consistent, but the sample is small and older.

Inside 5 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 51
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2 out of 51
1 out of 53

Course coverage

ASTR14 reviews
ASTR1061 review

Reported outcomes

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