AI Rate Professor

Philosophy

Scott Marcus

102A · PHIL101 · PHIL102A · PHIL103 · PHILO102 · PHILOSOPHY101 · PHI100 · PHIL102B · PHIL100 · 52 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.2/5
Take again
20%
Difficulty
3.7

The decision

Avoid if you can; only stay if and ace a .

Best fit · Self Taught ProGrumpy & UnclearTangent-Heavy LecturesTest-Only GradingNo Canvas StructureHigh Drop-Risk
  • Most students describe full of off-topic rants and .
  • Grades often rest on only two or , so one bad score sinks you.
  • Would-take-again is about 20% with .

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

30/100

A fragile even when some students eventually pass.

Both the lone online review and paths.

Is the course easy?

Standard

42/100

Philosophy content is not inherently elite, but poor lecture clarity makes it feel harder than it should.

In-person comments dominate; online also calls the .

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

24/100

Many tags and comments say skip-class-you-wont-pass and .

; in-person is largely the same.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

20/100

Take-again is about 20% and the modal student message is to pick anyone else.

The online review says no; positives.

Course guide

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Grading

Strict

28/100

and few graded items leave .

Format shift

Online and .

Workload

Moderate

55/100

, but reading volume and .

Format shift

and exams more than daily busywork.

Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

Repeated complaints of grumpy delivery, off-topic tangents, no Canvas, and lectures that fail to prepare for tests.

Format shift

A few older in-person fans exist, but recent and .

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

88/100

Most courses grade almost entirely on two or credit.

Format shift

and echoed online.

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

49 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person reviews overwhelmingly call him grumpy, disorganized, and tangent-prone with .

Main concern

create high GPA risk.

What students said

“Pick any other professor.”
PHIL101
“ as a teacher at all costs.”
PHI100
“ .”
PHIL100

Remote format

Online

1 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

The single online review calls lectures , and advises staying away.

Main concern

No grade visibility and mismatched syllabus make online progress impossible to track.

What students said

“He doesn't even have a canvas page. I would fall behind and have no clue how I was doing in the course, stay away!!!”
PHIL100

Exam style

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Exams are few, hard, and poorly aligned with rambling lectures, so .

Few High-Stakes ExamsEssay or Ambiguous TestsNo Extra CreditBook-DependentLecture Mismatch

Assessment risk

Strict

28/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In-person exams are repeatedly called hard, sometimes essay-based, and based on only two or three assessments all term.

Three TestsHard ExamsTerm PaperNo EC
“Only has 3 tests all semester”
PHIL100
“ and each test (3) is worth 33% each.”
PHIL100
“He only grades a and final.”
102A

Online

The online review does not detail proctoring software and and .

Unclear LecturesNo Canvas
“ and tends to talk about irrelevant things to the subject at hand.”
PHIL100

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“ .”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 reviews dominated by avoid warnings, tangent lectures, and . Credibility rating: High.

📉 Teaching Disaster

24/100

“His lectures are all over the place. He goes off in tangents and you completely forget what hes talking about.”

🚫 Recommendation Collapse

20/100

“ as a teacher at all costs.”

🧪

28/100

“Only has 3 tests all semester, which he claims are based off the .”

😤 Classroom Climate

22/100

“always grumpy,way too old to be working, views are extremely dated”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Goes off on different tangents every three seconds.
  • and mostly unrelated to material.
  • Every class he talks about cars, some politics, and everything that has nothing to do with Philosophy.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • there are only 3 tests. you fail any of them and you are screwed.
  • Many of the as to what answer HE wants.
  • it is very easy to fail.

Theme 3

🧭 About Structure & Support

  • He doesn't even have a canvas page.
  • He has NO time for students unless it's before or after class.

Data context

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Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

52

Lifetime ratings

84/100

Evidence confidence

Fifty reviews over many years show durable negative consensus on tangents, few exams, and .

Inside 50 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 56
4 out of 57
3 out of 57
2 out of 513
1 out of 520

Course coverage

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Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

16 reported outcomes

A range

7

A+ 2 · A 2 · A- 3

B range

4

B+ 1 · B 2 · B- 1

C range

2

C+ 1 · C 1

D range

0

No reported values

F

1

F 1

No letter grade reported

2

Not sure yet 2