AI Rate Professor

Political Science

John Avorh

POLISCI106 · POLI101 · POLI102 · POL101 · POL102 · POLYSCI101 · POLS102 · POLISCI101 · 182 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
1.9/5
Take again
25%
Difficulty
4.5

The decision

Avoid unless you have no alternative and can teach yourself from the expensive textbooks.

Best fit · Self Taught ProIllegible Board NotesThick AccentTest HeavyConfusing LecturesStay Away
  • Very low quality ratings driven by unreadable handwriting, hard-to-follow accent, and scattered lectures
  • Grade rests almost entirely on a and books
  • Majority urge students to avoid him despite a minority who succeed with heavy note-taking

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

22/100

Grades hinge on a ; many report Cs, Fs, drops, or class-wide failure risk.

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

30/100

Content difficulty is high mainly because lectures and because material is inherently advanced.

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

18/100

as mandatory with lockouts for lateness and .

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

25/100

Only about a ; the dominant message is stay away.

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

20/100

and stories of unfair scoring and failed classes are common.

Format shift

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Workload

Light

58/100

; nearly all grade weight sits on a handful of big tests.

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

, and communication unclear.

Format shift

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

92/100

Course is almost entirely graded by a few multiple-choice-plus-essay tests.

Format shift

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Luni fit check

Weigh these signals against your actual schedule.

Get help balancing workload, grading, and timing when no option is an obvious fit.

Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

50 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person poli sci is pure lecture on a hard-to-read whiteboard with few graded items, expensive books, and .

Main concern

Unreadable notes, thick accent, and arbitrary.

What students said

“Stay away from this class!”
POL101
“You can hardly understand him because he has an accent. He lectures the entire time and you WILL NOT be able to read his whiteboard notes.”
POL101
“If you have problems with his class go back to high school, you are obviously not ready for an actual college course”
POL101

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.

and disconnected from lectures and the expensive books.

Test heavyFew graded itemsMultiple choice plus essayWeak or mismatched study guides

Assessment risk

Strict

24/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

with limited review help and frequent complaints of uncovered items.

TEST HEAVYGRADED BY FEW THINGSNo study guides
“Only things he grades are the STUDY GUIDES FOR.”
POL101
“Your grade is only made up of four tests, which are 50 multiple choice questions and .”
POLI101

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“STAY AWAY. Although clearly intelligent, he writes tests that are often in incomprehensible English and has unrealistic expectations of students.”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 in-person , and avoid warnings. Credibility rating: High.

🚫 Teaching Clarity

24/100

“His lectures are absolutely crazy and unorganized.”

📝 Test-Only Risk

22/100

“The because of the grammatical errors and the fact that there are multiple questions not covered in the textbook or in the lectures at all.”

✍️ Handwriting Barrier

20/100

“his notes are written on a white board and almost impossible to read.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • You can hardly understand him because he has an accent
  • His handwriting is impossible to read
  • Genuinely the most boring and unbearable class I've ever taken

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Stay away from this class!
  • I should have dropped, my mistake
  • Everyone in my class is failing

Theme 3

📚 About Materials

  • you have to pay $100 in the book store for it
  • the expensive books are useless
  • Books are unhelpful and expensive

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

182

Lifetime ratings

90/100

Evidence confidence

50 reviews over many years show highly , and accessibility.

Inside 50 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 58
4 out of 519
3 out of 519
2 out of 549
1 out of 587

Course coverage

POL10126 reviews
POLI1019 reviews
POL1024 reviews
POLISCI1014 reviews
POLI1023 reviews
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POLISCI1061 review
POLS1021 review
POLYSCI1011 review

Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

23 reported outcomes

A range

0

No reported values

B range

8

B+ 3 · B 4 · B- 1

C range

5

C+ 1 · C 4

D range

1

D 1

F

1

F 1

No letter grade reported

8

Audit/No Grade 1 · Drop/Withdrawal 1 · Not sure yet 5 · Not_Sure_Yet 1