AI Rate Professor

Physics

Lowell Smith

PHYSI100 · PHYS196 · PHYS126 · 3 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
1.7/5
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Difficulty
3.3

The decision

Skip him if ; only consider if and tolerate mismatched tests.

Best fit · Self Taught ProAwful lecturerTests not lecture-basedMandatory attendanceConfusing explanationsHomework-based tests
  • Students describe lectures as nearly unusable and
  • and even book material
  • Attendance can be mandatory while

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

FairEffort

55/100

Grading can be fairly easy, but solid grade.

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Is the course easy?

Standard

48/100

Material difficulty is mixed, but poor lecture clarity makes the course feel harder than content alone.

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

15/100

At though tests are not lecture-based.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

20/100

Students say almost no one would sit through more of his lectures by choice.

Recommendation tone .

Course guide

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Grading

Lenient

68/100

One review calls him fairly easy in .

Format shift

Based only on in-person comments.

Workload

Moderate

52/100

, but reviews do not describe crushing daily workload.

Format shift

Based only on in-person comments.

Teaching experience

Awful

22/100

Multiple students call lectures confusing, unusable, or the .

Format shift

Based only on in-person comments.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Tests dominate outcomes and .

Format shift

Based only on in-person comments.

Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

3 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

vibe but weak lecturing and poorly aligned tests.

Main concern

You may sit through mandatory class yet still have to learn elsewhere because .

What students said

“This guy is in a league of his own when it comes to awful lecturing”
PHYS196
“ and book material”
PHYSI100
“Testing is ”
PHYS126

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.

, so lecture attendance does not clearly prepare you.

Not lecture-basedHomework-based tests

Assessment risk

Standard

38/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In-person testing is described as disconnected from lecture and .

Not lecture-basedHomework-based tests
“ and book material”
PHYSI100
“ ”
PHYS126

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“This guy is in a league of his own when it comes to awful lecturing.”

Voice snapshots generated from 3 , and attendance. Credibility rating: Low.

📉 Teaching Quality

22/100

“This guy is in a league of his own when it comes to awful lecturing”

📝

38/100

“ and book material”

📅 Attendance

15/100

“Testing is ”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • awful lecturing
  • completely incapable of explaining any of the material
  • very difficult to understand in lecture

Theme 2

📈

  • and book material
  • He's fairly easy in grading

Data context

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Analysis sample

3

Recent reviews read by the AI

3

Lifetime ratings

35/100

Evidence confidence

; they agree on weak teaching but are too few for high confidence.

Inside 3 stored ratings

Quality ratings

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2 out of 52
1 out of 51

Course coverage

PHYS1261 review
PHYS1961 review
PHYSI1001 review

Reported outcomes

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