AI Rate Professor

Chemistry

Will De Olive

CHEM142 · INTROCHEM · 3 lifetime ratings

AI rating
38/100
RMP rating
2.5/5
Take again
100%
Difficulty
4.0

The decision

Treat De Olive as a risky Chemistry pick until more recent reviews appear; strong students may survive, but clarity complaints are serious.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerThick accent barrierPublisher-heavy testsBoring PowerPointsExtra credit availablePolarizing clarity
  • Only three reviews exist and they strongly disagree on teaching quality
  • Older reviews slam accent, unclear explanations, and
  • One newer review praises lectures, , and accessibility

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

30/100

Even students who earned A or A- and .

All evidence is in person; no online reviews exist.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Intro and general chemistry feel hard when lectures are and exams are publisher-level.

and intro chem reviews.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

35/100

One review marks attendance mandatory; others do not detail policy, so .

Only in-person data; .

Is this professor recommended?

Depends

45/100

One student strongly recommends him while two older reviews explicitly say not recommended despite one 100% take-again field from a single yes.

All recommendation signal is in person and mixed across years.

Course guide

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Grading

Strict

28/100

Comments say tests and with solid letter grades.

Format shift

In-person only; .

Workload

Moderate

50/100

Reviews focus more on .

Format shift

load.

Teaching experience

Poor

36/100

Two of and dull PowerPoint reading; one modern review calls him great.

Format shift

All reviews are in person and conflict by year.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

80/100

One detailed review says four tests make up almost all of the grade.

Format shift

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

3 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

and two older reports of unclear speech and brutal tests.

Main concern

Accent and .

What students said

“Great Professor”
CHEM142
“you can't understand him, and he tends to talk into circles”
CHEM142
“ so very difficult and not necessarily what he lectured on.”
INTROCHEM

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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Exams appear publisher-sourced, hard, and dominant in the grade with little student-friendly design noted.

Publisher-written testsFew high-weight examsHard grading

Assessment risk

Strict

30/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

may not match lecture content.

Publisher-written testsFour tests dominate gradeHard grading
“ so very difficult and not necessarily what he lectured on.”
INTROCHEM
“Graded extremely hard and 4 tests make up almost all of your grade.”
INTROCHEM

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“BEWARE has a thick accent... so very difficult and not necessarily what he lectured on.”

Voice snapshots generated from 3 in-person reviews only, highlighting sparse and conflicting evidence. Credibility rating: Low.

🎯 Teaching Clarity

36/100

“you can't understand him, and he tends to talk into circles until the students have to clarify it for him”

📝

30/100

“4 tests make up almost all of your grade”

👍 Recent Praise

70/100

“Great Professor”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • talk into circles
  • Amazing lectures

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Graded extremely hard

Theme 3

💬 About Communication

  • thick accent
  • can't understand him
  • very nice as a person

Data context

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Analysis sample

3

Recent reviews read by the AI

3

Lifetime ratings

28/100

Evidence confidence

Only three reviews across nearly a decade with conflicting tones make any blended judgment fragile.

Inside 3 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 51
4 out of 50
3 out of 50
2 out of 51
1 out of 51

Course coverage

CHEM1422 reviews
INTROCHEM1 review

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

3 reported outcomes

A range

2

A 1 · A- 1

B range

1

B- 1

C range

0

No reported values

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

0

No reported values