AI Rate Professor

English

Lawrence Krikorian

ENGLISH101 · ESL087 · ENG102 · ENG101 · ENGL101 · ENGLISH102 · 17 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
1.7/5
Take again
23.53%
Difficulty
3.9

The decision

Avoid unless you want a brutal grammar-focused English course and .

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerNitpicky grammar graderUnclear essay promptsSlow or no email repliesPaper-heavy EnglishAvoid for easy A
  • Most and minor mechanics over content.
  • Students report vague prompts, weak teaching of , and poor responsiveness.
  • A few defenders say he cares and teaches real grammar standards, but the .

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

Multiple students say As are effectively off the table and .

Both online and as extremely hard to earn.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

, and unclear expectations make the course intellectually and logistically hard.

Online summer formats are described as especially brutal.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

40/100

and others do not, with limited consistent detail.

Evidence is mixed across formats and terms.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Would-take-again is very low and most students .

Negative consensus is strong online and in person, with only isolated positive defenses.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

14/100

, and claims that As are impossible define a .

Format shift

.

Workload

Heavy

24/100

Multiple papers, many books, and revision cycles create a heavy writing load.

Format shift

Online and and papers.

Teaching experience

Awful

18/100

Dominant themes are no real teaching, vague prompts, tangents, rudeness, and missing communication.

Format shift

A couple of in-person defenders exist, but they are heavily outnumbered.

Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

25/100

Grade is driven almost entirely by essays and paper revisions rather than exams.

Format shift

Both formats are paper-centered.

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

11 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person and hybrid feedback still centers on nitpicking, unclear rubrics, tangents, and .

Main concern

and .

What students said

“Get ready for him to nit pick everything.”
ENG102
“all I get from him are negative remarks and .”
ENGLISH101
“Avoid this teacher _ 80% of students have dropped his class”
ESL087

Remote format

Online

6 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

, and weak communication.

Main concern

Nonexistent clarity on prompts and criteria plus non-response on key emails.

What students said

“He didn't really teach us anything. He had us read a few books, and then gave a vague prompt about what to write the essay about.”
ENG102
“He states it is impossible to receive an A in his class!”
ENGLISH101
“ ; he cares more about comma splices than the quality and content of your writing.”
ENGLISH101

Exam style

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Reviews focus on essay grading rather than formal proctored exams, so .

Essay-heavy assessmentRevision after feedbackNo clear timed exam detailsGrammar-focused grading

Assessment risk

Varies

40/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and unclear essay criteria rather than documented exam proctoring.

Multiple essaysUnclear rubricHarsh paper feedback
“will fail your paper for small but does not offer you help in ”
ENGLISH101
“ if forgot to use a comma according to his liking”
ENG102

Online

and grammar-based score recovery, not proctored tests.

Essay promptsGrammar revision for pointsMultiple books
“He is very nitpicky about grammar errors in your essays, but he tells you what's wrong and let's you edit it to raise your grade.”
ENG102
“he said he would raise my research paper grade from a D to a B if I correct my 3 comma splices”
ENGLISH101

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“ your emails. He states it is impossible to receive an A in his class!”

Voice snapshots generated from 17 English and ESL reviews with a strong negative consensus and limited positive outliers. Credibility rating: Medium.

🚫

18/100

“He is completely awful as a professor do not take this class for English you would be better off with a different professor”

📝

14/100

“he cares more about comma splices than the quality and content of your writing.”

📉 Teaching Breakdown

18/100

“He didn't really teach us anything.”

⚠️ Communication Failure

20/100

“hardly ever and whenever he did they were vague.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Always late to class. Goes off on tangents all day about his life.
  • he will not teach you anything.
  • Absolute Horrible teacher

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Get ready for him to nit pick everything.
  • It WILL require an unbelievable volume of work.
  • and the teacher barley .

Theme 3

💬

  • . !
  • Only ... negative remarks and .
  • .

Data context

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Analysis sample

17

Recent reviews read by the AI

17

Lifetime ratings

68/100

Evidence confidence

17 reviews are fewer than ideal and include one suspicious defense post, but the and communication is consistent enough for medium confidence.

Inside 17 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 52
4 out of 51
3 out of 50
2 out of 51
1 out of 513

Course coverage

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Reported outcomes

C range results lead the reported letter grades.

14 reported outcomes

A range

0

No reported values

B range

4

B+ 3 · B 1

C range

5

C+ 1 · C 3 · C- 1

D range

2

D 1 · D- 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

3

Drop/Withdrawal 1 · Not sure yet 2