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Economics

R Butters

ECON1 · ECONONE · 8 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
2.1/5
Take again
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Difficulty
3.9

The decision

Avoid if you have a choice; expect little teaching support and .

Best fit · Self Taught ProAvoid Online SectionsTextbook Sink Or SwimPoor CommunicationHard Confusing TestsAbandons Students
  • Most students describe unhelpful lectures, ignored emails, and hard mismatched exams.
  • Success depends almost entirely on self-teaching from the textbook.
  • One outlier found an easy A in an earlier in-person term, but the dominant tone is strongly negative.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

32/100

One student got an easy A, but and poor prep keep the class at C-level or worse.

All metadata-labeled reviews are in-person; comments often describe online delivery with the .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

High difficulty ratings and sink-or-swim textbook reading make the content feel hard without teaching support.

All evidence comes from the 8 in-person-tagged reviews.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

50/100

and focus instead on self-study and online neglect.

All evidence comes from the 8 in-person-tagged reviews.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

22/100

Most comments and , and abandoned online classes.

All evidence comes from the 8 in-person-tagged reviews.

Course guide

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Grading

Strict

30/100

can be clawed back, and exams are described as confusing and grade-crushing.

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Workload

Moderate

42/100

and hard exams rather than heavy busywork.

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Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

Lectures are called boring or useless, responses are late or missing, and students feel abandoned.

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

72/100

Quizzes and exams dominate and .

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

8 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Tagged as in-person in metadata, but most comments describe online econ sections with weak lectures, slow or no responses, and .

Main concern

Professor abandonment and .

What students said

“Must read text book to pass! ... No communication with students. Find another teacher if you can.”
ECON1
“He will abandon you online.”
ECON1
“He was such an easy teacher. I took his class in spring 2008 and passed it with an A!!”
ECONONE

Remote format

Online

0 reviews

Low confidence

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Main concern

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Exam style

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Exams and , and poorly aligned with .

Hard Confusing ExamsMismatch With HomeworkTextbook-Dependent

Assessment risk

Strict

32/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

Reviews describe hard, confusing tests that and leave most students below a B.

Hard ExamsQuiz-Exam MismatchTextbook Critical
“The homework and quizes he gives don't prepare you much for so confusing”
ECON1
“ . The lectures provided don't help at all.”
ECON1

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“ . ... I REGRET TAKING THIS COURSE MORE THAN I REGRET ANYTHING IN MY LIFE.”

Voice snapshots generated from 8 in-person-tagged reviews, , and one easy-A outlier. Credibility rating: Medium.

🎯 Teaching Quality

24/100

“ and are deathly boring.”

👎 Recommendation Rate

22/100

“ if you have a choice.”

📚

28/100

“The only way you will pass this class is if you READ YOUR TEXTBOOK!”

💬 Communication Fail

20/100

“You will get not get one thoughtful response from this professor. He will abandon you online.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • He doesn't do much teaching to his online classes
  • His lectures do not help.
  • An awful teacher, took his class online and it was horrible.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • and exams not same as
  • I took his class in spring 2008 and passed it with an A!!

Theme 3

⚠️ About Support

  • No communication with students.
  • will more than likely not respond at all to your emails/questions
  • He will abandon you online.

Data context

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Analysis sample

8

Recent reviews read by the AI

8

Lifetime ratings

55/100

Evidence confidence

Only 8 older reviews with one strong positive outlier and many detailed negatives yield a medium-confidence but clearly negative pattern.

Inside 8 stored ratings

Quality ratings

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1 out of 52

Course coverage

ECON17 reviews
ECONONE1 review

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