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Geology

Jeffrey Schaffer

GEOG1 · GEOL2 · EARTH110 · 3 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
1.5/5
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Difficulty
3.7

The decision

Avoid unless you are ready to survive soft mumbled lectures and rebuild the material yourself from notes.

Best fit · Self Taught ProHard to UnderstandBoring LecturesMumblesTextbook is Wrong ClaimsNote-Taking Critical
  • Students struggle to hear and follow him because he mumbles and lectures unclearly.
  • He often says standard textbooks .
  • One student still earned an A by writing down everything he said.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

42/100

An A is possible only if you capture every lecture note; and .

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Is the course easy?

Standard

45/100

Material is passable with notes, but poor delivery makes standard content feel harder than it should.

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Is attendance flexible?

Varies

50/100

reviews.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Quality ratings are all low and comments call teaching awful, boring, and hard to understand.

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Course guide

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Grading

Fair

50/100

One student got an A with complete notes, but .

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Workload

Light

68/100

Main demand is listening and note-taking rather than heavy projects, though understanding is hard.

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Teaching experience

Awful

18/100

Students repeatedly , and hard to understand despite claiming superior field knowledge.

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

, so note-taking is the whole game.

Format shift

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person earth and geography , and .

Main concern

hard to know what will be tested.

What students said

“i think his teaching is awful. Like the above comment all he discusses is how everyone one is wrong, but him.”
EARTH110
“He spoke in a soft voice and mumbled a lot. Most of the class couldn't understand him and .”
GEOL2
“If . Everything that is on the test is explained through his lectures.”
GEOG1

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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, while textbooks are dismissed as wrong, which raises uncertainty.

Lecture-Based TestsNote-DependentTextbook Unreliable per Instructor

Assessment risk

Standard

48/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

; students who note everything can pass, but .

Lecture-Based TestsNote-Dependent
“If . Everything that is on the test is explained through his lectures.”
GEOG1
“you don't know what you are going to be tested on because. "THE TEXT BOOKS ARE ALL WRONG!"”
EARTH110

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“He spoke in a soft voice and mumbled a lot. Most of the class couldn't understand him and . Because of this, it was hard to understand the material.”

Voice snapshots generated from 3 in-person reviews, highlighting clarity failures and note-based survival. Credibility rating: Low.

📉 Teaching Quality

18/100

“I had Mr.Schaffer for earth sciene and i think his teaching is awful.”

🔇 Clarity Problems

20/100

“He spoke in a soft voice and mumbled a lot. Most of the class couldn't understand him and .”

📝 Note Survival Path

42/100

“I wrote down everything he said and came out with an A.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • It can be a little boring and sometimes he is hard to understand
  • He was also very boring, you couldn't understand him
  • he mumbled a lot.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • If .
  • I wrote down everything he said and came out with an A.
  • you don't know what you are going to be tested on

Theme 3

📚 About Textbooks and Authority

  • THE TEXT BOOKS ARE ALL WRONG!
  • He went on to say how most texts are wrong and he was right because he did field research.
  • all he discusses is how everyone one is wrong, but him.

Data context

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Analysis sample

3

Recent reviews read by the AI

3

Lifetime ratings

35/100

Evidence confidence

Only three older reviews with aligned negative themes but limited sample size and no grade data.

Inside 3 stored ratings

Quality ratings

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1 out of 51

Course coverage

EARTH1101 review
GEOG11 review
GEOL21 review

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