Mahnaz Firouzi

MATH3 · 4 lifetime ratings

AI rating: 8/100
RMP rating: 1.0/5
Take again: 0%
Difficulty: 3.5

The decision

Avoid if you can; if you can teach yourself fully from Pearson.

Best fit · Self Taught ProReads from textbookNo partial creditPearson exam heavyAvoidZero feedback

Students say lectures mostly narrate the .
Exams and and dominate the grade.
Multiple students dropped or strongly warned others to wait for another professor.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

12/100

Students report , and no path to recover grades.

Both online and as unrealistic under her structure.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

22/100

Content delivery is unhelpful and assessments are described as excessively difficult.

; online still calls lectures irrelevant.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

40/100

while others say no, with little learning benefit either way.

Mixed mandatory flags across formats; .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

5/100

and unanimous 1/5 quality with .

Online and experiences.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

8/100

No partial credit on Pearson quizzes and .

Format shift

Both formats .

Workload

Heavy

22/100

Lots of and multiple midterms create heavy load.

Format shift

, and a final.

Teaching experience

Awful

8/100

Students say she reads the book, cannot answer questions, and does not help learning.

Format shift

In-person and online comments are uniformly scathing on teaching quality.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

88/100

Exams and with homework as secondary practice.

Format shift

Online review quantifies roughly 80% exam-based weighting.

Luni fit check

Weigh these signals against your actual schedule.

Get help balancing workload, grading, and timing when no option is an obvious fit.

Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

3 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person students report textbook-reading lectures, hard exams, scarce office hours, and little help.

Main concern

She rereads the book instead of answering questions and shows little interest in student success.

What students said

“Avoid taking CLACS 3 with this professor.”
30765

“ , she NARRATES the textbook”
MATH3

“This professor does not know how to teach.”
30765

Remote format

Online

1 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

and no partial credit.

Main concern

About 80% of the and .

What students said

“Just by itself, 80% of your . Exams are on Pearson, meaning you will get NO PARTIAL CREDIT.”
MATH3

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

, and unforgiving.

Pearson examsNo partial creditFinal answer onlyMultiple midtermsNo exam feedback

Assessment risk

Strict

18/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and exams are called excessively difficult with and no feedback.

No partial creditPearson HW quizzes exams finalsFinal answer onlyNo feedback

“EVERYTHING IS ON PEARSON - HW QUIZZES EXAMS FINALS, 0 ”
MATH3

“Her exams and , and she shows little interest in student success.”
30765

Online

Online MATH3 uses Pearson midterms, quizzes, and and little lecture value.

Pearson examsNo partial creditThree midtermsChapter quizzes

“ NO PARTIAL CREDIT.”
MATH3

“Lectures aren't relevant, learned more from the HW on Pearson than in class.”
MATH3

Student evidence

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Top student voice
“ , she NARRATES the textbook”
Voice snapshots generated from 4 reviews (1 online, 3 in person), highlighting textbook-only teaching and no-partial-credit exams. Credibility rating: Medium.

🚫 Teaching Disaster

8/100

“This professor does not know how to teach.”

📉

12/100

“ NO PARTIAL CREDIT.”

👎 Recommendation

5/100

“Avoid taking CLACS 3 with this professor.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

She reads and copies directly from the textbook
if you ask a question she will reread the textbook as answer
She literally reads off the textbook and .

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

Her exams and
0 PARTIAL CRED
80% of your .

Theme 3

⚠️ About Support

rarely meets with students during office hours
and .
She doesn't listen when mistakes are pointed out.

Data context

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Analysis sample

Recent reviews read by the AI

Lifetime ratings

58/100

Evidence confidence

Only four reviews, but all recent, detailed, and perfectly consistent in warning tone, which raises confidence despite small n.

Inside 4 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50

4 out of 50

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2 out of 50

1 out of 54

Course coverage

307652 reviews

MATH32 reviews

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

4 reported outcomes

A range

No reported values

B range

No reported values

C range

No reported values

D range

No reported values

F

No reported values

No letter grade reported

Drop/Withdrawal 2 · Not sure yet 2

Mahnaz Firouzi

Avoid if you can; x x x x if you can teach yourself fully from Pearson.

Four answers before you build your schedule.

MissionImpossible

Challenging

Varies

Avoid

See how this professor fits your week.

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

In person

Online

See what students actually said.

🚫 Teaching Disaster

📉 x x

👎 Recommendation

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

⚠️ About Support

See exactly what the AI read.

Quality ratings

Course coverage

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

A range

B range

C range

D range

F

No letter grade reported

Avoid if you can; if you can teach yourself fully from Pearson.

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