AI Rate Professor

Mathematics

James Berns

MATH · MATH113 · MATH3020 · MATH124 · MATH112 · MATH105 · MATH115 · MATH4456 · MATH245 · MATH124A · MATH110 · MATH125 · MATH114 · 27 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
2.2/5
Take again
18.18%
Difficulty
3.9

The decision

Avoid unless you already know the material and can .

Best fit · Self Taught ProTough GraderDoes Not TeachSloppy Handwritten TestsGets Mad at QuestionsLots of Homework
  • Most students say he copies examples from the book and .
  • and hard to read, with and frequent class-wide fails.
  • as mandatory and asking for clarification often backfires.

Key questions

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Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

, and reports of whole-class fails make a high grade very hard even with daily study.

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Content and pacing feel hard because lectures add little and .

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Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

12/100

and tag skip class as a fail path.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

16/100

The large majority urge students to drop or and .

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Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

14/100

and reports of failing large portions of the class dominate the record.

Format shift

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Workload

Heavy

22/100

Lots of , and .

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

Students say he sits, copies book examples, gets upset at questions, and .

Format shift

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

72/100

Quizzes and handwritten tests drive .

Format shift

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Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

27 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person math classes are widely described as boring book-copy lectures with , and a hostile Q&A climate.

Main concern

and low teaching support.

What students said

“ as your professor. Period.”
MATH113
“ ! Berns for the most part doesn't teach much.”
MATH115
“ !He is the .”
MATH125

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

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Exams are often handwritten and hard to read, with many students calling them nearly impossible.

Handwritten TestsSloppy Exam WritingImpossible Test QuestionsPop Quizzes

Assessment risk

Strict

22/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and quizzes are frequently described as sloppy handwritten and unfairly hard.

Handwritten TestsSloppy Exam WritingImpossible Test QuestionsPop Quizzes
“Tests and and it's very sloppy.”
MATH113
“ and he makes up questions that aren't solvable.”
MATH115
“ and you can't even understand what the man wrote.”
MATH105

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“ !He is the .”

Voice snapshots generated from 27 in-person reviews spanning 2006-2018, with High credibility from consistent negative themes.

📉 Teaching Quality

24/100

“Never teach at all, you have to self study and he got upset if you ask him to clarify his lesson.”

🚫 Recommendation

16/100

“ as your professor. Period.”

📝

22/100

“ and he makes up questions that aren't solvable.”

⚖️

14/100

“if you have 4-6 mistakes on his tests, you'll definitely have a B&mostlyC for a grade.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • he basically copy things from the book so useless to enroll in his class
  • He sits in his chair for the most part and just takes examples from the book.
  • you will spend most of your time teaching yourself.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • !
  • He actually failed the whole class which lead to students repeating a math course.
  • MAKES UP UNSOLVABLE PROBLEMS FOR HIS TEST! EVERYONE DID BAD!

Theme 3

😠 About Classroom Climate

  • If any student asks questions he gets upset and goes off on students.
  • bad attitude.
  • He is verbally abusive

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

27

Recent reviews read by the AI

27

Lifetime ratings

82/100

Evidence confidence

Twenty-seven detailed in-person reviews across many years show a consistent negative pattern on teaching and exams.

Inside 27 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 54
4 out of 53
3 out of 51
2 out of 56
1 out of 513

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Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

6 reported outcomes

A range

1

A 1

B range

1

B+ 1

C range

0

No reported values

D range

1

D 1

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

3

Audit/No Grade 1 · Drop/Withdrawal 2