AI Rate Professor

Economics

M. Yaar

ECON005 · ECON011 · ECON10 · ECON · ECON11 · 18 lifetime ratings

AI rating
18/100
RMP rating
1.6/5
Take again
23.53%
Difficulty
3.7

The decision

Avoid unless and tolerate weak lectures and communication.

Best fit · Self Taught ProAvoid if possibleSelf-teach requiredLecture heavyUnresponsiveHomework grading issues
  • Most students describe rambling lectures, poor communication, and little real teaching.
  • and allow notes.
  • A small minority pass by self-studying the textbook; overall recommendation is strongly negative.

Key questions

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Is this an easy A?

HardWork

38/100

Some open-note take-homes help, but self-study load, tough finals, and .

Mostly in-person evidence; the one online review .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Students must learn from the book while lectures often ramble or .

In-person reviews dominate; .

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

45/100

and optional in others, with mixed enforcement.

Varies across in-person sections; .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

18/100

Vast majority urge avoiding him due to poor teaching, rants, and weak support despite a few passable experiences.

; the online .

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

28/100

, and a reported homework-packet zeroing hurt grades.

Format shift

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Workload

Heavy

32/100

Lots of and .

Format shift

Workload .

Teaching experience

Awful

18/100

Dominant theme is rambling, unhelpful lectures and inability to teach or answer questions clearly.

Format shift

; online adds non-responsiveness.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

72/100

Tests and ; homework and reading feed exams more than active teaching.

Format shift

One comment notes a final worth 54% of the grade.

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

17 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

off-topic lectures, tough or mismatched tests, and unhelpful grading.

Main concern

Self-teaching is required; grading and .

What students said

“Genuinely the .”
ECON10
“ . HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH.”
ECON005
“ and open note (easy)”
ECON10

Remote format

Online

1 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Single online review reports outdated assignment page numbers and .

Main concern

No email responses and .

What students said

“He doesn't update his assignments with the edition of the textbook, so his page numbers and chapters are off, making it hard to know if you are doing the .”
ECON011

Exam style

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, but others report tough book-detail finals.

Take-home open note (sometimes)Book-based testsHigh-weight finalTough detailed exams

Assessment risk

Varies

52/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and open note; others are tough, book-detail, or high-weight finals.

Take-home open noteBook-based testsHigh-weight final
“ and open note (easy)”
ECON10
“The final is 54% of your grade, YES 54%.”
ECON005
“So far he has also let us use our books and notes for test.”
ECON10

Online

Online review .

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“ . HE DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH.”

Voice snapshots generated from 18 reviews (1 online, 17 in person), highlighting teaching failure and . Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

18/100

“Out of touch professor that just rambles on and on not even about the subject at hand”

👎 Recommendation Rate

18/100

“ .”

📚 Self-Teaching Required

25/100

“Be ready to teach yourself. If you care about passing and keeping up a good gpa and grade be prepared to be your own teacher.”

⚖️

28/100

“Had an A throughout the whole semester but bcuz he didnt actually go through my CLEARLY labeled packet I got ”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Dull lectures, impossible to communicate with outside of class.
  • he just reads it and expects you to learn it.
  • Lectures usually turn into a rant about how young students don't know how to work/study

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty and Grades

  • The . Barely made it through!
  • , but don't expect to learn anything in depth in class.
  • If you dont have an A or B you are probably being lazy!

Theme 3

⚠️ About Communication

  • he hasn't responded to a and other classmates throughout the entire semester.
  • Several students tried talking to him, including me, after class but he just won't listen to our concerns.

Data context

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Analysis sample

18

Recent reviews read by the AI

18

Lifetime ratings

82/100

Evidence confidence

Eighteen reviews across many years consistently criticize teaching quality despite a few positive outliers.

Inside 18 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 51
4 out of 51
3 out of 51
2 out of 53
1 out of 512

Course coverage

ECON107 reviews
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ECON0113 reviews
ECON112 reviews
ECON1 review

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

16 reported outcomes

A range

4

A 4

B range

4

B+ 2 · B 2

C range

2

C+ 1 · C 1

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

6

Drop/Withdrawal 2 · Not sure yet 4