AI Rate Professor

Physics

Jiaming Zhang

PHYS120 · PHYS140 · PHYSISCS120 · 6 lifetime ratings

AI rating
30/100
RMP rating
2.7/5
Take again
33.33%
Difficulty
3.5

The decision

if you learn well from the textbook and online HW on your own; otherwise pick another physics professor.

Best fit · Self Taught ProLecture HeavyTextbook PowerPointsTest HeavyBoring LecturesTough on As
  • Lectures mostly follow textbook PowerPoints and many students call them boring.
  • Grades hinge on a ; .
  • Some get As with hard work and help, but and .

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

FairEffort

48/100

As appear with solid HW and , but he signals not everyone should get an A and .

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Is the course easy?

Challenging

35/100

Physics content plus long lectures and difficult midterms keep the course intellectually hard.

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Is attendance flexible?

Varies

45/100

as mandatory for passing; and less pressure to attend.

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Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

33/100

; praise for help is outweighed by boring lectures and grade frustration.

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Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Fair

45/100

One student calls him lenient and helpful, but and .

Format shift

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Workload

Moderate

52/100

Main load is long online HW sets and ; labs are few and there are often no quizzes.

Format shift

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Teaching experience

Poor

36/100

Students say he is nice but lectures are dry textbook slides that fail to teach physics well.

Format shift

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Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

, and online HW with few other components and little or no quizzing.

Format shift

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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

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Classroom format

In person

6 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

with online HW and hard midterms.

Main concern

Boring lectures and and motivation hard.

What students said

“Lectures are straight from textbook's powerpoints, so study the textbook.”
PHYS120
“i've never taken a class more boring than this.”
PHYS120
“When NOBODY in the class passed it (highest grade was 69%) he curved it by 20% and blamed US for failing.”
PHYS140

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.

In-person midterms and finals mirror but .

Midterms harder than HWOnline homework prepExam-heavy grade

Assessment risk

Standard

42/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

Exams are the main gate; they resemble online HW but tend to be harder, with .

Midterms harder than HWTwo midterms and finalOnline HW practice
“ , so you have to really understand the material.”
PHYS120
“ and require a lot of studying.”
PHYS120
“When NOBODY in the class passed it (highest grade was 69%) he curved it by 20%”
PHYS140

Online

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“He wants you to fail??? He keeps saying that because this is a college level class that no one should get an A??”

Voice snapshots generated from 6 in-person reviews, highlighting lecture quality and . Credibility rating: Medium.

😴 Boring Lectures

36/100

“i've never taken a class more boring than this.”

📝

42/100

“ , so you have to really understand the material.”

👎 Low Recommendation

33/100

“if you're not good at physics try maybe another professor”

🤝 Help If You Ask

45/100

“if you ask questions, he will definitely help you out.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Lectures are straight from textbook's powerpoints
  • he is so boring and doesn't know how to teach physics properly
  • Lectures for entire '

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • He says not everyone can get an A because it's a college course
  • If you work hard you can get an A, and if not it's fairly easy to get a B.
  • people did "TOO well" on the ...

Theme 3

📚 About Course Structure

  • there are a total of about 3 labs, two midterms, 1 final, and several online hw's
  • No quiz. Just attend the lecture.
  • doing the online HW will help a lot (usually 30-40 questions)

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

6

Recent reviews read by the AI

6

Lifetime ratings

55/100

Evidence confidence

Six in-person reviews from 2019-2020 with consistent boredom and , but limited sample size.

Inside 6 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
4 out of 51
3 out of 52
2 out of 53
1 out of 50

Course coverage

PHYS1204 reviews
PHYS1401 review
PHYSISCS1201 review

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

5 reported outcomes

A range

3

A 3

B range

0

No reported values

C range

0

No reported values

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

2

Not sure yet 2