Gaston Sanchez

MATH206 · MATH13 · 19 lifetime ratings

AI rating: 28/100
RMP rating: 2.3/5
Take again: 41.67%
Difficulty: 3.8

The decision

Avoid if you have another option, because too many students say you must teach yourself the course.

Best fit · Self Taught ProConfusing lecturesSelf-taught heavyPoor communicationInconsistent teachingHard tests mismatch

A large share of students say and poorly aligned with exams
Many report having to learn from tutors or online because class time feels unhelpful
A and passable if , but overall trust is low

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

30/100

Even students who pass often say the class is confusing and .

All evidence is in person; there are no online reviews.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

25/100

Fast, hard-to-follow lectures and feel harder than the content alone.

All .

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

25/100

Many reviews say attendance is mandatory or that skipping class hurts, even when lectures are poorly received.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

28/100

and many students explicitly tell others to stay away.

All recommendation evidence is in person.

Course guide

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Grading

Strict

32/100

Students frequently call him a tough grader and .

Format shift

Based only on in-person reviews.

Workload

Heavy

35/100

Homework, group work, projects, and weak.

Format shift

Based only on in-person reviews.

Teaching experience

Poor

28/100

The dominant theme is that , and leaves students reliant on tutors.

Format shift

Based only on in-person reviews.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

70/100

Tests and study-guide alignment dominate student stress, with homework as prep that still may not match exams.

Format shift

Based only on in-person reviews.

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

20 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

, weak support, and tests that feel disconnected from what is taught.

Main concern

Students often report teaching themselves through tutoring after finding lectures unusable.

What students said

“he's literally the .”
MATH13

“Terrible teacher who can't teach and gives out materials on the .”
MATH13

“If you do the and the study guides you are on the way to achieving an A!”
MATH13

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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Exams are repeatedly described as harder than lectures and practice materials, raising failure risk.

Hard testsMisaligned practice materialsMultiple test versionsTrick problems reported

Assessment risk

Strict

30/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

, with trick problems and four versions used to catch cheating.

Hard testsPractice guides that may not matchMultiple versions

“ he teaches.”
MATH13

“he uses four different versions of , (so that he knows who cheats).”
MATH13

“Gives out homeworks and practice tests but have absolutely nothing in common with the .”
MATH13

Online

Student evidence

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Top student voice
“ !, I was a straight A student in Math before this teacher, he does not care makes the course harder than it has to be.”
Voice snapshots generated from 20 in-person reviews, highlighting lecture clarity failures and . Credibility rating: High.

🎯 Teaching Quality

28/100

“HE is one of those teachers that out and teaches”

👎 Recommendation Rate

28/100

“If you want a chance at passing do not take this lazy arrogant teacher .”

📚 Self-Teaching Burden

25/100

“Be prepared to learn from tutors or online if you're taking his class.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

The and .
His lectures are and .
Kind and patient professor. and .

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

tested on material that was not taught.
he gives out more than half of trick problems on all of his tests
If you do the and the study guides you are on the way to achieving an A!

Theme 3

🚫 About Support Gaps

class.
Absent for almost 3 weeks.
the class was mostly self-run and self-taught.

Data context

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Analysis sample

Recent reviews read by the AI

Lifetime ratings

80/100

Evidence confidence

majority pattern of poor teaching clarity and low recommendation.

Inside 20 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 52

4 out of 54

3 out of 51

2 out of 54

1 out of 59

Course coverage

MATH1318 reviews

MATH2062 reviews

Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

11 reported outcomes

A range

A+ 2 · A 2

B range

B+ 1 · B 1

C range

C- 1

D range

D+ 1

F

No reported values

No letter grade reported

Not sure yet 3