Reviews of professor James Poole

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Take prior bad ratings with a grain of salt (which came from the COVID challenges or from unaccountable students who did the minimum). He uses "flipped classroom" so that lecture hours can be used for worksheet practice/discussion. Use office hours. He is laidback, personable and genuinely wants you to succeed. My final grade was fault only!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was the hardest class I have ever taken. The lecture style is awful and the material is very hard to understand. It seems the professor is also very unwilling to help

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Poole is my worst chem professor so far. You need to spend a lot of time outside of class learning all the material on your own thanks to flipped classroom. In lecture, your only help comes from TA's which are other students. The lectures are hard to understand and he doesn't reply to emails. He doesn't show up to his own office hours.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Organic chemistry is a hard course. You must study and be prepared but having an instructor like Dr. Poole is a Blessing! He is very caring and helps each students. His teaching style, methods and materials makes this course very simple.
Thank you Dr. Poole, for making this class so fun and simple.

I am definitely taking my Chem 311 with him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
James is smart, but he is bad at teaching. James needs to understand that this is an intro class, some of us never had chemistry before. Dr. Harle was more helpful than James and that is quite sad because James is the main professor. If you need help, I recommend asking Dr. Harle, she makes things easier to understand and doesn't have an accent too

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is extremely hard. You have to watch every single lecture and do lots of work outside of class. He does not give clear help with the examples and does not give enough time on the exams. I still was not doing great on exams and all class averages are below my scores. I would not suggest taking this class with him if you want a good grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Definitely not an introductory type of professor. Moves on too fast with his lectures, not enough time to write down notes or comprehend. If you have a question, professor poole will answer it but make you even more confused than before. Just agree that you understand so he can move on... Definitely need to go back to teaching school.