Reviews of professor Mingliang Zhang

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I paid my tutiton just to teach myself using the mastering physics AI integrated into the homework and chat GPT to explain everything to me. Everyone leaves class with more questions than when they walked in.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Zhang is a beast at physics but fails to deliver that knowledge to students. He has a very strong accent and rushes through lectures. There are four tests and a final. Pop quizzes are fairly easy, just a bit rushed. There is a TON of hw in this course. Expect 3 hours a week at a minimum. Goodluck.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The class was running behind schedule but instead of cutting out material or slimming down lectures to catch up, he just ended up assigning 5 chapters of work and 2 tests while covering less than half of the material. We did 8 chapters throughout the semester only to have an additional 5 assigned in the last 2 weeks! The amount of work is insane!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The professors lectures are far too detailed and his accent is very difficult to understand. He assigned 40-50 homework problems (each with parts A-C) every week, resulting in 8+ hours of homework per week. The class average for our final was a 38% and the professor refused to curve despite the poor scores. A terrible, stressful experience.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He gives us pre-lab quizzes every single session which most people don't finish. Then he tries to explain how to set up the experiment, which most people can't understand due to the language barrier. The practical he gave us was completely disorganized in every way. The lab overall has been an absolute nightmare - find another professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
It is so hard to understand him, his accent is way too strong. His lectures have boiled down to what is he saying instead of what I am learning?

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
For one there is a HUGE language barrier. Very difficult to understand. Half the labs were online with little to no guidance on how to complete them. Nothing is graded so I have no idea how I am doing in the course. Springs a random practicum on us which we know nothing about because nothing is graded to know if anything is correct.