Reviews of professor Timothy French

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
French is a brilliant guy, but he grades extremely tough. He is easily the harshest grader of all of the gen chem lab sections. His expectations are too high for people who have no background in chemistry. However, he gives extensive feedback, and if you make the adjustments he wants you to, then you get better. His feedback is helpful for learning

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a harsh grader, blunt, and attendance is mandatory. If you don't show up at all, even if you're sick, he drops your grade for that lab you missed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took his class during the pandemic which means its all online courses. He was not understanding or helpful. Everyone had a hard time keeping up with lecture, lab, and homework. He doesn't do a good job explaining, he kind of just expects you to understand. Don't recommend.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a nice guy but his teaching method did not work for me and I had to drop his class. He is really bad at explaining the concepts and expects you to have an underlying knowledge of the class when it's literally a gen chem course like???

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The lectures are tedious and boring. If you email him asking for help he will be rude and inflexible even in a pandemic. The study guides and practice problems have nothing to do with the questions on exams so good luck.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I've spent hours with this professor in O.H. and still received disheartening grades on lab reports. This man will wrangle all academic confidence out of your soul and make you question all abilities. Other prof. would grade my work as an A while it was a C for him. Although a terrible grader, I have learned how to write much better because of him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
It doesn't matter how well you learn the material - his exam questions come out of nowhere and he gives little partial credit. No amount of studying will save most students from his exams. Only take him if you're fine with your GPA getting wrecked