Reviews of professor Richard Abrams

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was probably the most poorly-instructed class I've taken in college. He expects us to write a 15 page research paper in 1 week (that he could've taken out of the 7 weeks of useless lectures) with NO examples and NO clear rubric. Students need to know what they're doing, and his class created this general discomfort and confusion.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He has unreasonably high expectations for this class. He dances around the answer to questions and expects his students to already know the answers to the questions. This class is much harder than it seems. Please find another professor if you can. You will not learn much more than you learned in Stats, but you will be expected to know much more.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
It took. me some time to get used to this class because Abrams teaching style is not what I was expecting but after a few weeks I started to realize that I was learning more in this course than in all my other courses this semester combined. But it did take some getting used and realizing need to pay close attention in class and take careful notes

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He makes this class absurdly more difficult than it should be. We are expected to conduct a huge research project with a 15 page paper, with little help, and incredibly tough grading, and it isn't even an upper level class. There are insane expectations and this class made me cry a lot lol.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Literally the most boring class he talks at 0.5 speed and expects you to know everything from stats. He literally doesn't give any instructions for anything and the tests are wack.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took course only because its a requirement. Turned out ok. Workload reasonable and most work was done in class as opposed to homework or other assigned work. Short exam every week easy to prepare for by reviewing powerpoint slides posted to Brightspace. Abrams is chill, extremely accessible outside of class, answered emails in less than an hour.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The quizzes and exams were straight-forward, relatively easy and all multiple choice. He specifically flags what information on his slides you will be tested on. There is no homework and overall I found this class to be interesting. Due to covid, it is an online class that usually meets synchronously once a week.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He doesn't give any study guides or practice quizzes so you don't know what to look for on tests and he goes off on tangents during lecture and makes things more confusing than they need to be and none of the actual stuff he ends up saying is on the test. He pulls the questions out of nowhere and just expects you to know everything.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor is a snooze fest. His tests are extremely difficult and you have to pay attention to his hour long lectures that are so boring. He's super monotone and never laughs or smiles. If you have problems with attention don't take his class.