Reviews of professor Patrick Poletti

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Quant covers challenging material, and the pressure of an accelerated summer term doesn't help. Dr. Poletti really tries to alleviate this pressure by reducing the homework load to section quizzes (his lecture examples align perfectly with the HW.) Lectures are dense but thorough. Likeable and great professor all around.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Poletti was great. The class was fully remote and we only went in to take the two midterms and the final which were all MC. There was a textbook but he provided it for free, I only used it a handful of times when I really couldn't understand a concept. The grading is clear and if you do your work and actually try you can easily pass.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
After taking his class, some reviews just don't make sense to me. English is my second language and I had NO problem understanding his lectures, slides, and exam questions. He was lecturing around 13 slides/65 min. Post-lecture quizzes: 1 attempt, no time limit, easy to get full credit ( 26% of your grade). Awesome professor, great class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very quick at responding to emails, and definitely caring! He was always incredibly helpful in answering questions and taking the time to go through things with me

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You can tell Dr. Poletti put effort into optimizing the class for online learners, though exams are still in-person. Lecture slides are numbered and indicate which quiz questions they correspond to, use them! ALEKS hw is frustrating but offers expanded/different explanations so I found them useful. Watch lectures and work through practice problems!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His slides are packed with very dense material, expect to have to review his lectures multiple times. You can only miss 10 points for an A. He is a nice person and cares about students, but I have a very hard time listening to his lectures in one sitting. There are daily quizzes. He's a good prof and I'd take him again but this course is very hard

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof is good but the structure of the class is just not that great. I found biochem to be a lot harder than ochem. Expect to do lots of reading. Lecture slides are very dense. Quizzes and exams are jargon heavy and lots of play on words. Dr. Poletti is a great person and does the best he can to present the material, its just a difficult class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took the attend-anywhere option and only showed up in-person for exams. You're graded with 2 midterms, a final, ALEKS hw, and quiz questions after each lecture. If you take good notes, do the hw, and do the practice problems, you can definitely get a decent grade. There is a textbook 'required' but as long as you take good notes you don't need it