Reviews of professor Brian Pardo

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Brian is a nice guy, but he has a hard time covering all the material in lecture and making it understandable. I often found myself learning the concepts on Khan Academy/Chegg right up until the exams. He also assigns a lot of homework outside of class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Be prepared to read and learn from the textbook. The homework and exams are extremely hard. Brian creates his own problems so it is difficult to practice questions. There is a lot of homework and the recitations are long.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Brian cares a lot about the class but is not the best at explaining things. Recitations and homework are VERY important for exams.. He grades very generously on the written test questions but his multiple choice are challenging. Does not drop an exam but counts your worst exam for less points. Can succeed w/o much physics background.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
fair grader, approachable, assigns a lot of work outside the classroom

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Brian is a really clear and helpful teacher that really cares about physics and his students. His lectures are kinda cool and his grading is VERY fair and generous. Outside of class, there is a decent amount of work but it's not bad for a physics class. He's also very helpful during his office hours and always willing to explain!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
While the class wasn't super difficult to pass, grading was very unclear the whole time. Recitations almost always went over (10-15 minutes), there was too much homework (assigned even on test weeks), and exams got increasingly more difficult. The class overall is very average.