Reviews of professor Niraj Kumar

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Amazing professor and good teaching. The class is also not difficult but the homework assigned takes up A LOT of time. Grade consists of 4 quizzes (easy), 12 HW assignments (some easy some hard, and take ~2 hours each), and 3 exams (easy and you get a cheat sheet). Discussion class is absolutely not necessary and useless (everyone skips it).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best professor out there for physics, he outlines everything clearly and uses pictures and colored markers to make you understand concepts. Pop quizzes and the exams are very straightforward. I'm not the best student but I went to class, tried to understand, and still got an A. Attend lecture/ discussion & you will do ok. Wish he taught Phys2.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Niraj Kumar is the best physics teacher at UMASS BOSTON and I wish he could teach physics 114, He's so kind and caring and he is willing to help if you need it... he also curves really good, and he let's you redue the exams for extra credit... Would definitely recommend taking this class

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Niraj is very receptive, and wants to help his students. He helped me so much throuhgout the semester! Plus, he has lecture slides as opposed to the PHYS107 professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
while the lectures were boring, he was very fair and flexible with his grading! As long as you do the online homework you shouldn't stress too much about exams. He also gives out pop quizzes (he tends to give the answers) which is a free 5% in points. Very nice man and a caring professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Amazing professor and course. It's difficult, but that is to be expected of the subject. The professor was very nice, understanding, and fair to all students. Be prepared to study hard, especially on the exams as they are heavily weighted. Use the resources available and it would be hard to fail. I have nothing negative to say about this professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Kumar is kind and an extremely forgiving grader. So, he is perfect if you are a non-physics major taking physics 113/114 for credits only. However, if you are really trying to learn subject, you will not learn from him. His lectures are very dry and essentially straight from the book. I learned more from the book.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU HAVEN'T TAKE MATH 140 the fact that math 140 can be taken as a coreq is insanity I have to teach myself math I've never covered just to somewhat understand

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I liked this guy tbh. He's got jokes and he's organized. Exams q's were super similar to his slides and practice exam problems. Honestly if you make an effort to come into class and try to reciprocate those q's, you'll get a nice grade even if you do terrible on his exams.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best physics professor in UMB I do not think you will find a better guy than him. By far the best and gives extra credits during the exams, scales finals etc.