Reviews of professor Paul Bader

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I can see where some of these low reviews are coming from. As his first year teaching the class, he did not have realistic expectations on what we would be able to learn in one half-semester. However, I think he did a good job making an otherwise dry class interesting, and he is quick at adjusting when he sees where he can improve.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Bader has a positive attitude towards teaching tax but poor execution. He doesn't quite understand what students need to succeed. Tax is very rule heavy and often illogical, so a professor can't rely on students to learn through memorization. The homework assignments were not helpful for his exams, and there were no practice problems.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Reading assignments are heavy, but much of it isn't relevant. The material in his slides is so simplified that it's hard to see how the topics are related. We haven't gotten any homework, project, or exam grades back, and there are only two weeks left in the term. He's nice and knows his taxes, but he doesn't know how to run a class yet.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Bader is a great professor, he is new to teaching so he had trouble gaging the content level of the course. Bader is very accessible outside of class and truly tries his best to accommodate students' needs. Definitely a memorization heavy class but he tries to make it as easy as possible.