Reviews of professor Ben Abbott

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The reading was a lot and I still did bad on the quizzes. I would skim the readings but not waste my time and just take the bad grade on the quizzes. You get 10/20 points for just going.  I did bad on the quizzes and still got an A due to extra credit! The extra credit raised my grade 10%! I just made a climate change instagram. Loved this class!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Final was way tougher than midterms, average grade was 15% lower on the final. Tons of students reached out about a curve but were ignored. Lots of them ended up with a lower grade than they deserved. He also said that PWS180 would count for the Physical Science GE, but it doesn't. You have to take an additional course as well, I felt mislead.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Abbott is an amazing steward to the environment and great person, but as a teacher his class lacks structure and in order to learn about the subject you have to be super proactive.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The reviews for his PWS 305 class are misleading. He is indeed a wonderful human being and super caring. That being said, professor Abbott leaves much to be desired as a teacher. His lectures are super off topic and seldom lectures on the material tested on. You are still tested on this skimmed info though!  His curriculum is very disorganized.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a great professor and really cares about students and their opinions. There is a lot of reading and the quizzes ask about extremely specific things that were only mentioned once or twice in the paper. The tests are difficult because there was no study guide but just a lot of slides to look at, TA reviews help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Abbott is an amazing person who cares deeply for the environment. His lectures and assignments are easy. My only complaint was there was little to no test prep, the reviews never panned out, and were disorganized. Especially for the final. They made a last-minute review and gave us a few hours notice