Reviews of professor Patrick Rault

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Rault makes you use his textbook that he wrote, and it has no answers to the problems, yet he gives no partial credit on problems. Essentially he expects you to be perfect on exams and quizzes, but he never gives an example of what a perfect proof should look like. He also does standards based grading which sounds nice, but is hard in usage.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had him for Number Theory, and I loved his class. It is Inquiry-Based learning, so you do have to at least attempt the problems outside of class. However, it makes the knowledge stick better, plus he does give solid hints on some of the tougher problems. He gives his textbook for free that he is working on. Overall, it was a great experience.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Standards-based grading is demoralizing; instead of partial credit, you get a "very close!" or "almost!". The class is "inquiry-based learning" so your classmates will be teaching you by presenting the assigned homework problems instead of the person paid to teach. I now have an appreciation for conventional classes. He also makes you buy his book.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While Dr. Rault's teaching methods aren't the most straight forward thing. Whatever he did really made some material click in my head. However if you don't do the assigned homework and show up you will not pass, if you don't try you won't do well. He is a very nice guy as well, just ask questions and you should be fine

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Continued. Even though he is a bad teacher he's a good guy. He tries, but it's really hard. Just realize you're paying like a thousand for a math class the least you should get is a good teacher, unfortunately that isn't Rault. Good guy horrible teacher. Work hard maybe you can do well.