Reviews of professor Randy Brooks

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very poor class format, no quizzes or practice tests, then throws you into final exam. Final was fill in the blank. Fill in the blank on an ENGINEERING exam, I thought that was interesting. Easy class no homework. I was a 4.0 cumulative GPA before this class. Had a 99 in the class before the Final (39% avg), finished with an 89. good guy, bad class

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Brooks is a great person, and it's a shame he teaches a course that's run so poorly by the department. He wants his students to succeed and is very passionate about the topics he teaches, specifically ethics. Everything is super easy until the final, which is impossibly difficult and had an average in the 30s.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Brooks is a good prof that cares about his students, but the class format really doesn't work. You can basically forget this class exists for the whole year, and then the final is absurd. The average was a 52 and was not curved. This class is an easy A all the way up until the final. Brooks does the best that he can do with this system.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
It is true that Brooks doesn't assign HW and therefore most of the semester is easy, but I still wouldn't take him again. His final was absurdly difficult. It was essentially a fill-in-the-blank vocab exam worth 20% of your grade. He doesn't prepare you at all and questions come from everywhere on the slides. I would not recommend this prof at all.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The semester is super easy, so it all comes down to the final, where our class average was about a 40 making it almost impossible to get an A unless you ace the final which is very hard considering there are no materials to prepare for it. If you don't mind getting a B he is great, otherwise I don't recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Great professor, useless class. He doesn't assign much work so the final is hard to prepare for but the lab grades make up for the bad final grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Randy Brooks is an amazing individual. However he isn't the best at teaching. He severely underprepares u for the final and the midterm. Teaches random things that have nothing to do with the midterm and exam. So make sure u get those materials from another class. However he is super chill and if u turn in something late just email him.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took Dr. Brooks over the fall, the class was filled with easy participation grades. Due to how easy the class lectures were I was very underprepared for the final while other professors had more difficult lecture assignments and better-equipped students for the final exam. Dr. Brooks was a great professor and gave a massive curve on the final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor as he made the class very easy. However, since it was so easy, I was not prepared for the exam. I did not have a good grasp on PHYS 207, which made it much harder to get a good grade on the exam. But, you can guarantee a B if you just show up and do the few assignments he provides. The lab portion difficulty depends on your TA.