Reviews of professor Evan Thatcher

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I think the main problem in Professor Thatcher's class is the physics department's way of learning. It's a flipped classroom so be prepared to teach yourself everything. The lab is a waste of time and most of lecture is talk to your neighbor. They've rearranged the grading scale so people can bomb exams and still pass but nobody learns anything.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Evan is really passionate about physics and he will do his best to support you in this course!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This guy is awful. The content is lacking the depth needed to complete the assignments given. You must put in far more effort than they tell you in order to succeed. You can't succeed based off of what they give you, if you try, you will fail. My best advice is to find someone to cry to about this course because its the only way to get through it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Offered 1 pt extra credit for tests, halfway through term. Material covered in lecture was very simple and did not help with solving problems. Tests were very difficult, compared to other years they seemed way harder. Every test had an error that had to be clarified with us partway through. Grading was very behind. Lectures weren't consistent pace.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Evan is a good teacher but this class structure is set up to make you fail. They give about 4 assignments per lecture to familiarize yourself with material, but come quiz/test time, it has NOTHING to do with what you learned and is 1000x harder. No forgiveness even through covid either, this class is harder than adv. A&P which says a lot

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Thatcher is annoying in class and is a horrible professor. His class is dysfunctional and very hard. There is such a big gap between lecture videos, in class lectures and post lectures in terms of difficulty. He does not prepare you for his exams. Good luck if you have to take PH 20X with him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Physics is definitely a difficult class but Evan is one of my favorite professors at osu. He cares about his students and puts in a lot of effort so that his students succeed. He is incredibly welcoming and will answer any level of question without making students feel bad which is often the case in other classes

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Fantastic at teaching, attendance isn't mandatory but you do have to answer lecture questions, and if you attend then you get 100% instead of getting an asynchronous grade based on accuracy. There are plenty of resources on the boxsand site (thought it can be difficult to find), and the teacher/TAs respond quickly if you need help.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Evan is a great teacher, but the fact of the matter is that the class is set up so badly it made me want to eat my shoes. Everything necessary for the course is buried beneath eight layers of hyperlinks, there are 2-5 videos for every lecture, and the labs are a slog. You can take notes into tests, but you have to put up with an intense workload.