Augusta Rainsford - Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Professor: Augusta Rainsford

Department: Mathematics

College: Rutgers - State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

terrible. save yourself. lectures are unclear, she is constantly confused. the exam averages were in the 50s and she didnt feel the need to curve at all. half the class failed and she couldnt care less. whoever is saying she is a good lecturer was either paid by her or was done by her herself.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CALC251
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

What a mistake it was to take her class. Her lecture is one of the most disorganized at Rutgers, not to mention her handwriting is illegible at times. Her teaching consists of dumping out the information without caring if the students actually understood it. By the end of the semester, about 25 of 80 students came to lecture. Just use the textbook.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CALC251
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

When she said there is no curve, she isn't lying. She didn't curve a single point. What's sad is that on our second midterm the average was a 54, yet she still didn't see it was necessary to curve that? I put my heart and soul into this class and I was not rewarded with what I deserved. This class killed my GPA, thanks to an awful professor.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst math lecturer I've ever encountered. worst TA out there. If you have her please just drop, save yourself a headache. maybe she's a good person, but definitely a bad professor. lecture is boring and not useful, most of the time looking to the board and writing.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH251
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Terrible.. I stop going to her lecture because I can barely understand her handwriting. I would rather watch some videos online than going to her lecture because her lecture is not helpful at all.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The weakest lecturer I had for calc 3. The exams were easy than other professors'. But she makes lots of mistakes and her class is boring.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH251
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Not a good lecturer. You won't be learning the best in lecture. But her exams are easy because they are straightforward and basically textbook example problems + class notes + homework. She doesn't put hard questions. Obviously, the material for calc 3 is hard, so you will need to learn it yourself, but she makes the exam easy.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CALC251
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Take Rainsford if you want to have impossible exams with no curve in the class.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CALC152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Words cannot even being to describe how great she is. she helps you with anything if you ask and while she may write quickly all you have to do is ask her to slow down or pause. she's really good at explaining things and if you don't understand she'll keep explaining until you do. if you feel overwhelmed by homework she'll push back the due dates

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CALC251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

One word to describe her: sloppy. Sloppy handwriting, poor presentation skills, and not very invigorating. Basically, everything you typically wouldn't want in a professor, she has. She's incredibly nice in person, but comes off as arrogant during lecture. I would say she cares, but only sort of at the surface. She's been known to be cold.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CALC152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

unfortunately the weakest lecturer i've had the displeasure of experiencing. she means well, but she fumbles over her notes and makes clerical mistakes constantly whilst copying from her notes. just show up for the exams & recitation, and read the textbook for 80 minutes during normal lecture times to get a similar understanding of course material.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CALC135
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Takes random attendance 5 times, go to class. Messy handwriting on board. Covers all material and decent lecturer. Not organized and does not give practice test questions. Just learn from examples in class, notes, and textbook. Second midterm was harder than the first. Not bad. Not good. However, she is very willing to help and answer questions!!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CALC135
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

even though the math department at rutgers is bad, she was a great professor. she would always ask the class how we were doing and always took time to answer questions even when she was interrupted by them. she really cares about her students but the class overall is tough and the averages were super low.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MTH251
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I'm in DiffEqs. She's a nice person when you talk one on one, but she comes off arrogant during class. Her exams are very hardThe quizzes are straightforward, so you'd think the exams would be as wellShe wouldn't tell us the average of the exam(I got a 40-something and so did all my friends), concluding "there's no curve in life". Like, come on.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CAL135
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

her exams are considerably harder than the exams given by other professors. Showed up 20 minutes late to the first exam and routinely shows up late to lecture.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CAL135
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Really poor in lecture. Her exams are significantly harder than anything she teaches you in class. Prepare for the simplest problem concepts to become unrealistically difficult. Overall trash.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CAL135
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Her exams are noticeably more difficult compared to other professors, for whatever reason. The average on the first was a 55 and the second a 50. They tend to be based off textbook problems, not past exams. Overall, she's unorganized, seemingly careless, and not the best professor. I recommend others, but not the end of the world if you have her.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH300
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Very unorganized, often taking 10+ mins to remember where we left off last lecture, sometimes even skipping over concepts she forgot we didn't cover. Most egregiously, she is possibly the least helpful professor I've ever had -- she would refuse to walk through questions to clarify difficult concepts, claimed to be "too busy" to invest extra time.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She's a nice person but horrible lecturer from my experience. She decided not to curve anything because apparently students abused the curve the previous semester. Her lectures were hard to follow cause she doesn't properly space her handwriting so it's like a big combined word instead of a sentence

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She isn't engaging at all. You have to read the book to understand main concepts as she skips important derivations.