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Jasbinsek, John Jeremy

Cumulative GPA: 2.20/4.00 with 10 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 2.30
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 1.90

Physics Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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PSC 101 Senior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 4:35 pm, Dec 3, 2012 Report Evaluation		cool guy. almost too nice and takes late work without penalty but don't get too used to it. The class is extremely easy and you should take it if you can fill up one of your GE's with it. I rarely studied but you definitely should review concepts/ key ideas before going into exams. .. he grades fairly easy and has dry humor, but he tries.

PHYS 101 Sophomore Grade Earned: A General Ed 1:17 pm, Dec 3, 2012 Report Evaluation		Matter and Energy (Physical Science 101) is a great class to take if you do not like science. This class is equivalent to a fifth grade science class. It sometimes seems so easy that you can blow it off and accidentally do badly. It is an easy course but you have to stay on top of it and really make sure you pay attention in class to the one or two key concepts you learn each day. The class is like a lab and lecture mixed together. You do labs pretty much every day but they are super simple and basic and you are supposed to learn the material through them. There are two midterms. One is worth 20%, the other 25%. The homework is a piece of cake and is 10% of your grade. Then there is a lab practical where you are tested on your ability to do an easy lab on your own worth 10% of your grade. The final is 30%. Jasbinsek is a good guy. He is funny and teaches pretty well. I definitely recommend taking this class! If you study for a few hours before each test, you should get A's. Take it if you are planning on having other difficult classes because this class won't be much of a burden

GEOL 205 Freshman Grade Earned: C General Ed 4:38 pm, Mar 26, 2012 Report Evaluation		first, i got a c+ in this class which is the lowest grade i have ever gotten in a class. If you have another option instead of this class then just take it and avoid this class! if you can't avoid it, here's what you're in for: So, he is a nice guy, and he does actually try to help students, however, its his tests that screw everybody over. He gives a weekly quiz, a midterm, final and 2 extra credit opportunities. His quizzes and tests are graded so hard, and are worth so much of your grade, that it just annihilates your grade. He passes back the quizzes and midterm in a folder, so you just take yours and pass the folder on, and so i looked at other peoples quizzes because i knew my scores were really low, and it seemed that about 95% of the class was scoring 10 or 12 out of 20 consistently. My score on the first midterm was a 70% and on the final a 76%, but i saw other peoples grades and i know that most people scored right about how i did or lower. He marks off a lot of points for small mistakes, so its really easy to loose a lot of percentage for a small calculation error, even if you know the concept and exactly how to do it. anyways, if you must take him, go on the field trips because every percentage point counts for this class, and good luck! i am so glad to be done.

GEOL 205 Freshman Grade Earned: C General Ed 2:41 pm, Mar 13, 2012 Report Evaluation		Dr. J is such a nice guy and is clearly passionate about teaching. However, he does not teach the material clearly. It was very hard to understand his lectures sometimes because he does not define his terminology that he uses a lot of the time. Be sure to go to his office hours, that's where most of the learning occurs. Also, it was hard to study for this class since there was never a homework assignment or practice problems. Good luck!

PHYS 132 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Support) 11:26 pm, Dec 18, 2011 Report Evaluation		I really enjoyed Dr. J as a professor. He is always very friendly and helpful during the labs and is easy to approach with any questions or concerns. I never went to any of his office hours, however. The class had 3 midterms that covered about 3 chapters each and a final, quizzes about every other lab period, homework for each chapter, and 8ish lab reports. Dr J taught the course basically straight from the book with some seismology extras added in their (as that is his obvious passion), however I found his lectures to be very helpful in portraying the material. The tests and quizzes contained very straightforward questions that test your understanding of the material but don't try to confuse you. The labs were straightforward, and Dr. J would help you if you had any troubles. Overall, I recommend Dr. J for at least Physics 132 if he teaches it again.

GEOL 205 Sophomore Grade Earned: B General Ed 8:30 pm, Dec 16, 2011 Report Evaluation		dr. j is awesome, but he can't teach. i didn't know there was so much to learn about earthquakes, but the way he teaches is too confusing. he's all over the place during his lectures and when you go to his office hours he never gives you straight answers. he makes you guess a lot. there were 2 midterms and a final that were pretty tough, and quizzes that were pretty easy. this is a class where you should go to his office every week to clarify everything. 2 extra credit opportunities which you should definitely go to for the easy grade booster (1.5% and 2% added to final grade). and also read the chapters for the multiple choice questions but buy the book instead of online cause it's so hard to read it online.

PHYS 132 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Support) 8:25 pm, Dec 13, 2011 Report Evaluation		I took this Physics 2 class during fall quarter of 2011. This class was comprised of completion graded homework, lab experiments, 5 quizzes, 3 midterms, and a final. John was a great professor who was very amicable. He was very laid back and easygoing. Although his teaching style was mostly very cookie-cutter, meaning that he lectured straight from the book, he did talk about seismology. This is his real passion and I found it interesting that he tried to blend topics from this course with seismology. I liked that the midterms and finals were all weighted similarly, which took pressure off the final. I found this class to be relatively easy, as there was enough cushion with lab write ups, homework, and straightforward quizzes to make this class enjoyable.



GEOL 205 Junior Grade Earned: C Required (Support) 1:14 am, Dec 11, 2011 Report Evaluation		One of the most boring and least helpful teachers I've had. He is passionate about the subject of earthquakes but does a poor job of teaching about them. Students were constantly confused on what material we were supposed to know and what he just wanted to share with us. Tests were surprisingly difficult as most material seemed very simple during lectures and labs. And going to his office hours were a waste of time.

PHYS 202 Sophomore Grade Earned: F Required (Major) 2:21 pm, Aug 24, 2011 Report Evaluation		If you're taking Physics on the Computer do yourself a favor and don't take it with this guy. From day one he lets you know that he was "tried by fire" with MATLAB, the program that he expects you to become proficient in. And since he basically figured it all out on his own, bear in mind he has a PHD and is extremely intelligent, he expects you to be able to do the same with this program. And just so you know MATLAB stands for Matrix Laboratory...sounds really intuitive right? Wrong. So between the two jobs I had during this class to pay for my tuition, the lack of teaching going on during class and the maddeningly unhelpful one on one "help" he gave I failed this class majestically. I don't know what he's like in other classes nearer to his prime interest in Geology and Mathematics, but for PHYS-202 don't take it with him unless you're either extremely proficient in computer programming or enjoy putting yourself through one hell of a challenge.

PHYS 202 Sophomore Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 11:10 am, May 5, 2011 Report Evaluation		"Dr. J" is the most boring teacher I've ever had. He insists on teaching Matlab with Trial and Error. If it doesn't work, don't bother asking him for help. He doesn't respond to emails. As for Office Hours, only the brave go, he'll help you for about four minutes and then wedge his way in between you and the exit and ramble on about unrelated things for an hour minimum, often causing students to be late for class. He intentionally assigns a ton of work because, "I don't have sympathy for your schedules, I once had three finals in one day." He made it clear to us that he doesn't care what our course load is like, he wants us to "suffer." Avoid this man like the plague.

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