<p>As helpful as the site is, all I get are snippets of how difficult or how easy the teachers' exams are. If there is no appropriate forum on college confidential for this, is there a known site where I can hear people talk about professors' teaching styles?</p>
<p>For example, I have Phaedra Daipha for Soc 101 but I also have to get to work by taking Route 18, so sometimes I need to leave a little early in lecture to commute. I need to know if her exams are extremely heavy on in-class discussions or if I can still get an A by reading the text as my primary method of studying.</p>
<p>Only thing I can think of that would be better is talk to students who have had the professors before. </p>
<p>For the most part I’ve found ratemyprofessor sufficient as to whether or not the professor was good or easy or whatever, but like you said there isn’t much details.</p>
<p>I get what you mean, it’s just that I’m from out-of-state, I’m new, and I’m also a commuter, so finding people who had her would be a bit difficult…I was hoping there would be other methods before I resort to that, because I didn’t want to be <em>that</em> parasite that asks random strangers for notes and such…</p>
<p>I suppose I could try, but I get the feeling I’ll get the same kind of response, like “ask a friend for some notes” or “find people who took her class” and etc, etc…</p>
<p>In what regard is Rate My Professors “helpful”? Chimpanzees doing a dance would give you more reliable information than the b.s. found on that site. The lack of entries should tell you all you need to know about its reliability. </p>
<p>You need to approach the instructor directly.</p>
<p>Well from my experience using it the professors rated highly were good and the ones rated poorly were bad. There are a lack of entries for some professors though which make it unreliable sometimes.</p>