Shirin Jamali at California State University Long Beach | Rate My Professors (2025)

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• PHYS100A

  Jan 25th, 2025

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PHYS100A

  Jan 25th, 2025

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : N/A

  Overall good professor, allows corrections on exams for exam credit which does carry a lot of weight in her class, don't let the 2.3 deter you from her. She's dope and caring also she doesn't really look when it comes to exams. (do what you want with that information)

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• PHYS100A

  Nov 18th, 2024

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PHYS100A

  Nov 18th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : N/A

  Really pleasant and intelligent lecturer. Sometimes she can be hard to follow but everything was fair and she was very approachable for help. Overall I learned a lot and she has an amazing understanding of physics and I really enjoyed my time in her class.

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• PHYS100A

  Nov 15th, 2024

  Quality

  5.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PHYS100A

  Nov 15th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : N/A

  I dont know what happened this semester but I thought she was one of the most forgiving professors I have ever had. I will say her lecturing is not the greatest, its easy to get lost as she just scribbles on the whiteboard but she will work with you to raise your grade in any way b/c she knows this is probably most people's first physics class.

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• PHYS152

  Nov 5th, 2024

  Quality

  4.0

  Difficulty

  1.0

  PHYS152

  Nov 5th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A+

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Her lectures may be difficult to follow at times. Other then that, if you go to her office hours or talk to her after class she will do her best to help you understand the material. She genuinely cares about you learning the material. Tests are nearly the same as the homework's so if you do the homework correct you are almost guaranteed an A.

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• PHYS152

  Oct 22nd, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHYS152

  Oct 22nd, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : Drop/Withdrawal

  Textbook

  : N/A

  Would give this professor a 0 if I could. Worst professor I have had so far at CSULB, extremely unorganized, and all over the place. Threatens students with 0's for not participating, started taking attendance halfway through the semester because nobody was showing up. Says the only way she can encourage us to learn is to threaten our grade with 0s

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• PHYS152

  May 24th, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PHYS152

  May 24th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : A-

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Please do not take this professor. Her lectures are absolutely horrible and most of the learning you will be doing will be at home reading the textbook or by watching a youtube video. Her only reading factor is that the exams are taken out of the webassign homework. She will add in a few of her own questions but most are webassign.

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• PHYS152

  May 3rd, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  May 3rd, 2024

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : Drop/Withdrawal

  Textbook

  : Yes

  The professor is very unorganized. Her notes are all over the place and she always threatens to give you a 0 for the day and commits to it. Her explanations are hard to understand since she uses words that you have yet to learn. She makes us take exams in only 30 minutes. She expects you to already have read and know the subject before class. 0/10

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• PHYS152LAB

  Feb 13th, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152LAB

  Feb 13th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Textbook

  : N/A

  I don't know much about her lectures but I can guess they are the similar to the labs, just uncoordinated and messy because she has no clue what she is talking about. She explains things horribly and rambles. She'll get mad at you for doing the labs incorrectly when she doesn't even teach you at all, she'll just make you watch videos to learn.

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• PHYS152LAB

  Feb 13th, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHYS152LAB

  Feb 13th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : N/A

  awful instructor. never knows what she is doing or what we are supposed to do. makes phys 152 lab even harder than it already is. ask her a question and she probably won't know the answer or will answer a completely different topic. would not recommend her for a lab instructor nor a lecturer

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• PHYS152

  Jan 5th, 2024

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PHYS152

  Jan 5th, 2024

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Jamali is very disorganize and is not great at expressing the material. Her lectures are confusing and at times hard to follow. However, her test is based on her HW. If you recognize the HW, you will do great on the test.

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• PHYS152

  Sep 21st, 2023

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  Sep 21st, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : N/A

  she is terrible at teaching, her lectures are not helpful, disorganized

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• PHYS152

  Jul 31st, 2023

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHYS152

  Jul 31st, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : A-

  Textbook

  : Yes

  She is very nice, but not a very good lecturer. Her lectures were atrocious and super disorganized. I was in the 8am section and no one showed up after the first week because of this. She would write all over the whiteboard and it was hard to follow. Her class is easy to do well bc the graders are nice on the test and it's just based on webassign.

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• PHYS152

  Apr 10th, 2023

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHYS152

  Apr 10th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : N/A

  the lectures are unorganized, she's all over the whiteboard and hard to follow. I thought the class was hard but I was in the lower quartile in the class for midterm 1 so maybe its just me (median was 45/60). Only redeeming quality would be using the webassign homeworks for the test so you know what to expect. Read the textbook / watch youtube

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• PHYS152

  Apr 7th, 2023

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  3.0

  PHYS152

  Apr 7th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Her lectures have no structure and rarely correlate to the Webassign or the Labs. Her notes on the whiteboard have no flow and are very patchy. Overall she can't teach. The only thing I liked about the class is if you can do the Webassign, you can do the exams. The two are the same, just with different numbers.

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• PHYS152

  Apr 4th, 2023

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  Apr 4th, 2023

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : Drop/Withdrawal

  Textbook

  : N/A

  She expects you to learn the subject in your own, the lectures are not beneficial to the homework or understanding the lab. Lectures are messy and incoherent.

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