The most stupid professor I had ever seen. Lectures are boring, like talking to himself. It is hard to believe he worked on these topics for 3 decades. Homeworks are extremely time consuming and not relevant to lecture. Topics are from outdated boring minor research paper 50 years ago...

Very unengaging, extermely boring, hard to follow. He was the worst chem professor I've had.

AVOID THIS TEACHER AT ALL COSTS. Rearrange your schedule if you have to. Seriously. The only reason why anyone would choose this guy as a lecturer is if he/she wanted to hear someone whose speaking voice sounds identical to David Spade. Tests are LOONG (final was 8-9 pages front and back), difficult, and lectures are hard to follow.

Terrible professor, he didn't want to be there and you could tell. Lecture attendance was a waste of time, all you have to do is the problems from the book to learn the material.

Wanring: DO NOT TAKE HIM. extremly hard exams and nuclear on his lecture.

Worst teacher ever. i stopped going to class the first week. class wasnt that hard really, if you can learn from the book. all the exam and quiz problems were from the book so there arent any tricks. just dont expect to be able to learn from robinson

this professor is just terrible. he talks to himself half the time and is not helpful at all. His slides are ridiculous. theres a whole essay per slide and you cant read anything. His tests are even worse. He has every tricky problem and it is impossible to finish. The class average was only a 45/106.

Just thinking about this teacher makes me angry! He's a horrible teacher but demands a lot from the students on the Tests and assignments. It'r ridiculous. I got a good grade, but I still hated him.

Terrible lecturer. Tests would have been reasonable if he could actually teach. I learned the most from TAs, but would probably avoid this professor. Lectures and lecture notes don't make any sense.

He is so frustrating! I took chem in high school and Prof Robinson's just made me confused. It's like he has HIS way of doing things and that's how YOU'RE gonna learn it, even if it doesn't work for you. Basically just read from the book or study guide.

His method of teaching involves tons of powerpoint slides with no explanation to the wall of words he reads from. I would rethink taking his class if you are registered in one of his chem classes.

he was hard and unhelpful tests were all multiple choice but they were not easy.

TERRIBLE. waste of tuition and taxes. Students in adv chem taught themselves - I'm in lecture right now and he's spent 30 mins failing to explain basic dimensional analysis... This is a professor?! We had a sub for the first two lectures who was amazing!! Hi name was, I think, Read. Take his classes instead if u can.

If you can do anything, avoid Bruce! He is a terrible lecturer and doesn't explain things well at all. He uses his own methods a lot that he doesn't explain so you are pretty much screwed at that point. He isn't very approachable either.

Like any other freshman, I wasn't 100% sure what what my expectations for a college class should be. I figured I would take Bruce's class even after reading the reviews, since there was only one 144 class. I was very disappointed. I has taken all of my prior knowledge from high school chem to pull a descent grade. I don't recomend his classes.

B-Rob's a good enough guy but is extremely unorganized & confusing. Often the material he goes over in class strays from the book & you must learn it because it'll be on the tests. I learned better from my TA than from B-Rob. If you do get him treat the homework & textbook as the backbone to what you must learn in lecture & be prepared to be lost.

The absolute worst chemistry teacher. His lectures are incomprehensible, so the majority of what you learn will be straight out of the book. Avoid him at all costs.

Bruce Robinson is one of the worst chemistry teachers I have ever had. I took AP chemistry and this material is not that bad unless you have Bruce Robinson. The webassign problems are not relevant to what you need to know on the test. Go to lecture so you can try and decipher what you need to know on the test.

This class was unbelievable. Everyone's comments below are 100% true. This man does not know how to teach and his condescending nature makes you not want to learn either. There's no point going to lecture. Good grades are manageable in this class - but don't expect it. If you take this class - never use your homework to study, it's worthless.

The average for his 2nd midterm was 48/102. 'Nuff said.

I got a 3.9, went to his office hours once and will never return. He was mean and made ridiculously snide comments to people he was trying to "help." The person below me lucked out.

Learning from him has been like trying to learn from a toddler. He jumps between subjects a lot and is very easily distracted. He never actually explains what he's talking about, he just does a ton of examples. He tends to just assume everyone knows what he?s talking about and laughs nervously when people don't respond to him.

The best way to put it is that his lectures are useless. You will not learn a thing. ALEKS has literal taught me everything about the course.

His lecture is confusing and not helpful at all. The best way to earn good grade in this class is to study on your own.

The lecture is really useless and you won't learn anything from it. The only way to learn is from doing ALEKS or reading your textbook. Such a horrible teacher!

Robinson was probably the most useless professor I've ever had. He's disorganized, unclear during his lectures, and constantly has technology issues with a mere overhead projector that takes up half of the lecture time. I stopped going to class after the first week, as I learned by reading the book.

Egomaniac, little to no respect for his students.

I usually don't rate, but this professor was so awful, I really wanted to warn anyone even considering taking his class. Please take any other professor but this one. His explanations and lectures are so awful that I didn't even bother going because it was a waste of time. He also can be snobby when you ask questions.

Very unstructured class. Lecture slides are extremely hard to read and includes huge blocks of text. Homework keys include many typos and mistakes; equation formatting is terrible and he often forgets to include values needed to solve the problem. Exam difficulty is okay, but final grading is harsh.

Lectures were poorly organized and lecture slides were nearly incomprehensible, consistently did not end on time, often going completely off topic during lecture, made many errors in the homework answer keys, and was often late posting assignments and other necessary documents. If there is the option to have a different professor, do that.

Prepare to teach yourself P Chem. Lectures are vague. Concepts are not well introduced. He starts deriving stuff without explaining why it's important or how it relates to other course concepts. His teaching skills are sub-par which would be forgivable but his attitude is also poor. Questions are often met with snark. Avoid taking his classes.

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Lectures, HWs, and slides really difficult to follow Very intelligent guy, but to a fault (overcomplicates things by explaining or omitting too much) Office hours I felt dismissed and more confused I could see how a very specific type of learner would enjoy this class though! I enjoyed his enthusiasm when he explained things fascinating to him

Avoid Robinson at all cost. Worst professor you could ever imagine, self study guys.

Lectures, lecture slides, homework, and exams are like a big 4 circle venn diagram in which the overlap is pretty minimal. Explanations are pretty unfortunate and often just dont exist. Exams are usually pretty similar to the practices so do those and understand them and youll be fine.

Unavoidable catastrophe

Lectures were sporadically taught and did not follow the posted slideshows. Homework answer keys were not clearly explained. Answers to questions in class were almost dismissed and received only brief responses. No practice exam was offered for the final, only the homework problem sets.

Prof. Robinson is about 76 years old. It shows in his lecture ability and lack of tech knowledge. Homework is only solvable with AI help because it's so disconnected from the lecture material. Unfortunately, he only teaches w/ chalk board, and doesnt even teach well. No txtbook, PP slides are CONVOLUTED and exams are MISTAKE RIDDEN. Start praying:(