Zoltan Papp at California State University Long Beach | Rate My Professors (2024)

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• Phy450

  Nov 10th, 2022

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  1.0

  Difficulty

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  Nov 10th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

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  Please do yourself a favor. If you get him for any upper division physics course, drop! The absolute worst teacher there is. DO not bother coming to class since he just copies off of his own textbook and does not explain his work. He does curve his grading but you will NOT learn in his class.

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• PHY152

  Aug 20th, 2022

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHY152

  Aug 20th, 2022

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : B

  Textbook

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  This guy cannot teach. His lectures are super confusing and you walk out of class more confused than when you came in. He lectures straight from the textbook, but you can't even follow along due to his thick accent and VERY messy handwriting. If you're a physics major or you LOVE physics, take this class. If not, pray for a big curve.

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  PHY152

  Aug 23rd, 2021

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  PHY152

  Aug 23rd, 2021

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : Drop/Withdrawal

  Textbook

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  Online Class

  : Yes

  Dropped the class after 1 week, so I wouldn't recommend. I also took this class for the summer from the open university, meaning that I'm not a CSULB student.

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  PHYS562

  Aug 23rd, 2021

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  PHYS562

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  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : Yes

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : No

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  Online Class

  : Yes

  The class covered graduate/advanced upper-division level modern physics. All of us were first semester grad students so I definitely think that it was unnecessarily difficult. IK it's a physics class and not a CS class, but we are here to learn how to code and not 2nd year grad level stuff. Also, his real-time coding is very, very hard to follow...

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  PHYS152

  Aug 20th, 2020

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  

  PHYS152

  Aug 20th, 2020

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : B

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Online Class

  : Yes

  Take this class and you will have a 95% chance of failing. He was forced to curve our entire class, like all of his previous classes. Performed great in PHYS151, this professor just doesn't seem to care. You cannot read his handwriting or understand what he's saying half the time. Don't know how he's still hired, avoid him at all costs.

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  PHYS152

  Aug 13th, 2020

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  

  PHYS152

  Aug 13th, 2020

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : Not sure yet

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Online Class

  : Yes

  His exam questions hand-drawn in a very bad way by himself, which makes it very difficult to even understand the question. His lectures are very difficult to understand because of his bad handwriting and accent. It is very very difficult to learn something from him. I would not recommend taking his class at all.

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• PHYS152

  Nov 9th, 2018

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  Nov 9th, 2018

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : B

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Summer 2018. Really messy handwriting, and he has an accent. He covers topics quickly and not thoroughly. Tests are only an hour, and he goes over it right after you turn it in, which is torture. Curved because almost all would fail otherwise. When I saw him one-on-one, he hardly gave me feedback and acted like he didn't really care.

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• PHY152

  Jul 31st, 2018

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHY152

  Jul 31st, 2018

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : C

  Textbook

  : No

  You're only graded on tests. That's it really at least for the summer classes he does. The tests averages aren't great so I assume there'll be a curve. As mentioned before the man has a thick accent and doesn't appear to have a large vocab so he'll breeze thru lectures when he runs out of things which can be frustrating. His writing is VERY sloppy.

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• PHY151

  Feb 26th, 2017

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHY151

  Feb 26th, 2017

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  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Would Take Again

  : No

  Grade

  : Audit/No Grade

  Textbook

  : Yes

  The worst professor anyone could ever get. He is unable to understand due to his thick accent and he does not like those who would ask questions and he also does not seem to know how to teach. Whenever you attempt to ask questions, he gets upset and gets mad and the more questions you ask, the more he dislikes you.

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• PHY152

  Nov 25th, 2015

  Quality

  3.5

  Difficulty

  2.0

  PHY152

  Nov 25th, 2015

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Funny guy, incredibly chill and a decent professor once you're able to get over his accent. Took his Physics 152 class over the summer, with minimal regrets. Reasonable exams, and does not ask for too much.

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• PHYS152

  Aug 19th, 2015

  Quality

  2.5

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHYS152

  Aug 19th, 2015

  For Credit

  : Yes

  Attendance

  : Not Mandatory

  Grade

  : A

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Dr. Papp is an odd man, but he knows his stuff. All he asks of you is to show up to lectures and laugh at his jokes. Exams are taken straight from the book. Lectures are straight from the book, but confusing. Be prepared to study for countless hours. The class was curved, but every session is different and situational. Overall: learned a lot.

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• PHYS152

  Aug 16th, 2014

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  Aug 16th, 2014

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : B

  Textbook

  : Yes

  The worst and most useless professor I have ever taken. His lectures only leave you confused about the material, partially because of his thick accent and mainly because of his poor teaching abilities, forcing you to read the book on your own. BUT he enforces attendance policies, wasting your time by making you attend his lectures.

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• PHYS152

  Aug 16th, 2014

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  Aug 16th, 2014

  Attendance

  : Mandatory

  Grade

  : C

  Textbook

  : Yes

  He is the WORST excuse of an "educator" ever! He lectures directly from the book (with seemingly no lecture notes or lesson plans) He speaks incomprehensibly and cryptically answers his confused students' questions (leaving us even more confused afterwards) HARD exams and NOT helpful whatsoever. The exam average for our class was like 50%.....

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• PHYS152

  Jan 10th, 2014

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  5.0

  PHYS152

  Jan 10th, 2014

  Textbook

  : No

  Extremely unclear and difficult. I would not recommend him to anyone.

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• PHYSICS152

  Jul 21st, 2013

  Quality

  1.0

  Difficulty

  4.0

  PHYSICS152

  Jul 21st, 2013

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Hes worthless, he basicly reads the book and teaches. The gives 2 problems for each exams and combines hw problems. He barely speaks english , hes worthless as a teacher. Cannot recomend , if you master his hw u should be ok. You will run out of time before u get to finish your problems. take someone else!

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• PHYS510

  May 31st, 2013

  Quality

  4.0

  Difficulty

  2.0

  PHYS510

  May 31st, 2013

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Homework's are helpful for the tests. His lectures are pretty much straight out of the book, which is both a good and bad thing. This class will push you to learn the material and in the end you will.

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• PHYS151LAB

  Apr 1st, 2013

  Quality

  4.0

  Difficulty

  1.0

  PHYS151LAB

  Apr 1st, 2013

  Textbook

  : No

  Has an accent, but it doesnt take too long to get use to it. He knows the labs we have to do are a joke, and therefore grades pretty easy. He is willing to help if you ask for it. He is also very funny.

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• PHYS152

  Nov 13th, 2012

  Quality

  4.5

  Difficulty

  1.0

  PHYS152

  Nov 13th, 2012

  Textbook

  : Yes

  Don't know where the other reviews came from. This guy is friendly, easy going, lectures and assigns homework straight from the book, and tests on the homework problems he assigns. It was a challenging class but he does not ask too much. Take him. Very helpful if you ask for help.

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• PHYS152

  Aug 28th, 2012

  Quality

  3.0

  Difficulty

  1.0

  PHYS152

  Aug 28th, 2012

  Textbook

  : Yes

  He can't write for beans and he can't even speak english properly. if you remotely understand calc based physics you'll get either a A/B because his exams are literally hw problems word for word. if you're good at BSing, talk to him for free points. One girl did successfully this summer...

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• PHYS151

  Aug 22nd, 2012

  Quality

  3.0

  Difficulty

  2.0

  PHYS151

  Aug 22nd, 2012

  Textbook

  : Yes

  in the class. Don't rely on the lecture to learn new material, since he goes over concepts briefly. Grades generously. Lots of students got their grades changed just by going to talk to him.

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