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MATH 1102

Calculus I (Mathematics/Science Majors) · 11 instructors on record · 34 sections

How the curve score is built

64Teaching74 raw · 11th percentile of BC classes

±0Easiness adjustmenteasiness 78 · 56 raw workload · lighter than 54% of BC classes

64Curve scorethe teaching curve ±0 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 54% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

74BC evaluations34 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of

49thMore challenging than 49% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

90BC — “Intellectually Challenging”34 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

46thMore work than 46% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

56BC — “Workload”34 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

Math1102 is not open to students who have completed a calculus course at the college level. MATH1102 is a first course in the calculus of one variable intended for Chemistry, Computer Science B.A. or B.S., Geology, Geophysics, Mathematics, and Physics majors. It is open to others who are qualified and desire a more rigorous calculus course than MATH1100. Topics covered include the algebraic and analytic properties of the real number system, functions, limits, derivatives, and an introduction to integration.

The board

11 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 3 of the 11 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Katherine SlymanAssistant Professor of the Practice · Mathematics	8796 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	62nd	1003 ratings · all classes
2	Liyang ZhangMathematics Provisional	7790 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	49th	947 ratings · all classes
3	Edward IsayevMathematics	7689 raw · 3 records	68−2 to the score	40th	—no page
4	Eric MossVisiting Assistant Professor · Mathematics Provisional	6882 raw · 2 records	68−2 to the score	69th	—no page
5	Renato MirolloMathematics Provisional fewer records	6782 raw · 2 records	63−3 to the score	69th	—no page
6	Ioannis ZachosMathematics	7183 raw · 4 records	75±0 to the score	52nd	8814 ratings · all classes
7	Tianxiang LiuMathematics	6777 raw · 3 records	81+1 to the score	62nd	—no page
8	Jamison WolfAssociate Professor of the Practice · Mathematics Provisional fewer records	5052 raw · 2 records	63−3 to the score	65th	4630 ratings · all classes
9	Yuzheng YanMathematics fewer records	5353 raw · 3 records	78±0 to the score	43rd	—no page
10	Gomathy GanapathyMathematics	6572 raw · 6 records	83+2 to the score	23rd	—no page
11	Caleb AshleyVisiting Assistant Professor · Mathematics	5055 raw · 4 records	63−3 to the score	48th	4210 ratings · all classes

4 of 11 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 34 records

Instructor4

Course3

Feedback3

Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks

Explains Clearly: The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available: The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating: The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest: The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized: The course was well organized.
Clear Goals: The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later: What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments: Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback: I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback: The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload: How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
Challenge: The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance: Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.

Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

34 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Katherine Slyman	Fall 2025	02	96	85	60
Edward Isayev	Fall 2025	03	87	90	80
Edward Isayev	Fall 2025	04	88	88	—
Edward Isayev	Fall 2025	05	92	82	40
Liyang Zhang	Fall 2025	06	90	84	60
Liyang Zhang	Fall 2025	07	90	83	60
Tianxiang Liu	Fall 2025	08	71	76	60
Tianxiang Liu	Fall 2025	09	80	76	40
Tianxiang Liu	Fall 2025	10	80	87	40
Katherine Slyman	Fall 2024	01	93	91	60
Katherine Slyman	Fall 2024	02	97	89	60
Eric Moss	Fall 2024	06	79	76	60
Eric Moss	Fall 2024	07	85	76	60
Jamison Wolf	Fall 2023	01	54	62	60
Jamison Wolf	Fall 2023	02	50	63	80
Ioannis Zachos	Fall 2023	06	80	76	40
Ioannis Zachos	Fall 2023	07	80	73	60
Yuzheng Yan	Fall 2023	08	51	49	40
Yuzheng Yan	Fall 2023	09	54	64	60
Yuzheng Yan	Fall 2023	10	55	77	—
Caleb Ashley	Fall 2022	01	57	55	—
Caleb Ashley	Fall 2022	02	65	64	80
Ioannis Zachos	Fall 2022	06	81	73	60
Ioannis Zachos	Fall 2022	07	90	84	60
Gomathy Ganapathy	Fall 2022	08	82	77	40

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How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.