Latika Menon is a Physics professor at Northeastern University rated 3.39/5 by 327 students, with 3.22/5 difficulty and 50.0% who would take them again (TRACE + RateMyProfessors + Reddit, updated July 2026).
Latika Menon professor reviews and ratings: 3.39/5 from 327 student reviews at Northeastern (50.0% would take again). TRACE + RateMyProfessor + Reddit.
she has good intentions but she just scribbles on the board solving the most complex problems and looks at her solutions half the time cuz even she cant understand what she did, class is a 90 min yap lecture. Whenever I emailed her she just said ok.(deadass just ok, 1 word)PHYS1145 2025-05-07 01:46:20 +0000 UTC
I never attended lecture and just looked at the slide shows and was fine. Midterm and Exams are similar to practice material, and a lot of partial credit is given.PHYS1147 2024-05-01 18:22:22 +0000 UTC
The material is easy as long as you attend class. Weekly open note quizzes, max 3 questions (about 2 parts each) but she covers similar questions in class! As long as you attend a class you will understand the quizzes. The mid-term was an open note and she was a generous grader. The final is open note as well. 10/10 would recommend taking the classPHY147 2023-04-12 14:25:31 +0000 UTC
Dry lectures, conceited, doesn't answer your questions directly, and just goes over formulas - hardly ever explaining any concepts. Your typical run of the mill horrible physics professor.PHYS156 2018-02-13 00:11:20 +0000 UTC
Worst professor ever. Not engaging at all. Her examples are much easier than anything you have to do in homework or ILS, and she was terrible at the Learning Catalytics. I contemplated being a physics major for awhile, but this class made me hate physics.PHYS1151AND1152 2017-03-24 10:14:43 +0000 UTC
PAINFUL LECTURES. If you can get over the voice, you still will find yourself checking the clock every few seconds. If they didn't have learning catalytics(WHICH YOU PAY FOR) to ask questions during class, I wouldn't go. get a list of equations and a brief sentence about each of them and it will be better than wasting your time with her.PHYS1155 2016-11-16 11:27:30 +0000 UTC
She goes into too much detail on the theoretical aspects. There are also much easier ways to solve things than the way that she teaches them to her students.PHYS1151 2016-02-04 00:41:37 +0000 UTC
horrible. everytime i go to her class i feel like she cant wait for the end of class to get rid of us. moves too fast over the material, doesnt care whether students get what shes talking about. absolutely uselessPHYS2 2010-09-24 17:58:10 +0000 UTC
Horrible Prof! She doesn't teach she just speeds through a quick explanation of a formula and then does problems. The quizzes are easy because she goes over problems like the quiz problems right before it. But BEWARE the midterm and final are not made by her so they are much harder! and the easiness of the class doesnt prepare you at all for themPHY145 2008-12-16 12:03:46 +0000 UTC
Don't go to class unless you have nothing else to do. Go Thursday since she repeats everything that day before the quiz anyway. She drops 2 quizes as well. Spend a good amount of time on your formula sheet for mid term and final, and you'll do fine. LABS=painful and the most poorly run labs I've ever taken!, but thats not her fault anyway.PHYU147 2008-04-17 16:49:33 +0000 UTC
No CommentsPHYS101 2006-08-29 14:13:11 +0000 UTC
Lectures were very helpful, I never missed one which helped a lot on exams. Midterm &final allowed a "cheat sheet" where I put practice problems that were super helpful and we also had access to a formula sheet. Majority of grade was exam & weekly quiz based, but these were very fair assessments (to me). .PHYS1147 2023-11-28 20:48:25 +0000 UTC
Overall the class isn't too hard, but the professor was not very good. She tends to ramble on about things that we don't need to know which just confuses people. She also stands right in front of the board and always talks into the board when she is teaching so you cannot see what she is writing until she is 5 steps ahead.PHY147 2009-11-06 22:59:43 +0000 UTC
Class is incredibly easy, review before quizzes and equations on the board almost makes going to class pointless. Her lectures repetitive, sometimes incomprehensible, and confusing. This year her midterm and final along with a few quizzes were not her own tests. This makes them all insanely hard. I'd like to thank her for a lost scholarshipPHYS156 2008-12-17 13:03:38 +0000 UTC
The homework for this class was long, hard, and unrelated on tempermental online system, Mastering Physics. The final was extremely hard and different than the ILS quizzes which were much too easy in comparision. Latika herself was alright as a professor, yet ILS was more helpful.PHYS1151 2015-05-04 12:34:12 +0000 UTC
Latika Menon has an average rating of 3.39/5 from 327 student reviews. 50.0% of students said they would take them again.
Latika Menon's classes have a difficulty rating of 3.22/5 based on student reviews.
Latika Menon has taught PHYS1145, PHYS1147, PHYS1157, INSC2963, PHYS1149, PHYS5260, PHYS1155, PHYS1151, PHYS1153 at Northeastern.
Data updated July 2026.