Very caring professor, and was pretty accessible outside of class time. However, his lectures were almost impossible to understand. He would talk about the concepts and go through the examples as if we already understood how to do them. Do not recommend taking this course, unless you have taken calc before.

Even though his explanations are unnecessarily long, he does not explain them well. He does not finish any lectures so you're responsible for finishing the slides he does not finish. When he would write how to solve the examples, the progress of how to solve them randomly erases. So, you have to quickly write them down.

Although he is very kind and cares about the students, the lectures were confusing. Typically we did not finish the powerpoint by the end of class but usually would skim over the end at the start of next class. He was always willing to help after class but I just never really got it. Lovely guy, just not a great teacher.

If you would like to take a course where the teacher makes countless mistakes, cannot explain his work doesn't complete lectures, unorganized, difficult to understand, then this is the course for you. I genuinely believe this man knows nothing about math. If you know calc already, you will most likely be fine, if not have fun!

DrAbid Ali is knowledgable in what he does, but he does not teach it well at all. I stopped going to his lectures because his teaching was confusing me so much, so I taught myself the work and I understood it better. The slides and weekly online quizzes were the simplest questions, but the Midterms and the Final were nothing we were ever taught.

Do not take his class. He is a nice man but terrible at teaching. Our midterms were online with little amount of questions, of which were all on the word problems he said he would "come back to" in lecture and never did. 3/4 of the course is review which is easy, but you are only tested on the new concepts of which himself is confused about.

He is a very nice guy, very caring. He has great office time and is willing to help students. But his lectures are very long and with unnecessary content and steps. He gives the easiest and repeat sample. The tests are not the same. The lecture is very confusing. so if you already know calculus and want to take it for credit, he is a good choice.

He truly lacks teaching ability. He asks if you have any questions, promising to respond at the end of the lesson, but he never does. You are cooked if you haven't taken calculus before his class. His explanations are poor, and he never finishes on time, so you have to go back. In general, simply avoid his class.

Nice guy but could not teach to save his life. Super disorganized.

Absolutely terrible prof. The lectures involve him sitting on a table at the front of the class and solving problems on his iPad. He doesn't explain his methods and just expects everyone to know exactly what is going on. He is extremely difficult to understand and his handwriting is awful. Tests are on things not covered in lecture.

He is not a good teacher; he has very bad examples in class, makes lots of mistakes and doesn't post lecture videos for Monday and Wed. His annotated slides make no sense, and he leaves many examples for exercise, and you are left to teach it to yourself. He is pretty lazy as he will just use the same example problems, so you don't learn anything.

Took math 133 and he did not explain anything

He is very hard to understand and fails to explain important topics in greater detail. He should have spent more time on simple topics and beginner-level skills. His practice tests (mostly the written response) were nothing like the actual test.

Can't teach at all

Worst professor/teacher that I have ever had. I showed up on day one and got confused on the most basic Calc that I already knew. I wish I didn't show up to any lectures because they just made me more confused. I somehow managed to pass but he made it way harder than it had to be. Don't take at all costs

Abid Ali is not a good teacher he seems passionate at heart but sadly this is not supposed to be his line of work. For such a teacher you would think the test would be easy but unfortunately he isn't very impactful at teaching and still has a lot of your final grade percentage attached to just two tests,

Abid Ali has a good understanding of the material but lacks heavily when teaching it towards the class. He would complicate basic-level math that I already understood, confusing me more than when I entered the class. Avoid at all costs

Oh boy, where do I start? well first off, his teaching style sucks, I get it that the man is certified but this is unfair to everyone learning because everything you know about calculus before this class gets washed out of your head right after. his practice test don't even match his exams at that point just go to the exam without it u might pass

Professor Ali is the worst teacher I have ever had. There is zero point in attending lectures as he reads directly off the slides and refuses to elaborate on any concept. Asking questions during the class is a waste of oxygen as he makes you more confused. You're better off watching a YT video than going through his lobotomizing lecture slides.

Dont even bother going to his lectures. I learned more about how badly people can smell in this class than i did about calculus.

He is by far the worst professor I've had. Not only does he struggle to teach the material, mainly due to his thick accent and poor handwriting, but he also has an unpleasant odor. Plus, your exams will have nothing that you have seen before in assignments and in class. I would not recommend him.

i hope the grinch steals your Christmas like your top up exam stole mine.

Hard to understand and the order by which he teaches things make no sense at all. The assignments are nothing like the exams. Better off not attending the lectures because going to them will only confuse you. Learnt practically everything in this course from YouTube and none of it from the professor. If you struggle with math already, good luck.

He is not a good math professor.. he doesnt interact with students. He just teaches and leaves. Doesnt explain basics. He teaches easy things in class and give complete different things on the test. The professor is not a good choice for teaching a subject like math that matters for engineering so much.

Terrible at teaching, doesn't explain, and goes through examples with no explanation. He goes through examples way to quickly and can be super rude at times. He is also very unorganized and doesn't make sense of his work/slides.

If 0 was an option I'd give it to him.

Not great at explaining the material which makes the class difficult to do without spending hours after every lecture learning the materials on your own

I have found that attending his lectures cause increased confusion. for example i went into a lecture on integrals already knowing how to compute integrals at a high level and after the lecture felt i no longer understand integrals.

I'm sorry to say that he is generally a poor teacher and struggles to convey content to students. The methods and examples seem disconnected from what he is trying to teach, and most questions are left as an "exercise" for you to figure out on your own. Taking this class and Math 134 is largely just you teaching yourself the material online.

I went into the class knowing all the content from ap math from high school. When he explained concepts I already knew and could do with ease he made me confused. I only started doing better when I skipped his lectures or ignored him during the lectures. If you don't already know the course you should drop it and take it online or learn by yourself

Please don't take this professor. U of S, please investigate. He lacks clarity and although his passion his there, he's not meant to teach. He fails to teach material and those who already know the material well end up confused. A very confusing, inconsistent, and horrible professor. Nice guy, just not meant for students trying to excel.

Do NOT take this professor or you will actually regret it. Doesnt matter if you're good at math or not. If you listen to his lectures, you learn nothing and you're only confused in the end. U of S please remove him

Teaches like he's explaining it to himself

horrible drop his class for your sanity

Drop his class since he'll just confuse you and you'll end up teaching yourself. Horrible professor. Can be quite rude.

Tries to explain concepts, but ends up just confusing everyone. He teaches like he's talking to himself and leaves out important details assuming you already should know them. Explains basic fundamental concepts after having already used them earlier to explain more in depth concepts. His whole lectures feel backwards or something.

logarthmic theeta by under root two

Very poor teacher. Difficult to understand. Lectures are so boring.

I went to all the lecture during the first module of the course and I had zero clue what anything was at the end. I learned more by studying the material it said I should have been taught out of the syllabus for the test. There is absolutely zero point in going to any lectures as you can't even tell when he is doing simple things like product rule.

I learned more in one hour from a tutor than he taught me all semester. He is extremely sassy somedays and just doesn't create a good learning environment. He skips over steps and then leaves the other half for "exercise" when nobody knows what is going on or how to complete the problem. I wish I could say I enjoyed his class but I would be lying.

Leaves half of the examples as "exercise" that nobody knows how to complete. Relies heavily on prior course knowledge. Wastes time for student to try questions when they dont know how. Tells the class to be quiet when nobody is talking. Clearly theres a reason he has been teaching at 2 other schools already.

your on your own

He might be capable of speaking english enough to be considered an english speaker, however he is not capable of putting things into terms that can properly describe complex concepts to students without relying on using strictly mathematical terms, (which we are supposed to be learning). He doesn't understand most questions students ask.

Found the class infinitely easier when i stopped his lectures class and learned from youtube instead. Impossible to understand what he says and his lecture notes are extremely difficult to follow. I took AP calculus before taking his math course and during the first day he made me confused about how the power rule works for derivatives. Also mean.

Abysmal. No other way to say it. He is quite snarky and doesn't have the capacity to actually teach anything. His notes are extremely messy and poorly organized. He either cant or refuses to elaborate on concepts when asked. Leaving new material as "exercise" is not a good way to teach. Usask needs to investigate.

If you have him as your math 133 or 134 prof dont even bother going to the lectures just look up the topics from the lectures slides on youtube. You can learn 10 times as much in half the time. Usask needs to investigate this, completely incapable of teaching anything. Would not trust him to teach multiplication let alone calculus.

terrible prof, nice guy but he has no clue how to teach something to someone that doesn't understand the topic. Usask if you are reading this, please spare the next years of first year eng students and get rid of this guy asap.

Way better off learning the class from youtube. Calc 1 and 2 both hard classes on their own, makes them impossible when abid is the prof

Abid seems like a nice guy, however his style of teaching is impossible to follow. He assumes you already know all the special rules and cases behind every mathematical concept because he never explains them. You are better off learning from youtube or other sources.

Abid is nice, his teaching is not. He teaches in a way that expects you to have memorized a formula sheet and speeds through difficult concepts while explaining relatively easy questions. His uploaded lecture notes are not useful in any capacity for later viewing because he discusses things in class that if you miss, you wont see on the notes.

At the u of s he teaches engineering math classes apart, this means since this program is special he is not allowed to curve. But this teacher is so bad he has curved every test drastically, I went from passing the course to failing the course after one curve. And after I had emailed him he changed the curve once again because his math was wrong.

Goodluck lol

I put a 1 but i feel like thats too generous.

Rude emailer

Not worth attending the lectures, you are much better off teaching yourself. He is rude when asking questions about tests. Those questions were only asked because he contradicted himself SEVERAL times and no one actually knows what their grade is less than two days before the Top up. The university needs to look into his teaching ethics.

This prof doesn't respond to emails and he doesn't give our grades back till like 1 day before the top-up. When you ask him a question he gives sass and cuts people off while they are speaking. He goes very fast and leaves us examples that never get covered again. His assignments are way harder then the lecture examples. He doesn't give a textbook.

-Leaves exercises for us to do, and doesn't give us the solutions later -Doesn't give us our grades in a timely manner -Isn't transparent about the grading scheme, so you don't know if you need a top up -Nice one day, mean another day -Some assignments are nothing like what was taught in the lecture -Found the exams fair, nothing was surprising

Professor Ali, oh what a sight, Mumbling formulas, whispering trite. Half-done problems, left in despair, Students guessing? He doesn't care. Raise your hand, beg and plead, "Help us, sir!"—he pays no heed. Blank stares, a lifeless gaze, Lost in math? Prepare to daze.

Student's log: 24 hours, 15 minutes away from exam rewrites. No official grades for the first exam have been released. Ali explicitly stated he will not change the date for the rewrite. Itd be fine if he was helping prepare students for the rewrite, instead he cowers behind the safety of inaccessiblity and refuses to respond to questions or email

i stopped going to the lectures its so bad

Others have said so, but terrible transparency when it comes to grading and the lectures are completely useless.

It is what it is

respectfully, fire this man

when Mr. Ali'ses resume appeared on the Usask Math departments dk I'm sure they were sleeping

People have already said their complaints about his teaching, but the class just sucks overall. The tests are easy but you need a 70 on them for no reason, its not like its a CBA class. The final grade for Module 1 arent even yet and the course coordinator changed the marking scheme about a million times and finally settled the day of the top-up.

If you only learn from what he teaches you will fail. However you can learn in 1 week what he teaches in 2 months (khan). Calculus itself is not he difficult part, but the way he explains is horrid. He solves the easiest problems during class and does not explain the process nor the understanding to do them, only how to solve that specific problem.

needs chapstick

I would be able to understand quantum mechanics faster than he could teach me what 1+1 is. Tests are the only thing that actually matters and doesn't follow any other CBA grading in other classes. Getting under 70% in just a module test, you either rewrite or fail the whole course. I learned more in 15 minutes from a TA than 2 lectures with him.

Abid Ali is by far the worst professor I have ever had. As someone who pays thousands and thousands of dollars and was promised a top quality education, it is embarrassing for the reputation of the U of S that he works here. He needs to be investigated because it's getting out of hand

If you ever have the option of math profs, run the other way. If he isn't fired by next year and you're in first year engineering, I'm praying for you

The material is not that hard, but his explanation and teaching is garbage. The whole module can be learned from YouTube in three hours and extends way beyond what he covered in class, which is helpful when he pulls out shit we've never learned on the tests

i never wore a seatbelt when driving to his class

All I have to say is how can this guy be a teacher when he is doing his own practice examples wrong regularly? Nuff said.

- Rude on emails - He is the only proff who tells us not to reach out to him if we need him. - my high school math teacher was infinity*x better than him. - Does not reply to emails and when he does its really rude. - The teaching made no sense. - Very rude and disrespectful*****( a big thing)

absolute nightmare