try to understand her challenge (impossible)

Lectures are optimal times to do other work because it's literally impossible to understand what she's trying to say

Try understanding her. It's a challenge.

This prof is just suboptimal in every way possible. Notably, she is hard to understand, both physically and mentally.

Professor Jambuge does her best to teach and explain everything, but she was just incredibly hard to understand. She often misunderstands questions and gets side-tracked by them. I would not have survived this course if it weren't for Mark Van Raamsdonk's recorded lectures online.

Does not explain well during lectures. Doing lots of practice exams helped me through the course. PHYS 157 is not a very hard course.

I took Physics 131 with her during the summer. She tries to help but is just incredibly hard to understand in every way possible. Her quizzes are very hard with little time allotted. Less than half the class gets iclickers right on almost every question. Avoid taking her class if possible.

She is difficult to understand because of her accent, but what makes her a poor professor is how she struggles to explain topics linerarly. She works through problems much too quickly, and she does not explain her solutions. I attended other professors' lectures and watched tutorials online to make up for her lectures.

She is incredibly diffucult to understand due to her accent. She also doesnt understand nor properly answer student questions. Lacks the ability to commant attention of the class. Seems confused as she teaches and fails to teach in a linear way, or to explain her reasoning behind solutions when a student asks. She tries her best.

Not a good prof

Professor is hard to understand, lectures are useless but she does try to explain it as much as possible. 'A' for effort, but still would not take this prof. Textbooks will be your friend.

She doesn't put the homework up on canvas sometimes and is terrible at teaching, half the class stopped showing up after a few weeks and went to other sections. Avoid this class at all costs.

Does not answer questions clearly or explain topics. Impossible to understand.

This prof is by far the worst first year eng prof. Everyone is confused constantly. I would say the average iClicker percent for the correct answer is 20%. She will say clear and everyone will look around and she'll just go okay and continue on. Avoid at all costs. Watch van raamsdonk videos instead.

Avoid at all costs. Amali is a very kind person, but spent the entirety of the semester reading off of her prepared slides instead of teaching. Class felt like watching an hour long video. She would also get confused when students asked questions, to the point we stopped asking. Most of the class would get the clicker questions wrong too.

She seems lovely but a terrible explainer and difficult to understand. Avoid taking her unless you like teaching yourself everything online.

Prof Amali had a hard time explaining the content. She tends to speedrun the content and speak at an extremely fast pace, and on top of that, her accent made it worse and she could not be understood at all. It was difficult to understand new material. I once asked her for clarification and it took so long to understand what she was trying to say.

Often seems as if she herself doesn't understand the concepts she is attempting to teach her students, was often stumped by some of the simplest questions, and or simply didn't answer students questions and told them to ask her after class, but which such answers would have been helpful to the rest of the class in regard to understanding of concept

Most of the time, it seemed as though she herself did not understand the concepts. She could not properly answer questions, and would often just confuse the issue. In order to do well, going to lectures isn't even helpful if you can find good online resources.

She is terrible at explaining the concepts and I feel like she has not understood them herself She makes every concept more confusing.. If you are in her section for phys157 you are better off relaying on YouTube and the textbook, don't waste your time by going to the lectures. Half of the class stopped attending the lectures halfway in the term.

This school needs better physics teachers... just use edX and you'll be okay also watch other prof's lecture recordings. So sorry if you have her as your prof (I stopped going to the lectures).

Teaches very poorly and does not explain anything well. If you ask a question she never knows the answer. Avoid at all cost you learn nothing.

I've been consistently going to class and honestly, I've absorbed absolutely NOTHING. Shes hard to understand, has a thick accent, and tends to repeat herself multiple times. Makes it hard to follow.

Outline of a lecture with Professor Jambuge: 1. Reads off the slides 2. Student asks a question 3. Cannot answer and gets confused 4. Other students help her answer the question 5. Repeat

Dr. Jambuge was perhaps the least qualified person in the lecture hall to be teaching the course. She didn't seem to know physics, nor how to teach it, which was very unfortunate as her Ph.D. is in physics pedagogy. Funny how someone can get a degree in two areas that they know nothing about. A product of the system that continues to fail us all.

I made a rate my prof account just to give Jumbage a bad score. For the love of god, DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. Jumbage has a thick, unintelligible accent and zero teaching skills. The typical lecture will consist of gibberish followed by a student asking a simple question that will confuse her. Don't bother with lectures, use the textbook.

She really seems clueless sometimes. The accent can be difficult but honestly, even if she had no accent at all what she says still doesn't make sense and is not clear and concise at all. Sometimes the students would even correct errors in her work!!! I got a good mark but that was definitely not because of the lectures!

The accent is awful, it is just painful

avoid at all costs, like fr i wish i dropped this course... hard test questions and little to no support and confusing lectures.

I want to make it clear, this review is not a sour grapes thing. In all honesty, she does NOT know how to teach. It's not even her accent that's bad, it's her coherence and lack of proper explanation for basic problems. I was lucky that this course was easy enough to self-learn everything outside of class. NOT the best experience in first year.

I started going to Prof. Jambuge the first two weeks, and I realized that not only was she just reading straight from the powerpoint with no other input, but I did not understand what she was saying around ~ 90% of the time. Total waste of class time and I self studied the entire course. Horrible experience.

Learned absolutely nothing from her lectures as all she did was derive useless equations and poorly explain how to solve problems. No one understands anything as the iClicker results are almost always widely distributed and majority don't even get it right. She is clueless when students ask her questions and is also never on piazza.

Honestly one of the worst classes I have ever take. Amali does not seem confident in the material, and if you ask questions she doesn't know how to answer them. She goes through example questions without explaining what she's doing, and if you ask she responds like you should already know and isn't anymore helpful. Her monotone lectures are killer.

I had an issue with an access code and couldn't login to Master Physics due to an external fault and she did not consider my situation whatsoever and gave me a 0

She's just not great at explaining anything

Nothing to add honestly

Literally so hard to understand what she is saying. Doesn't explain things very clearly and gives little time to do the examples in class, which makes me not want to even bother trying. I genuinely dread going to this class, it's insanely boring, pick any other prof.

She's hard to understand at first but you get used to it. Except then you realize she can't explain or teach anything. I dreaded coming to these lectures. She's a sweet lady but I just cannot... they are insanely boring. The only reason I actually learned anything in this class was because of the tutorials.

Learnt more watching a 30 minute video from another prof then I had in 2 weeks of lecture. Once asked her a question after class and she couldn't understand it.

Absolutely awful!! Cannot overstate that she explains things horribly. She somehow made the easiest physics course at UBC feel impossible. Please do not take if you can choose any other prof!

Absolutely awful prof. I would leave lectures more confused than I entered. She doesn't actually teach, she just solves problems and says "Everyone understand?" (no one did). Please if you see this and you have Jambuge, SWAP NOW I AM WARNING YOU SWAP SWAP SWAP DROP SWAP DROP

She is sometimes difficult to understand due to her accent, and makes lectures somewhat confusing. The concepts weren't too difficult but she complicated them

While I loved walking up to the sound of her voice every Monday, Wednesday, and friday, there were more days than not where I could not make out what she was saying due to her accent. I switched to a different professor half way and it made my life so much easier.

She was very nice, however, does not know how to explain topics in a way that makes sense. Rambles a lot making it very hard to follow her train of thought when she solves problems. Also, she makes the simplest concepts seem way harder than they actually are. Ended up just learning everything on my own as it was better than going to class.

If you struggle understanding physics you should choose a different professor. She doesn't explain the thought process for questions and it can be difficult to follow when she does the problems. If you're struggling go to the office hours of the other professors that was super helpful for me.

Please avoid her class if you can. Her teaching is just scribbling over the slides and not actually covering important concepts. Her accent is very thick as well and hard to understand. Attendance was mandatory but the lectures were a waste of my time as I didn't learn anything. stick to the textbook and go to other profs office hours.

Absolutely terrible. Not even done the course, and her lectures are completely useless. Goes over one example for an easy question, and the rest is up to you to figure out. She goes at such a fast speed I struggle to understand what she's saying, and is somehow still behind on the content of the homework. Take anyone else if you can.

RUN! please save yourself and take someone else's course Im not even finished the course yet but her lectures are so horrible and just confuses me even more. She goes so fast and only covers half of what is in the reading but is somehow behind from the other lectures. Her practice problems are so unclear and she is just so hard to understand.

Professor Jambuge is a very sweet professor, but unfortunately her lectures are not very helpful in understanding physics. I found her teaching style difficult to understand, as she mostly read off the slides or asked students to answer questions from the slides without explaining the concepts well.

Good assignment good. You will have a chunk of 5 hours to do your assignment, good luck!

very kind professor but i could not learn from her lectures at all. her accent isn't an issue, it's just that she teaches so inefficiently and slow-paced and it didn't work for me. i just mostly did the slides on my own time because it would be so much quicker than the lectures