Worst prof I've ever had, teaching a difficult class. Lectures and notes were all over the place and extremely hard to follow. If you're not an ochem genius do NOT take 282 with him. I ended up learning everything myself from the textbook and online.

worst instructor i’ve ever had. I went to all of his lectures, but learned the material just from textbook! he thinks all students have PHD degree. If you want to fail this course take it with him..

The course is hard and he seemed to make it a hell of a lot harder. His lectures made no sense at all. Midterm average 51%, final average 30 something % :S I'd take it with someone else. Worked my butt off for a terrible grade.

simply the worst instructor ive ever had. It hard to understand anything in the lecture and its extremely hard to follow his notes.

tough course with terrible instructor+disorganize notes… you can easily end up getting bad mark on final exam.

His notes were terrible and his explanations sucked. Probably make it even more confusing tbh. Exams were way harder compared to homework problems. Don't take 282 with this guy if possible.

The class average is very low. If you are not a chemistry person, don't take the class with him. Hard to pass.

His lectures aren't very helpful. Make sure you read the textbook! Tests are unfairly hard. The content of the course requires a lot of comprehension of mechanisms and processes. He defines and states but does not explain them.

This professor is the hardest one in SFU. Just don't take the Chemistry courses with him wait for another term. The class average was about C-/D and his test was the hardest. DON'T TAKE THE CLASS W/ HIM IF YOU WANT TO PASS!

Whoever said 122 was easier than 121 was lying. Bennet isn't someone you should take chem with, esp. if you're not that great at chem or simply hate it. His notes are not helpful when it comes to exams. You're better off reading the textbook than attending his classes. Very monotone professor too. A lot of ppl do their own stuff in class I noticed.

Don't ever take any class with this professor. He will not explain the test material. He forces us to attend his class by making up the iCliker participation mark. I'd rather read the textbook than go to lecture.

Not a good prof at all. Lectures are not helpful at all when it comes to the midterm. The examples are all on the power point and he talks through it rather than showing it. If you take chem 122 with him, don't expect to be taught by anyone except yourself.

He will not reply your emails. He goes through examples in his PowerPoint, literally just reading through it very fast and that's not helping at all. His test is amazingly hard, he said there is one MC question that only 3 people got right. He just make us go to his lecture by making the iCliker question worth 10%. I'd rather take with another prof

Dr. Bennets enthusiasm of chemistry and his amazing lecturing skills cannot be replicated by just an average professor (Other professors just dont SWEAT knowledge).Lectures are great and actually very productive if youre behind on a T.V. show and need to catch up. Great class to be in as long as youre not enrolled or have to write the exam.

Avoid 122 with Bennet like the plague. Horrible lecturing skills - anything that we learned was from the textbook. The most meaningful lecture I got out of this class was the last review day where he FINALLY showed us how to actually do problems (which by the way are the only things you even do on exams in this course!!). Absolute waste of time.

You can tell Bennet knows the topic but he has no idea how to communicate it to students. He is the most boring prof I have ever had to listen to, and the class doesn't even have a textbook to reference. His lecture notes are so disorganized and hard to understand, especially for someone who has no previous knowledge of organic chemistry.

This guy only read concepts off his powerpoints and did no practice questions to show how to do problems. I had to watch youtube videos to teach myself the material. Only easy part of the class was when he copy pasted some of the questions from the review questions worksheet and put them on the final exam. Don't take him.

One of the worst profs i have encountered. It is very hard to learn in this class, mostly just blindly clicking random answers for iclicker participation & randomly guessing on the exams. He puts questions from loncapa on the written response sections.

Seems like a nice guy, but pretty terrible at explaining concepts and engaging the class in the material. The exams seemed very foreign to the material covered in class, since it was calculation-heavy and barely any example calculations we demonstrated in lecture.

He does not seem like he is ready to teach, explains course material very poorly and overall absolutely disorganized. He had the audacity to even put the stuff that he claimed those would not be on the quiz. ***Definitely avoid him at all cost.

TERRIBLE. TERRIBLE. TERRIBLE. UNORGANIZED, LACKS ALL PASSION FOR THIS COURSE. SLOW. WATCHED LECTURES ON 2X SPEED EVERY SINGLE TIME. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE WITH HIM IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOURSELF. THIS IS WHAT TRUE PAIN IS. MIDTERM WAS FAIR BUT THAT FINAL.... AVOID Dr Bennet at all costs. He made what shouldve been an easy course EXCRUCIATINGLY HARD.

His midterm was more fair than his final but the final was worth so much more that it didn't matter. The quizzes that we had to do were aids, there was little to no way to prep for them. You have to learn the units by yourself mainly as his lectures were just pointless and bland with no enthusiasm at all. DO NOT TAKE WITH HIM.

If you are looking to take Chem 122 avoid Bennet at all costs. Lectures consisted of him reading off the slides. They were dry and difficult to get through, even on 2x speed. He doesn't hold office hours. You're better off just reading the textbook. The mt was fair but the final, worth 45%, was much harder.

The midterm was quite good. Most of the midterm questions were from the Loncapa homework. However, the final exam was a totally different story. There were lots of difficult questions and most of the students in the class were not able to finish them on time. The lectures were super bad. DO NOT TAKE HIM!!!

I would not take his class again. Ever.

if you think you can teach yourself a semester's worth of chemistry without any help then maybe you can make it out of this class alive. his lectures were so useless that I stopped watching 1 week in. no office hours and certainly no answered emails. I would avoid this prof at all cost.

Doctor Andrew Bennett should not be employed a university. He has been the worst teacher I have ever experienced in my life. He doesnt teach, his lectures are useless and his final was impossible. Not enough time and it wasnt even fair questions. Dont put yourself through the pain of chem 122 with him. You will regret every second.

No idea what Professor Bennet was doing all semester, having 0 office hours the full term. He definitely did not care at all for the students, and wanted to finish his lecture as quick as possible to get out of there.

not a good teacher

Prof. Bennet's quizzes and midterm was okay, but his final exam was hell!! The guy had way too many questions on the final and expected us to finish it. The other issue with him was that he doesn't know how to teach, not only is his voice super boring, but he has no interest. The only reason I survived was because of the textbook and Clayton

Just badI have a midterm with him tomorrow and I learned absolutely NOTHING from him. Been teaching myself the whole course. Avoid him at all costs. He doesnt even teach the material properly, only the tas were helpful

He really does makes already difficult things more difficult. He should not be teaching.

He makes ochem more difficult than it actually is. I didnt learn anything from his lectures/slides and up until this point Ive been attempting to teach myself everything. Ive never withdrawn from a course before but am seriously considering it.

Hardest course I’ve ever had to take. Most of the content doesn’t get a proper introduction and is poorly taught.

Old fashioned lecture with infficient note taking using overhead camera. He explains like you are chem major. The way he explains makes material more difficult Going over minimal mechanisms, with minimal note taking Marks not spread out through assignments Thanks to youtube and google. They are the only reason i could understand anything.

Horrible prof, idk why he’s even allowed to teach chemistry. Marking is 10% iclicker, 35% first exam, 55% 2nd exam.

Horrible professor. Notes were messy and inefficient. Lectures confused me more. Did not care about chem. The class average for the midterm was around 50 and he refused to scale because someone got 100%. Did not learn a single thing from him. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM UNLESS YOU WANT TO LEARN NOTHING AND GET A BAD GRADE.

Worst chemistry prof ever

Horrible teacher! Grade is based on solely exams and there is barely any homework to practice what you've learned. His lecture slides have no definitions, just examples as if you already know what he's talking about. No assigned textbook, although I recommend you get one so you can teach yourself the course (it was the only way I scraped a pass)

Dr. Bennet is horrendous. By far the worst prof I have ever had at SFU. As other reviews have said, he makes course content 100x harder than it actually should be. Tests did not feel like assessments of our understanding - they were astronomically difficult. I would seriously not recommend taking his class to anyone. He is awful.

DO NOT TAKE THIS DUDE JUST DONT DO IT

Every lecture he blurts KAWWNSTUNT and it makes me lose my sanity, his voice is so annoying! Andrew Bennet needs to learn how to speak.

Chem 282 is not a class that you could just easily “self study” and teach everything to yourself. Having a good prof and a good TA really helps which Andrew Bennett and his rude TA's are far away from it. DO NOT TAKE THIS COURSE WITH HIM I'm surprised why some people here have rated him more than 2. this course made me hate chemistry.

He is a bland as oatmeal, he's also British (derogatory) who shamed the class on the midterm, and went through what percent failed each question, before even giving the grades back 1.5 weeks later (it was all multiple choice literally shouldn't take so long). He also has the most boring lectures ever and is very rude when you ask any questions.

Took his class during his last year as a professor before retirement. His lectures slides were hard to follow, listening to him during class was painfully difficult, and would make a ton of mistakes doing example problems. Worst professor I've ever had, but the course is easy so I guess it balances out.