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“By far the worst prof I ever had at york”
PHYS1420 - 1.0 rating“She seems lost every class”
PHYS1420 - 1.0 ratingClass Info
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Reviews (107)
Exam format are all MC questions . Study all the powerpoint that she gave and you'll be fine
She really loves her Science which is only beneficial if you love Science as well. She's willing to help and answers emails quickly. The course was technical/dry and boring. It was barely about colour/art and it took a lot of effort to get a good mark. I don't know why NATS are mandatory when they don't benefit non- Science majors. Glad it's over!
She seems lost every class. Spent two classes telling us that we shouldn't be taking that class but we were specifically told that we could take it instead of phys1410 maybe she should communicate more with others. Also when the lab schedule was changed she messed confused me so even though it said I was to start lab one week she said another week.
By far the worst prof I ever had at york. Terrible at explaining even the most basic concepts of the course, spends the whole class deriving formulas but doesn't actually solve the problem she asked. Also very poor at answering students questions and struggles getting her point across. Her lectures are just a complete mess.
Clear explanation Love her lectures
DON'T TAKE PHYSICS WITH HER. TRUST ME. DO WHAT YOU CAN TO TAKE IT WITH A GOOD PROFESSOR.
lectures are really boring, she takes forever to explain one concept. for this reason I never went to class. all her tests were based off the power points. I only studied the power points and finished with an A+.
Her performance was Banafsheh Hashemi POOR.
The miserable class is always packed due to mandatory participation marks. The prof talks a lot but says very little. She wasted most of the time reviewing high school things and then rushed through the two chapters reviewing new concepts (angular motion/torque & fluids) in two classes with NO EXAMPLES! You won't learn anything from her.
A really good physics course. If you go to lecture and study the sapling questions your sure to do well. There is nothing unfair and if you put in the work you'll succeed. Lectures are also really useful and are not too fast paced. At the end of the day its a physics course so the most important thing is practice, practice, practice. :)
Wasted so much time on the easier chapters, and BARELY any time spent on the hardest chapters. Lectures were poorly taught and you might be better off skipping if it weren't for iClicker (worth 5%). Kinda slow on giving updates on the course on Moodle. Midterm was ok, but exam was hard. If you take the course with her, you're on your own!
Professor Pour is a great instructor. The course itself is a bit challenging but she goes over practice problems and sapling questions to better your understanding. If you do the assigned textbook problems, sapling quizzes and attend the lecture you are well prepared for the midterm/final. Overall I had a good experience, I would highly recommend.
This is by far the worst course I have taken at york university. I haven't seen a course as disorganized as this. The professors make jokes in class about students failing, which is extremely disrespectful. The profs are unhelpful and make their test and exams extremely difficult. The teaching is really bad too and very unclear. Extremely unprofe
Banafsheh is an excellent professor who is accessible outside of class for help. So long as you do the practice questions in the textbook and come to class, it is really easy to get a good grade in the course. The exam questions were just like the ones found in the textbook and iClickers.
Very approachable and eager to help. Course material can be a bit tricky but very doable. If you do the assigned textbook questions, sapling quizzes and attend lectures (where she takes up the problems) you are sure to do well on the midterm/final. Clickers are easy marks and a good way of making sure you understand the concepts taught in class.
The course was really easy. Her lectures are heavily based on the slideshows which are posted online. Uses ReefClicker for participation and attendance (but you can finesse the system by having an internet connection and good timing). A lot of the material is high school science so, it's mainly review, easy assignments that are based on lecture.
Save yourself and dont take any class with her. She can't explain anything properly, I have learned everything from youtube.
This class is pretty easy, but the prof just takes her time with her classes. Every time, we have a Q&A session for about 15 minutes during the lectures. So that means we have about 35 minutes of lecture time, which I find not enough time. People need to stop asking questions during lectures and ask her during office hours or email her.
Lectures put you to sleep and cover 15% of the material you're expected to learn. She has no facility with the online format. She means well, (she's nice) but the class is a disaster.
To sum it up, a dumpster fire. I get it's Calculus based physics but 1 review class would be nice for integration. Secondly, prof just reguritates content from book and just does easy problems rather than harder ones to solve. Prof is disorganized and I feel assigns too much work for a 3 credit course. I do love physics but this prof murdered it.
She was so boring that even putting her lectures on 2x the speed she was still speaking slow. She doesn't seem very knowledgable of what she is teaching. I struggle in physics and her class did not benefit me. There are assignments, quizzes, and labs every week which is annoying but they aren't too difficult. Make sure you do textbook q's though.
I get that she is trying to accommodate as much as possible. But her lectures will put you to sleep. She only reads off the slides and doesn't even cover the more complex problems. The assignments and quizzes aren't as bad, but the workload is just too much, and it won't even be worth as much.
Honestly, she can't teach well. She reads off the slides and works on the easy problems on tutorials. The lectures have no examples to solidify knowledge and the assignments/quizzes and tests cover much difficult content. The midterm was long and difficult and I think only cheaters could've aced it. The courseload seems like a lot even its physics
Her lecture delivery was very boring and slow. Put too much time into simple concepts and barely touched on the harder ones. Didn't do any example problems that we'd see on the assignments/tests. The workload was also excessive with lengthy weekly assignments, quizzes and labs. The midterm and final were designed so that only cheaters can pass.
Her lectures are so boring and she doesn't explain stuff clearly. Wastes time going over easier stuff and doesn't go in depth into difficult concepts. She will do only easier questions in class and the midterm and final are so difficult. Also the workload is too much for too little marks. A nice person and kind of accommodating but not a good prof.
Quiz is super stressful and hard with time limits.
She doesn't teach anything, going to class is useless. She spends all her time reading the slides. Tutorials are useful. She suspected our whole class of cheating b/c people did well on an easy quiz. She had no proof, she says "the quiz scores were too high". She makes our next quiz impossible to finish (in 25mins) and we all failed it.
She is a very approachable teacher outside of class, but her class quizzes are not covered in what she teaches and are really hard. Basically she teaches the basics and asks really lengthy quiz questions with very small time limits. If the class average is higher than what she likes it to be, she will take the quiz difficulty to the next level
She is an amazing professor who makes the most difficult course very easy. She is always there for students outside of the class and help them through everything and do her best to help the students to be successful. As long as you do the practice questions in the textbook and iClickers, it is easy to get a good grade.
She's a really nice person, but not the best teacher. The way she explains topics is very confusing and I found just reading the textbook better than listening to her lectures. Unfortunately her lectures are mandatory. Her quizzes didn't have much to do with what she taught in her lectures; rather, information from the textbook. I would avoid
I don't know who I thought I was, ignoring all of the reviews on here. she is an incredibly boring professor. BORING. Her quizzes/labs often had grammatical errors to the point of nonsense. her lectures were (boring) all over the place, and she repeatedly allowed them to be interrupted by a socially unaware student. for a happy semester, stay AWAY
She is a caring prof who is approachable. She curved quizzes if needed and removed questions from quizzes if most people did bad. HOWEVER, she did not give enough time for quizzes and tests, and would sometimes put the most random questions. Her lectures(which are mandatory) did not prepare you for the tests at all, you have to teach yourself!
She's a nice person but her lectures are EXTREMELY boring and sometimes she spends WAY TOO much time on one concept then rushes the rest. You will have to teach yourself using the textbook. Her handwriting is also weird lol
She's just acting like a robot, her lecture just simply goes through the textbook and has no creativity on it. Furthermore, her practice problem is easy on the tutorial but super hard on the exam. So, if you're considering taking her class, just drop for your own sake.
I seriously don't know where to start. PLEASE FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO TEACH YOU AND RUNNN BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. Her weekly assignments are insanely long and hard, her lectures and insanely useless and boring, her style of teaching is just not doing what it' supposed to do. I can't wait for this course to end because, thanks to her, I hate physics now.
- Extremely uninteresting and boring lectures. Read the book/go online instead - Weekly in-class questions - Concepts are explained more complicated than they are - Tests are sequential and have little time - Unable review tests after grades are returned so you don't know what you did wrong - Required to purchase online quizzes which are worth 10%
This class was poorly organized, the lectures are a waste of time, and it is better if you just self-learn all the concepts. The formatting of the tests and exams are not good either, as if you make a mistake you are unable to correct them. This prof is all over the place, and cannot explain anything clearly. A lot of work must be put in, to pass.
Buy the textbook, read it for whatever chapter that week, and do the problems. Her classes aren't worth attending.
Shes a terrible lecturer. Her slides are copy and pasted from the textbook and she doesnt go through any of problems in the textbook. The actual content of the course isnt too challenging, but the final exam was very hard.
The lectures seemed to be good, but after you realize that you can do better by only reading. She is nice, but not a great lecturer.
Lecture contents were directly copied from the textbook and not explained further by the lecturer. She also never did any practice problems during lectures which is odd for a physics class. Tests were sequential, no going back, also couldn't review a test without her permission, tests were very difficult. She is a nice person I'll give her that.
Her slides are enough to understand concepts. I did well enough to pass the course. I am horrible at physics. She makes the difficulty fair and/or easy on tests and exams. Nice lady. Don't go to lectures. Just review slides and learn there. It's all practical stuff with easy math to understand. Must attend tutorials. That's your gold treasure.
Her midterms are fair and are similar to the questions she takes up during tutorials and in-class activities. You have to read the textbooks and do the homework to get at least an A in her class. She would also remove test questions if the majority of the class got them wrong. Lots of opportunities do bump up your mark. Great prof.
Don't ever enrol if you suck at physics for this course when it comes to the prof. Avoid her. Don't attend tutorials if you want to pass the test. You need to be familiar with or have the skill to solve the problems. Honestly, it was a bad experience. The only best part is, lecture slides are easy to understand. That's all I would like to say.
Even if you listen carefully to her during lectures you wont be able to understand anything. She doesn't even teach she just reads what written on slides. Moreover she wont give you sufficient material for the exams, even the formula sheets are useless.
You can pass this course easily, but the problem is you have to work a lot on your own because she doesn't have any sample questions at all, which is important in physics. Focus on the textbook to get a good grade.
trash not good veey bad bad teacher not take no very bad save urself the pain dont takw please dont
I think she's an okay lecturer, if you pay attention, but you'll really learn more when you rely on outside sources. Her tests are fair, there may be a few typos on them though. I really dislike the in-class activities, you need (or a friend) to attend her lectures to see the question(s) and answer them. But hey, an easy 10% for our grade.
She's nice but her lectures are rushed because she takes ages to teach one slide. Midterm questions are sometimes arent things she teaches. waiting for my grade, wish me luck
Professor BHP is very kind and caring! Although her lectures might be tough to follow, I still was able to take a lot away from them. Many people skip her tutorials and lectures, which is a shame because especially in her tutorials, she gives a lot of helpful information. She is very helpful outside of class and is quick to respond to emails!
AVOID HER!
She is so sweet, understandable, and very considerate. You might have a hard time to follow her at first but you will eventually follow her. Attend her tutorials because that is the only time she show you how to solve problems.
She was the worst, trust me she does not teach only reads slides and she said attendance is not mandatory but she takes in class activity at the 10 ending minutes of the class. er exams are hard and you have to study yourself cause you are not going to understand anything
I wouldn't say she is bad at teaching but I didn't learn well from her compared to other physics teachers. Her pacing didn't align with me, as in she would spend more time on simpler concepts and then go through the ones I thought were harder to understand more quickly. She seems to care for students' learning, which is always a good thing.
Spends all class describing formula and saying useless stuff
If possible, avoid her class. She spends too much time on easy concepts and rushes through harder ones, assuming we already know the material. Homework and in-class examples are easier than the exams. Lectures aren't recorded, and her speech is incoherent, often switching topics mid-sentence, making it confusing. Overall, not recommended.
She is a good lecturer. Her exams are tough but similar to the webassign and tutorials. You should come to class already read the textbook. Labs werent too difficult. She will have inclass acitivities which can take up time, so just be prepared for that. Her tutorials are really good, so use them as practice. Overall pretty good prof
She will challenge you with the exams. Many people don't like her but if u will make an effort to go to lectures and talk to her after class she will explain and answer all your question very kind prof
When she gives a lecture it feels like she's talking to herself. absolutely horrible prof please run
She's simply great!
Avoid at all cost! this prof incompetence will make you fail all of your other courses.
This woman CANNOT teach. She yaps off slides she didn't even make and doesn't speak clearly or explain topics clearly. You need to grind the WebAssign on your own and pray that you somehow understand some of the most difficult electricity and magnetism concepts. 10/10 Avoid at all costs.
She made the second midterm 10 times harder than the first to the point where many students weren't able to finish the brutal 20 multiple choice questions given to us that needed more than 2 minutes to complete each and some I don't even think she taught before at all. Lectures are extremely boring and it takes ages for her to respond to emails.
Hard to understand + Lecture slides don't remotely encompass the full extent of material. Fully reading through textbook is the only way to ensure non failing grades. For 2nd midterm, It was like they intentionally designed a test impossible to do good on. 20 thought-intensive MCQ (1min per) and 2 Problems in 45 mins, seems like everyone did bad.
When Hitler died he did not go to hell, he was reincarnated as this Physics teacher. Avoid her and run for your life.
tests are graded either full marks or no marks, never part marks, and she cant speak english always says "this is the idea".
Really bad. Avoid her at all costs. If she's the only professor available, skip the course for the semester.
This is hands down the worst professor on campus. She does not even make an attempt to teach anything and instead will wander around the class saying "this is the idea" then proceeding to share no bright ideas. Will not do examples in class and only teaches theory. Midterms are hard with a lot of MCQ. Would rather die than take her class again.😊
i miss jerzak
dis is dee idea
This Professor does not know how to create tests based on the content in the course. Many concepts are not explained well and she has a talent for reading more so then teaching.
terrible just drop. cannot speak english and does not teach anything. reads of the slides and repeats utter nonesense. she is a nice person though.
dear banafsheh hashemi pour, please dont ever step foot in york uni again. class is not engaging at all and the tests have 100 multiple choice, its a PHYSICS CLASS, at least show us the physics working. next time u say "dis is dee idea", make sure u have an ACTUAL IDEA first. stanislaw jerzak forever.
easily the worse physics prof/class. for a class like electricity, i was electrified by how horrible this experience was. the lack of a genuine pedagogy is real. the lectures aren't "taught" instead cut and paste slides from the textbook with little to no deeper information. more of a reader than a teacher. try and find a diff prof.
Idk what's harder to understand, that heavy accent, or them copy and pasted ahh slides from the textbook. The slides are very grammarly poor as well, she claims the test will be easy (first test was), but then the next one is all multiple choice with crazy concepts you'd need to read the entire textbook t o know.
Idk who hired this women into the department. The only English she knows is "this is the idea." She got her degree from flea market and needs to be fired. The 4th year PASS Instructor has a deeper level of understanding than this baboon. She doesn't even make her own slides they are copied from Cengage. She needs to be fired to fix the program.
Can't teach, either an easy test, but no time to finish it or a diabolically hard test. She is condescending and doesn't care about you
She has to be the worst professor in all of first year engineering. I'd rather have prof Norman than her. Waste of time and effort.
Avoid her. She reads slides with no real explanation or examples. Tests are harsh, unrealistic, and offer no partial credit. Feedback is slow, and there's no support. Though she seems kind, this course completely killed my interest in physics. A truly disappointing and frustrating experience.
dis is da idea
First lecture she levitated in, whispered “dis is dee idea,” and my GPA flatlined. Slides spoke in tongues. Equations appeared, then vanished. I aged 3 years with a receeded hairline before midterm 2. Test had 100 MCQs and one demon. I tried office hours — the door screamed. I passed, but I see circuits in my dreams. Physics is fear now.
she cant teach anything and just reads off formulas during class, but still makes you go to class for the in class activities worth 5% of your mark, she only does 1 or 2 problems during the tutorial, and on the tests, most of the weight is on mcq and not problem solving which makes them really hard.
her lectures are useless, her tutorials are alright, but only does 2/5 questions and posts solutions weeks later.
Her lectures are seriously a waste of time, she just talks about equations with little valuable info. Very little use is gained from her lectures and her tutorials are only useful for the solutions. First midterm was fair, but the second and final were extremely difficult especially when you consider how she barley explains concepts properly.
No point of her being there, would get the same mark regardless
Her slide shows and lectures are a pure waste of time. They are just the formulas with little to no explanation. Avoid at all costs! She tells you that the test questions will be easy (easier than questions done in assignments) but they will always be way worse.
Don't take Physics1801 with this professor. Reads everything off of the slideshows and if you ask her a question, there's never a correct/direct answer. First midterm was fair, although class average was a 44%, but one student got 100%. Due to this, she told us that she's making the 2nd midterm harder, to which the average ended up being in the 30s
pour carries out most concepts okay, but some orders are like messed, she should explain things more in details and clearly, as well make sure the difficulty or format of the tests don't differ too much; i wouldn't say she's my first pick, but i wouldn't avoid her in specific, overall she isn't that bad but she does have a lot need to improve
Starting with her slides, they are all in powerpoint so its annoying to annotate or open up if you dont have power point. Lectures are a waste of time, filled with useless and clutered info (slides arent her own, straight from textbook). She reads of a script in her slides. First test was fine, but her second test and exam were super difficult.
The only thing i can understand from her lectures is "This is the idea"
Her teaching abilities are lacking, and her English accent is quite weak. She primarily reads from the slides and complicates the tests significantly. I prefer to study independently. When addressing problems, she does not merely overlook minor details such as signs; rather, she makes errors with entire formulas.
She couldn't teach at all. The only thing I just learned was “This is theeee idea”. I'm still thinking who hired her, does she have intelligence, or any knowledge. She is the nightmare for four months. Good luck upcoming students we will pray for you all.
Such a horrible problem with York's engineering program that this is the only professor available currently for PHYS1800 and PHYS1801. Sincerely hope this changes. She should not even be allowed to teach the course, much less be the only option. PPTX lecture slides are a pain, copied from the textbook, and her lectures are completely unhelpful.
She is ok. Relies on slides too much but she's nice
You know, this prof wasn't the greatest at teaching, she relied on the slides a lot. However, if you do not attend lectures, and just go the the midterm and the finals, she will curve your grade significantly, like an unholy amount. I could've gotten a D, but it got curved so hard I ended up with a B+. This prof ain't the best, but good for the GPA
Played clash royale during lectures because that was more of an educational experience than whatever cryptic writing and glossolalia was conjuring at the front of the lecture room. 6 hours were spent each night trying to understand what she was teaching and I frequently cried myself to sleep
Her lectures and slides include spamming a bunch of equations while making countless mistakes. There is little to no explanation on the conceptual parts of the course. It's like she has memorized how the textbook derived the equation and that is the limit of her understanding. My A+ was my work, not a function of her horrible teaching.
The worst professor I've ever had the misfortune of "learning" from. Literally was smiling and giggling the whole time we were doing the final exam, most of which had completely esoteric questions. How She is still employed is beyond me.
midterms were OK - u can study from tutorials, lectures were useless, she would go on tangents, ur better off studying from youtube. Final exam on the other hand has questions you have never seen before, impossible to study for it. gl
NATS 1815- I can tell she tries but honestly her lectures are not easily followed. Would highly recommend to avoid
Nats 1815 was not an option to say. This course is for non-science major, she is teaching high school physics for a sustainable energy course. Why do all physics teachers have thick accents? I guess it's mandatory criteria to be one. Basically teaching high school physics when I thought would be learning theory and facts about sustainable energy.
I could not understand her accent. I'm not blaming her for her accent, but be prepared to reteach yourself the content. The tests are alright, but are not worded properly, so it's difficult to understand what she's asking. If you're a first-year, don't take her class if you want to have a smoother first-year experience compared to me.
I was nervous to take this class cause I'm not good at science, but needed it for my degree. She was considerate of students who were not science majors and took time to thoroughly explain material. However, sometimes it's hard to understand what she's saying, so just watch out if you're an auditory learner.
please reconsider
AVOID AVOID AVOID
Rarely speaks in a clear/consistent voice, fails to clarify without being prompted by a question, makes consistent writing mistakes on slides and even exams (which cost me a higher grade average), does not respect accommodations, suspected by others and myself to be using AI to create her slides and possibly exams and puts only the bare minimum.
I couldn't understand anything she said. I got through this course by relying on YouTube tutorials, but finding the right ones and then doing lots of extra homework to understand the material took a significant amount of time.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
54%
Textbook Required
0%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B+
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PHYS1420
2.9
(14)PHYS1800
2.8
(13)NATS1870
2.3
(8)PHYS1510
2.2
(6)NATS1815
1.8
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PHYS1520
5.0
PHYS1801
4.6
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3.5
PHYS1411
3.5
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3.5