Is a nice person but is not very familiar with teaching. Lecture slides are useless and hard to follow and live examples are sometimes irrelevant. Exams ares not made with keeping the time we have to write them in mind.

This professor does not know how to teach and confuses himself half the time in lectures. There is barely any material to study because he doesn't even give us lecture slides or that many practice problems. To show how difficult the exams are, he had to make the last question of an exam a bonus in order to make the average not a failing grade.

Does not post lecture slides because "its better for students to take handwritten notes". Everyone takes pictures of each slide that he goes through in class, so maybe he should reflect on his strategy of not posting slides. Exams are contradictory to what he teaches in class. He's himself confused about the material half of the time.

Horrible

He is a nice prof but the material he teaches in class does not correlate with his homework, especially the written assignments. He gives us so much work to do outside of class, which takes time away from our other courses, and when you finally understand the homework material and go into the midterms, it differs from what we have studied.

This professor lacks experience in his field. He doesn't know how to properly plan his lectures according to current course material. Home work is completely different than the examples gone over in class. Although he is approachable and accommodating. All worked problems are completed before class so no calculations are done during class.

He is a very nice guy but he is an awful professor. He confuses himself with his own lecture slides, and is not confident enough to be teaching it seems. The entire class seems to have the same feelings towards him, which makes me think he should reconsider his teaching style.

self taught the entire course! Final questions were beyond the scope of this first level phys course. I personally think taking with him made it 1000 times worse as I am not a physics major. avoid at all cost!

JF didn't really seem to know how to teach. All he did during lectures were demos and confusing himself. Rarely any of the content correlates with the materials tested yet he gives out extremely difficult problems on exams and assignments. Final exam was long but had a mix of MC and written, but he crossed out some questions, making it shorter.1/2.

He goes over bridge questions wasting time instead of going over questions that he would put on exams. His knowledge of physics was subpar so that was why he confused himself most of the time. As for his lectures, he should save them for his clown career, and good physics professors should look out because professor-not-so-good is in the school.2/2

JF was such a difficult prof. He always did demo's that wasted our time and were very irrelevant on the course material. He never understood his lecture slides and it was hard to gather information as his slides were demo/picture heavy. Exams were tough and not like the lecture material at all.

JF's method of teaching was not very effective in my opinion. He spent too long doing demos that weren't clear to most of the class. Exam questions were very difficult and often didn't correlate with the material we learned in class. Exams were also unfair in the sense that there were too many questions and not enough time.

I can confidently say that the majority of the class felt like JFC was not it. Lectures were not useful, as he spent the majority of the time doing bridge assignment questions/iclicker questions (which are a complete scam to all students. Any worked examples which we rarely did were difficult to follow because of his messy writing. Exams were tough

Goes well beyond the scope of the course materials, uses examples that not many would relate to or understand, goes to length to show a full equation then confusingly reduce it down to the simpler one, did not supply a rigid formula sheet. Give him feedback, but self-study for the most part

Can't think of anything nice enough that won't get my rating removed

This course was unnecessarily difficult and painful to get through. He was a very nice professor but I would not recommend taking this course with him. Attendance was mandatory for iClicker and we used Achieve for pre-lectures and assignments which turned out to be the only way I could somewhat learn the material.

JF is a really nice guy and tries to incorporate class feedback but he is very difficult to understand and follow in his lectures. The exams were much more difficult than the homework/textbook examples and therefore very difficult to study for.

Not good at explaining things in lecture

Horrible at explaining

Can not explain simple key concepts. Do not take

Cannot explain in a cohesive manner. Will skip concepts most of the time. Does not pay attention to what we learned that class before and assumes we are almighty all-knowing beings most of the time. Gives out a lot of homework that are due on the same day, and to add salt, lecture AND tutorial attendance is MANDATORY (and graded from rubrics)......

do not recommend! he gets confused during lecture, and i think he forgets we are there most of the time. he will just go through problems super quickly as if he is doing a test. i learned nothing from him and have been relying on the textbook. peer reviews are also not helpful because none of us know what's happening.

He lets the online textbook do all the work and just sits there in lecture telling you to do the online stuff. Absolutely worthless

The day before an exam, and he created and solved a question that included concepts irrelevant to our midterm. Nice hairline buddy.

He does not know what he's teaching over 90% of the time. His test even he cannot solve I bet you 100% he's crazy bad like you know more going into his course than going out of it. He does not even understand the material to be teaching it. Makes so many mistakes while teaching and gets corrected by students all the time. Terrible terrible terrible

after he stated that he doesn't curve grades at all, despite the entire class doing poorly, makes me think he geniunely doesn't care about his students. the midterm exam was made with errors, and if you didn't catch them in time, then you would face the consequences. he also overcomplicates questions that could be handled in a simpler manner

The lectures are very short with little information actually taught. Majority of the class is purely demos that are not necessary. The midterm was NOTHING like the homework and questions we went through in class or tutorials. There were MULTIPLE mistakes in the midterm which is insane to me. I learnt more in physics 11 then I did with him...

He's unfortunately terrible

He's an extremely nice person, but as a teacher he is awful on a different level. I've never come across someone so uncoordinated, and so lost at his pay grade. The school must truly reconsider their lecturers if they choose to allow him to teach a course. He makes mistakes on tests nor does he prepare you for them! He simply does a demo!

The midterm consisted of questions completely different than what we learnt in lectures/assignments. Instead of giving the full hour and 40 mins to do the midterm, he gives us 1 hour 10mins then we have to do the midterm again but with a partner for 30 mins. It was not enough time for anybody. Rather have whole time for midterm than in groups.

Just absolutely horrible avoid at all costs. He doesn't know how to teach. Hes lost all the time.

So horrible, he doesn't even know what he's teaching himself, his class is not curved and his tests are ridiculously hard. If he is teaching the class DO NOT take it!

Respectfully, the worst professor I've ever had. Can't simply explain what is being taught in class and I doubt he prepares his lectures as sometimes he can't explain basic questions himself. In class examples are usually overly complex. If you have this class with prof Caron be prepared to learn everything yourself.

I do not like him.

Prof is unable to explain concepts clearly. Instead, he overcomplicates everything and makes it all so, so confusing. It is unbearable sitting through his class. Physics is already a challenging subject within itself. Top that with a professor who is confused about what's written on his own slides, and an unreasonably large amount of homework.

Words can't explain how awful this guy is. If there was a rating that went to 0 I'd use that. His teaching ability is so poor that you can't even call it teaching. Seeing him solving HIS OWN questions makes me doubt his knowledge of the subject. Physics 100 is a Grade 12 equivalent course and he isn't able to solve the questions. Let that sink in

This man is the most disorganized teacher I have ever had in my career as a student. Dont get me wrong, hes a good guy but I wish i could say the same as teacher. It seems like he comes to lectures not prepared/comfortable with the material (even the midterm had mistakes in it). Advice: avoid him at all costs, take the online equivalent if you can.

Horrible experience with this professor, avoid his class if possible. His lecture notes are a mess and include almost no coherent thoughts or lessons. Midterm was horrible, the time is split between individual and partner portions (for the latter you only get 30 minutes which leaves no discussion time or time to actually do the question).

literally the definition of the blind leading the blind. bro seems like he doesnt know what hes doing especially during lecture.

This is the worst class I have ever taken. He does not teach and makes us do TONS of homework. The textbook is the only way to learn. All he does in class is mess up examples and reviews bridge questions.

Someone needs to teach him how to teach

No way our tuition is going to this.

best in the game literally

Save yourself. If you see him teaching your course good luck. You are gonna need it a lot.

I honestly just wish he was aware of how bad he is. The concepts covered in homework and exam are so complex and outside of his minimal teaching material that a student is left in shambles trying to figure out how to complete the work. His lectures are just useless as well. Please JFC, acknowledge the damage you're doing to your physics students

Horrible professor, do not take any physics course with him.

worst professor ever. too much hw and hw is super hard. doesn't explain nothing beneficial in lecture. don't even know what he's saying half the time. worst experience of my life

They removed half the bad reviews and kept the false good ones. Don't be fooled there used to be 70 awful ratings and they were all fair.

All the actual reviews got taken down. There used to be way more awful ratings. JF you're not slick

It's unfortunate that there is something going on behind the scenes. Jean does not know how to teach. He confuses himself on his own examples and we leave reviews and they are being removed. He can't face the consequences of his actions so he try's to cover his actions to make himself look better.

NICEEE just do iclicker questions all class

Don't take a class with this guy, he struggles at teaching concepts properly and lectures are a waste of time as he goes over things that are not important at all. He confuses himself with his own notes and has to backtrack what he's saying half the time. Lectures aren't helpful, you will learn this entire course on your own.

Jean has an inability to teach key concepts that should be straightforward to understand. I am unsure where the 70 1 star reviews went but he deserves every one of them.

Unfortunately, MANY of the reviews were deleted. I do think he means well, but he isn't very certain when it comes to his own questions and tends to make tons mistakes. When students give feedback, he tends to be defensive and take our in put with a grain of salt. Exams are tight for time and are never completed 100% in the given time.

He's always unprepared for his lectures, makes multiple mistakes on his examples and will never finish them because he always gets confused when he's halfway writing them. He says “I don't really understand this concept” often. His midterm had multiple written questions that he wasn't able to finish in class and was too long for the time given.

Man, lots of homework (lots of which is out of the scope of the course, or too difficult). Even he acknowledges the difficulty of the homework, but provides no help or real substance as to how to even go about solving it. The class has been a lot of grade 11 physics- when a greater portion of the class can't even understand the simple stuff idk....

I honestly have nothing nice to say that wouldn't get removed. He is super underprepared. If youre reading this and doing course selection, please spare yourself and just wait another semester to take phy102. It seriously isnt worth it taking it with JFC. Save your money and save your time. The average for our midterm was awful He refuses to curve.

just avoid at all costs. literally save yourself. you will learn nothing in this class and you will be confused over topics that shouldnt be too difficult to understand. he just laughs during lectures and says "wow i explained that really badly/confusingly". LIKE YEAH YOU DID. UR COOKED IF U TAKE PHYS WITH JFC

He is well aware that he doesn't need to pass a certain amount of the class, so he refuses to be a better prof. Unfortunately, he doesn't take feedback and put it to use. He has the potential to be a good professor and seems like a nice person. I can't remember a time when he did a question right. He always 'winged it'.

This class is the sole reason for my stress right now. He is genuinely the WORST professor here I suggest anyone planning to take a physics course to wait for a semester instead of taking it with him. He is more clueless than Dora looking for a monument.

They removed half the ratings and it's already back up to 60 awful. He would've had 100 awfuls by now….. let that speak for itself

JF is the worst professor in the history of physics.

overcomplicates everything. refuses to take criticism. does questions that aren't even relevant to the course. MADE MULTIPLE MISTAKES ON THE MIDTERM AND TOOK OFF A POINT FOR USING WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY IN THE QUESTION. HOW DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE- confuses himself which is baffling to me (he literally makes the slides and questions himself)

So messy and doesn't know what he's doing himself. Makes me so sad being in his class.

Some of the reviews are fake, and the students are blamed in each one.This professor is honestly the worst one yet.I enjoyed physics but all my passion was gone once JFC opened his mouth and confused everyone.He is ALWAYS confused by his examples.If you want to take a gamble and take this class, be my guest. You will be left confused and frustrated

He gets confused at his own slides. He does a lot of demos and he'll say "lets hope I can do this properly" but then "oh that wasn't supposed to happen" when it doesn't go as expected. You'll prolly have to learn the material on your own because his lectures don't make sense. If you alr struggle with physics you'll find this class quite difficult.

To cut a long review short, Prof. Caron gave confusing lectures and 1 to 2 large homework assignments per week, not including prelectures and bridge assignments. While the class isn't hard if you're good with numbers, he wasn't particularly forgiving when it came to poor marks. Also gave graded assignments on things that weren't part of the course.

awful. dont take

terrible. doesn't even know what he's teaching (ITS PHYS 12). final sm worse than expected. a lot of it was on stuff he never spent enough time teaching us (only 3 slides on a concept in lecture slides) and had ab 15 marks on the exam ab that. but willingly spent 2 weeks teaching us stuff not part of the course for what?? will never take him again!

so horrible, made an easy class so hard, DO NOT take a class with this prof, trust me.

Terrible. Said numerous times he will adjusting the grading scale, but is all talk. Not a good prof at all and is one of the worst explainers

JFC is probably the worst prof I could have gotten this semester. He often gets confused by his own "explanations" and examples in class. After the final chapters were covered, he decided to do a unit on spreadsheets instead of review lectures. He seems like a nice professor, but I think he has trouble simplifying his physics knowledge.

Average for both midterms were 55% and the final exam average was 48%. Both are super low considering it's physics 12. Final exam was extremely difficult. Questions did not make sense at all and were nothing like the samples, review questions gone over class, or assignments. Besides all those low averages and unfair exams this is not being scaled.

He's a nice guy but terrible prof. The average for both midterms were low and the final was 48% and he refused scale or curve. Never have I seen or heard of averages this low for a Physics 12 class. He made this class so unnecessary hard and lectures were so pointless as he did random demos. If you can avoid taking with him I recommend doing so.

worst prof at sfu

Jean-Francois started the year strong with a difficult first midterm. He spent a month focusing on 1D kinematics, before rapidly trying to rush through every other topic to catch back up. He often couldn't complete his own examples, he could not provide any clarity on the in class examples, and the lectures were useless to say the least. DONT TAKE!

don't do it.

This professor reused past midterms word-for-word, inflating the class average. He then made the final excessively difficult and raised grade boundaries, making an A+ disproportionately harder to earn. Additionally, his frequent mistakes in worked examples during lecture further confused students.