Khan stresses the importance of participation too much, when nobody answers his question he will stare everyone down until he randomly asks someone to answer. He gives no incentive to respond to his questions as he will continue to use whomever answered as a guinea pig for the following questions, even if you didn't volunteer. I would avoid.

Khan creates a classroom environment in which if you make a noise louder than your regular breathing he will call you out. Despite this, he heavily encourages participation but because of the horrendous environment no one ever does. It is not necessary to go to every class because you could quite easily follow along in the textbook. I did not enjoy

His classes are very uncomfortable. He wants everybody to participate but will often call people out in class, and makes answering questions very acquired. Seems to dislike his students and attendance in the class was terrible

New to UBCO, he won't last long... Incredibly boring lectures. Very difficult to understand him, which isn't his fault. His lecture slides were the demos that are given by the textbook company, so he pretty much just read the slides to us. Dont plan on using any electronics, or even whispering to your neighbour cuz you will get called out.

Not good

He is the worst prof I have ever had. The lectures are of no value just read the textbook. Takes attendance but there is no incentive to actually attend. Cannot explain the simplest of concepts effectively, but gets mad when nobody shows up to his lectures. Also the final was 60 multiple choice worth 50% filled with very obscure questions.

I would've failed if it wasn't for the quizzes. Hardest class I've ever taken. 50% final exam was extremely stressful. I only understood the concepts I was able to teach myself on my own time.

Unless youre super interested in the course, youll find his lectures extremely boring as hes pretty monotone. The questions he gives out on midterms are worded weirdly and doesnt give enough time on exams. He doesnt really teach, I had to teach myself everything. Wouldnt recommend.

i wasn't able to understand anything from his lectures tey were extremely boring and it was just him reading the slides. His lectures were not helpful at all. You need to teach yourself everything on your own. he is not helpful or understanding.

Dr. Khan is the most boring prof. He just reads off the slides during the lectures. He does not give enough time for quizzes and tests. His quiz,midterm,final are SO HARD. His voice is so dry and makes everything sound dreading. The time limit is just not enough for anything. They consist mainly of MC and 2 short answer. HIS QUESTIONS ARE SOO HARD!

Khan is not easily accessible to ask questions, I didnt know who my TAs were let alone that there were two profs for the course. His lectures are pretty tough to sit through especially it all being online so get ready to teach yourself the content. Make sure youre ready to put in the work to succeed in this class its not way

Prof Khan's video lectures are so boring he posts 4 to 5 videos per week each about 30-45 min and ONLY READS FROM THE SLIDE! Don't recommend taking this class with him at all I hated economics because of him. Be prepared to learn the material by your self

I can't tell you how absolutely lazy he was, perhaps he want to be efficient? He never taught us anything. Yes, you read it right, all he did was providing slides. In the live-session, he just literally read the question and answer of practice essay word-by-word. Never explain This is absolutely ridiculous, paying hefty fee for "google class".

Reads from slides during the lectures, and you can barely decipher what he is saying... Just read the textbook, it's way better than listening to the prof.

He does not teach. He turns his three hours per week class into one forty minute "discussion period" that nobody attended. Instead you must read the chapter of the textbook and do a quiz every week. Eventually the midterm will come and you will probably be confused because he extrapolates beyond the text without teaching it.

Absolutely horrible professor. His lectures are almost 100% based off the textbooks. Questions for the midterm were confusing and grammatically incorrect and not enough essay practice questions were given. Do not take this class if you don't have to.

He is the reason why I hate econ. He basically copies info off the textbook into his slides and reads off them. Skip the lectures, just read the textbook. Also be prepared to encounter terms and concepts in assignments which doesn't appear in lectures or the textbook. If you have to take the class, pray you find another prof teaching it.

His lectures are terrible and slides are practically useless(picked straight from the textbook). Makes test and midterm questions incredibly hard to understand. Don't think he understands that a lot of people are taking his course as an elective and cannot put in the time that he expects. Be prepared to spend most your time on this course.

I have zero idea what happened in other people's semesters that they were able to give Khan a 5 star review in this class. He seems like a nice guy, but to call him a teacher at all--let alone a great teacher--is overly generous when all he does in narrate the textbook. Unhelpful lectures, midterm questions don't match midterm guide, etc... AVOID

His lectures are soooo boring hes very monotone and not engaging at all. His tests are also very difficult and he doesn't give adequate time to complete quizzes/tests so you basically have no time to think you just have to guess and move on if you don't know the answers. The only good thing is that he has variety in what he grades on.

he simply read the textbook out load

awsome

The question he gives for preparing for the test is good for nothigng . This course is the last resort u should ever pick if u dont want to have a terrible grade

the final exam grade is muted and you dont know what did you do wrong on the final exam , you only see the final grade on SSC. If you still love your GPA , for god's sake, dont pick his courses

Horrible, horrible class structure. Your entire grade is off of 2 midterms and a final. All of which are fully depended on vague, poorly worded MCQs. Khan does very little to teach and just reads off his slides which are a skimmed version of a $100 book. So, just read the book instead. Did not allow us to ask questions regarding the final grade.

Don't take this class. He was super unreasonable during Zoom grading (think he asked someone to get an email from Zoom itself and the service provider when their screen flickered off a couple of times during a midterm or he would mark it as cheating). Also, his assignments and exams are poorly worded and confusing.

90% of the course's total grade falls on to one midterm and a final. Never discussed solutions to questions. Uses recorded lectures from 2019/2020.

extremely rude and terrible lectures.Will ask you to answer questions and will interrupt you before you even speak.lost 8% on a quiz since his english was broken that even chatgpt4 interpreted it how we thought.Tells us not to come to class if we arent paying attention but takes attendance when all he does is repeat whats on the board word for word

khan is living in a fantasy world. His quizzes and tests are very time restriving, go to his office hours and he can't solve the same problems in the given timeframe His quizzes have zero flexibility for scheduling and thinks your only responability is his class. He expects you to answer the questions with 100% precision. Right from the textbook.

Slow explanation of obvious material. Doesn't follow the newest research of the subject

You must spend at least $100, of your own money, to take this course, for a measly %10 of the grade. This class honestly is not hard but prepare to become a statistic as the sectional average since 2020 floats around %65. Please take a different elective I am begging you.

His class was not engaging, hard to understand his heavy accent, and has poor lecture structure. He spent most of the time going over the easiest of concepts looking for someone to answer, then flew over complicated ideas without any thought. Do not take this class unless your major depends on it, you will not enjoy it.

In all my years, I have never had a class as bad as this. I learned more from home reading the textbook in 20 minutes than I had learned in all of his course lectures. I find economics interesting but this teacher made it so much harder than it needed to be. I beg of you all, DO NOT take this class unless you want wasted time and poor grades.

ok so i would come on here and complain that i cant understand him but thats not fair so ill just talk about how he spends half his lecture looking for someone to answer his questions, overexplains simple concepts and blows over hard ones. MUST read the textbook to understand anything that we actually need to know.

i almost got reported to the dean for doing an iclicker at home. i joined the class late and didn't have time to read through the syllabus on my own time, so i skimmed it and i must have missed the part that said that it's an issue of academic integrity. i was sick in bed so i did the clicker from home and i almost got reported. wild.

This man has made me cry hysterically on multiple occasions. I don't understand how yelling at your students to answer questions that don't even make sense is teaching. Be prepared to hear the word “Why?” a lot… He has the audacity to brag about teaching this course for 15 plus years when he should have retired longggggg ago.

I would never recommend this Prof to anyone yelling at students when they don't understand saying things like "can you not read numbers". making us feel dumb. On top of that the Econ help is the hours of the class so theres no way to get extra help. Try to avoid this prof if you can.

He uses clickers as quizzes and they're usually a chapter behind. His assignments are also usually a chapter behind of what he's currently teaching. His handwriting is terrible and his graphs that he draws on are gibberish.

Really heavy accent; can't understand what he's talking about. Awful handwriting as well; can't understand what he's writing.

This class is a bunch of propaganda. You dont even need to be in his lectures to pass the class/ do good. All he does is waste your time and doesnt teach for anything. Can barely understand him and he expects all of us just to know. Doesnt know how to communicate let alone respond to emails. Doesnt use canvas properly. Doesnt know how to use canvas

Professor Khan Islam assigns an overwhelming amount of reading, much of which doesn't connect to exams. He often complains that students don't like economics instead of teaching clearly. The workload feels like three classes in one, and the textbook is full of unnecessary commentary.

Midterms are so much harder than the materials. Quizzes are literally weekly and so much different from lectures. If I was a quitter I would've quit.

Bad at pretty much everything. Just reads off his slides has no compassion and always angry . He has a thick accent too so it makes it just that little bit harder to understand. I mean... he can't teach anyways so there's not much to be understand. Studying on your own is easier. Unfortunately econ majors will see him a lot.

Please take literally anyone else, he wears open toed sandals with no socks and wiggles his toes while lecturing, its very weird. He thinks he's really funny but he's not and if it seems like no one is paying attention he will cold call, look engaged or it will be you next. He did change the weight of our midterms which was nice of him, for once.

Doesn't explain well, very unclear. Test questions are phrased weird and got very difficult. Gets mad a lot if no one knows answer and points out people when no one knows the answer. Just overall hard to understand and would not take again

It is difficult to understand sometimes with all respect. Also no one wants to be there and he yells at everyone also iclicker

harsh grader