he's hard to understand, hops between ideas before finishing a thought - hard to follow and although this class is suggested for students that didn't take physics in high school he constantly glosses over information and points because "you guys already know this from high school." Super frustrating.

Nice as a person. bad professor. Goes over lecture slides quickly with next to no explanation. Rarely does examples and when they are done many parts are skipped or not explained. Rely on google for this guy. His quizzes are marked easy but that is mainly up to the TAs and not necessarily him.

Holy balls I hate this man. Nothing he said in person lecture never made sense. Cami was better and thats not even by a lot. Waiting on the day the physics department actually gets good professors. Exam was also low-key rank. Zarir would be better if he actually spoke English

cannot understnad, takes 3/4 of lecture trying to figure out how to use an ipad

oh zarir is a fellow with good intentions. however, he often strays from the topic and does not develop his examples for a full understanding. his drawings are often messy and all over the place which can be very confusing to people who have no idea whats going on. he also does not know how to keep the class focused and attentive

if you havent taken high school physics don't take this class, he's not good at teaching examples are messy and not understandable. he provides little to no resources and hw is unclear and lost with no solutions

The worst prof I have ever had. Messy ppt and lecture, however, you can self-educate to get a good grade if you took high school physics.

Absolutely no structure to lectures, goes WAY too fast (even for university), expects you to read his mind, skips over problems, doesn't explain any topics and expects you to just know every different version of his (weird) formulas. Gives formula sheets that have random things on them and the exams contain random or weirdly worded questions.

Lectures are impossible to follow, often ended up more confused. Only useful if you have already done ALL the readings/examples and your notes are organized and just treat as a review. Usually treated it as naptime, but that did mean I had to miss out on some quality humour featuring a grown man struggling to use an iPad in front of 700 students.

Dr. Zarir made Linear Algebra much more complicated than it needed to be. I often found myself passing out in his classes due to having no clue as to what he was explaining.

his class was honestly a joke; lectures were disorganized, without structure, and nothing was taught (you'll end up teaching yourself regardless if you attend lectures or not). despite being an intro level course, you'll need to relying heavily on high school knowledge. Zarir seems likes a really nice, but he simply can't teach effectively

Nice guy but your grade basically came down to luck. If you didn't take high school physics, you're in for a treat. Did all the hw 3 times and still couldn't do exam questions as they were so different and basically no way to prepare for them. GL....

Really bad at lecturing, takes 40 minutes to set up his iPad, no one goes to class after the first day. Seems nice, I feel bad for him, but he needs to do better.

spends more time figuring out how to use his ipad than actually teaching.

I feel for the guy, I do. I can tell that he's super friendly and caring, but his lectures are so beyond simple to follow. There was virtually no discussion of potential misunderstandings, and were based completely on understanding the textbook material by heart. This is due the fact that he doesn't actually teach the material, the textbook does.

This guy is hard to understand and his teaching is extremely hard to follow, TAKE AT YOUR OWN RISK

Felt like he was making things up on the spot

MAGNITUTDE, VELOCITY, ACCELERATION

Awful, teach yourself this course. You will not learn anything from this guy. Zarir the only reason physics grade average so low in 1201.

He goes way too fast for a class that is introductory. :(((

He is really tough to understand during lectures and spends more than half of a class doing a question, which he then gets wrong. You're better off skipping and reading the textbook at home. He is also very disorganized.

terrible.

so bad. starts so many practice problems and doesn't ever solve them. illegible writing. horrible accent. horrible posture man is built like a hunchback

He's practically just there. This entire course requires you to fully teach yourself. Any resource is better than this prof. By the time October hit, only about 15% of the class was showing up to lecture which should tell you all you need to know. Do not choose a course he is instructing and if it's mandatory, good luck.

Lectures were confusing and unhelpful

Bro this guy is the worst prof ever like he wouldn't explain anything and he would just ramble on about random stuff. Every single tie we did an clicker he just wouldn't explain why the answer would be one thing or another.

Zarir although be extremely knowledgeable and enthusiastic is too smart too teach. He often skips over important slides because it is "very simple" and frequently has errors in his premade notes. His quizzes are fairly easy but I'm pretty sure they are made by the other professor.

nobody knows what hes saying. he doesn't explain himself. he doesn't care. he just makes jokes at the expense of his students' futures. at least hes funny ig, would be great if it didnt cost me my class time

Going to lectures is a waste. Just watch 3 blue 1 brown and organic chemistry tutor.

He is not a mean person but he is hard to understand and treats the course like everyone understands physics, struggled a lot in the course along with many others.

zarir wins the prize for being the only class I've ever slept through. spent more time playing on his iPad than teaching physics.

I read all the comments about how watching YouTube was way more helpful than attending his class before taking this class, and until now, I would rather watch videos than go to his class. However, the professor was nice, and I can see that he is trying. But he often posts iClicker questions in class and prefers to skip explaining them to students.

Awful prof. Notes copied from textbook, seemed to joke about the content while we all sat there confused. Found it more helpful to learn from text/youtube rather than lectures. Prof assumed you had high school knowledge (I didn't) and then added to this without setting a foundation. Very tough to follow, lectures seemed messy and out of order

This professor is my number 1 op. He is so bad at teaching that he screwed me over for midterms. I did better on the final, but it still wasnt enough. He single handedly demoted me to gen sci. I hope he takes this personally.

Horrible lectures, extremely difficult to understand and was constantly moving too fast with unclear instruction. Exams and quizzes/tests were not too difficult, but did not do a good enough job teaching.

The most lost professor I've ever seen. He would flip between the slides back and forth delivering unrelated ideas at the same time. Zero organization. Even when he wants to solve a practice question, he would be so messy and most of the times not complete the question. He doesn't even give answers to the iclicker questions.

Prof Zarir, the picasso of perplexity. His lectures were like riddles wrapped in a puzzle, turning physics into a mysterious art form. I admired how he could transform the straightforward into the utterly confusing, adding a touch of mystery to the classroom. Hats off to Prof Zarir for making physics an unforgettable, miserable experience.

Zarir's lectures somehow make me understand calculus less after the lecture. I was more confident in my abilities post grade 12 calculus than I am now halfway through the course. He also often has errors in his prewritten notes that he projects instead of completing problems in class.

He seems like a sweetheart. But as a prof, I have no words. Dear first years; beware.

prepare yourself for a heavy course (hope you took high school physics). NOT INTRO PHYSICS even though it says it will be. you will end up using only the textbook as lectures are a waste of time. good luck. oh and prof won't explain anything, have fun!

Professor had no idea what he was teaching, he was always more lost than the students and never ever explained properly. At the end I stopped going class and I learned more by myself than from him. Also disrespectful in person

Unorganized, so much information being thrown in your face at once. I took high school physics and still struggled, it felt like I was learning it for the first time. You are better off teaching yourself or getting a tutor, don't waste time going to lecture unless you want a good laugh.

Very bad

Can't speak to the class

Extremely disorganized, confused, and had a poor grasp of the English language, which is a necessity when teaching a potentially completely new subject to hundreds of students. His lectures were not worth going to and I had to learn everything solely off the textbook and Youtube. If you haven't taken Grade 12 Physics then this class will be hell.

His ability to comminicate is very poor and extremly difficult to understand. He skips steps and never writes on the board. He does an swful job at reading off the slides. His class starts off with 700 students and by week 2 is 50 becuase none of the students can understand his poor english.

The lectures were terrible and I couldn't understand anything. I relied entirely on online resources bec the professor didn't use the slides properly. We studied from past exams and question banks, but the midterm had no overlap. It was all based on slides we didn't understand. I'd never take this course again and out of Med Sci because of that!!

Go to Tudose's calculus class.

This guy, such a terrible teacher people stop attending his lectures. his solution to this was to make attendance mandatory. guy cant speak an idea clearly, solutions to problems are skipping over important parts. although he is a cutie pie ;).

Terrible at explaining concepts, especially with his poor English. Lectures are a mess and difficult to follow if you are learning the concepts for the first time. Also, he made the makeup exams much more difficult than the regular ones and took over a month to grade them.

No matter how prepared you may feel for a Zarir exam, you aren't. His lectures are laughably unorganized and are no help in learning. His grading is slow as molasses too- it took him and his TAs almost til December to hand back our midterm marks. Lord save you if you have him as your professor. Read the textbook, don't even bother with lectures.

terrible professor

Absolutely terrible prof. You are doomed if you receive him.

Will not teach well, might as well not show up to class if you can help it

About 90% of my class and I didnt show up to a single lecture past the first week. Zarir exclusively reads off of textbooks slideshows he didnt make and scribbles some shitty annotations onto, he barely speaks english, and takes months to grade anything. Going into the final days before the drop deadline we only knew 7.5% of our total course grade.

With all due respect, Zarir's talents do not lie in teaching.

Smart guy to be fair. Terrible at explaining and lectures. You're gonna be teaching yourself everything, hard to understand. He's a nice guy too but teaching does not seem to be the best fit.

Hes not a goof prof, I took him for 1229, an easy course. But he does his best to make it harder than to needs to be. The worse part is we have waited nearly a month just to Get our midterm back. All other sections had there grades back last week or prior.

Very nice guy.... Horrible prof. Lecture notes are illegible, the examples presented in class have lots of mistakes in them, and the lectures are useless. To do well in this course you have to teach it to yourself viva youtube and TA practice problems. Go to the tutorials and do the assignments by yourself and you will do well.

DUDE. This guy should not be teaching. You actually cant understand anything hes saying. His notes are HORRID. His midterm wasnt crazy hard if u just study. honestly teach ur self the class on youtube and do learning catalytics.

I genuinely dropped down to my knees when I realized I had him again for Calc 2. His classes are unintentionally hilarious, it's like being taught by Sleepy Joe himself with a funny accent and at this point he honestly should be let go. Someone please free this grandpa already.

Abysmal doesn't cut it. He is incredibly hard to understand, speaking incredibly quietly and unconfidently to a class of people who need to learn from him to pass. Genuinely, and I can't express this enough, listening to him is an infohazard and makes you understand less calculus. Just read the textbook. He cannot teach and shouldn't be a prof.

Wallah his class is a circus show, has a bad accent, his notes are messier and more unorganized than a neck beard reddit mod's room, and couldn't figure out solstice in the first few weeks so everyone was playing clash royale on the projector. Everybody just goes to tritchenko's class because he couldnt teach to save 6-7 abgs tied to train tracks.

Horrible teacher! Didn't know how to teach at all, gave horrible lectures, nothing on the review was accurate to the exam. Would never take his class again i recommend dropping the course if you get him as a prof or switch classes.