His marking is awful! His exams are long and too much writting. I don't know what is this guy looking to prove?

His exams are too long. Always late for the class. Always behind the schedule. We actually had to read the text to do the assignments so i really don't know what was the point of going to his lectures. Left us for 5 lectures to go to some stupid seminar in the US. Couple of times assignments were not available until 24 hrs to the due date.

11 pages of homework questions for one week is the most I have ever had for any given course. Homework questions cover a broad range of material (out of textbook too).. hard to study for the exam.. Regret taking this course with RW =(

low class average on midterm and final (both below 50%), no assignment solutions

Assigns hw on Sunday afternoons and expects you to hand it in on Wednesday. Took him a couple of assignments before he finally changed the weekly deadline to Fridays. His lectures are so-so, don't expect much from him. You won't learn anything. Hws are difficult; however, some questions on exam were based on hw questions. So study the hw.

Unnecessarily long homework and exams. Some assignment solutions were posted the day before the final. He was always late to lecture, 15 minutes late for the final, and an hour late for our review session. Taking a class with him is a waste of money and time. Take it if you like proofs, want to teach yourself, and have a lot of spare time.

please avoid. i didnt know what was on our final till 3 days before which was so awkward. he also gave lectures on material that would be on our quiz the day of. his old notes were the only way i learnt,,, notes that were almost ten years old. the material itself isnt horrible, but the disorganization ruined it.

Easily one of the worst profs I've ever had. His lectures are alright but barely covers anything cause he's so slow! Even worse, he gives hard exams, lies about basically everything, doesn't respond to emails, all of which caused us to fall behind. In the long run you will have to teach yourself just to survive in his class. Avg for MT1 was 39%

Never take Math 314 with this professor. It seemed as if I took a Physics class rather than a Maths class. Exams are super lengthy (did not even reach the last question worth 20 marks) , assignments are super length (almost took 2 days to complete the assignment). Worst Maths prof ever.

Ralf is extremely disorganized and seems to procrastinate a lot. 70% of the assessments were forced into the last 2 weeks. This is extremely unfair as it is the busiest time for students due to finals and other courses. Overall the content of the class is fairly simple, however, the MT exam was too long time wise and few people finished.

Ralf is a kind and understandable prof. However, for him to not post any assignments/quizzes for a month because of his own personal life, and forcing us to do ALL the delayed work in the VERY last 2 weeks of classes is completely unreasonable. Also, he doesn't respond to ANY emails/canvas discussions, and he never fulfill his promises in lecture.

If you wanna be lied to for over a month about "I'll post the assignment/quiz today", only for all the missed quizzes and assignments to be made within the last 2 weeks of the semester, Ralf is your guy. Other than the laziness, he's an okay lecturer and is a nice guy. However, the laziness far outweighs any of the positives. 100% avoid if you can.

He does not give time warnings during exams, consistently goes over class time and gets upset at students for packing when class ends. If this was highschool it may be acceptable, but with the amount of tuition Im paying, I would except more organization and sharpness. Did I mention he doesn't give time warnings during exam? probably forgot lol

I've never rated a professor before but felt the need to just because of how bad Ralf is. If you have the chance, STEER CLEAR. Ralf makes learning so unnecessarily difficult due to his poor time management and lack of communication and planning.

His uninspiring teaching style compounded with his disorganized lesson planning and tardiness makes MATH152 with him an unbearable course to take. If you like your homework due after the day you're taught the content and being in a confused daze for 50 minutes, this is the course for you. However, if you're a regular student trying to get by, RUN.

Ralf if you see this please take it as a sign to give up teaching.

I feel that Ralf is actually a good professor, but his professionalism is lacking significantly. He constantly shows up late for lectures, spends too much time on a topic, and falls being only to catch up by covering 2-3 topics in one lecture, which makes it extremely difficult to learn. Just don't take an 8:30 class with him and you'll be fine :)

He is not good at teaching and his exams are really hard. Avoid him if possible.

That final exam alone is enough to give him a one

Ralf is very unorganized and consistently comes to class late. He rushes through the material as well because he is not good at managing his time. He'll go too slow at the beginning of the semester but then rush you so bad later. He says "uhhhh" for half of the lecture and it just seems like he's learning the content at the same time as we are.

His lectures are not very helpful, but he tries to teach well. He's just not great at communicating his thoughts a lot of the time so most of the time his lectures are just his stream of consciousness. His midterms are slightly challenging, but the final is what you should look out for. It'll kill you. It's sixteen pages of hell...

Very behind schedule, very messy

He is always late and never gets to the point of the class. Our class was so behind and he had to cram everything in time for the finals.

He is always late to class, very unorganized, always behind on lectures, forgets to post homework assignments on canvas on time, and gives very confusing lectures.

he talks so much, always late to lectures, and we were always behind schedule. this was horrible because doing the homework became incredibly hard since he hadn't taught it so you had to teach yourself at that point. his midterms are NOT at all do-able in the 50 minutes given.

He is always late for lectures and never finishes lecture material. We are always behind, and he makes unfinishable midterms.

Is always behind on lectures, & he usually doesn't adjust assignments accordingly. He's always late, and doesn't respond to emails. You can see that he knows his stuff, but he does not know how to teach an introductory course. He teaches as if we also have 20 years of experience and treats this as 'review' when we haven't seen the material before.

He made it very hard for someone who had never been taught the subjects before

He is consistenly late to class and behind on the lectures. He stopped doing review classes to catch up on material the day before tests. His lectures are hard to follow as he tends to mumble and sometimes can't get his point across. He somewhat got it together for the last two weeks, which makes me wish he had done it sonner.

He jumps between concepts constantly and never explains the steps to get some where.

Bad teaching style, almost always late, takes forever to setup,

Rambles constantly. Midterms were difficult, and there were even questions about the homework that hadn't even been covered yet. Constantly behind schedule, and he would teach material the day before the midterm. THere is homework due the week before and of the final. .

He spent a lot of time in the beginning of the semester on review of highschool topics and went into depth with it. But when it we started the calculus portion he would jump from topic to topic and not really go into the depth he had for grade 12 material. He kind of assumes everyone already knows how to do it. AVOID HIM!!!

Very sporadic jumping form topic to topic without explaining much. Always 5-10 minutes late to class and then spends another 10 minutes talking about random stuff that doesn't matter. If you took calculus in high school you may be ok but if you didn't good luck because he cant teach at all. Avoid him if you can.

hes always behind, cant understand his lectures well due to his lack of organization

Not the best prof especially for first year students (even tho he seems like a good guy). He's slow and veryyy behind on things. The midterms and final exam were not the best as the profs behind so literally had no idea what to expect. Try to take this course with a different professor.

Test where random

The prof is incredibly disorganized, both in his ability to present information in lectures, and how he rarely follows the planned schedule. in his office hour/calc workshop, its difficult to understand him as he tends to babble on without going straight to the point. I struggled a lot and just self studied cuz I don't understand his lectures.

Poor ralfy was always late to every lecture, he never responds to emails and often assigns homework before teaching the materials. Most of the course with this guy you're gonna have to rely on yourself to prep for the exams

Just avoid him at all times. Always late to class. Skip materials and put it in the midterms...

Ralf is a great prof, and super helpful when you go talk to him personally. Although he did show up late to class 95% of the time. If you don't go to lectures it is hard to succeed in this course since the filled in notes get posted days/weeks late. Our final exam is tomorrow, and the solution to the last homework still hasn't been posted.

AVOID HIM AT ALL COST, PLEASE DON'T WASTE MONEY ON HIM. HE WILL GIVE YOU HELL, THE GUY NEVER EMAILS ANYONE BACK NEITHER DOES HE REPLY. HE DIDN'T EMAIL US ON WHAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE FINAL, NOT ONLY THAT. HE IS SOOO UNRGANIZED, HE IS SO UNHELPFUL. LIKE I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY EXCEPT IF YOU WANT A GOOD GRADE PLEASE AVOID HIM PLEASE.

Always late and very disorganized. He clearly has no respect for his students and does not value our time. He was late posting notes and solutions including posting material the night before our final that was 50% of our grade. He was also consistently behind in lecture material and even skipped lectures that were on the midterm. Avoid!!!

Did not do much to help the students, unorganized and do not even try to email him he will not reply ( go to math workshop itll save your life). Lectures are hard to understand even when the concepts themselves are on the lighter slide just really boring and a ramble fest.

Very disorganised, did not answer emails, did not even tell us what the final covered. The course itself is very easy (didnt go to lecture, just taught myself from yt or ben ashby) but he just made it harder for no reason. Tests are identical to lecture examples and written assignments

He's terrible in grading. His assignments forces us to cramp everything in a one page report, and then lose marks because things are unclear in that one page. Worst graders of all time. He cares about time management and page management more than students actually learning the course in his class. We should be getting marks for knowing the material

Seems to be energetic when delivering lectures. Lecture notes are a little hard to follow along. NEVER ANSWERS HIS EMAILS! If you take this class with him you're on your own.

Does not answer emails. When you go talk to him he rushes you as if he's not getting paid to be there. Not enough time on exams. Forget about partial marks. no grading criteria for assignments. lots of homework and quizzes from them weekly and not enough time for the quizzes. No one understands the concept. Don't take classes with him!!!

Took Math 154 as someone that is not a huge fan of math, can definitively say this class was a waste of time, unnecessarily difficult assignments, prof was often late to lectures and very disorganized. Students had to buy extra resources just to be able to do homework. Teaches way behind schedule and tests material that had not yet been taught.

Was late to a lot of classes (8:30AM lecture) and constantly had tech issues, which led to him rushing over material and not making a lot of sense. Go to the calculus workshop if you want to do well

Shows up late every lecture, lots of homework, cannot teach a single part of a lesson without going off on a side tangent on something completely unrelated. Which is just confusing and makes lectures almost obsolete because it's impossible to follow.

Our first midterm average was 65% he said it was too high and told us he'd make the other exams harder to drop the average.

He's behaving very well. All the midterms were easy, but the final was so hard that I won't ever take another course with this professor. There were tough questions, and we haven't even solved them. It was the worst final of my life.

Used another professors pre recorded lectures to teach this course. It became abundantly clear when he'd modify said other prof's material as it never made sense. Some assignments the variables were changed to be impossible. Exams were doubled in length compared to prior years. Not difficult but a race to actually finish the problems.

As someone who had never taken Calc in highschool this class was extremely difficult for me. Would post all assignments the day they are due. Did not answer a single one of my emails all year. Questions on the test were nothing like WA or IQ homework questions. Going to lectures were pointless. Very hard exam. Do not recommend.

not an amazing professor. he seems like a nice guy but very scattered and disorganized. we were behind almost immediately and it affected our midterms. the material itself isnt hard (coming from someone who used to hate math), but he doesnt teach well at all. professor leonard on youtube got me through this class. iclicker questions count as well:(