His lecture doesnt help at all. Hes a good person tho

Robert Pilling is a nice guy but a bad teacher. The whole test was completely based on the readings, none of it was on the lecture slides. All of his lecture slides had nothing to do with the reading. Avoid this teacher!

Does not teach the course material only makes it more difficult to understand. High-key wants you to fail. I know all about his wife, his accounting job, and his trips to Calgary because thats all he talks about.

Lecture and textbook do not match up. He always tries to make sure that the people who don't go to class miss something important that he doesn't post anywhere and only says in class, so if you skip make sure you have a friend in class.

I wish I have seen comments about him before taking his class. He is such a great guy but horrible teacher. He just makes everything harder when trying to explain. Lecture slides don't correlate with book. Studying with his resources is a hell. His lectures are boring by content anyways and the way he tries to make lectures fun just makes it worse

Is very rude when you attempt to get feedback.

Rob Pilling, I did not see his face the entire semester but MOS1023 is the worst course I have ever done. There is no final exam but the syncs are enough to lower your marks to the point of failure. BEWARE! If you want to read 100 pages of boring accounting every week + 3 hour lectures + at least 2 weekly quizzes + biweekly syncs, go for it!

Awful professor. Goes way too fast and it seems as though he wants the students to fail.

SO MUCH CONTENT- such a disorganized course

Terrible professors. Sends passive-aggressive emails to the class which makes him seem very unapproachable. Goes way too fast and tests on way too much content at once. Puts random questions on exams.

If I could give a negative I would, complains when people take SRA's, inconsiderate, meh teacher and just honestly doesn't feel like he cares about his students.

the MOST worst professor i have ever had. this man spams his students with emails 5 times daily and yells at everyone in his emails. Not to mention his spelling errors and mistakes in his emails and exams. He is also disrespectful towards his students and called us dyslexic. Overall careless prof, terrible lectures, avoid him at all costs.

This is the worst class I have ever taken and I never want to take one of his classes again. This prof definitely did not read his own textbook because if he did he would realize that it is not an effective way to learn. He is never willing to help, and will make you watch YouTube videos about cars and then ask dumb questions about them on tests.

The tests drive me crazy even if I put a lot of hard work on this course.

Heavy workload aside, he is treats his students under the motto "guilty until proven innocent." He has had cheaters in his previous classes and takes it out on all of us. Many students deferred their tests late this year and he mocking posted "there must be a covid outbreak in my class!!" ... guess whose entire student building got covid that week?

This man has a distorted sense of humor. He finds pleasure in making work unnecessarily hard while laughing in your face as you complain about the complexity of the tasks at hand. Tests and assessments are linear so once you've selected an answer, you can not go back to change your mind. You don't have access to test corrections either.

Terrible professor. Avoid him at all costs. He is rude and disrespectful to his students and he does not deserve to be able to teach here.

Terrible. Absolutely rude professor. He is a disgrace to the University and should be banned from teaching here ever again.

I did not like pilling. His lectures made him seem egotistical and when emailing for help, he normally would respond in a rude or passive aggressive manner. Lecture were kind of boring and most things I learned were just from reading the textbook and teaching myself. Also a little unorganized. Def manageable but not the best

pilling's lectures are complicated and hard to understand. information is all over the place and midterm/exams are made super hard. pilling purposely wants the average to be low (below 60%). would definitely not take again.

I have to say that the textbook and lectures are terrible; you'd better get lots of resources outside his class to be successful. Having quizzes every week and they are hard tbh. For us is 1% per quiz and drop the lowest one. I sometimes don't think he answers my questions directly and makes me feel bad. Would not take his class again if possible.

You have to use alternative sources beyond the textbook and the lecture material. He just reads some slides and explains them very convolutedly. His Friday review quizzes are very tight on time and very challenging. He does not provide feedback or give extra practice questions for the exam.

One of the worst teacher in Western. Avoid at all cost. Exams are crazy hard, you won't pass.

Horrible teacher. Makes timing for weekly graded quizzes insanely tough, there's no way to do well in this course without external resources. He has now changed our final to be online, linear, and added calculation questions to the exam - keep in mind our exam is in 5 days from today. He's a nice guy but doesn't want to see his students do well.

Robert doesn't care about his students at all. Our quizzes are absolutely impossible to complete in the 15 min limit we're given. In light of the recent online exams, Robert has decided to include calculation q's on our exam in 4 days, which he told us wouldn't be tested. He's also giving us half the time, fully proctored, and linear. im sad

At the beginning of the year, he said that the class average each year is around 60%, and I thought he was joking at first. Oh boy how wrong I was, his tests are very difficult and his lectures are so boring and pointless.

Undoubtedly, Pilling is the worst professor in the Social Sci faculty. His lectures are dry and consist of him talking about how he hates wearing masks. When COVID-19 had moved exams online, he decided to cut out exam time by half, include more complex questions, and go as far as telling us to have a 2nd device to join a zoom and have TAs watch us.

Due to the outbreak of the new variant of covid-19, all exams were moved online. Not only he decided to add more complex questions, he cut the exam time in half (from 2 hours to one hour). How are we supposed to do 55 questions in one hour like. Please avoid this course at all cost.

Worst professor ever. After people complained to him about how unfair the final exam format was (55 questions in 60 mins), he decided to make it worse by starting a poll where all of the options are essentially worse. Now, we are ended up doing 60 questions in 60 mins. Avoid this prof at all cost, YOU WONT SURVIVE.

Professor Pilling is one of the most boring speakers I have ever listened to. His lectures are dry, pointless and go over very little material. Might as well read the entire textbook if you actually want to learn something even though it Is a lot of pages to read. His emails are rude, inconsiderate and I don't think he really cares. AVOID!!

Professor Pilling is one of the worst prof's there is! He does not care about his students at all and is very rude and aggressive. He makes this course for students to fail! Please avoid.

Awful prof delivering the course in an awful way. 60+ pages of dry reading per week doesn't help. Does not teach you what he tests you on. I don't think he actually cares about his students and how well they do.

Terrible prof, changed around multiple aspects of the exam, 5 days before the final. Final exam worth 45%- 55 minutes to complete 60 questions, and it's proctored. Overall terrible prof who thinks he's funny when he cracks jokes in lectures.

He was so bad, I wanted to give him a zero. But that's not possible. So I give him a 1.

His course is built to fail students.

That was the worst final exam I have ever written in my whole entire life. I worked hard, studied, went to every lecture, and did the readings yet that exam was terrible. I will cry thinking about this course for the remainder of my life. Whatever joy was in my life prior to this final has disappeared, thank you so much for that Robert.

Inconsiderate prof with boring lectures. Forgets to explain basic concepts/terminology and it was necessary for me to turn to numerous outside sources/youtube to learn concepts. Super petty and punishes you HARSHLY for exams moved online that are out of your control. You can tell teaching is his side job.

Pilling was a brutal prof through and through. His powerpoints were ancient, his lectures were excruciatingly boring, and his exams were riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, with some questions that were based on a non-relevant piece of information from a video, such as "what colour was the man's tie in ___ video?".

Midterm was unreasonably hard and designed to bring everyone's grades down. Stuff learned on assignments wasn't on exams, very memorization heavy you will not learn much

Pilling seemed very nice, after a while he made inappropriate comments to some of the girls in the class. In addition to being creepy, the midterm was ridiculous. Very few people passed and the average was a 50. Most people did well with the access project however he brought many people's grades down 20%. Finally, the course wasn't described well.