Very intelligent, but not when it comes to teaching. Gets frustrated easily and has mood swings. Often left class before it was over:(

Although this course was exactly the same as math 31, I didn't have a bloody clue what this guy was doing all term. His notes are illegible and hasn't a clue as to how to teach this material . I'd avoid this guy at all costs! Find one of the good ones.

Useless, a waste of space

Sunil doesn't have respect for students. Won't answer your questions and is very rude. Stay away from this guy or your blood will boil and your GPA will drop!

He is extremely unhelpful and doesn't like to help if you need extra help. He actually will laugh if you don't understand something he thinks is simple. Worst prof I've ever had. I hate that class.

Worst professor i've ever had. Refuses to help, and has one or two pets in the class that love him, and i'm guessing that's who gave a good evaluation. he gets angry when you ask questions, and wastes time in class, DOES NOT HELP AT ALL. Take this class with Tiina Hohn, i wish i had, cause this guy is useless.

he is the worse teacher EVER..he is rude most of the time. i feel he is ****. he only focus on the students he 'likes' and he doesnt care for the others. doesnt help if we have any questions. and he expects too much.

Very very very very rude teacher. Puts students down very often and expects us to know material even if we have never seen it. CONSTANTLY humiliates students. Makes the student feel like an idiot if they answered wrong. Instead of helping his students he tells you to get it from a classmate.YOU ****! We are paying you to teach us not to insult us

by far the worst prof i have EVER had. He is rude and disrespectful to his students and makes you feel stupid if you dont understand something. He does the bare minimum required for his job and if you need help wont tell you anything he just tells you to go to the math help center. He doesnt care if his students. He is a ****

This guy sucks. Zero help. Changes format of questions on the final. Avoid.

He is degrading to the students and gets frustated when NONE of us understand! Went to ask for help, but he laughed because we were doing it wrong, and then had to leave.

rudest teacher i have ever had. does not talk clear. makes fun of nursing students. does not offer help. ignores your questions. laughs in your face when you ask a question. thinks he is hot but is totally NOT. thinks he gets all the attention from the ladies but doesnt. do not recommend this teacher if you are female and have a hard time with math

He mumbles, writes messy, very unclear. He is rude and unhelpful. He starts out okay and things go downhill. Stay away!!

lol this guys a joke, the class is easy but i didn't go to class, i taught myself. He's really rude, has a black belt in karate and thinks hes crazy haha, stares down student and such, like wow im shocked someone like this can get a professional job. Sorry sensai, but you need to practice some modesty and patience.

He probably has the shiniest head I've ever seen. All jokes aside, he's not that good of a teacher. He really doesn't seem to answer any of the questions and makes fun of you for not knowing something. He's a chill guy, but sometimes he can get annoying. He takes students to bars, and is friendly outside of class.

Quite honestly the worst math teacher and lab instructor I've ever had. He makes you feel stupid for asking a question, and really makes people believe that they can't do anything. He's rude and does the least he can for his students. Just because he does karate he thinks its okay to stare down students. MacEwan would be better without him.

He talks so fast, you will not understand a thing, he does not feel like explaining anything. So tries to confuse you so that no one talks in class making you want to learn since the material seems hard. But the second you go to another professor you will find everything easy

Not a good prof at all. Does not know how to explain things in a clear and concise manner. Expects you to understand everything he's doing on the board without fully explaining it. Does not seem to like to help students if they need it. Definitely wouldn't recommend him at all as a prof.

Doesn't matter if you get the answer right, if you didn't do it his way you get zero. And i'm not exaggerating. He acts totally chill and as if the test will be easy and fair but then you get it back 2 weeks later and got 1/5 on all the questions for getting the right answer "in the wrong way"

Sunil Barran, how do I even begin to explain Sunil Barran. He expects his students to understand math just as clearly as he does, and if you ask questions he ignores them. Be prepared to have some pretty brutal exams, in class notes and assignments are directly related but exam questions are always 2-3 times harder. Highly do not recommend him.

Extremely condescending requires you to be interactive but makes it hard for you to be interactive because of the condescension. Would not take him as my professor.

Avoid at all costs. Expects students to understand everything he does before he even teaches it. Almost never goes through the logic/definitions of concepts, just does a bunch of examples all class without explaining them and I find that is barely helpful to do well in math. If I could give 0, I would.

Tough grader. Did not know how to teach . Most of time just tells us answer right way . Exam super brutal . Put some questions your never seen it before . Ask questions he ignore them . Take other prof if you can

If you are thinking of taking, DON'T. I have never struggled so much with any other prof. Sunil Barran is a prof that does the absolute bare minimum for his students. He uses another teacher's lectures that don't match with the quiz or assignments he gives. Maybe he is better in person, but an extremely stressful class online.

He was not accessible outside the classroom and rarely ever answered questions we asked in class. The exams had nothing to do with material we learned in class

Professor was so damn rude and obnoxious to students. He would be late marking assignments like marking assignments after the quizzes were already done so we wouldn't know if we did the questions correctly. When another student asked him to do a question with another method he simply said no because it would take too much time. Very bad prof!

After studying with him, I doubt all the positive comments here. He does what a teacher does: show up to class, teach the concepts, give (not so helpful) note, assignments and (long) exams. Hes rude, condescending but he tries so hard to be a good prof but sorry! Wasted! Choose another prof if you can.

I would take 115 if he wasn't the only choice that fit my schedule. The only reason I passed let alone got a B- was because I took HS calc. Quizzes/Final and assign.'s were unfair, frequently said to "only use methods taught in class" yet gave us questions that had no previous "methods taught" to help. Needs to balance lecture/quiz material better.

Sunil is probably the worst math prof I've ever had. Teaches by the textbook, gave little effort, tests have questions never discussed. Idk how a faculty head can be so bad. Something is wrong when the class average on a test is below 50%. I somehow went from an A in 114 to dropping his class. Will NEVER take a class with him again. AVOID HIM!

Sunil is not the best professor for math. I took math 31 in high school and did decent in that course. Then I took this class, and it was terrible. He would do the bare minimum for the students and only show a SINGLE way to solve problems. If you solve the problem differently that was not taught in class; you will get a zero. Avoid him if you can.

Dont. Took an online class with him as the instructor, his lecture examples would always be minimal. Meanwhile, his assignments and tests involve questions that require heavy critical-thinking as well as a very roundabout way of solving it. He loves putting these edge-case questions on assignments and tests..

Sunil is one of the least helpful professors I've ever had. Since our class was online, we entered our questions through the chat on Zoom. Every question I've asked, he'd either give a useless answer or ignore it. In the middle of solving a problem, he'll skip halfway and give us the answer with no context, yet he wants you to show full work. Smh.

he was terrible during online learning would give us 4 hours of video on sunday to learn for the test on wednesday was terrible for returning marks i don't know the mark i got on the last 3 assignments or the final simply because he never posted them sent him an email asking about an assignment got a response back 6 days later after it was due

Terrible at getting assignments marked and handed back. When asked if we could get an assignment back before a quiz he didn't care and said it wasn't his problem since he doesn't mark the assignments, wouldn't contact the person who does either. How are we supposed to know if we are getting the questions right if they aren't graded before quizzes??

Shows lots of examples in class but often skips steps and writes down the answer with no insight or context for how he got from one step to the next. Rushes through examples and erases board while students are still trying to copy down the notes, only notes available are the ones taken in class, no slideshow, or copies of anything. So frustrating!

This professor while his online lectures were clear and accessible, he made all his assignments due at 12am instead of pm. Then on top of that there was a very strict grading system of 10% per hour and on exams 1%per minute. This cost me a lot of marks as I had classes running up until the deadline, and he simply took away the marks with no mercy.

There were no notes to follow during the lecture and nothing to look back on to study. There was no point going to class cause he just put examples on the board and then erased it before we could write it down. it was a really hard class to learn anything from

Had for114+115, self taught entire course by textbook when wasn't mandatory. Extremely rude; no respect when asked for help, not approachable professor. Quizzes; some examples in lecture were on tests but there were ones on topics not taught yet. Make sure you note everything single thing down, don't miss a lecture,courses harder than it should be.

Gives extremely hard questions for homework and tests. Lazy professor, he just give the answer for questions instead of explaining the concepts, or skips to the answer for difficult concepts. Will never give students extensions on assignments because he can't be bothered. I've self-taught myself his semester with youtube videos. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Traps students, sends reminder for quiz/assign. 1-2 weeks before due date and won't remind you again. No formula sheets for exams so knowledge is useless unless you have super memory. Late assignments are not tolerated unless someone died. Email response is poor, no practice given. I had a literal A- in Math 114 and had to drop his class.

Very bad teacher. He clearly has a superiority complex and enjoys showing his students how good at math he is instead of actually teaching. He often does things "for fun" in class that provide no help and only complicates questions more. His lectures are very fast and he often solves questions without explaining where things came from. AVOID

I honestly do not recommend his class. I had an A in 114 and had to drop his class. It's pretty tough and he is not the best at explaining concepts and rushes through things. You're expected to have a lot of background knowledge

His quizzes are easy, however, it doesn't prepare you for the final at all. The final is worth 40% of your grade, we received no reviews and were expected to know everything, but most of the questions on the final were only on one chapter. He never taught us how to do the questions that we're expected to know how to do on the final.

Do not take his class!! my friend and I had to withdraw mid-semester. I wasted 2 months for self-study but still could not catch up with him and his "for fun" questions, I wish I could rate him at the end of the semester but I had already dropped it, always check the rating of your professor, I did not and I regret wasting 2 months.

Made me rethink my career path and choose to start cleaning a Wendy's bathroom for $14 an hour for a living instead. Worst final exam I've ever taken. Why am I paying $8k in tuition so I can solve questions that he put on the final "FOR FUN"?? Have to be stronger than a Vietnam war vet if you want to survive his class.

Gives 6 quizzes drops your lowest grade which is nice but the final is worth 40% no extra assignments to save your grades. Does questions 'for fun' which complicates it even more. Quizzes and final are based on things not covered in class very advanced things only found deep in the textbook. Organic chem tutor will have to teach u the whole course.

If you miss a day don't expect to know anything for the assignment or labs. It's always very cryptic so you need clarification on a lot of things. I email yesterday and I get nothing but radio silence until I attend class the next day and he says "I saw your email but I don't like answering emails. I like to answer questions in class". (he didn't)

I highly advise against taking Sunil as your professor. He's an all around unpleasant fella, he doesn't respond to emails, he has a condescending tone when he speaks to you. He puts questions that we've never covered in class in the final. He goes on power trips every class and tries to assert dominance in the classroom.

There are definitely better options for math114 barely responds to emails and his practice questions NEVER reflect what's on the exams. If you didn't take math 31 in highschool consider yourself cooked if your with him. Uses sarcasm as a tool to humiliate students for inoffensive simple questions. I get he tries to be funny but it gets to a point.

I didn't take math 31 but that's beside the point. He is nice/caring when you go to his office hours but his midterm/final for MATH 114 was SO HARD. He posted practice exams and they were WAY EASIER than the actual exam. He tests you like you are doing a PhD or something. I do not recommend him so don't let your GPA suffer!!

AVOID AT ALL COST

HONESTLY JUST AVOID THIS GUY HE IS THE WORST FR

Won't help much if you ask a question, he expects you to understand it even though you are literally asking for help. Very passive aggressive towards students. as practice questions up but not the key, will tell you to do all the questions and come to office hours to receive the key which you can only check while you're there. Avoid at all costs!

Wasn't caring at all . Looked very strict . Doesn't reply to emails easily

Just do urself a favour and don't take his class, doesn't respond to emails, doesn't help u if u ask questions and literally takes it personal if u skip class and will pick on u. Makes u feel so bad for asking questions. Like sir THIS IS UR JOB

Please ignore the good reviews from the students who are simply good at math and could teach themselves. If math isn't your strong suit then just avoid this guy. I don't know how he's still employed.

I don't know how he has a job. He definitely hates being a prof. and will purposefully delete stuff from Meskenas because he is "mad at students who didn't attend lecture." petty af. He teaches like you've already got a PhD in what he's talking about.

AVOID THIS PROF IF YOU CAN. He is terrible, during his lectures, he doesn't actually teach - he assumes that you've already learned the material. Students have attempted to ask questions during his office hours and he just tells them to look online and that everything is in his lectures. He refuses to help students who don't understand.

He is super rude and mean to his students. God forbid you ask him a question he will completely unleash hell on you.passive aggressive. Unhelpful. I emailed him asking questions (and so did other classmates). No response after 20 days. Take Robert instead.

If there's literally ANY other prof available. Take them instead.

One of the worst profs ive ever taken, if your in the class start praying. He does not have notes for his class he just writes things from his mind onto the board and most of the time you can't even read what he wrote. Sometimes i think he wants you to fail the class because he assumes you know everything about calculus so he barely teaches you.

He made us write a midterm on Halloween night. Since it was an online asynchronous class, it was challenging to understand calculus, and he didn't provide much help. It is best if you don't take the online class with him at least.

Terrible prof. I still have nightmares about this class

DO NOT TAKE HIM he is the worst with questions (he refuses to answer & tells u to ask somebody else), no notes you can refer to you theyre all done in class, quizzes are fairly easy 4x10% but the final was SO long and not completable in the time given. hes very very rude and very much wants us all to fail. if ur not a calc wizard you will fail

Final was very difficult, and quizzes and tests are based on lectures (which you cannot understand). Very rude and unprofessional.

worst prof I've ever had in math. Made me hate the class. lectures are not at all helpful, practice exams are not at all reflective of the real exam, which makes it hard to study. It's as if he tried his best to teach this class while simultaneously while doing the least amount of work possible. Takes too long to respond to emails. Refuses to help

I took the online asynchronous class. He made the final exam on topics that weren't even covered in the assignments and practice final exam. He's also very rude and unhelpful. A little bit creepy (just get bad vibes from him) too.

I took the online asynchronous class. He made the final exam on topics that weren't even covered on the practice assignments and final exam (which was all the meskanas material) and was infuriatingly unhelpful when asked about it. He also gives off weird vibes.

Challenging class with heavy work and no communication, Difficult material; lectures often rushed, requiring extra self-study Outline changed weeks before final increasing difficulty Tough exams; some succeeded with effort, many struggled Needs lots of independent work and strict grading. Good if strong in math and self-teaching; expect steep curve