Reads and talks to himself, sets questions only he himself could answer.

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He always talks to the board, and always leaves students saying "what? I gotta check the texbook!" after class. Very unfair tests. (getting slightly better though)

Awful teacher. Might as well teach yourself from the textbook. Very discouraging teacher. Mumbles and talks to the blackboard, notes and examples straight from the textbook. Yells at the class when asking for clarity on lesson. Unfair tests!

MARK MY WORDS...I have better odds of winning the lottery then passing his class. Calculus is not impossible...but he is!!! Don't believe me? Just read the other comments!!!

worst professor i have ever come across...writes unclear notes...tests that cover stuff he ddint even mention in class

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i'm still wondering how i passed this course...simply because he never explained ANTTHING, he just copied the text book on the board. I COULD HAVE DONE THAT. If i hadn't cheated on the final, i would have failed

Worse prof ever in my 4years at York! Copies the textbook word for word as notes. Class average was 38% after like 20% boost for test1. Take a course with him at your own risk. BTW, he ignores people and never return phone calls either.

The lecture notes ARE from the textbook, word for word. He DOES ignore your emails, phone calls, etc. -- is not very prompt. Hard to get hold off. Not careful about preventing cheating in class. Very lazy. (but he IS better than RAGUIMOV)- talks english

If your strong in calculus, i recommmend you take this class, cuz the rest will fail, and he will bell curve your A*SS above 100%. Dont bother going to class cuz he cant teach but thats a good thing! (others wont doo good = bell cuver)

He made this course MURDER!!!!!!!!! do not take a course with this professor. He is really difficult to understand, and his tests are killer. He tests you on material that is not even taught yet. Do all of your homework...twice...and then pray that you will pass his final exam

OMG GOD HELP ME. If you get stuck with this guy, drop out of york, and go somewhere else.. serious. he'll screw over your math for the rest of university. Or... just major in arts. and save yourself the trouble.

terrible

Worse Math Prof I ever had. Everything said here is correct. Only people that should take his class are the gifted students in math. He gives the hardest questions on test, exams. Avoid him at all cost if you don't want to fail. His lectures so useless, thinks we're bunch of idiots trying to copy his notes straight from the text.

Worst experience I have ever had. Makes me doubt my ability. He doesn't 'teach'. Turns his back to the class, writes on the board for hours. Questions and communication from students not encouraged. No guidance or direction. Avoid this teacher if you can.

Terrible prof, Avoid at all cost. I dropped his class, because doesn't know how to teach at all; turns his back to the class, writes on the board for hours and without explanations.

The worst prof I've ever had. Barely teaches anything, and you have to do ALL questions assigned because he'll put stuff on tests he hasn't taught but what was in the problems, and even put stuff on the test that we're not GOING to learn. Then he's surprised when people fail and has to give an incredibly high curve (ie: 40/100 marks docked) and peo

you do not understand what he is teaching because he does not know English and he thinks in Russian. I recommend changing to a different professor!Just don't take his course. You lose your money and you get no knowledge and bad marks!

I've cried so hard for not finding this site earlier... First test i failed, thought maybe cause i didnt study much, decided not to give up and try harder, studied like madman for the 2nd test, i studied with someone who was really good in it and knew everything! guess what, i got 25% on that test, ofcourse it was too late to drop... waste of money

he just reads the book and confuses the students. However, the tests are so hard and it is difficult to pass those tests based on what he teaches you. Be careful!!

WORST PROF EVER!!! 1) he DOESNT teach you a thing, all he does is stare a his piece of paper and write random words on the board 2) GOODLUCK asking him a question.. all he does is make you look dumb and doesnt really answer it. 3) His tests are VERY hard.. save yourself the trouble of having to repeat calculas and transfer out!

This professor was utterly useless. I read some of the reviews prior to selecting the course, but since I needed 2320, I had to take it with him. Tests are way harder than they should be, and makes his students do all the textbook questions, and none show up on the tests. He makes you do pure proofs and hard ones too. Run away, if you get him.

IGNORANT, RIDICULOUS, USELESS. IN A 3 HR LECTURE HE GIVES NO BREAK! WHERE 15 MIN BREAK MIN IS MANDATORY BY YORK. HE WRITES EXACTLY WHAT IS IN THE BOOK. HE DOES NOT EXPLAIN ANYTHING. HE DOES NOT TALK TO ANYONE IN CLASS. NOT OPEN FOR DISCUSSIONS. EXAMS ARE THE HARDEST QUESTIONS EVER. REALLY MESSED UP PROF. HE MUST BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY. I DID NOT LEAR

WORST PROF EVER!!i don't know why he can become a prof????it is same as why i am not a king!!!

WORST PROF!!! AVOID IF POSSIBLE!! Wasted my money only to have some guy read and copy word for word from the textbook. I'm surprised I even passed his first test. Ridiculously hard tests that don't relate to the textbook work.

this professor is HORRIBLE... he does not TEACH AT ALL. he reads from the text, looks down the whole time, and doesn't even answer questions! ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO EMAIL OR CALL HIM. HE NEVER REPLIES! Big waste of money. AVOID AVOID AVOID

the worst professor you would come by in any university. whould mess up your life for sure.....avoid at any cost...worst test and even worse lectures....ridiculously long and uselessly ridiculous lectures....have no idea why i didnt raed the comments before i took his class....

he is the worst professor at york. DONT take his class. he doesnt know how to teach (just copies stuff off the book on to the board without explaining properly)and his tests are really really hard. his tests are way harder than the problems in the book. everyone ends up getting awful grades.

Absolutely the worst professor ever. Copies straight out of the textbook, literally, word for word. Nothing in the book is on any of the tests. Spent 45 minutes explaining what a number times zero equals zero. Was supposed to cover chapters 1-8 and did 1-4 (sounds great until you need the stuff in chapters 6,7,8 for another course). AVOID.

he copies everything from the book... talks to the blackboard and not the class. writes so small, can barely read. heavy accent and mumbles. avoid!

Always make mistakes on the lecture, sometimes even cannot answer the questions from us.But he use the textbook a lot, on his lecture, what he's doing is copy the textbook onto the blackboard.

has an strong accent. appears to be explaining to himself rather than the class. a lot of self studying is required to make it through. midterms were alright but finals sucked. most students kept asking for help and clarification during the final. have to retake the course and i pray i dont get him as a prof again.

He is alright. His accent is hard to understand and he follows the book very closely, so attendance is not mandatory. His tests are not hard, but they are very long, so you can't finish them. His exam was challenging though, not insane but harder than the tests. He also bellcurves a lot! which is great!

Took his class for the summer and hated it! He literally uses the textbook for EVERYTHING as if he doesn't know the material himself. He's very unclear when it comes to explaining the course material and when students ask questions, he gets mad and gives us the "I can't believe you don't know that" face! He bell-curves but it doesn't help much...

I would not even recommend this professor at all. He is clueless and does not know what he is teaching 99.9% of the time. Only twenty people attended his class and nearly half the class dropped out his class. In other words, DO NO TAKE THIS COURSE WITH HIM. Even if you are desperate, take it with someone else that knows what they are doing.

He constantly mumbles to the blackboard and just regurgitates the textbook. He cant answer any question or explain anything. Worst professor ever, My biggest regret is taking this course.

Worst professor i have ever seen ,never take this course for S1

Teach very bad, not clear and test is much harder than his lecture

Very bad professor, teach all from the book, his lecture are very boring and exam is much hard than he teach in lecture, he only teach some basic definition in the class that come from book at the second half semester, and his test have more than half material that come outside from his lecture, but he did bell curve

Great name. Horrible proffesor.....

He is terrible. You wont understand his accent. He writes everything on the board, but its so messy you will get lost. The lectures are a waste of time. He doesnt have a course website, so you have to ask your classmates for important dates . He dared to have a test the day classes resumed for the strike. Hardly anyone knew the test was coming.

He talks at the chalkboard, not to students. Doesn't care if students talk in lecture as he talks to the board and continues with what he is doing. Find out the reason students talk all through lecture is because they are asking help from each other. He never clarifies. No website, lectures written on chalkboard all over the place. No order.

Here's one advice that'll save your life: DO NOT TAKE 1090 WITH HIM. - No website. You won't know test date, your grades, course updates, office hours or whatsoever if you miss your class - Doesn't care about students - He will laugh at your questions. You're too stupid for him - No textbook. He'll deduct marks if you use textbook symbols

DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING WITH THIS PROF EVER!!! He spends the entire 3 hours scribbling on the blackboard with no explanations whatsoever. And then on the board to it is really hard to follow with everything all over the place. His tests are like thesis from i don't know where. He never heard of technology. Math Logic -- absolutely no logic. :( :( :(

RUN. This guy is a terrible prof. Doesn't teach, just copypastes the textbook on the board. If you ask him any question then he looks puzzled and lost, and never answers your questions. All that could be forgiven if his tests were similar to practice exercises, but they're pulled out of god knows where. I really regret taking the class with him.

not particularly clear!

Mr. Michkine is a nice guy, but he's a terrible professor. He just reads off powerpoint slides, switching to the next slide before you can write anything down. And unlike other professors, he does not post these slides online. Going to class was a waste of time, as I learned very little from the lectures. You'll definitely need the textbook!

He is not the professor teaching the students... he is just worker for money

He talks to the blackboard not students. No course website.

Truly awful

Over 60% failure rate. That says something about this guy. Does not know how to teach. Very unhelpful. In private sector if you don't perform you are fired. Probably he gets a bonus from YorkU for not teaching and failing students, so that YorkU gets the repeat fees from students! So York won't fire him.

No course website. Has no idea what he's talking, let alone ''teaching." Literally panics anytime someone asks a question. He defines awfulness to the highest possible degree.

He is a bad lecturer, I found it hard to learn from him in lecture. So be prepared to learn through the textbook all by yourself. His tests are difficult but do-able. Expect test questions to be harder than ones in textbook and webassign & do lots of practice. The exam was brutally difficult. I really don't recommend him, take it with a diff prof.

Professor Michkine lectures were not useful for me as he would just read off the powerpoints and sometimes would do a problem on the board with us. He takes the test questions directly from the chapter questions, some of them he assigned as well. He bell curves the average after every test my class had. In all, just do the homework questions.

+ good person, helps you out if you've been marked harshly - boring lecture - reads off slides word by word. copies examples from book. - lots of webassign problems. sometimes the material hasn't even been taught yet. - tests are too long for 50 min and are marked harshly. If you are good at studying on your own, you can make it. Avoid otherwise

Dumbest class I've ever taken. He just repeats examples from the textbook in class, and makes ppt slides that are less than useless. Plus, he puts nearly every single thing from the textbook in his tests. No preparation for the tests WHATSOEVER; no comprehensive way to prepare for the tests. AND he never replies to e-mail. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS.

He cannot teach. If you have no choice but to take a course with him, then get ready to self-teach everything. Skip lectures as they are completely useless, and try learning the material from other resources (slides, textbook). Although the tests are hard, he curves. Overall, take any math courses with someone else, if you can.

Out of every single professor I've ever had at York in the last 3 years, he has to be the worst. He doesn't know how to teach, only knows how to scribble on the chalkboard and speak in a heavy accent. The class average was fail, I should have dropped it while I still had the chance.

Handwriting is unclear and small, voice is too low. I can't understand his class if i didn't learn by myself.

Unclear with teachings. Test seem to be force fed. More emphasis on taking test than actual learning.

Can barely understand him, nothing uploaded online, he does allow us cheat sheets though.

This guy just mumbles while copying his notes from his notebook onto the board. The grading scheme was over 3 tests and the final and webassign questions. Tests are always 4-5 questions long. We had this one derivative question in a recent test and it was worth 30 marks. On the bright side he bell curves everything, but I would still avoid him.

The most messy handwriting Write and erase and write between words Doesn't explain anything just laugh and expect student to know or see what he said or wrote Never seen proof or explanation of any kind When he doesn't know how to explain he just smile and laugh I won't take his class ever again not even when its the last credit i need

If you take a course with him be prepared to self-teach the material using the textbook and the internet. He is a nice person outside of class, although he does a poor job at explaining concepts & his tests are difficult. For context, our class average for our first test was 21%. I would avoid taking any courses with this professor.

This prof makes a hard math class to an impossible math class. You cannot understand his notes as they are completely unorganized and not readable. Material for this class is nonexistent anywhere online so almost impossible to teach yourself. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Hands down the worst math prof I've had at York. In the words of my friend, "This man teaches almost every course in the department, and none of them well." He copied from the textbook verbatim, even in the lectures, and wrote down word for word from the text. Does anyone think this is teaching? I've never seen someone so talented at doing nothing.

The professor has a terrible teaching style, and his notes were almost unreadable, it was torture to go through them and expect to get any info out of it. He would never give the answers to the exercises in his notes, which made studying way harder since he expected us to solve them with no way of checking our answers. It's about time, he retires.

He is terrible, his test is long and test time is short. He totally expect that you have same knowledge as him. What I know is so many students can not finish the test on time. Lack of scrutiny in the examination room, some students even took out their mobile phones to cheat.

Just run, don't take this prof. Its impossible to learn anything in lecture, very boring and most the time the prof doesn't even know what hes talking about and reads off the slides. You will have to learn the course materials by yourself.

Yo this man takes eons to grade, its 2 days before the exam and we haven't gotten a single mark back since reading week... it's impossible to track your process since he's just a horrible prof.

His lectures make the course content much more confusing, you're better off learning on your own. Tests are too long with not enough time and questions are more difficult compared to other professors. At least he bell-curved the midterm, although the class average was 30%. He's a nice guy, but avoid him if you care even a little bit about your GPA.

He teaches noting

In the wrong profession. Can't teach at all

Do not take him unless you want your life to become more miserable

Genuinely, as much as possible, do NOT take 1019 with this professor. He seems like a nice guy but he can't teach to save his life. You will not learn anything in his class and his tests are marked very unfairly. Discrete math which can be a completely new concept to some first years like me, shouldn't be taught by someone like him!

This prof mumble raps to a wall for 80% of the lecture. Spitting out bars stronger than melatonin. Strongly recommended if you want to spend your tuition to be in a coma.

I swear to god I swear to god this professor is the worst professor in history you will not be able to live happily again because of him tests are hard and he doesn't drop any assignment. If you let a grade 2 explain in class you would understand more from the grade 2 than this professor.

i dont even know what to say

How is he still teaching

He can not teach. He requires a very specific format to answer questions which isnt taught, explained nor mentioned anywhere. He doesnt curve. The class average for the assignments were 20% and the midterm 30. So if you dont want to waste your money, time and energy, DO NOT TAKE HIM

The materials that he provided isn't enough for his midterms and finals. Expect half of the test time you are actually writing answers that are worth less than 30% of the marks and the rest are something that he did not teach, and expect you to explore on your own. If you study well, most likely you will get 60%. FYI, class avg 41%.

He cant teach. Slides are just screenshots of textbook. You cant understand him. His questions for assignments and exams were abominations. He doesnt curve either. This course is just stressful with him and better to take it with Jeffrey Edmonds, Natasha or Saeed. His mark distribution is terrible 32% midterm 40% final & 4 assignments 28% total

None of his lessons or assignments are made by him, all are from Lyryx. He's monotone and he sounds so condescending whenever he's asking questions. DURING OUR FINAL EXAM HE WOULDN'T STOP TALKING TO ME, I couldn't focus because this man kept coming up to me and trying to "help". If you wanted to help, TEACH YOUR CLASS BETTER.

I taught my self the whole semester. He only know how to read the powerpoint.

Absolutely the worst. I took the course with this prof due to time restraint. Please don't do that. Let's be honest, you WILL fail if you take this prof. Note that for this course, every section is completely different depending on the prof ( even the final test might be different ). And, ofcourse, this prof somehow manages to be the worst.

avoid at all costs

AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Lectures are just him reading off slides. Assignments were completely different from the material taught the class average for the midterm was 20% and refused to curve. Weight distribution was horrible for 32% midterm, 40% final, and 4 assignments worth 7% each

I can't believe what I went through this semester in his class. I wouldn't recommend him to anyone who doesn't want to feel miserable. The midterm average was 20%, and he didn't even curve it. He doesn't stick to the textbook's format, which uses Latin and is much simpler. Instead, he uses Greek letters, making everything way harder to understand.

RUN!!!! DO NOT TAKE HIM!!!! CANT TEACH!!! GIVES VERY DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENTS!!! DOES NOT CURVE!!! He may be a nice guy but he cant teach, help, or grade for the life of him

His lectures are worthless your gonna have to learn everything yourself stay away from this prof!!!

Avoid as much as you can and save your life. Better to skip a semester than taking him.

Just DON'T TAKE!

RUN! He turned an easy course into a nightmare. I had an A but my grade dropped after that horrific exam. Midterm averages were 41% & 39% and were impossible to finish. Homework was insanely long & lectures were useless. Self-learners might be able manage but still suggest dropping as I self learned almost everything and my mark still ended up bad.

If you somehow self learn then you can do good. He reads from slides but you cant understand him. He mumbles so much, people have literally fallen asleep in his class. His assessments are extremley difficult, open book asssignments had 20% averages and the midterm was at the 30% mark. Final was an abomination. DOESNT CURVE DESPITE THESE GRADES

Listen to the other reviews, bro is not a good prof. Take this course with others his lectures are useless and this is a very difficult course I self learned basically all of it and he curves hard at the end because so many people fail his course because hes a bad instructor. Would not take him again

This professor doesn't speak clearly and spends 90% of time reading ppt content in his class. His class notes are confusing, and his homework is not only a lot but almost not proportional to the exam questions. The most important thing is Apart from simply giving lectures, he will not provide any learning assistance to students.

Very awful,

Our first open book assignment had a 30% average. You can guess the midterm was much worse. He mumbles through the slides, which is just paragraphs of text and the final was an abomination. This course took more time than needed to understand, and to anwer the questions. AVOID, take it with Natasha or Saeed

His lectures and notes are not relevant to what he puts on exams, exam questions are fully different from what he teaches, focuses on, and what we should do for practice. he curves though. Try to avoid him

He is the worst professor and avoid him at all costs. He speaks in a way in which his lectures are completely incomprehensible and he just reads off the textbook anyways. His tests are absolutely horrible and you must be prepared to read the textbook over and over again to just even barely pass his tests as the class average is around 30%.

Awful professor, problems are everywhere, avoid

Avoid, just run, do what you have to, dont take him. The amount of effort put in just to get this grade was disappointing. The class average is always in 30-40's. He does not curve. He has strange grading criteria which he doesnt share, and you have to figure out on your own. Grade distribution was horrible. He designed it to make you fail

Can't teach, impossible to understand, self learn the whole course, lecture notes are blocks of text. It's like he's doing it on purpose. I'm not sure why he has a salary.

Reads off of powerpoints, better to work yourself on textbooks or online

very rude and disrespectful prof, avoid him at all cost, it does not matter if you work hard or not, his exams are designed to fail you, do yourself a favor and do not take his class at all. This is the type of prof that makes you wanna change major, AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Should retire because he does not know how to teach, communicate or anything.