Reviews of professor Kathryn McGill

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I really liked her teaching style too even though she was the faster lecturer of the 3. I think she went fast bc she had only 50 minutes to make sure we got concise notes out of her lectures (she was the only one who really gave 'notes'). She taught forces (dynamics) & sound and both topics were clearly explained. I also liked her dog's photos :)

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is so sweet and seems like a genuinely good person... but not a physics 1 professor.  Her lectures felt like I had her on 2x speed, and her examples in no way prepared us for the torture that she called exams.  The only good thing about her lectures are the dog pictures.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She speedruns her lecture points so it's kind of difficult to really grasp what she's talking about and her in class examples are kind of insane. I only understood her lectures once I did the homework for the week. Also she shows her dog before every class so that's cool.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
McGill is a nice person however she is a not so good teacher. None of her lectures made any sense she spent too much time deriving an equation. Which was pointless because you have reference sheet and therefore she ran out of time to go over actually important stuff, like how to apply the equations. Her clicker questions were too hard and annoying.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great professor. This was a good introduction to physics and her lectures made it easy to understand.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I really respect a teacher who posts their lectures online, knowing that physics is already a class people are likely to skip. I got the most out of studying based on the group work, the in-class exams (current and past) and the reading quizzes. There is group work and a group project, but a lot of it is in-class or solitary so not too bad

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Make sure to do the homework, and try to do it yourself or with friends and do not look it up as the concepts will be on the exam. Make sure to familiarize yourself with the formula sheet. Make sure to take the practice exams as the concepts should be the same on your exam.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Clear lecturer

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Tests are very difficult, but she provides great resources through her lectures and posting past exams. Beware of the weekly discussion quizzes though, they are fully free response and up to the discretion of TAs to grade them harshly or not. All in all, McGill is a great professor, but physics itself is a very difficult class, especially at UF.