Reviews of professor Mohamed Drira

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a solid professor, easy-going, kind, and knows his stuff. Certainly didn't seem worthy of only a 1.8/5, so maybe he's stepped up recently.

Only problems were spending too much time on subjects during lectures and using a lot of test-bank MC questions on exams that frequently focused more on minuscule details rather than true understanding.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This guy is misunderstood, he's one of the best professors I've had. He wants you to understand the material not just memorize to get by. People complain because it's SMU and they expect to be spoon fed everything. Drira will actually prepare you for CPA and the real world which in 4th year is what you should be looking for.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor is the worst one Ive encountered at SMU. His lectures are long and boring and consist of 200+ slides. Participation in class is required & graded, but when you do participate he often tells you youre wrong. When you email him with questions, his replies are rude and unkind.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a very nice, caring prof. The lectures are kinda boring, but it's just the subject itself. The tests are based on what he talks about in class, the assignments and slides, basically copy and paste. If you go over that, you will do really well. He is very understanding and definitely doesn't deserve the 1.5 that he has here.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Worst prof at SMU.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Worst prof at SMU hands down. Makes the accounting program look bad. The hilarious tag I give is because he's hilariously terrible at teaching.