Reviews of professor Tongli Wang

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The hybrid course didn't require attendance, and the grade was made up of 4 Quizzes/exams (worth 25% each). I benefited from the recorded lectures as they required multiple viewings to fully understand, due to Tongli's accent and speed. Overall, I liked him as a prof and would recommend taking a class with Tongli as long as it's online or hybrid.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Tongli Is a great Prof. Caring, empathic and easy to approach. Speaks with a bit of accent(not bad). Everything you need for the class is provided in the notes. Class is not too heavy on the science. Exams are straight forward - read notes. Lectures are interesting and so are guest lecturers. Overall, the class was enjoyable. A+ instructor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It was fun to learn a hard topic in an easy way.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I love Tongli! He's so sweet and clearly genuinely cares about his student's learning and success.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
One of the most friendly and respectful teachers at UBC, always patient in answering students' questions, his lectures are interesting, and really impressive that he can make Forest Genetics kinda cool, and interesting while I HATE biology. the tests ain't too hard but they definitely need to study at least a weekend beforehand

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Negatives:
might not explain things in the simplest terms (that is alright since English is not his first language)
sometimes doesn't 100% answer a student's question, more around 80%
some things tested not in lectures/slides

Positives:
scaling was done when quizzes were more hard
overall quizzes were fairly easy
lectures are all viewable online

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Wang is very hard to understand, basically reads off his slides the whole time, and has very garbled explanations when he goes off his slides. His quizzes are not difficult, but it's so hard to be interested in this course largely because of his poor teaching style.