Reviews of professor Matthew Smylie

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Smylie is seriously one of the best and respected teachers for physics. He is highly insightful and encouraging towards students! Though physics is tough to learn, he makes physics a lot more interesting and fun to learn! I would not recommend skipping a class of his because his explanations are more better than reading off a test book!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I would never recommend anyone have him as a professor. A great guy but overall, teaching isn't his strong suite. He reads from his notes (word for word) and then posts them online. He says he tries to make the class interesting but you actually die from boredom. Kids stopped showing up to the class, going from 30 to 18. Good luck if you take him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Loved him for lab! Really caring and will do anything to help your grade if you show effort. Accessible outside of class so you can just pop in and clear up any confusions. TAKE HIM!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr Smylie knows the material very well, but his execution can be sometimes VERY BORING! He is very fair with his tests and we only had 1 quiz all semester. If you work hard on the tests, you don't have to take a final, which is great. The webassigns are annoying but doable. Overall, a great PHYS 11 prof

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Smylie is one of the best professors I've ever had. He truly cares about his students and wants everyone to succeed. On his tests he usually gives extra credit. In class he usually tries to do a demonstration for each concept which is a great way to keep it interesting. He also talks briefly about the history behind each concept which is awesom

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Smylie wasnt my favorite for lecture but for lab he is a God. He literally gives you an outline for lab reports and if you need help with it, just go to office hours and he'll easily help you. He is very straight forward with what he wants and lab usually ends early. Deff take him for lab you wont struggle at all.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I really liked being in a lab with Dr. Smylie. He creates outlines of lab reports to fill in and eases you into the lab report writing process. Very accessible outside of class just send him an email. Gives feedback on your work and you just need to fix whatever he says. If you can take him for lab do it!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He does not know how to teach. I self studied most of the semester, and I earned the grade with pure effort. He needs to stop reading from his iPad. Professor needs a lot of improvement in the way he gets the material across to students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Spends half of class just deriving two equations and then when I open up the homework I am lost as to what I am doing. Notes are super disorganized.