Reviews of professor Amir Makaryus

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof. Makaryus flies through lectures so quickly he often skips steps. He becomes impatient when students ask questions, which does not encourage participation. In a class of roughly 30 students, many of which are hard-working engineering majors, the class average for tests and quizzes hovers in the neighborhood of 40-50%; in other words failure.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I only had him during COVID times and it was next to impossible to learn from him. Ive heard that he is a good professor in-person, but online was not the same. Every question is met with impatience from the professor which does not encourage class participation. Also we have to show work for our quizzes online and he does not give us time for it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a great Calculus I professor and he always tries to make us engaged with the class. During his lecture, he often gives exercises and he teaches the topics according to the book's sequence. He gives a lot of homework, but if you them correctly, you won't need to study a lot for the exams. Other than that, he gives Quizzes every 2 weeks.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I am not really a fan of his lecture style, which is him mostly flying through problems. It only ever feels like he respects those who understand the material, and sometimes he meets questions with humiliating answers. As a person, he's pretty cool but I would not want to take another class with him.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Makaryus is not very partial to answering students questions. I personally would not take him again as I feel he strays too much from the textbook and does not teach critical thinking among students, much like you would want a College of Engineering professor to. He wanted us to succeed and is not nearly as bad as the ratings give him credit.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Makaryus is a good professor in my opinion. He is Egyptian, so he does have a pretty thick accent but you do get used to it. He gives out two different sets of homework, one on WebAssign and one on canvas. Although the canvas homework is optional, absolutely do all of the problems. He gives generous partial and extra credit.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Makaryus is definitely one of the best professors ive had. He is very accommodating and easy to talk to about issues with grading or questions in general. Calc 2 is a hard class to begin with but he definitely made it as easy as he could. I loved him and wish i couldve had him for more math courses!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Makaryus is one of the nicest teachers I've had. He has always shown willingness to answer questions and explain steps. You can also ask him questions after class and he will answer them. Doing homework is key.