Reviews of professor Maxwell Smith

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Nice guy but his assignments were all so subjective. You lost 2% of your grade just for being in the class, since highest mark you can get in participation is a 90. Returns 15% of grade at the beginning then you don't see anything else until your grade is posted. ALL he cares about is maintaining the average of the class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Cool guy but not great for HS3094. Course content doesn't prepare you for the final assignment (45% of grade), he doesn't provide constructive feedback to improve the quality of weekly participation/discussion questions, lectures feel so long because the content isn't engaging. Probably fantastic in other courses, just not HS3094.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Smith was super helpful with providing advice on my assignment and cared about his student's success. Going to office hours can help to see what he expects as he was very straightforward. You need to put in the effort to do well as you would in any course. He is very knowledgeable & caring. You can definitely do well in his class!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hated him and the course. Terrible course structure and organization.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The final is more difficult for the midterm, so be prepared for that. Otherwise a passionate, approachable and fair professor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor had great lectures with many examples and relevant knowledge to help you understand the topics. Exams were fair, but readings were heavy. Overall good class and good professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was extremely boring and unnecessarily difficult. Lectures were absolutely pointless since the final assignment had nothing to do with them. The grading criteria were unclear and he would not even give us feedback on participation marks or reflections. Would not recommend it at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very boring lectures and they are very useless. Assignment marking is unclear and very unfair.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Awful professor. Terrible course structure and organization. The assignment was so random and marked very hard. It is sad because I took this course because it looked interesting but this prof ruined it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible professor. Assignments are extremely long and difficult and marking is unclear, unfair, and random. Would NOT recommend AT ALL.