Reviews of professor Philip Kopel

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Philip Kopel is perhaps the worst course coordinator that CSU has to offer. He offers up obnoxious emails about how unwilling he is to work with you, majorly costly inconsistency with graders that he instructs, and much more. Above all, the grading keys, and questions have been blatantly wrong, which makes studying harder. Grandiose, annoying guy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Grade consists mostly of exams.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Avoid at all costs. The grad students who actually do the teaching are OK, but the professor is incompetent and it shows. Test rubrics are created on the spot, and points are taken away for arbitrary reasons. It's common to get less than half credit on questions you got correct, simply because you didn't solve it in the exact way he wanted.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The only way I know this professor understands math is because he averages out his online reviews with fake ratings about how he is a great teacher and lecturer. He is neither, and quite frankly don't know how he is still teaching these courses he puts so little effort into.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took his online calculus 2 class. He made the topic easy to understand through the videos and was interactive. It really felt like I understood the information after every lecture. I would absolutely take another class with him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Probably best professor I've had in college. Go to lecture and ask questions and you will pass. Phil has amazing lectures, and gives clear instructions on how to solve problems and also how they are graded. He is great at answering questions and making sure you understand. The tests are weighted very heavily so it is crucial to ask questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Phil Kopel is an awesome math professor. ASK QUESTIONS! He will happily answer anything and is easy to talk to if you miss class and can't turn in homework. I would definitely take him as a calc II professor, he had a really great class average. The dude also looks like Sikowitz from Victorious. Loved this class.