Reviews of professor William McNairy

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Wanted to add to a previous review. He is nice but grades students on a bell curve. Half the students will drop (the bad ones) which skews the grading a lot. Maybe 1 A out of 20 students. Buying a physical book would've been beneficial as large amt of class time is spent staring off into space while he lectures. No electronics are allowed.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Put in the effort and it will pay off.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Definitely the eccentric type. Don't take his class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
biggest yapper of all time. unannounced quizzez, didnt even teach us unit1, the only thing he was doing was yapping. just take phy251/252 somewhere else online. overall just dont.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Couldn't stand his lectures, they were off-topic most of the time and did not clearly explain things. The class was very disorganized. Due dates and test dates changed a lot and were unclear. He gave a ton of pop quizzes and webassign homework. He did enjoy teaching, is a nice guy, and gave the class trinkets and candy from time to time tho

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He has little homework every week.About 20 -25 quizzes in a semester,1-3 a week. He is lenient. Most of the questions on the practice test and quizzes are the same as the exam. He teaches with models and activity. The lab portion is an easy A (PHY110A) . You could have to read the textbook , which is short per chapter(20 pages). Have slideshows to

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. McNairy is definitely an oddball, but I don't know if I would have passed without his help. I hated the pop quizzes, but if you do poorly or the whole class does poorly, he drops the grade. If you put in the effort you'll be fine in his class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Wonder what it would be like to attend a useless TED talk AND a lecture about physics all in one? Try this class. He refuses to teach any physics math unless you ask him to. We could make a list of all non-PHY subjects he spoke of- which had no relevance to the class. tossed a stack of papers at a classmate when he asked for help. Not worth it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very good. Knows his stuff. Has high expectations for his students that can be met if you are willing to put the work in. Easily the best choice for PHY 251 at Wake Tech.