Reviews of professor Marcos Rigol

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Simply put, if you see this man's name when scheduling 214, just hold off a semester or take it over the summer. Your GPA and mental health will thank you. Think you understand the material? Think again. 60% of the class grade depends on just 18 questions.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Rigol is nice will try to simplify the problems after class if you ask. However, the tests are pretty difficult and are worded where sometimes many answers could apply. The study guides were trash. They related to the material, but the answer sheet provided was just the letter answer and not an explanation on how to get to that answer.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Terrible. That is the best way to describe this class and him. He reads off the slides but makes it even more confusing. Your grade is based off the exams and the averages are very low. I took both 213 and 214 with him and both were a awful experience. The averages are low so expect that and just know that class design is poor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Thought he did a pretty good job on lecturing the material, though I would say that reading the book was what helped me through (do that before lecture and it should help). The quizzes however, like the others said, weren't that great... Usually a pretty decent curve was needed for the average to be a 70%.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst Professor I've ever had. He's a researcher, not a professor, so he doesn't know how to teach at all. The practice exams/quizzes available are nowhere near the difficulty of the actual exams. His explanations are not helpful. Good luck to whoever has to take him for Phys 213/214, you will have to pray for a miracle to pass with him teaching.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Rigol is a really bad lecturer. His demos rarely work, he answers questions poorly and ignores student requests. The content on exams wasn't really relevant to lectures either. Class av for the first exam was 60% (got a 95) so obviously he's doing something wrong.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Probably more of a 3 than a 4 but I think many of these reviews are unfair. If you genuinely enjoy science/physics his teaching really is not all too bad. He has decent explanations although at times it can be hard to understand him due to his accent. If you dislike all the material, just get ready to read through the textbook and grind homeworks

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The accent is very heavy, and the content of the class is difficult to understand. Do not take this course if you see this professor,

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor clearly doesn't wanna be a teacher. No reviews, help, or any effort in this class whatsoever. All he does is read off slides that arent very informal. Exams and quizzes are from out of this world and have little correlation with the material. No matter how smart you think you are, or how capable you are, do not take this professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures are almost useless, and he spends time of derivations of equations more than anything. Not great.