Reviews of professor Trevor VandenBoer

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. VandenBoer was tough. Yes, he does have challenges providing constructive feedback, his feedback is rather a bit aggressive and very raw. However, he does have extensive knowledge in his field and he exudes professionalism. His lectures were heavy, though interesting at times. Very, very tough grader. He just needs to slow down a little bit.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I gave up attending live lectures (as ppl have mentioned he goes very fast) BUT if you watch the recorded lectures and take really good notes you will do well. He explains everything and provides all of the information required to answer assignment questions. Once you do the first assignment and use the feedback given its easy to get a good mark!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a good lecturer and really wants students to understand the material and be able to reach out to him. Tutorials and especially those before exams really help! He does speak/ work through questions more quickly but if you review the lecture recordings, the material makes sense. Lots of practice required, none the less.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. VandenBoer is a great professor. Although CHEM 3080 is very lecture and quiz heavy, he tries his best to help out his students. You'll do great on the quizzes if you do each question on the practice problem sets he shares. He doesn't give out solutions to the practice problems but is willing to help out wherever you're stuck. The labs are fun.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He isnt the most interesting prof but he is a solid choice for the course. He seems like a really nice guy and holds extra tutorials when exams are near which is really nice. Heads up his writing on the slides can be a little hard to read and he moves at a fast pace

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One of the worst profs I've ever had. Talks so fast about stuff that makes absolutely no sense. Doesn't answer questions clearly and his problem set was so bad he didn't even provide answers for it. If you can avoid him, do it. Tests are super hard and material heavy so pack as much as you can into your cheat sheet.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a good prof, a little nervous at times but he explains things well and is accessible outside of class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy, good lecturer. Not great though. He clearly cares and tries very hard to be clear, but sometimes go through things too quickly and leaves some gaps in his explanation, which makes studying more time consuming and frustrating because you're trying to fill in those gaps. Not a bad prof by any means, but not the best.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
WORST prof I have had at York.. He goes through the power points too fast like he wants to get over with the material even if we understand the content or not. I had to teach everything myself as I had literally 0% idea what was going on in class. He adds alot of extra content on to the slides, stuff that isnt even covered in the other sections...