Reviews of professor Nathaniel Payne

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His exams are not similar to the lectures and the given practice questions. His teaching is unclear and it's hard to understand what he said. He hasn't marked the assignments that we gave at least 2 months ago and he didn't give any feedback for us to improve. Not recommend if you want to study properly.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This guy is just a joke! What he did was also ridiculous, no specific rubric for the group assignments. The exam is pretty unfair, final can be done by searching the questions via Google. Glad he was fired!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
SFU should raise the standards when hiring the professor!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm glad SFU cancelled his contract. Doesn't deserve to be a prof. Pretty immature for a prof. A bit too disorganised. Don't get swayed by his cool character.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a nice guy, but his lectures are very terrible and disorganized. He emphasized concept testing and understanding but this is a statistical course. He should focus more on calculations and logical deductions, these practical things. I think he went the wrong way to test students. Also, the practice questions he gave us are pretty useless.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Honestly, the course is curved so just make sure to do all of the practice questions he assigns and go to class. The content itself is easy. Don't leave everything to last-second and sleep the night before the exam. Exams are generally pretty easy to finish in time if you do this. Great person. No textbook.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Didn't answer my questions during the lecture. Marked assignments months after they were handed in. Lecture material doesn't match assessments. It was a very frustrating semester. Overall good guy, but I don't feel prepared for BUS 336 and I don't feel like I got the most out of that course (BUS 232) I could have with a different prof

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor's teaching method is full of flaws. The practice questions he gave to us were useless and wasted our time working on them. Cut half of the lecture time and make the exam way harder. No rely on emails. No rubric for projects. Everyone can cheat on Final, just typing the questions on Google.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Nathaniel Payne was by far the worst professor that I've had at SFU. His inability to get marking done on time, as well as the fact that his exam formats enabled cheaters to get higher marks on both midterm and final exams, is inexcusable. Steer clear of this professor.