Reviews of professor Patrick Novotny

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
While professor Novotny is very funny and his lectures are interesting most of the time you leave class very confused on what was discussed. I think he has undiagnosed ADD. Nice guy wants you to do well but his class is pretty hard. The reason I did not fail is because he curved all of our tests.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Went to this class for one day and dropped. Seems like a good professor but the way his grades are set up just wasn't for me. He said three big exams will determine our overall grade and I didn't want to risk my GPA because I'm really not a good test taker.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you have questions in class he will most of the time just say he doesn't have an answer and go on with his lecture. He will make you watch over 6 videos of lectures that are 45 minutes long each and not tell you what's on the test so you will have to just listen very good in order to pass his test. I would not recommend him at all.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr Novotny was a great guy, easy class, take notes on everything he says, the tests arent on dates or specifics, just a lot of smaller anecdotes mentioned in lecture. You wont fail if you miss a couple lectures, so no sweat. Go to his office hours he will remember you in lecture and hes so fun to talk to! tests are curved, just take decent notes ig

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Exam questions are straightforward and based on class. Study for 20 minutes before, and you'll get a B. The lectures are interesting, and his teaching style could be better, but the class is doable.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Get ready to take a lot of notes!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Good professor, but lectures notes are like toooo long to even understand sometimes. If you miss a class you probably missed like 2-3 pages of notes. Also doesn't respond to emails so don't bother trying to email him about missing notes or exams. If you miss an exam he'll let you know what to do from there in class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Mr. Novotny, is a pretty laid back professor! You only get graded by exams so take notes and study. Exams are mostly true or false so you have a 50% chance of getting the answers right, he does give extra credit on the exams when he grades it. He is generous with the extra points, he makes a lot of jokes and he is very passionate about the subject.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was okay, he talks very very fast during his lectures but the class is not mandatory. There is a online textbook but he usually just goes through the slide show he made. I feel like hes a great person but a average teacher. We have four tests and then the final and he only grades the tests. There isn't any homework or anything like that.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Attended every lecture and asked random questions that were on the test. Did not use the book and gave lots of facts during the lecture. Class is not mandatory.