Gordon Bates - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Professor: Gordon Bates

Department: Chemistry

College: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Worst prof I've ever had. When lecturing, he tended to even confuse himself about what he was talking about. Often went off on tangents talking about his personal life, and didn't cover a lot of material (I needed to self-teach). By the end of the course only 20% of the class actually showed up his lectures.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A hardworking professor that adapts his classes to his students weaknesses and learning styles. Takes everyone's feedback into account and uses this to prepare all his lectures, tailored to his students needs. A pity that a lot of people didn't give the class a go for long, before not attending at all.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Gordon Bates- please avoid this prof if you can. Only 15 of the class showed up to his lectures, and for a good reason. His voice is extremely monotonous and many times he didn't use his microphone. His lectures were very dull and he expected you to know material by pre-reading before it was taught.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: 123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I am currently in his CHEM123 course and they had to send out an e-mail telling students from his classes to stop going to other chem classes to learn. He expect you to learn all the content out of class then go over a couple of questions in class and when there's a quiz it's almost a completely different format then what you were learning.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Weak lecturer. Sounds tired and seems to put more effort into talking about his bike trip across Europe than he does with the course content. Thank god for the slides and a half-decent Organic Chem workbook. If that was as poorly written as the physical section, I would be toast.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Nice guy, but not a good prof.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

If you get him, drop out immediately!! one of my worst experiences with chem, if it wasn't for the workbook written by Glenn Sammis then I would have been soooo lost!!! bad prof....

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CHEM123
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

NEVER. AGAIN. No textbook for the ochem section, just a workbook, so good luck. Goes too quickly through the slides and spends way too much time telling stories. RUN.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: SCIE001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Rambling, confusing, bizarrely misogynistic at times. I am usually actively engaged in lectures but paying attention here was a struggle. Assigned multiple assignments and changed deadlines without directly informing the class. Worst prof I have had this year.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: SCIE001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not a horrible prof, but not very exciting. He tried to go too fast and it got a little confusing when he tried to teach us nucleophilic acyl substitution in first year before we even got the basics down.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

OMFG. PLEASE get him off the teaching staff list...Talked about nothing aside from irrelevent stories (YES STORIES). he only teaches step A=basic concept,but wants you to go to Z. SO YEAH. i got good grades from it simply because i studied form the textbook and ignored most of his BS (THOUGH some of it was extremely useful..some concepts)

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

absolute horror! stay away.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

speachless

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Worst prof ever. raped our whole class without any sympathy. Does not post answers to midterms. Does not go over them either. Does not know how to teach. Questions on exams are extremely random. Dake is far superior than him.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Complete Jackass! In 99% of courses I believe that the mark you get is the mark you deserve. NOT WITH HIM. People worked their asses off in this class and were not rewarded the in the least. He has no sympathy for his students and his exams are soo random. He rambles about history, its a chem class. Booo

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The exams might as well have been written in Martian. He does not post up answers to the midterms, so the majority of the class is left wondering what the correct answers were. The reasoning: He wants to encourage more discussion. Please. Do you see other professorss doing that? Just give us the darn answers.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CHEM204
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

insanely difficult course and bates doesnt help at all. his little stories during class would help more towards a history course than a chemistry course. gives questions on exams that come straight out of the blue....like literally completely random. if i hadnt read several other textbooks aside from the assigned book, i would have failed.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CHEM233
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I feel like I know a lot about organic chemistry after attending his classes. Too bad it didn't transfer to getting a good mark since the exam has absolutely no relevance to the material presented in class. I was unlucky. I wish I had Jackie Stewart.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CHEM233
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I agree with most of the comments. In short: Classes are good but don't prepare you for squat, exams seemed like they were for another course, owl/assigned question don't prepare you for the exams, I question his educational integrity overall. Just go to Jackie Stewart's class -even if you are not in it-, screw this guy.