Pierre Savaria - University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON

Professor: Pierre Savaria

Department: Physics

College: University of Toronto - St. George Campus, Toronto, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: PHY131
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Extremely arrogant, invites you to talk to him at the end of lecture but then has no time for you. Doesn't seem like he's interested in teaching at all he should just be doing research.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PHY450
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Savaria is really helpful.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PHY294
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

A very nice guy. Although his notes and lectures are not the best, he still manages to make QM fairly interesting. It's hard to teach QM as I felt most people in the course just plain hate physics in the first place, so obviously they are going to hate the prof. His problem sets and exam were extremely fair, more practice problems would be nice.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PHY294
• 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:

Absolutely worst professor ever. Worst notes, worst lectures, and just plain arrogant.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PHY293
• 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:

Really isn't interesting in teaching, and therefore shouldn't be doing it. His philosophy, according to him: "You should feel confused after my lectures so you're more motivated to go home and study the material yourself." He's not just bad at explaining stuff, he just doesn't do that at all.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: PHY293
• 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:

By far the worst proffessor.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PHY293
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He is really bad. Even take 5% mark off for in wrong test room which causes no trouble at all. And he cannot deliver any knowledge, just mumbling.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ECE292
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Had him for 2nd year QM in the 90's and he supervised a reading course for me in 4th year. I thought he was a good teacher and extremely helpful. He spent a lot of time helping me. He was one of my favourite professors.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PHY309
• 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:

Arguably one of the worst profs at U of T. Arrogant and very unhelpful. Also no kind of encouragement to do better or pursue material. His notes and assignments are practically incomprehensible.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: PHY335
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

not the greatest prof at teaching quantum, but his notes were really good. special mention goes to mitch (thompson?) the awesomamazing TA w/o whom the course wudve been a lil bit more of a disaster waitin to happen

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

i hated physics before cuz i had bad teachers and now i hate it more

Rating # 12

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

its a mistake to let him work at UT

Rating # 13

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

stupid

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: IPHO
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

arrogance is not a problem; his lecture is one of the best in the world

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PHY256
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

phy256 quantum physics might be the toughest of the second year course. Obviously, he is not qualified to take such hard chanllege.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: PHYSICSI
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Not sure - never went to class; but all classmates thought he was arrogant. I found his test fair though.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PHY138
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Just awful. He's incapable of communicating an idea verbally or on paper. This means that not only are his lectures incomprehensible, his tests are ridiculous too.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: PHY138
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

i didn't think he was that bad! he's a little mumbly sometimes, and his extensive notes beyond the textbook and lecture notes were a little extraneous i thought, but i liked the section and i thought the test was fair.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: PHY138
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

sigh...

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: PHY138
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

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