Abdulkeni Zekeria - Fitchburg State University

Professor: Abdulkeni Zekeria

Department: Mathematics

College: Fitchburg State University

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH1800
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Never take the class. you cannot understand anything he says. His handwriting isn't legible. He basically teaches himself. Gives random quizzes and uses tophat that you have to pay a crazy amount for. Gives random homework assignments.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH1700
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

He is very difficult to understand. He does not explain what he expects and his assignments are very vague. Lots of group work which I hated because everyone was on different levels of math skills, and getting everyone on the same page was very hard. He never explains due dates or dates of exams. He does out the work but doesn't explain it well.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH1700
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Literally the worst professor ever. Doesn't speak English and refuses to take the time to teach instead of just doing it all himself.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH1700
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Extremely difficult to understand. Ridiculously fast paved, will not slow down. Very hard to understand lectures and concepts in this environment.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH1200
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Rushes through course material and recites the information without explanation or further detail. Assigns homework online with various due dates and homework to be handed in during class time but does not notify you when the online homework assignments have been posted, and often tries to start a new unit with little to no class time left.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH1800
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Avoid this class at all costs, unless its a requirement. If its a requirement, my best advice to you is to do all of the online homework he gives you and take all of the online quizzes. The in class tests are based on his lectures, so taking notes might help. I didn't take any notes because he's a little hard to understand. And yeah, good luck!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BSAD220051
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This was the worst excuse for an online class that I've ever taken. The lectures are hand-written illegibly, and make no reference to the $180 book we had to buy. It took him two weeks to respond to a question about the online class. He wanted the homework scanned and e-mailed to him, or done on paper and physically MAILED to him. Never again.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH1300
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He is hard to understand, doesn't answer emails, and the program used for homework is alright but it was not explained how to use it.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PRECALCULUS
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He is concerned, respectful, and helpful

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH180002
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

One of the worst educators I have ever been plagued with. He is very hard to understand because he doesn't speak great English and he assigns projects and tests due the very next day. He requires everything to be handed in manually not online and makes it hard to hand assignments in when he does not have office hours when it's due.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH1800
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Awful. Assigns final on four chapters that he goes through in the last two classes. Horrible communication over assignments. Emails students at odd hours for things needed the following morning. Requires a lot of extra tools to be bought (online homework access, TI-83, etc). Also uses Microsoft Sam to narrate his lectures.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH1300
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do NOT make the same mistake I did. I heard he was a terrible professor, and I didn't listen. Do NOT take a class with him unless you've already mastered pre-cal. Even then, he'll confuse you to the point where you don't know it anymore. I'm withdrawing from the class I'm taking with him now. Take any other section but his class.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH1800
• 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:

Mumbling through many of the lectures, Zekeria makes the subject more unclear as he progresses. He paces the class horribly, running though four chapters in the last two classes. if there's another teacher you can take a class with instead of him, then do it and don't look back

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH1900
• 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:

Had two classes with him... and in both he is awful. Spits the textbook back at you and provides no explanation at all. Tries to cram in everything he can in one class so he doesn't fall behind. Homework doesn't make sense if you don't understand the textbook. Confuses himself while teaching. AVOID!!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH1800
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Impossible class. Prof is very hard to understand and does not what he is doing. Have to self teach the material and take your own notes to even begin to understand. Doesn't answer questions at all and seems to not understand what is being asked. Just pushes ahead without really giving you a chance to begin to understand what is going on.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH1800
• 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:

Probably the worst math professor you will have a possibility of receiving in your life. Tough to understand, lectures make no sense, self-taught, always late.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CSC1900
• 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:

One of the worst, if not the worst teacher I've ever had. DO NOT TAKE A CLASS WITH HIM!! EVER! His use of the english language will baffle any who try to listen to his lectures and he consistently will show up late and hold the class much after it should leave. You will need to self teach all the material. DO NOT TAKE HIM

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

No one could understand him. He gave us quizzes before we had gone over chapters and really didn't know what was going on. He literally wrote on the whiteboard with a marker that had no ink in it. I sent him emails and even left him a voicemail and never received anything back. If I didn't have MyMathLab i would of failed.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH1311
• 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:

The only reason I did well was the fact that I took a difficult precalc course in high school. He is a horrible professor, teaches you nothing, and speaks broken English. When solving a problem he will change parts of the function in his explanation making him impossible to follow. He is the plague of the math department, avoid him.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH1700
• 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:

Terrible professor, my biggest regret is that I didn't drop the class before the deadline! The class was graded off of two quizzes and a final, the syllabus said we would have 8... his homework is meaningless and he hardly even goes over the assignments. When you hand him a homework assignment you never get it back, I think he just loses them!