William Pietro - York University - Keele Campus

Professor: William Pietro
Department: Chemistry
College: York University - Keele Campus
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Quality professor with great lectures and sometimes adds in interesting stories! That being said, both courses are not easy and require paying attention to every lecture, doing practice questions, reading the textbook, and maybe even using YouTube for further clarification on the more harder topics in order to get a B or above a B grade.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: ISCI1210
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Very interesting professor and his lectures are never boring. Getting a good mark in his class is definitely possible, but make sure to do the textbook readings and practice questions. From personal experience, his tests aren't that bad and he's an easy marker, but he sometimes asks for very specific definitions so watch out for that.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: ISCI1210
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He's the ISCI Chemistry professor for the whole year. For the future ISCI kids, he comes off as a guy who does not care about anything from the start, but as the course goes on, youll start to like him. Probably the best professor of the ISCI second term.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Run!!!!!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: CHE1000
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He is very knowledgeable and smart. But his test are a bit hard the final exam is hectic but if show up to class and do the questions from the chapters you will be fine.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
If you like your GPA - Pietro is not the professor for you. Tests are BRUTAL. He's an interesting lecturer but we're not here for theatrics and a joke here or there are we? As a 3rd year student looking back at it, I wouldn't recommend. I would avoid at all costs. If you're a Chemistry genius maybe you'll like it.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM1000
  • 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:
His lectures are decent, however not as good as others claim. His tests are very very tricky and it seems like he is out to get you a lot of the time. The textbook examples that you practice with do not help, the way to succeed is to use the old tests. It's not even worth it to do all the problems in the textbook.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM1000
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Avoid at all costs. I do not understand how professor Pietro is getting good ratings on this. He is a terrible professor. His tests are extremely difficult. I had many mental breakdowns throughout the semester. Attend his lectures because he uses many formulas that are not in the textbook. He is not clear on what he is testing you on for tests.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I didn't do well in 1000 bc I did exactly what he told us NOT to do - write every single thing down and memorize. I got an A in 1001 bc I wrote nothing down in lectures, just paid close attention and went home and worked out all the practice qs myself. He's not testing if u know how to use a bunch of formulas, he's testing if u understand chem.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
An amazing but challenging professor. He has lots of experience, and delivers above the expected in his lectures in both an entertaining and strict way. However, this class will be a challenging class. Doing well in this class is possible, but requires lots of textbook practice and review.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM1000
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Yeah, he's a good professor in lectures and you've really got to pay attention to the formula he focuses on because those will be on the test and you will need to memorize them - tests are quite difficult but if you know those formulas and do lots of past tests and homework you'll be ok but get ready for lots of work
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM1000
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The best chem 1000/1001 prof in terms of lectures. The tests are harder than the others but if you study right with his past tests, you should be good. Do all the textbook questions and old tests
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Funny guy, he's a chem Genius, tests are hard as hell tho. Like his beard alot. If you search his name on google, you'll find something funny lol. Out of all seriousness, great prof, you HAVE to study, no joke, be prepared. But his classes are so worth and you will definitely be learning chemistry and a whole different level than the other profs
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: CHE1000
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
You can only enjoy this if you are a chem genius! His tests are so hard and tricky. But his final exam which was written by 2 other profs was fair. you will definitely fail the first midterm if you are an average student. He even tells you that every year his first midterm average is only 30%. good luck
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: C+
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Dr. Pietro by far has been a dream to receive lecture from. He is so passionate about his field that you will feel no other way than to love it just as much as he does. Unfortunately, that's as far as it goes. If you do all of the textbook homework without much difficulty that's fantastic but it doesn't cut it. Tests and exams are gruelling.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
His test difficult was off the roof. I have a 90% average in all my african studies classes, however I am getting a 30% in this class before exams and I don't expect to pass despite putting in my best efforts!
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: CHE1000
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Great prof for chem 1000 and 1001. Very clear explanations and generally pretty helpful during tutorial sections. Tests are tougher than the other profs but his lectures are the ones that you want to go to. Pietro's tests are mostly application based,
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM10001001
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
hes tests are SUPER easy... you dont even have to show up to class just do textbook questions!!
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM1001
  • Grade Received: A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Pietro isn't the easiest first year chem prof but he's definitely the best. His quizzes are quite fair once you realize that what he's really testing is how fast you can recognize what a question is asking and solve it - and that comes with practice. The days before a quiz you should just be doing question after question to master the concepts...
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: CHEM1000
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I felt that his class was a bit more difficult in the sense that he taught a lot of things that were not included in the textbook, but more like for upper years. He expected his students to know more than first year stuff. But at the same time, he made class dynamic and interesting. His tests was hard but because he demanded more, exam was easy!
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