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Michael Padhi BMGT345 Anonymous 05/21/2025	Exams are significantly harder than the assignments provided in class, and often have no correlation. Very little consideration for student's well being.
Michael Padhi BMGT345 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/19/2025	80% of the class was flagged for "cheating" on the 3rd exam. 80% of the class was notified of this though an email RIGHT AT THE START OF FINALS SEASON. After being flagged for "cheating", you were given one of two options: 1. Fill out a google form outlining how you came to the answers that you did for 3 of the questions on the exam, with no insight as to which one you were flagged for cheating on. On that same form, you had to indicate which of the 3 questions (1, 2, or all 3) you cheated on, or say you didn't cheat and if you'd be able to attend an in-person final exam. 2. Don't fill out the form and get reported to the office of student conduct for violating academic integrity. If you were found cheating or admitted to cheating, the email stated that you would have to take an in person, proctored final exam instead of the optional online one that would replace the lowest of the 3 midterm exam grades. With this email being sent out right before finals, and with the class being 250+ students, some people found out their fate the day after submitting the form. Others, however, had to wait a week. Picture the amount of stress, anxiety, and sleepless nights this can cause. Not to mention, in that initial email sent to, again, 80% of the class, it basically said to not bother taking the online final exam. So even if you didn't cheat and wanted to replace a low scoring midterm through the optional online final exam, where you could use the textbook and any notes from the course, that was now off the table. But guess what? You can still do the in-person proctored exam with 3 equation sheets, front an back, of all the course material ranging between 13 chapters that has to be made less than 2 days before the exam! HOORAY!!!!!! Exams would always have "trick" questions that included a concept or variable that was NEVER TAUGHT through the textbook, discussions, or videos. I'm guessing they were built in to flag people using AI or external sources while taking the exam. I always found myself double checking my work to make sure it made sense and that I had sufficient work to prove that I came to the answer myself. This class could have been relatively straight forward, but this roller coaster of exams and this whole incident was NOT worth the countless nights of restless sleep, days without eating, mountains of stress, anxiety, panic attacks, and depressive episodes.
Michael Padhi BMGT345 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/19/2025	The class overall was not bad until the very last day. It is all online so based on weekly modules with readings, homework, and quizzes. As long as you take notes of the equations and practice the questions you should be fine. But on reading day, he accused probably 75% of the class of cheating on the third exam by putting on trick questions that were flagged for being wrong and giving them zeros on it. This caused so much unnecessary stress for students especially those who needed to study for finals and those about to graduate and was entirely irresponsible and disrespectful of him to do. I think he was more interested in catching cheaters than the implications of accusing people who did not cheat and threatening their failure in this class.
Michael Padhi BMGT345 Anonymous 05/17/2025	What he teaches isn't relevant to assignments.
Michael Padhi BMGT345 Anonymous 05/12/2024	Professor and TAs are fine, but extremely tedious class and hard exams. The homeworks and quizzes are super time consuming. The exams, especially the last few are pretty hard. The study guides are not reflective of the exam content so study the past exams instead. Good luck
Michael Padhi BMGT345 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/25/2023	Finance is finance. Wish I didn't have to take it. Exams 1 and 3 were easy but exam 2 destroyed me. Luckily final is optional and if you take it drops the lowest exam (otherwise don't take it you keep the 3 mid-terms). Class all online, person HW and quiz annoying but not terrible. I advise speed through first attempt, take pics of the worked formulas and then take second attempt (diff numbers same format). Padhi's videos were easy to follow, had good examples.
William MacDonald BMGT345 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/26/2021	I had MacDonald for 345 and this was my favorite course from the general business minor. The lectures were alright but I thought that he was a good professor since he is always reasonable and the exams were relatively easy. The study guides he gives out are good for preparing you for the exams.

Michael Padhi
BMGT345

Anonymous
05/21/2025

Exams are significantly harder than the assignments provided in class, and often have no correlation. Very little consideration for student's well being.

Michael Padhi
BMGT345

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
05/19/2025

80% of the class was flagged for "cheating" on the 3rd exam. 80% of the class was notified of this though an email RIGHT AT THE START OF FINALS SEASON. After being flagged for "cheating", you were given one of two options: 1. Fill out a google form outlining how you came to the answers that you did for 3 of the questions on the exam, with no insight as to which one you were flagged for cheating on. On that same form, you had to indicate which of the 3 questions (1, 2, or all 3) you cheated on, or say you didn't cheat and if you'd be able to attend an in-person final exam. 2. Don't fill out the form and get reported to the office of student conduct for violating academic integrity. If you were found cheating or admitted to cheating, the email stated that you would have to take an in person, proctored final exam instead of the optional online one that would replace the lowest of the 3 midterm exam grades. With this email being sent out right before finals, and with the class being 250+ students, some people found out their fate the day after submitting the form. Others, however, had to wait a week. Picture the amount of stress, anxiety, and sleepless nights this can cause. Not to mention, in that initial email sent to, again, 80% of the class, it basically said to not bother taking the online final exam. So even if you didn't cheat and wanted to replace a low scoring midterm through the optional online final exam, where you could use the textbook and any notes from the course, that was now off the table. But guess what? You can still do the in-person proctored exam with 3 equation sheets, front an back, of all the course material ranging between 13 chapters that has to be made less than 2 days before the exam! HOORAY!!!!!! Exams would always have "trick" questions that included a concept or variable that was NEVER TAUGHT through the textbook, discussions, or videos. I'm guessing they were built in to flag people using AI or external sources while taking the exam. I always found myself double checking my work to make sure it made sense and that I had sufficient work to prove that I came to the answer myself. This class could have been relatively straight forward, but this roller coaster of exams and this whole incident was NOT worth the countless nights of restless sleep, days without eating, mountains of stress, anxiety, panic attacks, and depressive episodes.

Michael Padhi
BMGT345

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/19/2025

The class overall was not bad until the very last day. It is all online so based on weekly modules with readings, homework, and quizzes. As long as you take notes of the equations and practice the questions you should be fine. But on reading day, he accused probably 75% of the class of cheating on the third exam by putting on trick questions that were flagged for being wrong and giving them zeros on it. This caused so much unnecessary stress for students especially those who needed to study for finals and those about to graduate and was entirely irresponsible and disrespectful of him to do. I think he was more interested in catching cheaters than the implications of accusing people who did not cheat and threatening their failure in this class.

Michael Padhi
BMGT345

Anonymous
05/17/2025

What he teaches isn't relevant to assignments.

Michael Padhi
BMGT345

Anonymous
05/12/2024

Professor and TAs are fine, but extremely tedious class and hard exams. The homeworks and quizzes are super time consuming. The exams, especially the last few are pretty hard. The study guides are not reflective of the exam content so study the past exams instead. Good luck

Michael Padhi
BMGT345

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/25/2023

Finance is finance. Wish I didn't have to take it. Exams 1 and 3 were easy but exam 2 destroyed me. Luckily final is optional and if you take it drops the lowest exam (otherwise don't take it you keep the 3 mid-terms). Class all online, person HW and quiz annoying but not terrible. I advise speed through first attempt, take pics of the worked formulas and then take second attempt (diff numbers same format). Padhi's videos were easy to follow, had good examples.

William MacDonald
BMGT345

Expecting an A
Anonymous
05/26/2021

I had MacDonald for 345 and this was my favorite course from the general business minor. The lectures were alright but I thought that he was a good professor since he is always reasonable and the exams were relatively easy. The study guides he gives out are good for preparing you for the exams.

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