88% on my first test.

I'm so pissed off. I really dislike this professor... and not because I got an 88%, but because of the way he teaches.

He wastes time in class by talking about how our weekends went, and he CONSTANTLY goes off on tangents that have absolutely nothing to do with the class material. I never know what's expected of us, and the few problems that he assigned as homework (which he ended up not picking up) didn't have anything to do with what was on the test. He took SIX POINTS off one problem because I did it by hand instead of using the calculator. WTF?

I'm so frustrated with this professor--I wish my previous professor taught this semester. :( She didn't waste our time; she assigned homework and actually picked it up; she handed back our tests the following class, without fail (this guy took over a week and a half); and she always went over the material that we were tested on. She used every single minute of class time, and I considered it to be a fast-paced class. So how is it that my current prof can waste 15+ minutes every single class and still go over all the material that we need to know (for calculus)?? It's simple--he can't.

I've resorted to self-teaching, but even then, I don't know how I'll fare on his tests. I spent my class time on Friday teaching myself the second section of the chapter, and by the time I was done, we still had 30 minutes left in the class--and yet he's still teaching material from the second section today. I would continue to teach myself, but the questions that he asked on the test weren't covered in the material in the book.

GAH!!!