STAT W1211

3 exams: non cumulative (they are not too difficult- but you HAVE to study everything on your own) Mandatory quizes at the end of each class.

tl;dr -take Whalen. he cares a lot about his students. no collected hw, but gives "suggested problems" from which he pulls exam questions from. -lectures straight from book but the book is horribly written and he does a great job of explaining that you don't have to memorize the whole thing the night before, so go to class -doesn't make you memorize really complicated formulas, most questions calculation-based -3 exams, 33% each, including 1 non-cumulative final -tries to give each student as many points as possible, but is picky about showing work

Weekly problem sets which are long and hard, midterm and final (both challenging but doable, the cheat sheet is essential). He also threatens pop quizzes but we only had one.

Biweekly problem sets, midterm, final. I scored below the mean on the midterm, because the mean was rediculously high, but I studied hard for the final and received an A for the class.

Professor Baydil's workload is deceptive. There are only 5 assignments, but each assignment has upwards of 30 questions. It would be better if she spread them out to be an assignment every other week, but instead she forces you to do a month's worth of work in a week, and that's only if she remembers to post it on time (which is rare).

Workload: - 8 problem sets - 5 quizzes - One easy midterm - Final

I totally agree with the previous two reviews. I should have come this website earlier if I knew it when I took the class. I really don't understand why the statistics department can allow such a bad teacher to teach. I lost all my interest in statistics after this class. All I learned is how to put the data into a formula. Wang is not friendly and bad at explaining concepts, and her broken English make it worse. In a word, I will never never take her class again.

8 homeworks, lowest 2 dropped2 midterms (25% weight)1 final (length of 2 midterms, weighted same)

Long, painful weekly problem sets (20%). Two midterms (20% each) and a final (40%), fairly graded and easier than the homework problems. You'll have to work here.

I am a post-bacc pre-med student, and I was very frustrated taking Professor Kim's summer 1211 class. While he is a nice man and a fine person, and I appreciate his ability and desire to know everyone's name, his spoken English was very simply a hindrance to his being accessible to someone with an abstract question about this very abstract branch of mathematics. Forget about asking theoretical questions about the topics, or using any decorative language or complex clauses in your questions to discern the general point behind certain statements and theorems. I found myself simplifying the questions I asked in order to accommodate him, when it is he who should be accommodating the students. There are certain expectations I have of a college professor that Professor Kim simply lacked. After two weeks in the class, it was also clear to me that he does not appreciate it when questions are asked during his lectures. This problem is compounded by the slow pace at which he moves through the verbiage of the material. He spends an inordinate amount of time writing definitions--in admittedly beautiful handwriting--on the board, and his asking students to read passages and definitions from the textbook serves no purpose in a college course. If he were to move through the material at a comparatively quicker pace, there would be more time for questions and further examples of tough topics s…