Sheela Kolluri

10%- "Pop Quizzes" 30%- Midterm 30%- 2nd Midterm 30%- Final (Non-Cumulative)

Extremely light 3 none cumulative exams making up 90% of your grade quizzes from every lecture making up 10% of your grade no homework or problem sets or papers

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.

This woman was easily the worst teacher I have ever had, and I spent two years in community college before attending Columbia. She will come in to the class each day, read directly off of slides (which are copied word for word from the text book) for 75 minutes, do no examples, give maybe 5-10 questions to study, and leave. I approached her with questions several times, and did not receive satisfactory answers. There was one day that she was not present for, so the TA taught that class, and he was a far better lecturer than her. The class actually applauded him at the end. The icing on the cake is the fact that each day there is a "pop quiz" that covers the material being taught in class. That means that you have to have read and understood the relevant chapter in the book so that you can then come to class, have it read to you again word for word, and then be quizzed on it. If not for the fact that I had to drop the course to preserve my GPA (taking a bunch of other math classes and have never gotten less than a B+ btw) I would have filed a formal complaint with the school. She should not be teaching. Her contribution to the class is worth nothing. I highly recommend that you avoid this class.

This is literally the WORST class I have ever taken in Columbia. If you care about your time just a single tiny bit, DO NOT CHOOSE HER CLASS. I've taken AP stat in high school so the class turned out to be easily doable, but I find it EXTREMELY BORING. She reads off her powerpoint which is directly taken from the book WORD FOR WORD, and when people ask a question in class, she would just REPEAT what the slide says, no explanation ever. Well, you might say, what if I care nothing about STAT and I'm only taking this for the requirement? In that case, I can tell you that it's still not worth it. I'm taking this class for this exact reason. I would expect that I can skip class if all she wants to do is read the powerpoint. However, she gives a ridiculously easy "attendance quiz" EVERY SINGLE LECTURE, forcing people to come to class. This point basically defeats the purpose of taking it since it's easy. If you're a perspective Stat major or even considering it, DO NOT TAKE IT. It would be a huge turn off for stat and you might not want to take a stat class ever again in your life. Personally, I don't care if I get a heavier workload if I know I'm learning something, but if I'm not learning, I want to save time to go to the EXTREMELY BORING lectures. This class is neither: it doesn't teach you anything, and it wastes your time forcing you to go to all the lectures. You might conside…

RUN If you don’t have time to read this full in-depth review, those 3 letters are the only advise you need when considering this class. Run away from this professor, and never look back. I am serious. While I have been through some pretty shitty classes, all of them have had something of merit. Not this one. For the love of God, just don’t take this class. If this is not enough to persuade you to not take it, let me list a couple of bullet points why you definitely need to stay away from Kolluri and her infamous Calc-Stat course. How she teaches She reads directly from the slides. Now you might think, this aint so bad. No, its bad. The slides she reads off are not even her own, its copied word for word from the textbook, and you all know how boring the textbooks are. Instead being an actual professor and trying to breakdown the concepts so that we all understand it better, she just reads the whole book to the class and expects us to follow on. After about two classes, her voice stops to register and you kind of have to sleepwalk through the class. While you might be thinking, well I’ll just skip the classes all together right, you can’t. (move to the next section) Mandatory In-class quizzes I understand why she does it. Without these quizzes I am 100% sure that her classroom would be completely empty everyday of the semester. So to stop this inevitability, her solution is to f…

3 tests all worth 30% 10%quiz, attendance light workload cuz no hw

Don't do it. for real, just dont. Still thinking about? DONT. I know your thinking "wow this class fits my schedule and it cant be that bad like everyone else says it is. I've done pretty solid in math up to now so statistics shouldn't be a problem." Bruh, please for ur sanity just dont take the class. U gonna regret it like the Seahawks not running the ball on the 1 . Ur gonna feel like the warriors blowing a 3-1 lead. Ur gonna feel like America on the fateful day of Nov. 8th 2016. This is that one teacher who when u finish college ur gonna remember her name perfectly because of the built up anger u had towards the class. Theres no hw grade in the class, only practice problems. Heres the best part: half those practice problems dont have answers in the back of the book. Now i hope ur thinking "dang, how do I study for the tests".Well ur only hope is to do these problems ahead of time and check answers at office hours and to hope with all ur heart that some miracles really do happen specifically on test days. Every class is extremely boring because she reads verbatim from the powerpoint. The only positive things about this class is u get review sheets for the tests(which aren't cumulative), and thats pretty much it. These benefits dont outweigh the negatives. I would rather have a semester of seven classes than take this class again. Just remember: u cant fail the class if u do…

3 exams - all are non-cumulative weekly attendance quizzes which are jokes, 10% of grade

Ignore the negative reviews below. If you just care about an easy grade and not learning, this class is perfect. Anyone complaining is lazy and doesn't know how to work for themselves. Pros- 1. Only meet once a week 2. No homework 3. No research paper (which other stats sections have) 4. No programming needed 5. Ridiculously easy quizzes every class meeting (lots of time to complete, 1 question, collaboration is allowed) 6. 3 exams (including final) and none of them are cumulative. they are extremely straight forward. you are allowed a cheat sheet, and 2 cheat sheets on the final which is not cumulative. 7. 3 exams means less material on each exam than compared to just a midterm and final 8. very generous class curve Cons- 1. kolluri not very email responsive 2. she reads straight from her slides (not really a big deal because the slides are fantastic) 3. boring, but you can literally do whatever you want in class Overall: Highly recommend if you just want the easy grade. Relative to the other stats sections, this class is MINIMALLY stressful.