Sana Jahedi

This professor has taught: DATA400, MATH141H, STAT400, STAT410, SURV410

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Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/30/2024	Highly incompetent and cannot speak English. She tries to cover her incompetence by being "sweet". Guess what? we are here to learn from someone who knows what they are doing. We do not come to have a "sweet" instructor who struggles in English and struggles in the material at hand.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/20/2024	sana is an extremely nice professor so please don’t take advantage of her kindness!! the exams (including the final) were literally copy-pasted from the midterm practice problems, so if you did those you would be fine and pass with a pretty good grade. her homeworks are also really straightforward and help reinforce your understanding of the class. she also posts her notes right after lecture and they have plenty of examples. i’d definitely recommend her for stat400!
Sana Jahedi Anonymous 12/20/2024	This is a class where you can certainly get an A. But also not one that I would love to take again. Sana is an incredibly smart person but not the best lecturer, unfortunately. Because of that, I felt like it was difficult to actually learn the content. The quizzes were generally fairly generalizable from the lecture content but the exams were totally different and ridiculously harder. She remedied this by essentially providing us all of the exam content ahead of time. This guarantees an A if you do this practice but I felt like the jump between lecture/quiz and exam was too vast for me to actually learn and I found myself memorizing material instead. This is probably a deeply unpopular opinion but I'd rather have had simpler exams that weren't given ahead of time so we'd be more incentivized to actually learn. The homeworks were a similar story to the exam, so difficult they didn't seem at all generalizable. Overall, it was an okay course, nothing to write home about but nothing to complain too much about either. Take it for an A but not if you're actually concerned with learning.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2024	I didn’t understand a single thing that was happening in class but still managed to get an A. She curves grades so that a 90+ is an A. She’s a great teacher if your goal is just to get a good grade in the class (especially for CS students), but not ideal if you’re trying to truly understand the material. She says she doesn’t want students to memorize answers, yet her lectures mostly consist of giving us formulas without explaining how they work. I got an A in the class without understanding basic concepts like expected variables or covariance. Her final exam included 6 problems, all taken directly from the 12 problems on the review sheet. I just memorized as much of the review sheet as I could and scored an 80. However, she often skips steps in her own work during lectures. If you’re just looking for an easy A, take her class. If you actually want to learn, look elsewhere.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/15/2024	Sana is a horrible lecturer and I was extremely disappointed in her Stat400 class. I will say that the course isnt very rigorous and many exam questions are extremely predictable (to the point where memorizing the potential questions was a decent strategy). She does group quizzes in discussion as well as regular quizzes. The quizzes take up a decent portion of every discussion but otherwise you do a useless worksheet you dont understand. Her lectures are where she really falls apart. She isnt a native english speaker (or atleast it doesnt seem like she is) and I often felt she struggled to explain simple concepts because she couldnt find the correct words. Her lectures were disorganized with her literally stating before classes that she hadnt even had time to look at the slides and didnt know what she would be teaching. This definitely showed as it seemed like she was figuring it out as she went and the majority of the class was examples without any explanation of the steps she was taking until she already took them. Her final was literally 6 questions out of a 12 question sheet she gave us the week before. The questions were difficult and if we were seeing them for the first time we likely would have done horribly however you could simply memorize and fake the steps without understanding them to do fine. Overall if you care about actually learning the material this professor should definitely be avoided. If you want to skip lecture and self study and memorize the problems an hour before youll be right at home. 2 stars.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/15/2024	Most free class, exams including the final are just the practice questions
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/14/2024	Shes very understanding and as long as u do the study guide youll do just fine on exams highly recommend her
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2024	HER OUTFITS ARE SOO CHILL COLLEGE CORE CUTE!!!!
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/11/2024	Her teaching in lecture wasn't my favorite, but she is very generous grader and offers very easy extra credit if you need it. She posts good notes and is great at explaining things in office hours. She also is very understanding and flexible if you ask her about anything.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/11/2024	Midterms went over EXACTLY what we learned in class, review practice problems, and discussion (also gives ANSWERS!! to all of them as well, so just remember how to do those and then you're good for the midterms). Posts notes after class and has a piazza for questions (she answers pretty quickly imo)
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/11/2024	The nicest professor BY FAR. I think she’s new, so ofc she’s getting used to scheduling and stuff like that, so don’t be surprised if she moves some stuff around (midterm dates, hw dates, etc). She lives in Canada btw, so like, ofc she can’t be on campus all the time for office hours lol. Her office hours are good though (at night time, where most classes are done). Study and LISTEN TO HER and you should be fine lol
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/11/2024	LMAO for the reviews below me, it seems like everyone that took STAT400/DATA400 gave her 5 stars, while everyone that took STAT410 gave her 1. That is really weird. Anyways, what a GOAT. - No required textbook. - No mandatory attendance (although apparently she gives extra credit sometimes if you attend) - Uses Piazza. Fairly responsive. Other students are very helpful. - She posts all of her lecture material online within a day or two of the lecture. All the discussion questions, discussion solutions, and homework solutions (after the homework is due) are posted online too. Her notes are extremely, extremely helpful. Very concise yet very clear. She shows all of her work. - She says that you should be spending 6-9 hours on the course content outside of class every week. I don't think that's true. Every week, I usually skipped both lectures, went to discussion if there was a quiz, and did the homework. All in all, maybe four hours per week? I'm sure it could've been less if I had actually gone to lectures. And I'm also a very slow worker, just to clarify. - I didn't go to lecture because a) I honestly found the lectures to be a bit too slow-paced for my liking (I could usually learn in about 25 minutes what was covered in the 75-minute lecture just by reading the notes) and b) the material for the first 2/3 of the semester was pretty simple. Once we got to things like joint distributions and conditional expectation, things started to get a bit more complicated, but again, nothing I wasn't able to just learn by reading her notes - No R labs. The "labs" are just group quizzes. The lowest quiz/lab gets dropped. We were supposed to have 7 quizzes/labs. We ended up getting 6; 4 of them were labs (group quizzes), 2 of them were independent. 2 of the quizzes/labs were just graded for completion/attendance. - Homework is simple, just be careful, check your work, and maybe do it with a friend. We were supposed to get 10 homeworks. We ended up only getting 7. Whether or not that's good or bad, that's up to your interpretation. - She had a very short-lived and bizarre retake policy. She abolished it after about the 2nd or 3rd quiz because apparently people were just memorizing answers from the original quiz instead of actually learning. The policy was that you could retake as many quizzes as you wanted to as long as you got less than a 50%. Which meant that if you got a 55%, you couldn't retake. If you got 45%, you could retake and get up to a 100% on your second try, which meant that it was actually better to fail the first time than just barely pass. Very odd. - Every single test question was just taken from discussion, HW, or other practice problems that she gave us. She also gives the solutions to all of those. The tests basically just copy the question and sometimes tweak the numbers a little. Sometimes, the test question was literally the same as the original. She gave us 12 practice problems to prepare for the final. She said that she'll just pick 6 of those problems and give it to us on the final. And she's giving us the answer key too. I kid you not, she literally gave us the answers to the final. - I've heard that she is extremely helpful at office hours. Apparently she'll even email you just to follow up with you and see how you're doing with the material. - The pacing was PHENOMENAL. I never felt behind, but there was also new stuff to learn every week. Never too much content that I felt bogged down, and the pace is just right such that you really get enough time to work with the material and actually understand what's being taught. I never felt rushed or overloaded. And the workload was rather light, too. Just one homework due roughly every other week and studying for quizzes and midterms. Here's the grade breakdown: Homework: 25% - There were 6 graded HWs, lowest gets dropped. Graded for accuracy. That means each HW is worth ~4%, which is a LOT. Quizzes and Labs: 30% - There were 7 quizzes/labs, lowest gets dropped. 5 were graded for accuracy, 2 for attendance. So each was worth 5%. Oftentimes these questions were just variations of questions from lecture. For the quizzes/labs that were graded for accuracy, there were never any surprises. The two that were attendance-based had some stuff we hadn't learned yet but, I mean, it was graded on attendance so it didn't matter. Midterm 1: 15% - Pretty simple just don't make silly mistakes. Midterm 2: 15% - This one was admittedly a bit challenging, but the questions came straight from discussion/HW/other practice problems. Make sure you do those (you might want to do them 2 or 3 times) and really understand what's going on. Final: 15% - Haven't taken yet but apparently the questions will also just come from practice. Extra credit - I don't know how much this is worth Here are the medians from the assignments: HW 1 - 52/54; HW 2 - 46/46; HW 3 - 37/38; HW 4 - ungraded; HW 5 - 84/90; HW 6 - 26/26; Quiz 1 - 29/32; Lab 1 - 40/40; Lab 2 - 31/31; Lab 4 - 20/21; Lab 5 - 5/5; Quiz 6 - 23/26; Midterm 1 - 56/61.5; Midterm 2 - 35.5/44 Overall the medians are pretty good, but honestly you should be able to get at least a 90% on every assignment because, again, she basically gives you all the questions ahead of time. I think Midterm 2's grades were low only because people didn't actually remember what to do for the questions. But hey, now you know :) Overall, great teacher. Skip lecture or don't, that's up to you. Light workload. Probably the chillest class I took this semester. The material can sometimes be pretty confusing at first, but just give it another read-through, do some practice problems, ask questions, join a study group, and you'll get the hang of things in no time. You can certainly get an A if you just put in a little bit of work. I don't know about the other STAT400 teachers, but Sana is certainly a great choice.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/09/2024	Sana is a very caring professor who really supports her students and will go above and beyond to help them with the material. That being said, I feel like the exams were unfairly hard at times and often included material we had never covered. Definitely not a bad professor but the exam material really should be changed.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/08/2024	Very understanding teacher, exams are just like the study guide. An A is basically guaranteed as long as you go to class.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/05/2024	I really liked this professor. I had a difficult time with the class and couldn't make the office hours, which she unfortunately couldn't work around, but she did the best she could when possible. I wish the homework was more spread out, as that would be more helpful for me personally.
Sana Jahedi STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/05/2024	I write this review to set the record straight with this professor and this class. I am no genius by any means, however the reviews below me are being unfair and taking things out of context. 1. Organization It is true that this semester Sana has been a bit disorganized and I don't think she is proud of it either. She is incredibly busy herself and has had a ton of personal (career-related) matter to tend to. But in absolutely no way has this disorganization negatively impacted anyone's grade. I mean yeah I was a little stressed at times, but she always ends up compensating for it by extending deadlines or pushing topics to the next exam instead of an upcoming one. 2. That One Homework Problem Set This is a more theoretical STAT400 and everyone taking this class knew it going into it. You can't complain about getting assigned difficult homework as a result. They're not long homeworks but the problems themselves can be quite difficult sometimes I will admit. And the homework set that was deemed 'too difficult' by Sana, ended up being bonus points for every question you correctly answered. 3. Second Midterm If you went to class and did very poorly you must not be telling the entire truth. Sana mentioned in class that we would have a question for solving variance with covariance while we were doing that exact kind of question on the board. The day before the midterm, she did another practice problem solving variance with covariance. So on the day of exam, we have two of those questions, one generalized with variables and one with numbers. Those should have been free questions, as Sana intended. You simply regurgitate exactly what had been written in our class notes on that topic which are posted. We had 5 questions. One was very easy, truly. The two covariance problems we had seen exact one to one copies of those questions beforehand. And two questions were 'new'. Had you gotten the first three I mentioned, you would have baseline 50%. And most people should have been able to get some partial on the last two, bringing your grade to around an 80% if not better. It should be doable in class time but she allowed us to have up to almost 3 hours I believe. That is more of a luxury in my opinion, though some people may see it differently. Sana is not at all unreasonable. She's an incredibly sweet person and does not want anyone to fail. She wants us students to succeed but she also wants us to put in effort to study as well. In my opinion, if you want to take a more theoretical statistics class, then you should be prepared to spend some extra time on difficult problems. There is just no way around that as much as I dislike it as well sometimes. And no, these are not grad level questions lol. I think she takes some of the more reasonable questions from Harvard and/or MIT's first course in probability.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/05/2024	exams exactly like practice tests not too hard. Very easy grader and super nice teacher.
Sana Jahedi STAT410 Anonymous 12/02/2024	I was expecting her to be a good professor; there was only one review when I signed up for class which was 5 stars. She is a kind person, she is flexible with I expected her to be a good professor; there was only one review when I signed up for the class, and it was 5 stars. She is a kind person and flexible with assignments, often extending deadlines for the entire class or reducing the number of questions on homework and other tasks. However, this flexibility is necessary because her assignments are extremely difficult. For example, we had a quiz designed to be completed in 20 minutes in groups, but it took longer than the entire 1 hour and 15-minute class period. Homework assignments are time-consuming, quizzes are hit or miss, and exams take an excessive amount of time. Although she doesn’t impose a time limit on exams, I know people who spent over two hours on them, essentially taking the equivalent of three finals in this class.
Sana Jahedi STAT410 Anonymous 11/27/2024	She is mostly very sweet and will give extensions if you ask. However, she is convinced our homework and exams are easy when they are very much not. For example, our second midterm was deemed “easy,” but the mean was a 48%. She blamed the grades on us not coming to class. I come to every class and still did very bad. Her fix is applying our extra credit that we got for completing a homework that she realized afterwards was way too hard. I would not recommend if you prefer organized teaching either.
Sana Jahedi STAT410 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/25/2024	Exam is impossible. I don't know what she expects of students. I came in with a full understanding of the material and the exam was impossible.
Sana Jahedi STAT410 Anonymous 11/21/2024	She thinks the class is for like grad students or something and gives impossible questions that she’s never gone over. She gives quizzes that take all class then wonders why we’re behind schedule. She changes her mind every day and is very disorganized. She changed our exam date like 3-4 times without telling us.
Sana Jahedi STAT400 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/18/2024	Sana is very sweet! Almost too sweet. Do not take advantage of her kindness (I will find your house). She's not the problem, I am (I don't study lol). PROS: - Her notes are the BEST (she posts "pre-lecture" notes and she posts finished notes after class)!! - Gives A LOT of practice exam questions, many of which are on the exam. - Answers questions and offers help a lot a lot!! CONS: - She has an accent, but it's not that bad. - Hw and exams are hard. - Discussions are usually quizzes (idk if this is a con, they're not that bad if you study).
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/15/2024	She is one of the nicest professors and understands you. Offers help, her exams are just like the practice so if you get the hang of that you should be fine. She is also very sweet. quizzes and labs (which are like group quizzes) every week, you have about 7 of these a semester are super fair but attendance is mandatory in disscussions. 2 midterm exams 15% of your grade each. definately recommend her for stat 400.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/12/2024	She is one of the best stat teachers. She is super lenient, lectures well, gives fair quizzes, and there are a lot of team quizzes. 10/10 would recommend if you need to take this class.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 10/26/2024	Definitely one of the nicest professors I've ever had, especially if you meet her in office hours. She teaches the material really well, down to earth and always willing to follow on with you or meet you privately if you need help. Her exams are mostly easy and her work doesn't destroy you mentally because she gets that you have other classes and whatnot. Would definitely take her for this class.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/22/2024	She is the goat. Her practice exams is exactly like the exam. She's understanding and nice. Best prof I've had in MATH department, heavily recommend.
Sana Jahedi DATA400 Anonymous 09/27/2024	really good thumbs up emoji (I'm not writing a paragraph)
Sana Jahedi MATH141H Expecting an A+ Anonymous 09/11/2024	Super nice and understanding and really good at explaining problems and helping you with any questions in class
Sana Jahedi MATH141H Expecting an A Anonymous 02/19/2024	Very good professor on the whole. Very willing to answer questions and made a point to provide intuitive proofs for any major theorems/formulas that came up in class. All lecture notes were uploaded to the class website, although the lectures themselves weren't recorded. For each exam there was practice material analogous to what would be on the exam, and quizzes and exams were graded fairly (arithmetic errors incurred minor deductions). I strongly recommend if you want a professor who concentrates more on student understanding than rote proficiency with the tools of calculus.