Archana Khurana

This professor has taught: DATA100, HLTH672, MATH120, MATH140, MATH140H, MATH141, MATH141H, MATH240, MATH410, MATH423, MATH498T, SPHL601, SPHL602, SPHL603, SPHL610, STAT100, STAT400, STAT401, STAT410, STAT464, SURV410

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Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/05/2025	she is so kind omg like im actually crying bc shes so nice whenevr you ask for help like actually crazy
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/05/2025	Archana is THE BEST I love love love her soooo much PLEASEE take her she's the best!! She does have an accent, but you'll get used to it. No cheat sheets or calculators, but the mental math is not that difficult (no crazy fractions or decimals). Also, sometimes she gets stun-locked during lecture, but it's okay me too idk what 1+1 is either - 3 midterms (not really cumulative, but this is math so...). Each one has a bonus question (3-5 points). - 1 final. - 10 quizzes in discussion. - 4 matlab projects (you can work in groups up to 3 people). Okay anyway, some pros of her out of 10000000000 million pros: - Posts notes (lectures aren't recorded though). - Syllabus doesn't change unless she gets behind schedule (snow days, etc). - Gives problems from the book for extra practice (not graded). - Posts announcements/reminders about upcoming quizzes & exams. Always mentions what sections from the book they cover. - Has review sessions on zoom that last around 2 hours for every upcoming exam (including the final). They are recorded. - Gives 2-3 practice exams for each exam & includes answer keys. - Actually cares about our grades. For exam 2, the average was an 81.2 and she was worried!! No queen it wasn't your fault!!!!! It was me for studying only 3 hours!!!!!!! - Uhh idk what else... love you Archana!
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/01/2025	She has a heavy accent which did interfere with my learning but also she tends to make a lot of mistakes during her lecture and is often confused about the material that she is teaching. She often gets lost during lecture making her stop teaching and look over her notes for a few minutes. This interrupts the momentum and was generally not a pleasant experience. I do not think she reviews her lectures before teaching and leading to her understanding of the subject being rather poor this semester.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/20/2025	She is a very kind woman and an amazing lecturer. She tries her best to get to know students in the class and always asks their input. She often tried encourage participation by offering extra credit points to students that solved a math problem in front of the class or gave answers to questions. She's a great lecturer, always thorough and solves math problems on her ipad, which is then projected to the class. She also posts the raw lecture notes online for each lecture. Exams were fair and covered material taught in class. She also makes three practice exams avalible for each exam and the final, and the actual exams very closely resemble the samples.
Archana Khurana MATH423 Expecting a B Anonymous 01/13/2025	Coursework was reasonable and grading was lenient. Notes from lecture posted on elms. Sample exams, sample questions, and homeworks/quizzes are pretty representative of what you can expect on exams. Exams: - 2 midterms (cheat sheets allowed) - 1 final, with a take home portion (cheat sheets allowed) Graded Assignments: - 6 homeworks - 2 class activities (take home) - 2 quizzes (take home) - extra credit assignment At most one assignment given per week. Assignments take a reasonable amount of time to complete. Professor Khurana typically holds several office hours throughout the week. However, if you have any questions or need extra support outside office hours she is flexible and willing to help.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/29/2024	I had the privilege of taking both STAT100 and MATH120 with this professor, and Dr. Khurana is one of the most personable, understanding, and kindest professors that I have had during my time at UMD. What makes her stand out is her genuine dedication to her students' success. She provides an abundance of resources throughout the course that ensure you are adequately prepared for each exam and feel confident about the material. Her teaching style is also very engaging, and I never found there to be a dull moment in the class. She actively seeks student feedback to improve the course and ensures ample opportunities for students to earn a good grade. Furthermore, she fosters a welcoming environment where students feel encouraged to ask questions and seek help, always emphasizing that she is there to support their academic success. I excelled in the two courses I took with her and there is no reason you can’t do well either while giving your best efforts, and putting your best foot forward. She genuinely cares about her students and their learning experience, making her an exceptional professor. I couldn’t recommend her enough!
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/24/2024	This class is so easy to pass. She drops your two lowest grades from each section of the class- in-class assignments (which you have 3 chances total to get a 10 out of 10), homework assignments (which you have unlimited tries to get perfect score on), and R coding assignments (which are difficult in the beginning but she puts out a tutorial showing exactly what you need to code and you go over the coding in discussion). Her midterms and final are the same exact structure and order every year and she posts all the old tests, so if you just practice some of the old exams the tests will be super easy. You also don't have to memorize any equations- she gives you a sheet of all the equations you need and when you need to use each one on the tests so basically the whole test is just plugging in numbers and basic algebra (multiplication, addition, etc). A few things to note: she does have a thick accent but you get used to it and the lectures aren't recorded, but all the slides and information is posted so you don't even have to go to class if you don't want to but I recommend going because you have a lot of extra credit opportunities from being in class, she goes over a lot of examples, and you need to attend if it's an in-class activity day. I also recommend making use of the math tutoring (GSS, AMPs, etc) if you need extra assistance. If you aren't good at math (like me) this class will be a breeze.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/21/2024	BEST AND EASIEST STATS PROFESSOR EVER. GREAT TEACHER AND SUPER EASY CLASS. SO EASY TO GET AN A. SHE GIVES PRACTICE TESTS AND IF YOU DO THEM YOU WILL BE FINE.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2024	As others have said, Archana is a very very kind person (regardless of what you think about her teaching). She tries to get to know every student in class, especially those who go to lecture and remain active in office hours. She has lectures which are pretty well organized. She first explains some of the theoretical concepts, and then does some textbook problems on the board or on chalk. She has this raw and updated lecture note system which you'll learn more about if you take her course that is pretty helpful for some (for me, I never had the time to look at the notes before most lectures in the first place and didn't have an iPad so it wasn't particularly remarkable). If you don't use an IPad to take notes, definitely go to her office prior to class to get print-outs of the notes so you can have some of the notes already there that way you won't have to write problems or long theorems that she won't spend more than 2-3 minutes on by hand. Regarding her teaching, I will say there are times where it feels like she doesn't know the topic in depth (especially in stats). For example, she struggled to explain Bessel's correction for sample standard deviation the first time it was taught in class. This doesn't interfere to teach what she thinks is necessary for the course and exams, but it gives off a murky vibe if you're interested in going a bit more beyond surface depth of what's taught in the course and if that interest comes out in the form of asking more complicated questions in class, especially for some of the things in the hypothesis-test section of the course. There are typically quizzes and worksheets in the class that are done on ELMS/Canvas every lecture or so with some being graded and others being for practice. Archana tends to be lenient about this but it can be a pain in the ass to do sometimes, especially because (this is a me thing specifically), I would get lazy and just use GPT or some other thing to do them instead of doing them by hand. There are also projects in the course, but I also used GPT on those. While they give real world applications to what is being taught in the class, they're really just extra work that doesn't correlate with the exams and some of the material we need to know so a lot of people would do the least amount of work possible for them. Now, it is also worth mentioning, I do fundamentally dislike the curriculum for the course. It is pretty much ALL performing hypothesis tests, which are rarely performed anymore by hand (yay for computers). So, you end up getting an extremely in-depth introduction to how to use various hypothesis tests to understand and analyze different data trends, but a lot of this information is useless in modern day statistics simply because machines can do a lot of it for us. While she strived to give a big picture analysis of how to use the techniques (something that would last a lot longer than the individual mathematical techniques we learned to perform each of the tests in the class), I will say that the impression I got was that the class was simply focussed on performing many of these tests by hand and not taking a set of data and deciding what to do with it in order to determine the trends. I would have preferred if we maybe cut the time we spent on discussing how to compute various sources of error, and strict computations of the different hypothesis tests (during the course, you will study one-sample and two-sample z-tests for means and proportion, t-tests for means, confidence intervals, power and error in various tests, anova tests, chi-squared error of tests, error of linear regression with normal residuals, and using the central limit theorem to discuss normal random variables or random variables that converge to the normal distribution), and instead discussed how to decide which statistical tests to use for a given set of data, and how to run such experiments: for example, "how would you go about setting a statistical procedure to get data for determining whether this new feature increases user engagement on a site?". Learning a bit more about sampling (just an introduction), deciding how to filter data, and then picking the hypothesis test and describing the procedure, would have probably been more helpful for your average person who might go into a stats/data-science field in their life at this point of time with technology. This all being said, this is a very very common thing among all STAT401 courses and I suspect this is more of a departmental curriculum thing than it is Archana's fault. Thus, I will not take this out on her rating. BUT, if you're a student, be prepared that the class is heavily computation-focussed, and you will have to learn how to apply some of the techniques to broad data on your own, or in other CMSC/STAT classless such as STAT440, CMSC320, CMSC471, etc The last thing that is worth mentioning about Archana is that, especially in my semester, she sometimes did call people out in class. If you weren't paying attention, she would probably ask "why weren't you paying attention" or something in a kind way (not aggressive at all and you can definitely say "I don't know"). During exams, she would sometimes say how specific individuals did -- let's suppose there is a student named "Arnav" in the class, she might say something like "Arnav, you didn't get that topic on the exam, why did you not get it? Did you not prepare and do the practice problems? Were you not slow enough on the exam?"... things like that can sometimes be huge turn-offs for those who really respect their privacy on exams. She is NEVER doing this out of malice however, and you will notice that even if she does it, she's doing it in a respectful and encouraging way trying to uplift and encourage students to put more time and effort in the course. Just something worth noting for shy students. Overall, Archana is a very kind person, and you should definitely get to know her regardless of your interest, performance, and participation in the class by going to her office hours and simply showing up at every lecture and striving to sit in the front and remain somewhat engaged. Her accent is absolutely fine and easy to understand, and you're going to learn a lot in the course.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/20/2024	She's a very nice woman but in lecture I never really understood what she was saying, and her voice just got a little annoying after a while. After the first exam I pretty much stopped going to lecture and only studied the previous exams she posts since the exams never change. She does offer plenty of extra credit and her class was fairly easy because of how she made it and the resources she provided. As for the R assignments my TA would do the whole thing in discussion and we would just copy it lol but yeah very easy if you just put a little effort but you're better off teaching yourself with her resources.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/19/2024	She is a diva. Respectful, classy, and dresses cute. She is very helpful in office hours and explains math very well
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2024	Professor Khurana has been one of the best professors I've had since coming to UMD. She truly cares about her students and it was clear that she wanted all of us to succeed. She would take time outside of her designated hours to hold zoom study sessions before exams, and was always responsive to whenever I would reach out with a question regarding the course. The workload was very manageable, and she provides several practice exams before the midterms which are almost identical to one another. Prior to taking MATH120 I had never taken a calc course in my life, but Professor Khurana broke down the ideas very well and made learning the course very easy. Regardless of your prior knowledge regarding calc, I would highly suggest taking it with her, because she is easily one of the best professors at UMD.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A+ mahendra_solanki 12/19/2024	This class is actually interesting. She uploads all the notes on Elms and comes to class with raw notes on her iPad that include both explanations and questions. She works through the questions, clarifying the concepts as she goes. You can learn the material and earn a good grade without attending class, but I highly recommend going to class. It will help you better understand the notations and concepts, as it could be confusing otherwise. There are plenty of assignments—6 projects, 20 quizzes, and 16 worksheets—but they don’t take much time. Quizzes are quick (around 10 minutes), and worksheets take about 30 minutes. The exams are fair with no questions outside the material covered. She provides 2-3 sample exams to help prepare. Overall, she’s a great professor, and if you’re looking to really learn, definitely take her class.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/19/2024	She's very nice and goes over content multiple times to make sure everyone understands the material. The weekly R assignments were annoying but a useful skill for anyone interested in coding. Practice exams are almost identical to the actual exams and if you make a decent effort to study those you are pretty much guaranteed an A. STAT100 is a pretty easy class but taking her made it even easier.
Archana Khurana DATA100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/15/2024	Amazing teacher, teaches to the test, no surprises. Drops lowest grades at the end of semester. Cannot recommend her enough. Extremely hard to fail this class
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2024	Dr. Khurana is an amazing professor. She genuinely cares about each student and wants everyone to succeed. She goes above and beyond to ensure that everyone understands the content and contextualizes it making it easier to understand the applications. She is extremely reasonable with the work and constantly takes feedback in class to see what she can improve on her end. She also gives exams from previous semesters which is structured very similarly to the exams making it very easy to study. Overall, I feel that most if not all students can succeed in her class especially with the resources she provides such as GSS leaders and AMPs. Definitely recommend her for any math course!!
Archana Khurana DATA100 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/10/2024	Professor Khurana is one of the best professors at this school. Her lectures are very engaging, with extra credit all the time. She goes through class assignments and answers in class. and there are R assignments every week, but she posts a walk-through on how to do them, which makes it super easy, basically copy-paste. She also dropped the lowest homework and class assignments, and for my class, she dropped 2 R assignments simply because someone asked. She is always asking what she can do better and when someone suggests something, she actually does it. 10/10 class. Easy A if you attend some lectures.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/09/2024	Professor Khurana is very nice and cares about her student's success in the class. I didn't attend lecture very much but Dana, the GSS leader, is an amazing teacher and Dr. Khurana's homework and posted notes make the content easy to understand. As long as you do the homework in the assigned timeframe, and do the practice tests you'll probably get an A. The practice exams are GOATED since they're practically identical to the actual exams.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/06/2024	Her class is super easy if you take notes and participate. Her midterms are exactly like the previous exams that she posts online which is nice. Just study those and you'll get an A. The R assignments are difficult if coding is not your specialty, but the TA in my discussion was very helpful! She is a great professor, super sweet, and likes to give out extra credit which is always a bonus!
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/06/2024	Great professor. She gives out a lot of extra credit opportunities and a fair grade drop policy. Her AMPs and GSS are also very good. I recommend going to at least 1 review session if you don't understand the material she teaches during the lecture.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/05/2024	Great professor who is really kind and goes above and beyond to help her students. Class Structure: - 3x week lectures (not mandatory but recommended to stay on track)(all notes posted on ELMS) - 1x week discussions (mandatory most of the time when there is graded group work and quizzes) Exams: - 3 Midterms - 1 Final - 3 Quizzes (during Discussion) - 4 Graded Group Work (during Discussion) * The midterm and final have several practice tests from years before that she shares which are basically the same as the actual exam with different numbers- very easy* Homework: - 2-3 MyMathLab Assignments per week (not due until the next midterm so have lots of time to work on it) Overall, great professor that cares about her students and their learning very much, highly recommend for MATH 120.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/02/2024	very good professor. very funny and genuinely cares about her students. if you don't understand a topic or if she's moving too fast, she will slow down for you or offer one on one sessions. lot's of GSS are available and she communicates with TA's well for discussions. i skipped lot's of lectures and never fell behind. take her if you can!
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A Anonymous 11/24/2024	great teacher, she's so nice and genuinely cares about her students and their grades.. I would reccomend this class for someone who needs to take a math class, but doesn't wanna do any calc/trig/precalc... stats really isn't difficult.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/21/2024	Khurana explains things well and is really nice! Lectures are well-paced. Homework is well explained and mimics the lecture content. Exams are super similar to practice exams.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 10/12/2024	great professor - super kind and nice and willing to accommodate - there are daily quizzes and worksheets weekly which you need to stay on top of but beyond that everything is VERY fair. she's also really funny and good at teaching things. HEAVY recommend to take archana for stat401.
Archana Khurana MATH423 Expecting an A Anonymous 09/06/2024	Dr. Khurana was great for MATH423 especially considering how new the course was. The materials were exceptionally well organized. The coursework was reasonable and her grading was lenient. There were 2 midterms and a final, with formula sheets allowed for each exam and the lowest assignment grade dropped. Her pacing was consistent throughout the course and she was very patient with students in class. All of her notes were published on ELMS and she gave frequent office hours. It’s clear that she cares about the topics she teaches. While the course is elective, I’d definitely recommend taking it if the topic sounds at all interesting to you.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/27/2024	Dr. Khurana was a great for STAT401. This course involves several take-home quizzes, worksheets and 6 projects along with 2 midterms and a final exam. You are allowed cheat sheets for all of the exams and the lowest grade in each assignment category is dropped. Pros: - Good instruction: Dr. Khurana provided a great balance between teaching the course content and doing examples. I was always pretty clear on the steps involved for each type of problem. Additionally, she posted her supplementary notes online. - Well-prepared with HW: The worksheets had problems that were similar to those in class, and the quizzes had more conceptual concepts. Together, they were great for understanding the course material and preparing for exams. - Fair exams: The exams were always comprised of problems similar to practice exams, worksheets, and those we did in class. As long as you had all the required formulas on your sheets you should be set to do well on them. - Nice person: She tried to get to know most of the people in the class and was always striving to be helpful and fair. Cons: - Her teaching style relies heavily on interaction with the class. For example, she will occasionally ask the class which notation goes in an equation, what value in the Z table we should look for, etc. It can be a little awkward if the class doesn't know or if you prefer lecturers that just go on nonstop for an hour. Otherwise, this is not really a problem at all, just something to note. Overall, this class was interesting and fair throughout the whole semester. I would highly recommend STAT401 with Dr. Khurana.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/22/2024	She is a great professor and really cares about her students. Her lecture notes are great, exams are fair, and she gives good practice material. The only reason I did not get an A- in this class is because of the daily homework. My learning style and general preference in classes are ones that are exam heavy and don't give busy work as I generally forget to do a lot of the hw. I can't blame archana for this but if you are anything like me, maybe reconsider because you will end up losing 3-4% from your final grade if you are bad about remembering to do daily hws. If you are more organized and less forgetful than me then take her 100% because she's great.
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/20/2024	If she's teaching a math class that you need - take her. She makes everything simple to understand. She explains concepts for the first part of the class, and then walks you through problems on her iPad for the second part. Regarding exams, she lets the class know during the review class what types of problems to be familiar with for the exam. The class averages were very high for the first two exams. The third exam was tough because it covered a lot of material. All of the exams were friendly in terms of difficulty - including the final. It seemed to me that she wanted everyone to succeed.
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/18/2024	A very organized professor who cares about her students. This year she started posting notes before a class start so that during class you can follow along more easily. Her midterms are very fair since she gives a lot of practice exams/materials. And she took time outside of class to host review sessions for the final so the students would feel less stressed. Imo, she's just one of the nicest professor out there:)
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/17/2024	She cares about her students.
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/14/2024	Cannot get better than this. Best professor I've had during my 4 yrs at UMD.
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting a C Anonymous 05/11/2024	Archana was a really good professor that really cares about her students. Holds really useful review sessions and her exams are basically a culmination of the review she does in class and has it posted to elms. Easy exams if you really study the material, gives EC problems on exams as well
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/08/2024	Archana gave us 3 mid terms, with the first having an avg 90%+. However, this was only because she virtually gave away the questions and they were just different numbers. However, exam 2 and 3 could not be any different, as the grades were significantly lower. There was one question on exam 3 that we had seen one time from a one off extra review section. Archana's voice is extremely high pitched, and on top of this all she repeats herself up to four times, to a 200 person lecture hall. This almost became a game between my friends and I, as we would take small bets as to how many times she would repeat herself on a given problem. She would also post her notes, which were helpful, as she would also post her filled out notes.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting a C- Anonymous 03/21/2024	Do not recommend. Overall class was organized and had good structure but she was not a good lecturer. She was confusing and hard to understand on occasion. TA sessions were useless because they both were equally as bad as explaining content. Only good thing was the AMP sessions. Her AMP Dana was fantastic and a great resource throughout the course.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/24/2024	STAT401 with Dr. Khurana is one of the most organized and fair courses I have taken. She wishes her students to do well and during office hours, she tries her best to resolve problems and accommodates students as much as possible. The lectures are intuitive and well-planned, with the exams similar to lecture examples and practice exams. If you come to lectures you will do well in her class.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/24/2023	Professor Archana is a very nice woman. However, I really do not believe she is the best at teaching. It seems like she teaches the material like we should already know it, which for some people, is not true. She can be kind of confusing when explaining information during lecture, and most of the time I did not know what was going on. I learned most of the content during discussion classes with the TA and through other people. However, Professor Archana is super accommodating and is very open to helping her students since she truly wants them to succeed. This being said, I don’t think she’s necessarily the best professor, but I think she is the best choice for MATH120. I would recommend asking for help from the TAs and attending the AMP sessions, since those helped me a lot throughout the semester.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/20/2023	I don't usually write reviews but I had to write one for Ms. Khurana because she is one of the best professors I have had at this school so far. I initially took MATH120 with Mr. Timothy, however, I dropped it after the first exam in his class since his teaching methods were not my way of learning. Upon reviewing the ratings for MATH120 classes I saw that this professor had the most rating, so I took her, one of the best decisions ever. Her exams are literally the same as her practice exams. She just changes the numbers, but the concept is the same. After the first exam in her class, I honestly rarely showed up in her class for lectures and I did fairly well. For the third exam, I did not go to her lecture for any of the material on it but I got a 95% for that exam. I used mathlab to help me and I practiced the practice exams to know what to do. If you are thinking about taking her, DO IT! It will be worth it! After taking this class with Mr. Timothy, I thought it would have been very hard, but in reality, Ms. Khurana made learning in the class fairly easy.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/19/2023	Professor Khurana is one of the best professors here. Though she has an accent, it is not terribly difficult to understand her. She cares about her student's success and gives plenty of opportunities during the lectures to get extra credit. She's so sweet and takes her time to ensure that everyone understands the lesson. If you have the chance to take this class with her, definitely do it!!
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/14/2023	As most other reviews say, she is extremely nice and helpful. I had friends taking STAT401 with other professors at the same time and it seems to be much more work with others. Quizzes and worksheets are almost entirely multiple choice with six VERY simple projects. We were allowed to choose the software we used but she said she will be switching to Minitab next semester for the projects to be more inline with her lower-level courses. Exams you have cheat sheets, so it is very low stress around exam time. Highly recommend her for STAT401.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/12/2023	Goes very slow to make sure that all students understand the concepts and actually helps people when they get confused instead of just telling a TA to go over it with them in discussions. She does have a thick accent which can make things a little difficult to understand at times, but overall a great professor
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting a D Anonymous 12/11/2023	I had Prof Khurana in Spring 2023. STAT100 was difficult for me. I met with Prof Khurana often and she was super sweet and helpful. The content in the class was hard but the assignments were doable. However, the exams destroyed me and I ended up failing the class with a D (oh well). I have a problem with the content, not the professor she is sweet.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/09/2023	I was able to do well in this course since I took Calculus before, but definitely would have struggled a lot if I hadn't. Because of this, I didn't really attend lectures and felt like reviewing the textbook was more informational. Professor Khurana isn't the best teacher, I was only able to understand concepts more through the AMP sessions. Her lectures include problems that seem easy, but then you look at the review for the tests that include ones 10x harder and feel like you're screwed. Just make sure you study a lot for the exams since they're worth a pretty large portion of your grade, and you should do well. Overall I would say her grading policies are pretty accommodating and for your lowest-scoring exam; she drops the grading scale from 100 to 50, but her teaching style isn't so great.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/05/2023	She is a great teacher. I remember thinking in the first week she was hard to understand but have not thought about it since you get used to it. I never took calc before and aced the class. She does a good job teaching, and a better job preparing you for exams. For every exam, she gives you three practice exams that are exactly the same as the exam you will take. If you can, get in this class to fulfill your math req
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/05/2023	Archana Khurana is a very kind individual and is very accommodating for her students. She wants students in her class to succeed. It is that simple, she's the G.O.A.T
Archana Khurana MATH498T Expecting an A+ Anonymous 11/14/2023	Archana is really nice, caring, and accommodating to students. She went over linear programming problems (LPP) for minimization and maximization, the simplex method, the Big M method, the dual of a primal LPP as well as their relationship, transportation problems, transshipment problems, assignment problems, traveling salesman, and integer programming. There are bi-weekly homework assignments (5 HWs each around 3-4 problems as determined by a majority vote by the class) along with some short classwork and take-home quizzes (2 classwork sheets and 2 quizzes). The homework, classwork, and quizzes are worth 30%. There are two midterms, each worth 20%. The final exam is cumulative with more weight put on the second half of the semester. The final is worth 30%. Archana also gave us an optional extra credit project where we had to program a function to solve the traveling salesman problem (I didn't do it but I overheard from some classmates that it was challenging). Overall, the grading was very lenient and the course content itself was not too difficult, provided that you know some basic linear algebra. You only had to get a 92% to get an A in the class so I believe that many students did fairly well.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/18/2023	One of the best instructors at UMD. She is so kind and understanding and truly cares about her students performing well. She is also exceptionally responsive to student feedback which is rare. We had two exams and a final. Homework is reflective of lecture examples and exams are in turn reflective of the homework, quizzes, and practice exams. So basically, no surprises. Quizzes are timed usually 10 to 15 minutes for one or two short questions and based directly on the material taught in class, so I’d highly recommend reviewing your lecture notes before attempting them. She also posts all her handwritten lecture notes on Canvas, which is super helpful, especially if you aren’t the best notetaker. 10/10 would take again and recommend to anybody choosing between professors!!
Archana Khurana MATH498T Expecting an A Anonymous 05/18/2023	Interesting course and very sweet and accommodating professor.
Archana Khurana MATH498T Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/11/2023	A fun class with practical concepts + applications. Archana was an exceptional professor that deeply cared about students genuinely learning concepts. She was deeply invested in making sure everyone has an effective learning experience. She would take student input with regards to curriculum, assignment details, and general course improvements that helped students. She created an environment where anyone could succeed if they put in effort.
Archana Khurana MATH498T Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/11/2023	A fun class oriented around practical + applied concepts. Archana was a kind professor that cared deeply about students actually learning concepts. She was highly receptive to students' feedback and always tried to improve overall learning experiences. She would ask students for input on the curriculum topics, assignments, and possible improvements to the course. Anyone is capable of succeeding in her class if they put in effort.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2023	She is an amazing professor that cares about her students. Her lectures can be slow, but she does an amazing job at explaining concepts and makes sure everyone understands. She takes students' feedback seriously and will make sure the quizzes and assignments are reasonable. I would recommend people to go to class because sometimes she will literally give you the answers and hints for quizzes and assignments. Her exams are fair and I would recommend people to take her class! All the assignments are reasonable and fair!
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2023	overall: professor khurana's class is overall really easy as long as you put in the effort. she does have a thick accent which can make hearing her in lectures hard, but she goes very slowly so it's easy to keep up. her practice exams are exactly the same as the test, so if you keep doing them until you get 100%, you'll ace every exam. for me, the downside of the class was the r-assignments that would take so much time for no reason. you would get time to do them in discussions but my TA was honestly incompetent so he was no help. just go to her office hours if your TA is useless and she'll help you with the r-assignments if you're having trouble. the class is also really easy if you took AP Stat in high school. recommendations/heads up: she records like 60% of lectures (and if the class asks her to record she will), discussion didn't attendance for me, if even one person asks for an extension she'll extend assignments for everyone (so almost every assignment got an extension lol)
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ grizzlybean 05/04/2023	amazing professor. lectures are recorded, she makes sure pacing is suited to students and posts practice exams and has a zoom review before exams. there are a few quizzes (group and individual) in discussion sections but the TAs prepare you well for them, and shes very caring and will adjust due dates and pacing based on the class
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/03/2023	this class was a breeze. her lecture slides are quite detailed, so it's easy to follow on your own. her lectures move a little slow, but she always goings over examples to make sure you understand. TAs help a good amount in discussion. There are a lot of assignments to boost your grade that aren't very hard. As long as you put in a reasonable amount of effort, you'll be fine. I would definitely choose her for other math classes she teaches. 10/10
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/21/2023	Dr. Khurana is an amazing and understanding professor. She listens to her students during lectures and extends due dates for assignments if students are having any difficulty with them or if she hasn't covered any concepts on these assignments. Weekly discussions are great too. The TAs help a lot with R assignments and exam reviews. Both Dr. Khurana and the TAs explain the style of questions you would see on the exams very well and make you feel prepared for them (even when you don't study sometimes). She's very sweet and caring, making her a lot more personable and someone to go to if you have any questions.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/26/2023	Professor Khurana is a very sweet and lenient professor. I did not consider myself a math person but I found myself loving this class! Lots of potential for leniency (multiple tries on homework, very lenient about pushing back due dates, etc). Exam questions are easier than homework questions. Weekly quizzes in discussion sections (1 week individual, 1 week group) are easier than they sound (the TA's will explain the exact style of questions on the quiz) and very helpful in retaining class material.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/22/2023	It does not get better than her when it comes to STAT100. She constantly pushes back assignment due dates, posts slides, and the exams are fair. I could not recommend her enough, she is great!
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/05/2023	I loved Archana! She is such a sweet lady and really cares about her students doing well. She is a bit hard to understand at first because of her accent but you get used to it pretty quickly. I think she is the best math120 teacher that you can take at maryland. She really teaches well and goes slowly until everyone understands the topic. I STRONGLY encourage anyone to take her class. She is the best!
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2022	I have never taken cal before in my life and she made this course so clear! As long as you try and review her practice exams, you'll be golden. The TAs also review before the exams as well. Best math professor ever!
Archana Khurana STAT100 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 12/16/2022	Besides her thick accent which takes getting used to, Archana is easily understandable, very knowledgeable and flexible as an educator. She is always willing to extend deadlines, take the time to go over what we struggle with, meet during office hours, and models exams off of older examples so it’s easy to know what to expect.
Archana Khurana STAT100 Anonymous 12/15/2022	She has a thick accent and I initially had trouble understanding her, but after the first week it got easier. Overall, her class is organized in a way that the practice exams are very similar to the actual exams, so you don't have any surprises on the actual test. She does a really great job simplifying complicated problems and making them easy to understand. Overall, I would recommend her class .
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/14/2022	With MATH120, Professor Khurana is the best you're going to get. She is a very patient and caring teacher despite having so many students and multiple sections under TAs. If you can take her, do it! She is always willing to help students and her teaching style is easy to follow.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2022	I am really bad at math, so I was nervous going into MATH120. However, Khurana is really good at explaining all of the concepts. Just make sure to show up to class in order to succeed. The review problems are always much harder than the actual tests, which I like a lot.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Anonymous 12/12/2022	She is the most caring teacher who will literally drop any bad grade if you ask her to and also offers extra credit options. It takes some time to get used to her accent but it is well worth it if that means having her as a teacher. She cares about her students so much and will cater to each and every one of their requests. She is also the fastest responder on email and will answer at any time (even in the middle of the night some times). Best math teacher!
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 12/07/2022	Amazing math teacher! She makes the content easy to digest and makes reviewing for exams easy. She will often provide review exams for students to practice on before each exam. She is also very understanding and willing to extend homework assignment if students need it. She welcomes questions in class. She genuinely cares deeply about her students and makes learning math easy. I heard students saying she made things difficult or wouldn't prepare us enough but I don't believe those students used the resources she gave us to study at home. To get a high grade in any class practice at home is needed! She is an amazing professor and gives us lots of resources to study from. Would highly recommend!
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/18/2022	I have only good things to day about this professor. She is one of the best mathematics professor I’ve ever had! I’m going to be upfront and say I suck at math, never been good at it, but professor Khurana made it very easy to understand. She is very caring and always happy to answer questions, her sample exams are usually harder than the actual exams so practice until you feel comfortable with it and you’ll do well on the actual exam!
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/13/2022	She is a lovely woman! She has a very thick accent so it can be kind of hard to understand her but its easy enough. In class, she mostly just writes problems and you copy stuff down which makes it hard to learn, but if you go to her office hours, she's always happy to answer any questions and help you. You have groupworks or a quiz in almost every discussion section but she drops the lowest one at the end of the semester. HW assignments are virtual on MyMathLab but you have 3 attempts on every question and the ability to see an example worked through. She also drops your lowest 3 homeworks at the end of the semester too. She was very lenient with deadlines for the homework so if you have an issue, just email her. Exams were straight forward, just make sure you do the exam review guides that she posts before them. TA's give partial credit for so many questions on exams so as long as you try and at least write something, you'll get some points for a question. 10/10 recommend her.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/10/2022	Best Math professor I have taken by far. She was considerate of us and dropped a bunch of assignments on the MathLab, extended due dates for the homework and the exams were similar to the practice she goes over in class. She also goes pretty fast in lectures but just let her know she is going too fast and she will take that into consideration. Please take her
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/03/2022	Hard to understand but shes very sweet and takes her students feedback into consideration! Def take her.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/28/2022	Mrs. Khurana was sometimes hard to understand. Also, she made a lot of mistakes while teaching which made it confusing and hard to understand sometimes.
Archana Khurana MATH120 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/14/2022	Fair teacher. Made the reviews about the same or harder than the test so you'll be prepared as long as you do them. Straightforward assignments. I always studied the night before and it worked out alright so if you have to take this class don't freak out. Make sure you understand all the material and if not Archana is always willing to help and is very good at responding to emails
Archana Khurana STAT401 Anonymous 12/17/2021	Probably the most fair stat professor I've had so far. (after taking STAT400 twice). Highly recommend
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/28/2020	Very nice professor that cares about her students. Lectures were recorded and she would give an ELMS quiz after learning new chapter content in class. We also had weekly ELMS worksheets. It seems like a lot of assignments at first but she would go over the questions in lecture. Exams had the same topics as practice exams, was open book, and gave us all day to complete it. Would answer emails regarding questions fairly quickly and would not hesitate to help.
Archana Khurana MATH240 Expecting an A- Anonymous 04/18/2020	I've struggled in other math classes up until this one, but she really takes the time needed to have everyone understand the topics and parts that build up to a new topic. Haven't needed to but I would feel very comfortable going to her if an issue came up as well
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A Anonymous 01/10/2020	Really cares about her students performing well. She will add extra credit and assignments to help students. Her lectures are easy to follow and follows the textbook well. Taking her again for STAT410.
Archana Khurana STAT410 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/24/2019	Very standard professor. She's very nice and considerate, but also isn't amazing. She lectured from notes and sometimes it felt like she wasn't as fluent in the theory as the applications.
Archana Khurana STAT401 Expecting an A- Anonymous 11/01/2018	She might be new but don't let that scare you off; Archana is a great instructor. Her explanations are easy to understand and she works though tons of examples in class. Exams were fair and you generally know what to expect on them. She also genuinely cares that people do well in her class. Don't be surprised if you go to office hours after an exam and she already remembers what mistakes you made. I did a double take the first time but honestly it's pretty refreshing in a huge school like UMD.
Archana Khurana MATH141 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/13/2017	Her test are fair and she holds more office hours/review sessions than you could ever dream of going to. She will do anything to make sure you succeed.