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Siddharth Sharma
MATH246 Anonymous 08/27/2022 |
I took MATH246 with Sid during the 2022 Summer II class session. While he seems like a genuinely nice guy, he's not a great professor. At the beginning of the course, Sid did not give us a syllabus because he does not really believe in them, but now that the course is over, I think it is only because he struggles to follow one. We were supposed to have a few coding assignments throughout the five week period however, week after week, Sid stated that he was almost finished writing the project and it would be assigned soon. This went on until about halfway through week four, when he suddenly started assigning random homework questions in lecture, which we would have to email our submission to him. On the last day of the course, Sid loosely stated that these were meant to replace the coding assignment grade. We had five other assignments, consisting of two long homeworks, two midterms, and one final. Three of these five assignments were pushed back, sometimes more than once. These delays came both at student requests, and at Sid's decision regarding where we were in the course. While it was nice to know that he was very flexible in giving extra time for students that need it, I did not need any extra time and these delays forced me to take an extra day off work on top of the day I took off for the original test date. Sometimes this was after I had already submitted my availability to my boss for that week. Lastly, Sid did not grade anything all semester, and with it being a week after the course ended, I still do not know my final grade. This all being said, Sid bases his exams heavily on the homework assignments, so as long as you do those yourself, you should be fine. |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 02/01/2022 |
My G once gave us some tandoori naan after failing us. He was also talking about the new curry on the block, he recommended some gas chicken biryani. |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Anonymous 01/29/2022 |
While he is a good person, it doesn't make up for how bad he is a teacher. It's very hard to listen to what he's saying most of the time and his handwriting often look like scribbles. While stat100 is a basic level math class, he uses advanced symbols in his lectures without even explaining what they mean. On concepts that are supposed to be straightforward, he makes seem them more complicated than what they actually are. He also comes to class late frequently-even during exams, and is very very hard to contact. Avoid taking this teacher! |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Anonymous 01/10/2022 |
Nice guy, horrible teacher. Unless you've taken statistics before and are confident in your understanding of the content, you can probably get by. However, if you have had no exposure to statistics content do yourself a favor and take it another semester with a different teacher. He doesn't seem to understand how to HELP students that are struggling and instead opts to say "its really simple guys" and then moves onto the next topic. It was incredibly frustrating that he didn't seem to understand that his methodology for teaching the concepts made no sense to the students. He also overcomplicates simple topics to the point where you question what he's even talking about. How to find the mean in a dataset can be summed up in 1 minute, why did we need to discuss it for an entire class period? On the rare occasion he did do examples in the lecture, he just wrote out all the answers without explaining how to get said answer. He has a slight accent but I could still understand him (granted I was sitting right in front of him) and he does talk very quietly. I will say that he did give study guides for the midterm and final exam which were similar to the actual exam but even then, the course is taught so poorly that you will spend a majority of your time relearning topics on your own. |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Anonymous 12/17/2021 |
Worst teacher I've ever had. Might as well have not gone to any lectures or discussions and just showed up for the tests. I taught myself EVERYTHING. Assigned the work he forgot to teach a week before the final and also puts grades in weeks later. None of his assignments are his own and the discussion is a completely different curriculum from what you 'learn' in lecture. Don't depend on having taken AP Stats because you will be coding in this class. |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Anonymous 12/16/2021 |
Genuine guy, not the best teacher. Made stuff way more complicated than it needed to be. Practice exams were helpful though. |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Anonymous 12/14/2021 |
While the content of this class wasn't actually too difficult, this professor was unbelievably unorganized and almost impossible to get in touch with. He didn't put out the syllabus until several weeks into the semester. You have to buy an expensive code for this thing called Acrobatiq that literally doesn't teach you anything. You basically have to teach yourself the entire course. I would not recommend this teacher. |
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Siddharth Sharma
STAT100 Anonymous 12/09/2021 |
Worse Professor I had this semester. STAT100 itself isn't a hard class in terms of content, however, you have to self-teach yourself 95% of the time. It was very difficult to understand what he was saying half of the time. Simple concepts turn into a nightmare. Never replied to emails. Instructions were so vague on assignments. You only have 2 tests in the semester and they aren't too difficult. He DOES provide a study guide for each test which helps. But never again will I take a class with him... |