Maybe she worked for other people but I found her lectures very difficult to stay focused on and her materials outside of class were completely insufficient to help me if I missed something from the lecture

She's an amazing lecturer, but idk if I'm just a little slow or the tests were really hard. No cheat sheet for the exams, and you have to understand all the concepts and memorize long proofs. You likely won't fail as long as you show up to lectures and take the pop quizzes. They act as a buffer if you do badly on the exams. This class is doable.

She's a really nice and caring professor. The exams were kind of tough but the project wasn't too bad and it's worth a lot of your grade. The homework essentially covers stuff that we learned in the lecture. Attendance is key to making sure you're up to date with the content covered in the course.

The class is pretty straightforward, with two exams, a midterm, and a final project. As long as you go to lecture, the exams will be pretty easy. Everything she says in the lectures ends up being on the exams. She's a great lecturer and a kind professor.

Very good lecturer. Tells you whats is going to be on the test and what isn't. Tests are fair and graded easily. Take this class with Pandey if you can.

Extremely rare situation where she is a GREAT lecturer but really struggled to organize the class at around the midterm and beyond. There is often a grey area on what you can be tested on due to lectures not directly lining up with slides and the last two "practice exams" raised more questions than answers. She knows the content clearly and low HW.

Definitely not a bad lecturer, she really wants all of us to understand everything. However whenever she is talking about something it's always "it will be on the exam". Her practice exams are not that helpful cause it's just topics and nothing else. 3 exams for this class is too much and you are expected to memorize every single proof basically.

Quality of this class fell off around the midterm, very unfortunate because until then her lectures were strangely intuitive despite pressuring that everything will be on the exams. Beyond that it was very unorganized and was frustrating, because we're learning proofs in what's supposed to be primarily a coding class. Do take with caution.

too many tests

got cooked on a couple of the tests and still ended up with a B+. super nice, apparently the course is supposed to not be as proofs based but honestly she still made it great. the stats department at ucsb is absolutely terrible but she stands out as a great professor.

Shes a great professor and lecturer but the class is very proof heavy (you just have to memorize them not like formulate them). theres 2 class exams, one midterm, pop quizzes, 4 homeworks and a final project. grades pretty nicely and is very friendly. dense lectures and a lot of material though

Pandey is amazing at teaching proofs. She explains every proofs very clearly and intuitively, but this is not what this course is supposed to be about. I expect to learn more about analysis based on coding in this course, but clearly this is not what I experienced. I would recommend her to teach classes like 120 rather than 126.

Pandey is a young and engaging professor. She hold pop-quizzes, and has three midterms plus a final, but with decent studying and homework prep, they are very fair. She is super personable in office hours and clearly wants students to do well in the class and understand the material.

Very fair professor, while the content can be difficult her lecture slides are very detailed and she explains them very well. There are 2 "class exams", a midterm and a final so it can be a lot but she gives plenty of resources to help study for them. Difficult class but study well and take advantage of an amazing professor and you will be fine!

Puja Pandey is the goat. Explains fairly dense material in an intuitive way. 4 homeworks (30%, part writing/theoretical, part coding, lowest dropped), 6 pop quizzes (10%, lowest dropped), 2 in-class exams, 1 midterm, 1 final (all exams 20% each). Very fair study guide questions and exam difficulties, super nice in OH.

Nothing is wrong at all with Pandey as a professor. She has really nice lectures and is super super willing to help. But 126 as a class was very useless. We learned proofs the whole quarter and then randomly got a coding final proj at the end. To be honest I do not know how this class has helped me at all to become a data scientist.

We learned MINIMAL coding in R from Pandey, there were optional labs that the TA's ran. Our final project was in R but she waited until 4 days before to post clear instructions and then graded only on that. My friend who is more knowledgeable than me received a poorer grade because of this. I would not recommend, try to get another professor.

Professor Pandey is one of the best PSTAT professors on campus. She is amazing in office hours and really wants you to digest and learn the material. She is personable and responds to emails and seems to really care about her students. 3 class exams, 1 midterm, homework, pop quizzes, and a final project. But nothing was particularly horrible.

126 was supposed to be a coding class, but with Pandey it was a proofs class. Wouldn't respond to my emails either and would send out last minute help on the homework and project when she should've days before. Final was a coding project with extremely vague instructions and we didn't learn any actual coding all quarter.

Best professor in the PSTAT department, 4 exams and 1 final project. Very good in her lecture.

Best professor ever in the PSTAT department. Very caring. Lectures are mandatory because there will be online pop quizzes, but they are easy. 4 test + 1 final project. Sounds a lot, but the tests are easy if you follow her lectures. She explains every proof so well. Easy A and you will learn a lot! Again, best prof ever.

Remember to go the office hour, really helps a lot. Very kind professor, always willing to help students understand the knowledge points.

Good professor and really care students, but sometimes the proof and guides for homework is kind of vague but overall really good! recommend!

Professor is a very sweet and smart professor. She knows the concepts so well that can explain proofs in an understandable way. Her exam is fair that if you understand the lecture material well and do the practice exam, you will get a good grade. She is very caring during office hour which basically teach you by writing everything down step by step