Dr. Ravat has improved her syllabus and lecture material since a lot of the negative reviews on this page. Section is mandatory and great practice for the quizzes. If you go to all lecture, and attend all sections, and do all assignments, final shouldn't be an issue. Her and her TAs are a hassle to reach over email, so go to office hours.

Good professor in the sense she is very passionate and kind if you go to her office hours. Class was graded very fairly.

Bad lecture. Exams are not the same as review and revision.

Worst Prof I've ever had. Need to remind folks to never take anything with her.

Not sure what all the bad reviews are about, I really enjoyed her PSTAT 10 class this quarter and thought she was a pretty good prof.

Ravat seemed very fair when I took PSTAT 10 with her. Very passionate about the material and encouraging of students to pursue data science careers. Not sure why she has so many bad reviews tbh, I felt that the final was very fair and the class is not super exam heavy in terms of grades. She presented the material very clearly on slides as well.

Good teacher who made concepts seem pretty easy.

She took over the second half of PSTAT 10 this winter quarter. I can see that she tried her best to improve her lectures and PPT slides. Questions in the final exam were similar to those in quizzes and homework. As long as you put effort into it, an A is not difficult.

She took over for Wainwright halfway through the quarter. Her notes were not that good and sometimes made me more confused (I could have made better slides). If you self-studied a little bit the class was fine.

Honestly I did not like this class with Ravat, she took over halfway through the quarter and the contrast was obvious. I was doing well in the class all quarter and suddenly got a C on the final after feeling confident on the entire practice test.

She is not that bad, deserves a 3.

I had her for the second half of the quarter for PSTAT10. Her teaching style helped me learn a lot and her slides were clear to understand. The only negative was that the final dropped my grade quite a bit. It wasn't particularly difficult, but I think since there weren't many questions, missing even a few would result in a B.

I was way above A before the final, dropping to A- after it. Professor Ravat is making questions in the way as if she is not intended to check your understanding on the course materials but just to make your grade worse.

She is as beautiful as an angel. She is so kind that it looks like she is sent to us by god. She inspired my logical methodology and enlightened my passion for statistics. Wading through beautiful programming materials provided, I was like a curious child exploring a mysterious but fancy castle. She is the best professor that I have ever met!

This professor is decent. I had her for the second half of PSTAT 10, and thought it was pretty good. I think she put a lot of effort into improving her slides from previous quarters (refer to scores below), and her explanations were pretty good. Multiple choice tests and quizzes for coding are always a bit annoying, but they were okay overall.

I was 93% before the final exam, but after the final, I got 73% in total. Super weird final, please avoid her!!!

She knows what she's talking about, but we don't. Doesn't care about students success and is a brutally difficult grader. I would recommend Mouti instead.

She was inadequate at explaining ideas during lectures, and tried to control our collaboration on assignments when we were left confused afterwards. Her wording on quizzes/exams were tricky and I often didn't know what certain questions asked for. I knew I wasn't alone bc her class forum blew up w questions after a new topic was introduced.

I study pretty hard and am decent at coding before taking this class. But the setup of is ridiculous and you are graded on so few things, it feels like she doesn't want you to do well. It really shouldn't be this stressful. There were so many mistakes in hw and quizzes, and responses are so slow. Even announcements posted will have mistakes.

This professor does not care about her students at ALL. Some questions did not even show up on her lecture slides and you can't review past homework or quizzes for your midterm/final exam. Just don't take her class.

DO NOT TAKE HER COURSES!

The most difficult professor i ve ever had. she is always unclear about the arrangement of the class and the final is tomorrow we still havent got the assigned seat sheet. you never know the answer of homeworks and quizzes cuz the one she posted might also be wrong. AVOID pls.

Tommorow is final but: 1. Failed to mark all the worksheets, quizzes and worksheets before final 2.Still haven't confirm whether there will be short questions, or even WHEN THE FINAL TAKES PLACE, haven't post seats arrangement but insist doing so for midterm and final Worst professor I've ever met for 5 quarters in UCSB, course is easy but prof suc

She sucks. You literally can't email her or points will be taken off your assignments, she hates helping students. F this professor, f this class, f the TAs, literally just wait until someone else is teaching it. Not worth it.