Many comments here give Ravat a low grade, but I do think she is a good professor. Her lectures are easy to understand. As long as you fully understand the course materials and assignments posed on canvas, you'll find that the mid-term and the final are not that hard to do.
Ravat set up this course in a good way, hit on the application of a lot of Comp. Stats topics, and brushed over the proofs as well, but the application is what was tested. Pace of the course was relaxed, and the projects were interesting. It was hard to ask her questions about the material though; and course structure wasn't clear. TA was clutch.
My favorite class in UCSB! Dr. Ravat designed a great course on Monte Carlo Methods & Social Network Analysis. Great class to have a few hands on projects and connect with other classmates. She even planned out a career panel and brought in data scientists who worked in NASA, Amazon, and JPMorgan. Take it if ever offer again! Easy & Fair Grading!
Low quality lecture, don't expect to understand anything in class but take ton of your time ahead exams to understand yourself. Low quality office hour, not even good as ULA or TA. Uncleared grading and fake promise in extra credit. One of the WORST professor I ever had. Stop complaining like a baby in class about the rating you get from students
Disappointed. She acted like a caring professor offering lots of extra credit assignments which was heavy, but they are totally fake that does not helped with your final score. Not telling you how much extra credit will be added. Said will add more credit to midterm but nothing is real. Will never take any course with her and she disgusted me.
Took pstat10 and 120b with her and I would say her classes are easy if you do the work. HW and quizzes are good practices for exams. final was almost the same as the study guide and a cheat sheet was allowed. Personally think midterm was harder due to shorter test time
Professor cared about the class but had a lot of fake promises that she did not deliver. Told everyone to do extra credit which would help our final grade (it did not). The final was similar to the homework and practice final she provided so that was nice, but to later found out I got a 68% even though we got a cheat sheet.
Allows notes on exams. No practice midterm, no partial credit. Final had practice with solutions, I put them on my notes. Final had EXACT SAME problems, I copied all solutions and explanations. Got a 70%, couldn't view on gradescope. All extra credit is fake. Promised to add points to everyone's midterm, didn't do this. Treats us like dogs.
I am not a fan of how she has a heavy emphasis on proofs during lecture. That being said, she is a very caring teacher and genuinely wants her students to succeed. I don't think she's necessarily a difficult professor, I just think that the material in 120B is just intrinsically difficult. Very hard class, but I wouldn't shy away from Ravat.
Lectures are posted w/blanks before, filled during, posted wk after. Exams emulate the homework, very fair with credit and grading. Hw graded by completion (not correctness). Mom energy, has little attitude at times but overall wants students to succeed. Has good timesheet for OH. Liked her style alot, has improved since all the bad ratings.
she literally makes the class harder for students with her confusing teaching style and barely provides resources
Lectures are just copy pasted theorems from the textbook. She basically spend the entire hour filling in empty spots with formulas without giving you time to think nor provide any useful explanation.
Worst Prof I've ever had. Need to remind folks to never take anything with her.
Honestly, using the textbook to learn is better than her sides. I'd recommend using the slides as review material instead. The lectures were sometimes nice, sometimes not. However, the weekly quizzes made sure concepts stuck in your head.
I took her 120B this quarter and I really like her teaching style. There is a lot of interaction in class, and questions are answered patiently to make sure everyone understands. Exams and assignments are not difficult. Go to her lecture and study, then you will get good grades.
Don't be scared by her negative comments from Reddit. Dr. Ravat is a caring and respectful professor - I can see her effort to help students learn the material. Her homework encourages me to review every week and not to binge study before the exam. That's really helpful. Her exam is of reasonable difficulty; if you did learn you'll be fine.
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.
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.
Just do self-study. Don't go to lectures because lectures are of no help! She just reads ppts and rarely explains her contents. Quizzes and exams will include sth. you didn't cover in lectures. Weak connection between lectures and practical work. You'd better be quite experienced in coding to dare to take her courses as letter-graded.
This professor will assign homework that hasn't been addressed in lecture and will never be addressed in lecture, and incorporates random details from lectures that are not related to course material in quiz questions. She is not a good lecturer, so just be prepared to do almost all your learning outside of class.
This was my 2nd class with Dr. Ravat, and it was a much better experience than 120A. She is unorganized and releases too many directions for homework/projects etc. However, she cares about students' success and wants them to leave her 194CS class with the skills to do well in real-life jobs. I would recommend 194CS with her, but not 120A.
Yes, this course is hard, boring, and contains many contents, but Ravat is not as bad as many others say. She is willing to listen to the feedback from students and make changes. The OHs held by TAs and ULA were very helpful. The grade is heavily dependent on the quizzes/ exams.
TBH Ravat's class wasn't too hard, just boring. Her lecture style is comparable to Porter's but her homework/exams are complicated and I only got through it with help from the absolute GOAT of a ULA Patrick Yu. Huge difficulty spike around week 6 when she introduces double integrals, so before week 6 take time to master the basics of her class.
