Very nice professor and cares about her students. Lectures are decent, but a lot of the time she was covering proofs and other less important topics, so I did not know what I needed to know for the final until the week before. Office hours are really good though and she is really good at answering questions.
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.
Take Pandey if you can she's great
- Tests were very reasonable - Homework sometimes was on material that hadn't fully been covered in class, but otherwise was fine. - Lectures usually had straightforward definitions and explanations, but sometimes could've used more examples
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
It's challenging to follow along in the lecture because Pandey presents notes and proofs in a disorganized manner. The concepts discussed on the board are often excluded from what's on her slides, yet they will appear on one of her four exams per quarter, excluding the final. Additionally, her tests are intentionally worded to deceive students.
There were a lot of tests but they were knowledge checks of stuff on the slides. Her explanations of complex subjects broke them down in a way that was easy to follow. You can tell she actually cares about if she's making sense and if her students are truly learning the material or not. I wish every PSTAT professor was like her! She's awesome.
Dr. Pandey is a good lecturer and a fair grader. All the exam materials are covered in class as long as you read and understand them you will do well.
Lots of tests, but they are straight out of the lectures notes and very easy. As long as you do the practice exams and go through the slides you are almost guaranteed an A. Great lecturer and very helpful. Best stats prof ive taken so far.