100A is pretty doable. Basically you needed to understand and apply the concepts from the textbook (free, canvas) for the assessments. There is extra credit on quizzes/tests & also you could do the SONA experiment and get an extra 1%. Two mark schemes, so if you don't want to go to class and get the participation points as long as you do well on the exams/quizzes you'll be fine. Professor Montoya is super nice, she started to give more extra credit on the quizzes and made it so we could skip two questions and generally seems to really care about her students and their grades. I would totally take her if you're good at learning on your own from reading and practice problems. I personally find that listening to her lectures just makes me super confused about the material and I do much better when I just learn from Canvas and glance through the slides she uploads to see what to focus on.

This class is basically learning to code in R and learning a little bit of stats vocab and concepts. I took stats in high school, but that was like 5 years ago, so it didn't help much. Someone with know prior knowledge of stats should be fine! I've also had no background coding, and found R to be fine. There are homework assignments online due each week, and besides the first assignment (the first 4 chapters of the book which took like 10+ hours), they usually only took about 2-3 hours which I could finish in 1-2 days, The homework is also graded on completion NOT correctness! There are 4 quizzes, one midterm, and the final. The lowest of the 4 quizzes is dropped, but the quizzes aren't too bad, you take them in the discussion section. The lowest grade I got on them was a 95, and I only went over the homework as my studying for like an hour and made my cheat sheet the night before each quiz (yes you get a one page cheat sheet for every quiz/test. Amanda is very clear and helpful and really wants her students to succeed! Some people were really demanding and rude it felt like, but she took it like a champ and kept calm. She offered a lot of extra credit and changed the ways quizzes were to accommodate concerns of students. There's also easy participation and poll everywhere points, just show up to class. Overall, if you can put the 3-4 hours a work a week for the homework+studying for quiz, this class is an easy A with Montoya! (Bonus: you don't have to buy anything for the class since she uses a free online textbook in Canvas and poll everywhere instead of iClickers)

Even though I got a good grade in this class, I wouldn't recommend taking it with her unless you had to. The homework was a lot each week, and most of the time didn't really relate to what she was lecturing in. In addition, the quizzes were worded really bad. During the weeks that we had quizzes, she'd cover material that wasn't going to be on it the day before, which sucked because I never wanted to listen since it would only confuse me, and thus would put me behind. I did okay on the quizzes but studied a lot for the final and ended up doing really well on it, which is why I got an A in the class. If you go to her office hours she can be helpful, but her explanations of things is always a lot more complicated than it needs to be. This being said, this was only her second quarter teaching this class, and I'm sure she'll get a lot better as time goes on!

100A is pretty doable. Basically you needed to understand and apply the concepts from the textbook (free, canvas) for the assessments. There is extra credit on quizzes/tests & also you could do the SONA experiment and get an extra 1%. Two mark schemes, so if you don't want to go to class and get the participation points as long as you do well on the exams/quizzes you'll be fine. Professor Montoya is super nice, she started to give more extra credit on the quizzes and made it so we could skip two questions and generally seems to really care about her students and their grades. I would totally take her if you're good at learning on your own from reading and practice problems. I personally find that listening to her lectures just makes me super confused about the material and I do much better when I just learn from Canvas and glance through the slides she uploads to see what to focus on.

Professor Montoya is not a bad professor, she shows she cares and accommodates with the student's needs. Her classes were very boring and the fact that it was an 8 a.m. did not help it. The workload of this class is crazy, for the amount of time you put for the material in this class, it would easily get you 7-8 hours to finish the homework with understanding the subject. The homework is not graded for correctness, but if you want to learn the material I recommend do the homework right to understand the material. Her grading scale is really good and it does the maximum to not hurt the student. The midterm was very hard and I failed it, but I ended up with a B in the class because of the quizzes, homework, attendance, and Final grades. But you have to study really hard and a lot for the final and the midterm in order to receive an A in the class.

I took this class in fall quarter 2019 with Professor Montoya. Besides the fact that it was dreadful to wake up and get to campus for an 8am 2 times a week, it was a pretty good class. She uses poll-everywhere in lectures for participation so you don't have to purchase an iClicker or reef subscription. The textbook for this class is also provided for free on Canvas. She starts off the quarter with a pretty heavy workload, for week 1, we had to work through the homework for Chapters 1-4 which is due by the Monday of week 2 and the schedule goes on but the load does get lighter, maybe about 1-2 chapters for the rest of the quarter. She has 4 quizzes throughout the quarter, one midterm and one final. The wording was a little tricky but nothing you couldn't get used to. She does open up all past quizzes towards the end of the quarter and if you do those and just get used to her wording or question style, everything is pretty bearable.

She was also very accommodating to the class as a lot of people were complaining that her quizzes were too hard, in the end she included 2 skips that we could use if we didn't want to answer that question. The class was also a little hostile towards the 2 poor TA's during lab section when they've tried explaining countless times.

Overall tips would be to work ahead of the homework, redo the practice quizzes for each chapter and then take down things that you get wrong and turn that into your cheatsheet which you are allowed for your quiz. Get well versed with R too, the tests aren't too R heavy but it comes in handy when she asks for the input for extra credit questions!!