Professor
Maria Cha
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2019 - Relatively easy class, but the instruction was unfortunately unclear and section did little to improved my comfort with the material. Cha is super nice and means well but I needed a couple hours with Khan Academy to feel like I understood what was actually happening in the class. Textbook is optional, but it might have helped because I didn't get it and felt behind for much of the class. Minimal week-to-week work, but I highly encourage doing practice problems on the regular.
Spring 2019 - Relatively easy class, but the instruction was unfortunately unclear and section did little to improved my comfort with the material. Cha is super nice and means well but I needed a couple hours with Khan Academy to feel like I understood what was actually happening in the class. Textbook is optional, but it might have helped because I didn't get it and felt behind for much of the class. Minimal week-to-week work, but I highly encourage doing practice problems on the regular.
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2017 - First off you can easily get an A in the class if you go over all her lecture slides and listen to her midterm/final review. Professor Cha is my favorite professor in the Stats department, due to the fact that her slides are extremely organized and she puts a lot of effort in giving you the material you need to succeed in the class whether it is r code examples, slides, and textbook resources. I messed up on two of the homework assignments due to my own mistakes, yet the homework assignments tended to be fair. She is also extremely approachable, and although the group project was a decent amount of work she grades it fairly leniently. Overall, I recommend Maria Cha over any professor for 101a, 101b, and hopefully one day she'll teach 101c.
Fall 2017 - First off you can easily get an A in the class if you go over all her lecture slides and listen to her midterm/final review. Professor Cha is my favorite professor in the Stats department, due to the fact that her slides are extremely organized and she puts a lot of effort in giving you the material you need to succeed in the class whether it is r code examples, slides, and textbook resources. I messed up on two of the homework assignments due to my own mistakes, yet the homework assignments tended to be fair. She is also extremely approachable, and although the group project was a decent amount of work she grades it fairly leniently. Overall, I recommend Maria Cha over any professor for 101a, 101b, and hopefully one day she'll teach 101c.