Professor
Neha Kumar
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Most Helpful Review
Fall 2021 - Usually Bruinwalk reviews are filled with biased experiences and opinions but I will try to be as fair and coherent as possible. Mrs. Kumar is simply an incompetent professor. I'm not sure whether it's because of the online format but she is incredibly lazy with her lecture content and provides minimal help. Her class is so unorganized that she would often repost the same lectures on multiple weeks and provide little content (about 30min of lectures for a whole week). She simply rereads the slides in her lectures (I can do that myself) and her examples are irrelevant to her quiz/test questions There were multiple instances this quarter where she did not post the quizzes at the assigned time, making us wake up early for literally no reason. She barely held live lectures and when she did schedule live lectures they were often canceled. This class did not even feel real this quarter as I self-taught the majority of the material and my own professor provided zero assistance for TEN WEEKS. She would also fail to post homework questions and lectures for certain weeks which made the ENTIRE class fall behind. She takes an extensive amount of time to grade the quizzes when she literally doesn't have anything else to grade. There was a situation this quarter where she literally ghosted the whole class for four straight days. I'm sure taking Kumar during in-person instruction will be different from my experience, but I fully believe that her laziness and lack of interest in students will also transition to in-person classes. Avoid Kumar like the plague if you can and never look back Taking this class genuinely made me miss my community college professors because the difference in passion is so blatant
Fall 2021 - Usually Bruinwalk reviews are filled with biased experiences and opinions but I will try to be as fair and coherent as possible. Mrs. Kumar is simply an incompetent professor. I'm not sure whether it's because of the online format but she is incredibly lazy with her lecture content and provides minimal help. Her class is so unorganized that she would often repost the same lectures on multiple weeks and provide little content (about 30min of lectures for a whole week). She simply rereads the slides in her lectures (I can do that myself) and her examples are irrelevant to her quiz/test questions There were multiple instances this quarter where she did not post the quizzes at the assigned time, making us wake up early for literally no reason. She barely held live lectures and when she did schedule live lectures they were often canceled. This class did not even feel real this quarter as I self-taught the majority of the material and my own professor provided zero assistance for TEN WEEKS. She would also fail to post homework questions and lectures for certain weeks which made the ENTIRE class fall behind. She takes an extensive amount of time to grade the quizzes when she literally doesn't have anything else to grade. There was a situation this quarter where she literally ghosted the whole class for four straight days. I'm sure taking Kumar during in-person instruction will be different from my experience, but I fully believe that her laziness and lack of interest in students will also transition to in-person classes. Avoid Kumar like the plague if you can and never look back Taking this class genuinely made me miss my community college professors because the difference in passion is so blatant
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Spring 2020 - Professor Kumar had a lot going on this quarter including quarantine and family issues which caused her to miss 5-6 lectures. The lectures which she was on Zoom for required participation which was 30% of the grade (Case study 10%, MT 25% Final 35%). Whats worse is that she grades participation so arbitrarily because other students I know and myself received a 90 for participation even after we completed all required activities and spoke in class. The midterm and final were take-home and she gave us permission to use the online textbook. It blows my mind how not everyone gets an 100 on these tests but the averages were like 88 for the mt and 91 for the final. Back to Kumar, her lectures are very engaging and she is always happy to be teaching but shes a little disorganized. She doesn't always post slides on time or can't figure out zoom etc. The good news was this class is an easy A but the bad news is I didn't learn much.
Spring 2020 - Professor Kumar had a lot going on this quarter including quarantine and family issues which caused her to miss 5-6 lectures. The lectures which she was on Zoom for required participation which was 30% of the grade (Case study 10%, MT 25% Final 35%). Whats worse is that she grades participation so arbitrarily because other students I know and myself received a 90 for participation even after we completed all required activities and spoke in class. The midterm and final were take-home and she gave us permission to use the online textbook. It blows my mind how not everyone gets an 100 on these tests but the averages were like 88 for the mt and 91 for the final. Back to Kumar, her lectures are very engaging and she is always happy to be teaching but shes a little disorganized. She doesn't always post slides on time or can't figure out zoom etc. The good news was this class is an easy A but the bad news is I didn't learn much.
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