Reviews of professor Nosayba El-Sayed

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor, great course. Her slides are the most helpful and organized slides. Not hard if you study the slides.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Easily one of the best professors I had at Emory. She is passionate about her course, friendly, approachable, caring, very clear in the lectures and very helpful, genuinely wants to see students succeed. Great response time for emails and Piazza questions, but I wish she had more office hours.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Too hard, you need to work very well to get a good grade. Even if she appears nice, her homework and quizzes and exams are one of the worst things I have ever had in Emory. Too difficult and make too many announcements that confuse students. Making an easy subject into a most difficult to comprehend one.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not personally my favorite professor. The PPT is somewhat detailed but not very helpful in understanding concepts. There aren't a lot of coding practices, the tests have a lot of multiple choice questions, and the homework assignments could be harder than taught in class. Wouldn't say El-Sayed is a bad professor, but her style simply doesn't fit me

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor El-Sayed is an amazing professor! Her lectures are engaging, even funny at times, and she makes it easy to pick up new information. Although her slides are long, most of it is drawing out step-by-step algorithms, which once you understand, does not take long to review. The weekly quizzes, 5 assignments, and exams are straightforward.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. El-sayed is a fine professor. She has good lectures and obviously cares about her students. Her tests are hard in the sense that they cover everything. She does not give curves on any of the tests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Didn't get the best grade but was honestly 100% my fault. She's a very good lecturer and quite personable. Should be comon sense, but I didn't, so I'll say that paying attention in class is important.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. El-Sayed gives a lot of work throughout the semester, and the class becomes quite difficult during the middle month or so. Definitely go to her office hours as she's very helpful. The material is interesting and practical.