Reviews of professor Brandon Berman

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Did not show to second half of lectures. Very studyable material. Homework prepares you for exams. Exams are hard. Office hours accessible though very packed.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The midterm is hard and detached from homework(also he posts solutions very late). I have to spend lots of time learning on my own. Office hours can be helpful. He is not totally unreasonable but I'll suggest you avoid him. I wish he has good curves or he doesn't deserve my 2.0 rate.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He gives hard exams, which would be fine if only he didn't suck at teaching so much. It seems like he intentionally explains Statistics in the most unintuitive and confusing way possible. I recommend if you take this class with him just read Penn State's online Regression and Anova Course which explains things much better than he does.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
No sample for both midterm and final. and Homework has nothing to do with the exam. He is PhD in UCI and will graduate soon. It is first time and last time teach 110. His lecture is boring and hard to learn the important idea. He is also very slow on release the solution of homework, we got the solutions of last 2 hw at the night before Final.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Open notes exam. Weekly homework.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
One day I missed something written on board because he erased it. I asked him after class and he said "If you miss it, then you miss it, this is why you come to class" although I was in his class that day. Going to his classes is wasting time because he is bad at explaining stuff. TAs are way better than him, and I really enjoy discussions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is really bad. He didn't give the students study resources. He did not give any practice exams, and the homework solutions are often late to be available. It's his first time teaching, but these things are not tolerable. The only positive thing is that he is good at explaining the material in his office hours.