Reviews of professor Katherine Shatskikh

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Provided solid explanations of all of the course topics and tests were basically just the homework. Stats is a difficult topic, and Professor Shatskikh doesn't shy away from formalisms that some people may find unneccessary, which may be why she's somewhat unpopular. Overall a rigorous but good professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took her for 5LS and it was her first time teaching the class. She was TERRIBLE. Nice lady but awful lecturer, also messed up both of our midterms ( 3 questions out of 12 had typos, printing complications cause some people to not get formula sheets). The average on our final was a 64% (she didn't curve the class and she wouldn't negotiate grades),

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her lectures were very procedural (she would just list off the algebraic operations needed to derive a formula and not provide any intuition). Her quiz questions were often not clearly written. They were rarely ambiguous, but she phrased things oddly and included irrelevant information to throw off students. Not how I like to be to be tested!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
awfully disorganized; unclear grading; worst professor

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her class is really boring and difficult to follow. The homework and midterm practice do not help a lot for the exams. The exams are much harder and she even does not give curve. Never take her class again.