Reviews of professor Raluca Stan

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Cannot sit through her lectures, so boring and hard to understand with thick accent.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Honestly I don't give many bad reviews, but every lecture she gives is the exact same. Sounds the exact same, looks the exact same, and in every lecture she rambles. Yes she's knowledgeable, but doesn't really get the points across well.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Raluca is a new professor and it shows. Her powerpoints have about half the necessary information, and she rambles on about the other half of the material, but is not great about getting the message through clearly. She also makes some assumptions about things we know, which have been incorrect a number of times. Her textbook is not of great help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The language barrier isn't bad. Show up to class and do the practice examples. The practice exam helps on midterms. Join zoom meetings if you struggle on the problems. She is willing to help if you ask for it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Raluca is honestly one of the worst professors I've had at UMD. She is knowledgable however she does a very poor job explaining the material in a way that is easy to understand. I didn't learn much from her class but her exams are relatively easy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Language barrier is very apparent with her, she tries hard and you can tell she cares but she struggles to communicate with english being her second language. Very difficult to grasp concepts from lectures, book was more helpful than anything.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Raluca is a decent professor. However, her lectures are extremely fast paced and confusing. I consider myself good with math and formulas but some of the material she taught went in one ear and out the other. She can also be pretty intimidating to speak up and ask a question. She's not mean, she can just be kind of cold.