Reviews of professor Anna Tarakanova

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This was by far, the worst professor I've ever had. DO NOT take her class. We've all had professors that slacked off during COVID, but her teaching was utterly abhorrent. Lectures were just reading word for word from a pre made power point she found online. Absolutely no feedback on exams, which averaged in the 40s and 50s. VERY difficult to reach

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
To be honest she is a very nice woman. That being said, Every one of our exams including the final had at least 1 (final had 2) question we never really learned how to do or practiced doing. I literally did EVERY problem between exam 1 and 2 and was still caught off guard on exam 2. She grades kinda nice but it is really stressful and exams SUCK.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She seems like a nice person but answers questions poorly, gives difficult exams, is tough on partial credit (no curves either). She also blames confusion on the course being hard. The HW is purposefully different than lecture. We feel unsupported and lost without help. I put on a lot of effort and have a 3.9 GPA, but this just aint it.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Didn't really love this class. Feel as though not much has been learned. Very difficult material and lecture videos do not help very much. Prewritten PP slides that come from the textbook. Overall not a great learning experience.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
prof tarakanova really doesn't know how to teach. monotone lectures that are just her copying notes down and not explaining anything. one time she wrote 1/2+1/4  2/6 by adding the demoninators and numerators together respectively. goes to show she doesn't even make sense of things in her head before saying them

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
VERY minimal effort was put into this course. The first exam average was a 48% and she has yet to curve things. Very disappointed in her lack of communication and quality teaching. She just reads off slides and fails to provide sufficient example problems for rigorous material. I feel that I have learned nothing from this course 10/10 would not rec