Reviews of professor Yuan Gao

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He clearly knows his stuff but sometimes it's hard to understand his teaching. Tests are pretty tough. Go to discussion session and study and you'll be fine.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The worst and most boring teacher I've ever met. He sounds like he's talking to himself when he teaches. Impossible to learn from him. HW was fine but the tests were awful. Nobody was able to finish the first exam in time (which he got upset with us for). The average of the first exam was a 48. His lectures are pointless, but TA's discussion helps.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Not a very good Prof. Ignoring the fact that he does not seem to be a very good public speaker and has a strong accent, he does not know how to teach kids at all. He seems to be pretty smart, but expects you to understand things at the same level he does. He gets annoyed if you don't understand what he's teaching and he blames us for being confused

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His illegible hand writing, confusing accent, horrible public speaking skills, unwillingness to help students succeed, and tests/quizzes that do NOT correlate with what was taught in class single handedly make him one of (if not the worst) the worst professors I have ever had in my college career. Someone please teach Gao how to teach.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Imagine this: toughest class in the undergrad math division combined with one of the most challenging professors out there... thats what this class feels like. Tough to understand his style of teaching and doesnt really care for students when it comes to lecture - goes way too fast and goes over the class period making me late to my next class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Gao turns Real Analysis into a joke. Do not recommend unless you are comfortable with learning entirely out of Baby Rudin. I mean, if literally reading a textbook and doing its exercises and nothing else (okay, a bunch of easy quizzes and two fat tests) counts for credit, fine, but Gao does not do the subject justice at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Yuan Gao was easily one of the worst professors I have ever had. His accent is very hard to understand, and his handwriting is horrible, making following along in class very difficult. The tests he gives out do not correlate with what is discussed in class and what is on the homework. Going to the discussion was the only way I passed this course.