Reviews of professor Sayar Karmakar

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures skipped explanatory steps, I never really understood the concepts he talked about, and when I mailed him asking for extra resources/help he didn't even bothered to answer my mail. Additionally the book he uses is at a graduate level, which was not very helpful for undergraduate students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Karmakar knows the material well. He just isn't very good at communicating that knowledge to students who don't share his knowledge. He is a terrible lecturer and, as usual, it becomes another self-taught class that the UF Stats department is famous for. We have too many professors that are more interested in research than teaching.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Karmarker is a great person, he tries to make sure that 50% of his class will make at least an A- or better. Lectures may not always make sense (he often overexplains simple things while skims over the hard parts), whether or not you actually learn something is up to you.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Karmakar has reasonable grading policies: you get an exam drop, 3 quiz drops, and one sheet of notes to exams. However, I felt like he didn't explain the material well and didn't provide nearly enough practice problems. I mostly learned by reading out of the textbook and then reviewing his lecture notes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Karmakar is very nice and tries his best to explain concepts in the best way. He was the only professor who was very understanding of COVID and was more lenient because of it. The exams were similar to the sample exam and the homework's so studying those is helpful.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
As someone who isn't a math or stat major, I had a really hard time following his lectures. His lectures display the steps to do certain statistics test but don't really explain how he got from point A to point B. It's all manageable but definitely not my favorite class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Karmakar was a very generous grader. His notes for each lecture were also thorough and helped me to understand the topics. His lecturing was mostly reading out the notes, so not strictly necessary, so many students felt comfortable skipping class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His lectures are not helpful at all. Because this is an online class, he just reads through the pre-prepared lecture notes. As a student, I find it much more helpful and efficient to just read through his lecture notes by myself. No point to show up in class. Exams are very similar to practice exams. He also curved exam averages to A-.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's a super nice guy. The lectures are pretty bad - notes have a ton of typos, he skips explaining important steps, and has no examples. Exams and quizzes can be rough because he never does examples in class so the only examples you have are from the practice exam.