Reviews of professor Farah Vandrevala

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The structure for this class is fantastic. If you need help you can easily get it in office hours or recitation. Everything covered in lecture is all reinforced in journal assignments and these things called long assignments. This was my first time working with circuits and I'm glad I learned about them with this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is an ideal professor. Understands when we feel overwhelmed and provides many opportunities to seek help. Professor Vandrevala loves to joke and gives heads up for upcoming assignments so no one is surprised. No tests, rather long assignments that you can do in a matter of two weeks. Honestly, if you make the effort, she is great.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
In the future I can see her becoming a 2/5 teacher but for now: Her lectures should be baseline for all teachers. Some assignments can be rough but there are multiple opportunities to seek help for these. Approachable, but as mentioned above I can see her becoming more bitter down the road. However future students may invalidate this prediction.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
No exam, good lecturing. One of the best prof in UB ive met.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Probably one of the worst professors I have ever had in my life. Homework questions never matches questions from the notes, super long assignments due on Saturdays, so that means no Friday nights. Also, she assigned to long homework assignments due on the weekend before final exams. So instead of studying, I was doing work for her class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The way grading criteria was set up benefits people who were bad test taker. Her class is mostly graded on synchronous attendance, and homework assignments/projects. There is a lot of effort you have to put on homework assignments as they get harder and time-consuming. She got rid of the exam component for this course bc of people cheating.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Farah does an amazing job teaching EE383, she demonstrates a clear passion for the material and is truly inspirational. For the hw she recommends us to use markdown and python, but after hours of struggling, you realize its so much easier to do by hand calculations and graphing. That part she made tedious. Altogether she is excellent for the course

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Absolute waste of time, she made a lot of mistakes. Even in final exam. She taught nothing. And she never read your report with care. Worst class I've ever take

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I've taken 3 of Farah's classes and thought she was great up until this year. The lab procedures are pretty hard to understand and take way longer than the time given. She asks for data and plots that aren't part of the lab but you are supposed to make appear out of thin air or you fail. Would never have expected her to take such a bad turn.