Reviews of professor Reidar Hagtvedt

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took this class last semester. I pray for those taking it now. I passed and am grateful. I never did the homework assignments and just did the midterm, excel exam, and final. Youtube was all I used (mostly zedstatistics). I went to lectures, but he spends more time answering questions from other students than actually teaching. This is death.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Going into the final, I had a decent mark, and then wah wah wah. The lectures were monotonous post midterm (during the multiple regression where excel was the main focus). Textbook your friend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
WORST PROFESSOR EVER. He doesn't explain the material well and going to his lectures was a complete waste of my time. I did not learn anything from him and he just mumbles during his lectures. It was not worth the money especially with the mistakes on the midterm and having a 51 multiple choice final with options A-J was ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Overall not a terrible experience. Rei was a very nice guy and did do his best to try and teach the material, however our lectures were bombarded with student questions that didn't need to be asked (or do it in office hours) and he did spend too much time going very into depth about questions. Tests were hard but curve made it fine.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
my first year at U of A and this is how I get welcomed I thought it was a fair uni but god damn this man made me want to drop out.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
To be honest, Reidar made this course way harder than it needed to be. He is a nice guy, but when it comes to teaching, he can complicate things more than they need to be. However, I do have to admit he was generous with the grading.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Useless notes and lectures. Read and skim the textbook instead. The Organic Chemistry Tutor on YouTube also explains concepts much better than this Professor. You better do well in this class because everyone will be able to see your full name and corresponding final exam score (which had an average of 40%) in the Excel file that he releases.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Contrast to the reviews below me. I did well on my prereq stats class and attended almost every lecture, missing maybe 2 or 3. Absolutely garbage prof. Midterm to "prevent guessing" just make it a written test then? Guess he never used his brain when thinking about that one. Don't take this class with him, you will regret it. Extremely unfair.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you are enrolled in a class with his prof, turn around right now and never look back. reidar is an incompetent prof who was clearly bullied in high school and is in his revenge arch. if you value yourself or your grades, don't even consider being in this class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
MUST buy his textbook or you lose points of assignments. Lectures are useless, exams are difficult.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
lol funny guy he is