Reviews of professor Alexander Persaud

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
An amazing, thoughtful, and engaging professor. It is clear he takes time to prepare lectures with both structured content and relevant examples. His problem sets and exams are a little too difficult at times, but they make you understand the material at a deeper level. A little too much algebra that takes away from the economic concepts. Funny too

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This man is brutal. Gives ridiculously long problem sets every week and expects everyone to be an excel expert without teaching it. Doesn't give any feedback and has super high expectations for exams. Does not do a good job explaining the material and often rushes through topics. He's super smart but should not be teaching intro b-stats

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Persaud is an EXCELLENT professor. This is the first semester he is teaching ECON 271, and he is very good at responding to students' needs. He is also quite funny and EXTREMELY knowledgeable. I really appreciate how he always asks if we have questions before moving on to a new topic. Problem sets and exams are hard, start early

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly, a really great guy who puts a lot of effort into making sure his students get the material. Problem sets are hard, but he gives opportunities for extra credit and holds office hours very often. Keeps his class very structured and does his best to keep the class engaged and aware of why concepts are relevant to the field

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The correlation between taking Dr. Persauds class and having your cheeks clapped have a correlation r value of 1.01.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
People rate his class to be hard simply because he can't teach. Students are bored in his class and are confused by the lack of structure. Just throws in random examples here and there and expects students to get it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a really nice guy and will meet with you always, but hardest class ever taken. Insanly long problem sets each week, it will take HOURS! This class is very HEAVY in Excel. Test were insane. I have never taken a test were I left everything blank before until then. Way to hard for Inro-BStats. Nice curve and I do like his teaching style.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Persaud took one of the hardest classes that I had been dreading since I had to withdraw from it the previous semester and made it one of my favorites. He is funny and so patient, and was able to thoroughly explain difficult concepts in simple terms without patronizing. If you are dreading micro theory, I couldn't recommend Persaud enough!