Reviews of professor Rahul Pathak

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Pathuk is a great professor, take him especially if you struggle with math. (The midterm requires math, the rest of the class is theory and comprehension.)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Prof. Pathak is great and makes some really tough material understandable. The assignments are manageable, not too difficult, and let you apply real-life budget reading, budget making, and fiscal analysis skills in useful ways. Great professor to take if you're scared of the subject.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Highly recommend! 3 assignments (2 memos, 1 excel sheet); a midterm and no final (just a group presentation at the end). He makes the difficult material comprehensible but if you don't remember college algebra and etc. you may struggle in the beginning. But even when you struggle, he'll help you understand the issues. His accent ISN'T an issue too

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Pathak is accessible outside of class and has a clear teaching style. I wouldn't say the class is "easy", but if you ask him the right questions, spend time on the assignments, and study for the exam then you will do well. Throughout the semester, he introduced different careers in PAF that relate to what we study in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great professor with a very good sense of humor. Pay attention in class and you'll do well. Also, remember some basic math and algebra and you will do well. Some people were surprised that there was some math? Well, that's why you took math in high school.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor! Really makes the topics easy to understand. Fair grader and always available for questions.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Rahul is great. He manages to makes jokes during budgeting lectures which makes a boring topic kinda funny. He has a thick accent but you catch on after a while. 3 short solo projects and 1 group project. Open book midterm and no final. Textbook encouraged, but the powerpoint slides he posts on blackboard suffice. Got an A-.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Pathak is knowledgeable, flexible and fun. Lectures had little room for discussing politics behind budgeting concepts, which I prefer because I learned a lot through his exercises. He told us to expect things to get difficult around midterms and easier during finals, which he stuck by. He responds swiftly on BB, emails and grading! A+