Reviews of professor Gulcin Pekkurnaz

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly, she was a really good professor. I just feel she taught too much in-depth sometimes being an intro class. Graded by either 1/2 assignments, 2 midterms (highest used) and a final. Only negative is how many points everything is worth. Something small could be like 200+ points and can trash your grade. Overall, would recommend her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She is an amazing and inspirational professor. I would 100% recommend to anyone. She cares about the students and wants them to learn the most. Extremely nice, and love how she applies some of her interesting work in lectures. 2 Midterms lowest dropped, 2 assignments, and a cumulative final. I would recommend her over any Bild 1 professor for sure!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
she's really nice and if you go to lecture and do study, you'll eventually get good grade! really helpful and she has passion on studying. she's young professor. 3 hws and all exams are mostly from the hws.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Pekkurnaz is a caring and sweet professor. Her tests are based off of the TA's review slides and the homework questions. The TAs in this class are also really helpful. This class is easy to pass with little effort. Her accent is easy to get used to. Definitely recommend such a professor who shows concern towards her student's learning.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pekkurnaz is a really nice person but the class and her style of teaching are not helpful to learning at all because she lectures so quickly (75 slides in 35 minutes) and does not podcast. All of her exams are free response so I would recommend memorizing every slide from the lecture. I would say though, we only get 3 hw assignments which is nice

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Pekkurnaz does not do a great job at teaching. She expects students to have already understood the concepts before going to lectures. Her teaching style is basically reading off of the lecture notes, so you are better off saving time and not going to her lectures. Her exam questions ask for broad answers, yet she expects in-depth answers.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's one of those professors that are good at research but terrible at teaching. To compensate, the grading curve is very lax. Lectures are rough; she'll go into depth about her own research and then run out of time to cover the lecture content. Test questions sometimes test stuff that was absolutely not covered in lecture. Your TA carries you.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Pekkurnaz was a pretty good professor. While lectures weren't mandatory I'd definitely recommend listening to their podcasts since she gives hints for exam questions during them. If you do take this class definitely reach out to Nima's office hours, he's one of the best TA's I've had and he helped me a lot during this course.