Reviews of professor Jody Ryker

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are too many specifics to do good. it's not like regular grading based on assignment scores there are grade tracks. A lot of the assignments will be related to future ones so if you miss a couple, you have to do others to make them up. final exam format was weird. A lot of application too. She takes time to reply to emails.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Generally she won't respond to your emails. All learning is based on practicing without the right answers. You won't know if you're doing the questions right or wrong.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took this course as a summer class, which felt like the longest 5 weeks of my life. Very boring and long lectures that don't teach you and have nothing to do with the homework. The professor is awful at communicating and takes forever to answer emails. Homework instructions were not clear and little feedback was provided.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Beware of the sheer quantity of writing, it will take several hours to answer each week's homework. They are a pure math major and will use a lot of that vocabulary. If you are willing to put in the time, Ryker is very reasonable. I got a lot wrong, but they will be graded based on effort and good reasoning. Also, you may need external resources.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Horrible professor, her lectures are very long, boring, and senseless. A very tough grader, who marks incomplete for any mistake, asks you to redo the whole exercise again and does change anything even if it's done correctly. Doesn't communicate back when you ask her questions. Would never take her class again. The worst professor I have ever had.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The only pro to this class is that it is labor based so you can squeeze a passing without stressing on being correct. This class is built on a tedious system of assignments with a warped understanding of how difficult homework(that you will NOT understand) can help with learning. This class does not encourage learning but rather the struggle of it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was probably one of the most difficult classes that I've taken, but it was also the most rewarding and in-depth. Problem sets/assignments are created in a way to push and test your theoretical knowledge and understanding. Makes lots of time outside of class for students (show up to office hours!). If you love math, take Ryker.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures can be 2+ hrs long (3/wk), hw takes forever and makes no sense (even my tutor was confused), takes forever to respond to emails, and just cannot teach. Sm work for a summer class, including a project, midterm, and final on top of hw and lectures. But, we basically chose our grade since hw is graded for completion, and late work is allowed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Seperated by two sets of Homework, A and C. During finals she can be unresponsive, and the homework difficult can be rough and time consuming