Reviews of professor Vlad Tarko

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tarko is not a coherent lecturer and does not provide help for the exams. His explanations are confusing and his office hours have not been helpful. We ended up teaching the course to ourselves. We realize that he is VERY intelligent but he has very few "people skills." Do not recommend!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
During the course of the semester that I took Professor Tarko's class, he attended about 60% of the classes. Without reason, he canceled 3 straight weeks of classes during the middle of the semester. His tests were unnecessarily difficult and I had to teach myself in order to pass. He's a nice guy but an unprofessional and unhelpful professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof Tarko is a good professor, but you should be really careful if your multivariable calculus is bad, because he spends only 2 lectures on explaining it. He is not that accessible outside of the class, because he has office hours only once a week. if do your hw, you are gonna ace exam! And he uses R -Rstudio for his classes, so remember to study

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor did not teach about Microeconomics in an Intro to Microeconomics course, but rather rambled about his research of GDP to a class that didn't understand what he was talking about. Doesn't really answer emails and is very unhelpful when contacted outside of class. Spent more time trying to figure out what professor meant than studying.