Reviews of professor Niushan Gao

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
As others have said, his lectures were mandatory, as he stopped providing the textbook halfway through the semester. He makes a good effort to explain topics with illustrations and will answer any questions during the lecture. Overall, this course was difficult, but Gao was very generous with the marking scheme. He made it relatively easy to pass.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Gao is one of the best at Ryerson. He is always ready to help, truly trying to help students to succeed. Excellent at explaining the statistics concepts in a plausible and accessible way. You'll also learn the extras at how to avoid common mistakes in industrial applications of statistics. Definitely recommend him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I really liked his teaching. He would derive things and show illustrations. When reviewing parallel vs perpendicular lines he would show a diagram showing the relationship between the angles and the axis, to show why their slopes are reciprocals. His tests are very fair, 80% simple, 20% more involved, and an impossible bonus. Class Average was 70%.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He posts notes and follows the textbook. His grading criteria is very fair, one mistake on a question doesn't compound into multiple marks lost if the questions are related. He asks you to memorize a couple of formulas, but gives you a formula sheet for the very long and annoying ones. Very straight forward course, no tricks on the midterm/final.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is for MTH380. This professor doesn't know how to teach or structure his course: his slides are confusing af to read (also lack detail), his lectures are dry and hard to listen to, & unlike other math professors he refuses to to use a tablet to answer example problems digitally and instead uses a tiny whiteboard. Take MTH380 in Chang school.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Light workload as there were no weekly homework and just 3 tests. The tests were quite reasonable, you need to attend his lectures as he will go through specific methods he wants you to use in the exam. The professor returned your marks really late for all the tests. Felt like the course was missing a list of practice questions for students.