Reviews of professor Alexandra Solovyeva

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures are dry and unhelpful; attendance dropped significantly throughout the semester because you can just review the slides by yourself. She makes basic concepts confusing in the way she explains them, but is more helpful during office hours. Problem sets can range from very easy to > 6 hours worth of material/proofs not covered in lectures.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her lectures are god-awful so if you're not good at paying attention during class if you can have your laptop out, just don't bother going. The tests aren't terrible, especially because the practice exams are really similar. The double-sided cheat sheet is a godsend. Don't expect to learn anything, though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Doesn't present information in a very engaging way. In fact, she mumbles as she writes on the board and rarely makes eye contact with anyone. Lectures became so predictably dry and unhelpful that many students stopped attending. My advice: Attend office hours and press her when she's unclear. Practice exams are useful when it comes to studying.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Solovyeva cares about her students, and she genuinely wants to help. The lectures were quite dull, but Stats is also super boring. Problem sets and exams were not difficult.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very uncomfortable speaking in front of class and rushes through all material very quickly. Attendance to lectures has dropped off severely since start of semester since It's pretty much impossible to understand what she is trying to convey. Learn everything for tests using practice exams (which reflect real exams quite well). No HW and easy tests

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class is only ok because it's pretty easy to teach yourself statistics. Solovyeva's lectures are worthless, and the problem sets can have extremely difficult proofs that don't at all reflect what will be on the exams. However, the exams are very easy and the practice exams do accurately reflect them. Would avoid, but doable if you're stuck.