Reviews of professor Elena Goubankova

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took the class online for some flexibility in my schedule. Her deadlines mean basically nothing. You are graded on two exams, homework, and the final exam. She would often cut out in class on zoom and we'd learn nothing. Tests are asynchronous so it's not hard to pass the class, but only take her if you don't want to actually learn anything.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
We did the LEAST WORK out of all the calculus classes. She's confusing but you don't have to pay attention in class. She only gives 2 exams (a midterm and final) and 2 quizzes and She GIVES you the 5 questions that will be asked on the BOTH tests and quizzes. If you go to the peer review sessions right before a test you WILL get an A. So easy.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took her as an online class, she uses Microsoft Paint for her lectures and writes in a sloppy cursive that can be difficult to read. In terms of the content, I often found myself confused as to what was going on and often taught myself via the online homeworks. Felt very disconnected from her throughout the semester and found it difficult to learn.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her lectures can be confusing and while she doesnt care if ur not in class it is going to be a lot easier if you are. She knows what she is doing but she is not the best at teaching and it takes some time to get used to her teaching style.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Elena is a very knowledge physics professor but can sometimes be all over the place when teaching, she understands the topic but has a hard time communicating it. However If you go to class, do the homework, and practice test you will get an easy A.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She is easy-going and good for people who want to learn on their own. She arrives late on the zoom and she will disconnect randomly for 10-15 minutes due to bad connection. She teaches well and doesn't grade hard, but you will have to read the textbook to understand the topics. If you complete all of the homework, you will pass easily.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Shows up late, awful at teaching topics in a digestable way, which you'd think is kind of important

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Late all the time, is hard to understand through the accent, doesn't explain topics fully, unreliable, i've heard it put as "stealing a wage"

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is an incredibly kind professor who wants you to succeed but is not able to articulate the material in an understandable way. She doesn't use numbers for any of the problems done in class, it is all variables or greek symbols. It is incredibly difficult to translate this into the number version given in the graded homework. The midterm is 50%.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She subbed for UConn and by far it was probably the worst class ever taken. She is sweet but we never learned anything in class at all. You basically had to go if you wanted to do well on the online quizzes. Doing well was a miracle because it seemed she didn't really know what the material was at time. She was available for after class help tho.