Reviews of professor Paul Savariappan

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Savariappan is an excellent professor. I took him during the summer term, but he used his recorded lectures from the previous semester. Lectures were always clear, homework and quizzes were tedious but not difficult, and tests used questions from practice problems and were straightforward. If you spend time practicing, this is an easy course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Worse professor in statistics department. He doesn't know the material very well. His teaching style is very powerpoint based. ST430 is a very important class, but basically you cannot learn anything in his class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Genuinely cares about students... but that's it. Lectures were boring and bounce between poorly made PowerPoints and disjoint hand written notes. You walk in understanding a concept and walk out confused. Exams are basically reused prompts from examples/homework/quizzes. Not many assignments and weighted poorly so not much room for error.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr Paul was a good teacher. Good lectures and notes, but some material was in the lectures and doesn't end up on the notes. Book helps with understanding. Fair tests. Hw helps prepare u for the tests/quizzes effectively. Accent v intelligible. Can be a tad boring in lecture but u can only make stat so interesting. Similar material to AP stat in hs

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Extremely lecture heavy as the presentations themselves only have bullet points / diagrams and have very few examples worked out. Gave us plenty of practice worksheets, but none of the answers, making the extra practice worthless. Exam questions were worded extremely vaguely. Very little communication from the professor throughout the semester.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took as a 5 wk summer course online. 1 to 2 lectures/day, mon-fri, 1 hw/wk, 1 quiz/wk. Material was not too hard, but Dr. Paul did not explain material for test 2 cohesively (many specific conditions w/ different processes you have to map out yourself). Fair tests, no curve/extra credit. Raw score was a B+ (~88.6%), but final grade curved to A-.