Reviews of professor Sarath Chandar

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Chandar is among the most boring teachers I had. He sits at his desk, writing -transcribing from the manual that is- on his iPad. That's the extent of the teaching he gives.
The assignments are riddled with typos, inconsistencies and if you don't have the class forum open there is no way you can get a good grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I don't recommend at all. They were looking for subtracting every possible grade from students and getting a high grade almost is not possible. Although I had an ML background, taking 5+ Coursera courses, and spend more time comparing other courses, it's just the one below "A" grade beyond the courses in CS Deps in PolyMTL and McGill.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Worst course of my schooling (5 years of higher education).

The amphitheatres are only a rewriting of the notes already available. The TPs contain opposite instructions.  There is a forum where student posts have been totally ignored in the last 25% days of the session.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Incredible professor. His knowledge of Machine Learning and Stats is beyond impressive. He is attentive and extremely helpful during office hours. The only complaints I heard from others were regarding the pop quizzes in this class, and honestly, I think that if anything the pop quizzes motivated me to keep up which made studying for final easy

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is extremely disorganized. Attendance is mandatory because of surprise quizzes. We had 2 projects overlapping at the end of the semester. Avoid at all cost.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I dont know what to say. We had pop quizzes in class (for some reason, despite the lectures being pretty much useless and unnecessary for the assignments, TWO projects, or the final. Could easily just study off notes) totaled 10% of our final grade, even though there were only TWO. That is so stupid. Really frustrating class overall

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Undoubtedly the worst professor I've had ever. Pretty much reads a textbook word for word, but fumbles the explanations. Does not care for students, seems like he cannot be bothered with answering questions.

I had to take his course, but if you can avoid it, run.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lecture is disorganized and enforce a "strict" law on late policy which is not specified on syllabus.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take this course with this professor...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
CHECK CHECK CHECK. Nah seriously, he just does not know how to teach anything, just avoid the courses and read the book. During the classes, he just reads the textbook like a parrot and tries (I insist on the try) to make a few proofs

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very boring class, the teacher just copies some parts of the textbook without any further explanations. In the end, reading the textbook on your own might be more productive than attending class.  Also, worst final exam I have ever taken, the practice, open book exam that we were given as reference was easier than the closed book one.