Reviews of professor Ashraf Al Zaman

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Enthusiastic and friendly professor, but his teaching skills don't translate into good grades for many. We're learning mathematical stuff in this class, but no examples are done for understanding. When you're in a Math class, the professor does examples. Imagine sitting in a Math class without examples being done. This is that class. Avoid it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Zaman is a solid choice for a professor. A little bit dry but if you want to learn the material he does a great job. I would take him again based on the fact that I passed his class and understood the way he taught. Very lecture heavy, no hw or quizzes, but the exams are decently difficult.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class with this professor was an ABSOLUTE nightmare. Lectures are not taught well at all. Problems are shown in lecture, but the process of doing them is not. The person's Math analogy below is 100% accurate. Take another professor if they are available, or take the class at another university all together.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
There was no actual teaching done in this class because concepts are not explained. I am unsure what the hiring procedure is at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They should really look at the grade statistics between the various professors. Upon analyzing Ashraf Zaman grades compared to other professors there is a large grade variance.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I suggest that you 100% self-study for this course. Going to lecture is an absolute waste of time, since no actual teaching is done. Download the lecture online and then study it on your own with the book required for class. The reason I say not to go lecture is because the slides are read versus actual teaching.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Zaman should reconsider his profession, because he isnt teaching in class. He is a superb personality, but reading slides is not teaching. Save yourself an immense headache and take another professor or you will forever regret this choice.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid this professor at all costs. You will not learn in this class, because actual teaching is not done in lecture. This course is Math heavy and the professor fails to do the Math problems in class. He only reads the slides versus actually doing the expected problems we're supposed to know on the test. He gives Math problems, but doesn't teach.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The only grades for this class are the tests which are worded weirdly and very hard, even if you go to to lectures. He lets you use a cheat sheet and says the test questions come straight from the slides, but he re words them so they don't match with any slide concepts. He doesn't actually do problems in class, just reads over them.