Professor Montoya is really good at accepting feedback, which is good because this class isn't great. The way that she explains things is mainly convoluted and she honestly makes things more confusing. This class is passable though, there's no final cause there's a group project instead which is helpful. You can imagine the pros and cons with that. There's a quiz every week which are okay and two are dropped. The class is not awful awful but I would think carefully.

I really liked the professor, she's very understanding, flexible, and overall nice! She is engaging in her lectures and tries her best to make statistics interesting and relevant. The class can be a bit time-consuming as you have to dedicate many hours weekly to completing the textbook homework.

Due to Covid, I think this class was made a lot more manageable than it usually is. Homework is based on completion, weekly quizzes are open note (there are no big tests), and the final is a group project. The class material is hard, but it is not difficult to pass the class!

TAKE ANYONE ELSE. SAVE YOURSELF AND YOUR GRADE!!! Professor Montoya was the worst professor I have ever had in my entire UCLA education! She was extremely disorganized, arrogant, ignorant, and completely rude. There is a reason her Fall 2019 grade dis isn't up and thats because 80% of the class did bad. She assigned 4 chapters of R coding before the first week which was extremely hard and look up so much like I spent like 30 hours in the first weekend trying to get it done. She does not go in detail at all during lecture about information from the book she has her own slides which don't correlate at all with the book. Its like your studying for 3 different classes to be honest. Her quizzes and exams don't correlate with lecture and textbook info so there is no way for you to study for them. She gives you an unreasonable about of time to code a question and answer it correctly during quizzes and exams about 20 questions for ~40 minutes which is not enough time at all. She also does not teach you how to code at you basically teach yourself which is extremely hard to do and the textbook is such a time waste and does't help you to code the amount of information we had to do for the quizzes, basically if you think you got the hang of the R coding in the textbook well you don't know it well enough for the quizzes or exams. She does not help during office hours you think she does but when you go back to look at the office hour notes and the notes you took in lecture they wont add up and thats because she doesn't know wtf shes talking about. For the final well she DIDN'T EVEN SHOW UP TO THE FINAL, we had another professor that also teaches 100A but he had NO IDEA what we were doing and could not help us and as for the TAs well THEY HAD NOT FUCKING CLUE WTF THEY WERE DOING!!! We had to basically teach the TAs what we were doing and they were still super vague. There was like 428 students in this class and everyone hated herI know about 30 students and complained about her to the dean of psychology because she was just that bad. LITERALLY TAKE ANYONE ELSE!!!! And for the students who took her in Fall 2019 and got a good grade and gave her a good review I'm sure they were high the whole time because this class gave me PTSD!

I have mixed opinions about this class and about the professor. On the one hand, the professor is very nice and friendly and is somewhat helpful but on the other hand, the quizzes and tests were very difficult and would contain tons of trick questions and things that she didn't even go over. This class heavily relies on R-coding even though other 100A classes do no R-coding. Also, the TA's were garbage when I took the class they had no idea what was going on and could never answer anyone's questions about the material I stopped going to the discussion section because it was so unhelpful.

I will say though that the way the grading scheme works in her class is very helpful for students because she makes the homework grade worth so much and drops your lowest quiz which is important because after about the 2nd or 3rd quiz the quizzes become more difficult. Now the midterm and final are just pure bullshit she amps the difficulty by like 10 for some reason so you will be sitting there wondering why the problems are so difficult even though you have studied and felt like you understood the material. It's like what you study is basic statistic problems but then she tests you on advanced statistic problems.

Overall I would say if math is your thing, you understand statistics, and you know some coding this will be an easy class for you, however, if you struggle with math, stats, and have no experience coding this may be a difficult class for you but is definitely passable due to the grading scheme.

Prof. Montoya is very clear and if not, she is always open to answer your questions after lectures or at the office hours. She is very friendly and hears you out. She is understanding and sometimes extends the deadline for homework if needed. (she did it twice in my class because the students asked her to)
The lectures are engaging and participation MATTERS. However, when it came to the exams, I never read the slides she went over in the lecture. I'd only master the textbook, which is online and you need to read it thoroughly for the homework anyway! If you read the textbook while doing the homework and review it a few days before each exam you'll be out of this class with an A/A+.
The homework is heavy. You need to read at least 1 chapter every week and do every single question embedded in the chapter. (you won't understand a single question if you don't read the chapter first).
There are quizzes every other week, but the lowest quiz will be dropped (5 quizzes in total). One midterm and a final.
Overall, the workload of this class is heavy, but if you actually read the book, do the homework and understand the material, you will be more than fine!
MY ADVICE: understand the first 4 chapters well, because that's the base you'll need for the rest of the course.

If you are taking this class, you should have taken stats 10 or 13 before, and if so, this class offers no new math. Having said that, it approaches the same material from the perspective of coding with R which can add a twist. I didnt do so hot on the quizes (B on all 4), however her midterm, homework and final made up for it. Her final literally had questions from the quizes. Also her poll everywhere kinda sucked, but i appreciate the sentiment of low cost materials. overall pretty chill if you are comfortable with stats 10 material.

Easy A if you're a good self-studier. After I found that lecture didn't really do much for me, I stopped going to class and only studied the textbook (Canvas material) and got good grades on both the quizzes and tests. Montoya's extremely kind and accommodating. If you nee help though, go to her directly and not the TAs, they're more unsure of what they're doing. Her grading scale is super fair as well. Participation doesn't count if you score high enough on the quizzes and tests and she offers extra credit. Just study the canvas material well, pay attention to the practice tests, and you'll be solid.

Please do not take 100A with this professor. You will struggle unnecessary and you will cry your eyes out. I took this in my first quarter as a transfer, and it was so horrible. She assigned HOURS of homework and her quizzes were meant to trick (although she said otherwise). Psych 100A is not supposed to be difficult but she made it very difficult. The other professors for Psych 100A are supposedly good professors so you should take it with them. I neglected it my other classes for this class and I didn't even get a decent grade. DO NOT TAKE IT WITH HER PLEASE! You will at least do 8 hours of reading every week and you will teach yourself every concept. She barely goes over anything in class. She only offers 1% of extra credit so don't depend on that too much. Additionally, SHE DOES NOT ROUND UP GRADES. You could be at a 79.87 and she will not round. She does not provide any study guides and does not emphasize what's on the quizzes, she basically says "Study everything." Imagine that, 30 hours of reading all onto a 25 question quiz and she does not even tell you what to focus on. She places a huge emphasis on programming and we learn so much R programming that it's very very difficult to tell what's important and what's not. Of course, she doesn't tell you what to focus on because she wants you to know everything. For your sanity, take it with another professor. She made my first quarter at UCLA unbearable.

I took this class in fall quarter 2019 with Professor Montoya. Besides the fact that it was dreadful to wake up and get to campus for an 8am 2 times a week, it was a pretty good class. She uses poll-everywhere in lectures for participation so you don't have to purchase an iClicker or reef subscription. The textbook for this class is also provided for free on Canvas. She starts off the quarter with a pretty heavy workload, for week 1, we had to work through the homework for Chapters 1-4 which is due by the Monday of week 2 and the schedule goes on but the load does get lighter, maybe about 1-2 chapters for the rest of the quarter. She has 4 quizzes throughout the quarter, one midterm and one final. The wording was a little tricky but nothing you couldn't get used to. She does open up all past quizzes towards the end of the quarter and if you do those and just get used to her wording or question style, everything is pretty bearable.

She was also very accommodating to the class as a lot of people were complaining that her quizzes were too hard, in the end she included 2 skips that we could use if we didn't want to answer that question. The class was also a little hostile towards the 2 poor TA's during lab section when they've tried explaining countless times.

Overall tips would be to work ahead of the homework, redo the practice quizzes for each chapter and then take down things that you get wrong and turn that into your cheatsheet which you are allowed for your quiz. Get well versed with R too, the tests aren't too R heavy but it comes in handy when she asks for the input for extra credit questions!!

Professor Montoya is not a bad professor, she shows she cares and accommodates with the student's needs. Her classes were very boring and the fact that it was an 8 a.m. did not help it. The workload of this class is crazy, for the amount of time you put for the material in this class, it would easily get you 7-8 hours to finish the homework with understanding the subject. The homework is not graded for correctness, but if you want to learn the material I recommend do the homework right to understand the material. Her grading scale is really good and it does the maximum to not hurt the student. The midterm was very hard and I failed it, but I ended up with a B in the class because of the quizzes, homework, attendance, and Final grades. But you have to study really hard and a lot for the final and the midterm in order to receive an A in the class.