Professor Esfandiari is one of the most caring professors I have had at UCLA and she will really go out of her way to make sure students feel welcome asking questions.

However, it was hard for me to learn because her teaching style was not very well constructed. Lectures were often hard to follow. If you read the textbook, you will understand the material, but otherwise this was a rather hard class to grasp. The tests themselves are not impossible though and you can still get a good grade, you just won't really understand the content.

In my very humble opinion, Esfandiari is quite possibly the most incompetent and ineffective instructor I have had so far in UCLA. She may also be the worst professor to have ever graced this campus.

Her teaching methods are EXTREMELY confusing and her incomprehensible accent only supplements her poor communication skills. Often times, I would be very frustrated by her lack of sophisticated vocabulary.

*When referring to a variable or number term.
"DEEZ GUY does (so and so)"

Gah.

Her lectures have no rhythm or rhyme; they are conducted along with her powerpoint slides which are filled with typos galore and poor English. She'd often go off-course or through them too fast.

Her emails are also very hard to understand due to her lack of knowledge of the English language, and frequent typos. No proper grammar or punctuation, and she uses abbreviations like "pls". Where is the professional bearing?

Her attempts with engaging the audience are feeble and pathetic.

"Raise your hands if you understand"
*Dozen people in the front two rows raise their hands while 9/10 of the entire class doesn't respond
"Good! Let's move on."

"Talk with your partner about so and so"
Students: *Talks about completely unrelated subjects

If you manage to get a stellar TA like I did (Mark Nakamura) then you may be fine. (I had to depend on him to actually know what the hell is going on in that class.) If not then you better be a damn good self-learner.

All in all, if you want to be taught by a very unsophisticated, unprofessional, unorganized, inefficient yet(maybe a)somewhat knowledgeable professor then go right ahead and choose Esfandiari. Otherwise, stay far away.

Esfandiari is a very shitty professor. Her lectures are hard to follow and disengaging. She is disorganized and does not care if the class is following along or not. Her method of teaching involves just reading a sentence and asking the class to read the last word out loud. This isn't a reading class, this is a statistics class. After explaining a topic, she asks the class to raise their hands if we understand. Out of 120 students there are never more than 10 hands but she always moves on every single time. It's extremely frustrating. I learn most of if not all of the curriculum in discussion with my TA. It's unfortunate because she seems like a nice lady the first sessions but you will soon become aware of her incompetence.

I'm studying for this second midterm and I do not know any of the subject matter. This professor is trash.

Do yourself a favor. SKIP THIS PROF!

I took her Spring 2013. After these reviews, I decided to take a chance and hopefully she would be the "motherly" professor other reviews claimed she would be.

Unfortunately, I was extremely disappointed. All of her material was messy, disorganized and full of spelling errors. Her lectures were bland and hard to follow.

What really put me off though, was when I went in after the final to review my wrong answers. While I was looking through the exam, I found a typo with the final. Instead of changing it for the rest of the class, she just shrugged it off because I was too far from an A to change anyways..

Esfandiari was consistently unprofessional in terms of the assignments and tests she gave us. Everything from the syllabus to the midterm examinations had typos to the point where it was difficult to understand.

She requires us to turn in our homework online. This wouldn't be such a problem if the due dates were posted clearly. Typically she will title her assignments on CCLE as something like "HW 5 DUE FRIDAY AT NOON." When you click on the assignment, however, there would be another due date listed that was different from the title. This combined with an abundance of extra places on CCLE to turn in assignments (labs for your section, labs for other sections, etc) caused me to miss my first assignment.

A similar issue occurs with her implementation of "mystatlab" for class quizzes. At the beginning of the course there were at least 50 (perhaps left over from previous courses she taught) assignments listed with arbitrary due dates. This lead to me missing my first quiz.

I believe Esfandiari has good intentions; she wants us to understand the material. Even so, lectures were always confusing because she was inconsistent with the order of operations for equations on the board. It was always a struggle to deduce what she was trying to convey.

I feel like I would have been able to perform much better in this class if I could understand how to navigate it! If the tests and assignments were proofread before being given out (during examinations the TAs would always yell out five or so mistakes we had to fix) I could have performed better on those too.

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Professor Esfandiari is not only going to teach you, she will mother you as well. Her tests are extremely fair, only one midterm and a final, completely based on subjects covered in class. If you go to class, you'll never have to do additional studying! Easy A. Great teacher, very focused on student learning. Go to her office hours. If you're Persian she automatically LOVES you. I was not, she liked me too, still got an A.

The class is really easy, but the professor is hard to understand. Didn't go to lecture because I felt no need to. Just do the homework, and go to labs because the TA tells you the answers. The curve is pretty high because the material is pretty simple, but I would say the class is easy overall.

The material itself isn't too difficult, but Esfandiari is not a good lecturer. Her lectures are quite hard to follow and she does not do a great job explaining the concepts.

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On a side note. This class is really easy if you already took Math 3C. I never went to class but studied really hard on my own. Got an A.