You will not understand a single word she says.. stay out of this class.

She seemed nice at first, but that's where she gets you. Upon actually starting the material during the first week, you learn her haughty and rude attitude. I tried attending two lectures, ended up not paying attention at all due to the fact that I could not understand anything she says. Rambles on and on about parts that really don't matter.

Cindy tries hard and is very nice, but she has a very difficult time communicating. Her accent and poor grasp of the english language have caused me to be completely lost on the first concept. I'll be transferring to another prof the first chance I get

Can't understand her most of the time. If you ask for help she either does not give it or just tells you a really vague answer. Exams are tough, not because the statistics problems are hard, but because sheher TA's having the writing skills of a three year old. Terrible teacher and also annoying because she breathes down the mic every class.

Tests weren't too hard but impossible to understand. Barely any information on tests on d2l. Have to retake class because of poor teaching.

Absolutely the worst prof I have ever had. She doesn't give you anything to prepare for exams, the final looks nothing like the rest of the course and way harder than midterms. She doesn't explain where she got the numbers she uses in the examples. When the class doesn't understand she says "I don't understand why its so hard for you". Terrible.

Probably the worst professor I've ever come across. Has no idea how to explain concepts - google helps more than this chick. Do not take her class!!

429 with Cindy was one of the worst classes I have taken at the University of Calgary so far. The material is not overly difficult in comparison to other Statistics courses, but she does not teach you anything. There was literally one lecture where she asked the class to read wikipedia, and said she didn't understand the concept.

Not a very good professor, teaches the entire semester using software that you are allowed to use for the midterms and assignments but then expects you to write a final without it, all of her examples in her notes are based on the software, and how to do the questions is based on the software.

Midterm corrections are the only reason I passed. Explanations in lectures were weak and I did not know what was happening half the time. The TA was also not at all helpful and answered homework questions incorrectly.

She was very difficult to understand and her lectures were extremely disorganized. I had her for stats205 and being a weak math student in her class makes it very difficult to do well. Definitely the worst prof that I have had since being at the U of C.

Her midterm's are easy as long as you know how to do the practice midterms but her lectures are terrible and she seems like she has no idea what she is doing.

She is always like talking to herself and giving useless examples.

She's very nice but honestly I barely understand what shes saying. Not her fault but I just can't

Astonishingly poorly run course by this prof. She is horribly condescending + unhelpful when you try to ask questions (which you may need to if you're not a stats wiz as you'll be teaching the entire course to yourself). Midterms extremely easy but after the class writes USRI's she announces a final worth 40% of grade will be 30 MC questions.

Cindy was a very frustrating prof to have. It was extremely difficult to understand her accent and her notes were all over the place. She made it very hard to keep up in class. She wasn't helpful at all when I went to ask for help, and therefore I struggled immensely in this class. Would NOT recommend!!!!!!!!!

She over complicated simple concepts. Sometimes even confuses herself when explaining. Get textbook and read and youll do great and understand. Do not base work solely on her lectures and assignments because you will not pass.

cindy who? had to teach myself the subject matter in order to pass this course. when you ask for help "please refer to minitab instructions" absolutely the worst prof ever, does not make an to help her students when they reach out to her for help.

THE WORST PROF TO HAVE. Assumes that you know half the material coming into the course and does a horrible job of teaching on top of that too. The concepts are easy but she makes them overly difficult and you will be left confused. Go to another prof's class if you can or if you can't anything else will help teach you better than she does

Pretty bad honestly, I went to every single lecture and paid attention but she does not have a very good way of explaining things. You can teach yourself most of the things in the course so I just go to the lectures for the answers to the examples she posts in lecture notes. Would not recommend this prof if you are and at self teaching

Barely speaks English, horrible prof, skipped her classes to see Scott Robison. Wouldn't of passed this course if I attended her lectures.

Does not speak very good English and is very difficult to understand. I had to go to a different professor in order to understand any of the content. She tends to jump from point to point. Would not recommend this professor to anyone. I am honestly not sure how she is able to teach as I spent most of the lecture trying to figure out what shes sayin

Took stat 205 but will review under 213 as both classes are similar but 205 is easier. took 205 & You might as well teach yourself because her English is not understandable along with her poor teaching skills. I skipped to teach myself & did a better job than she could. She responds to emails vaguely. Basically, you're on your own in this class

Not very knowledgable. She can not teach this course very well because I think, she does not have enough knowledge about it.

Don't know what's the use of paying the tuition when all you do in this course is TO TEACH YOURSELF. Useless lectures, you won't learn a thing from it. You will end up SPENDING MOST OF YOUR TIME trying to understand and teach yourself. You won't have time to even study for your other classes especially those major ones coz it's so time consuming.

Her lectures jump around a lot and are very hard to follow. Very unorganized lecture notes and not enough examples.

When people tell you not to take any class with Cindy Sun LISTEN!! She is an awful prof who doesn't care about her students. When students would ask questions in class and she would listen to the student, the proceed to ignore the students question and move on with the lecture. She is not very organized and you will end up teaching yourself!

Honestly, she is nice and all and her midterms are easy but her midterms are easy compared to her final. Her final is worth 45% so you have to make sure your grade is super high before doing that final or else you have a chance of failing. It is hard to understand her in class and she will waste time teaching you things you don't have to know.

Cindy's midterms are SOOO easy compared to her final. The practice midterms are very helpful so make sure you do those. Her manual lecture notes are also quite helpful considering you're going to have to use those to teach yourself anyway. She is not very easy to approach outside of class and basically dismisses your questions very rudely.

She can't teach, if you ask a question about how to do a calculation by hand, she will reply "I don't know, google it", if you ask how to use MiniTab she replies "thats beyond the scope of this class". Doesn't explain the formulas. Doesn't know what a prime number is. Tutorial TA's are useless. Forces use of Minitab for assignments. Unapplicable

Awful professor, classes are a waste to attend, she is awful at teaching.

This girl is litterally the stupidest prof I have every had the misfortune of having. And, no, I'm not using stupid as an insult, but a fact in her case. LACKS SOOOOOO MUCH KNOWLEDGE. Didn't learn anything despite my grade >:(

One word, "sucks". I never understand anything she says in class, and EVERY TIME I ask her a question, she drowns into confusion and can never explain anything right. Avoid her if you want to learn anything about stats.

Her notes are horrible, her lectures are confusing, her tests questions are not very specific and her grading style is very unfair. Avoid, avoid, AVOID....

The lectures were not helpful, she would spend the entire lecture going through the manual way to solve problems and then at the end say dont do this the rounding will be wrong you have to use a software? Feedback was also hard to access, and I had multiple questions marked wrong because I did it the way she told us (only fixed because I caught it

Lectures are prerecorded, which makes it very hard to follow along and ask questions. She isn't very accessible outside of class; she takes multiple days to get back to emails and isn't very clear with feedback.

Lectures were recorded and were difficult to understand. She wasn't very accessible outside of class. Questions on quizzes and term exams are phrased poorly and ambiguously. I found this course very hard and it required a ton of effort. Friends of mine had other stats professors and had far better experiences, they even described the course as easy

The class was entirely online and the lectures were prerecorded. Try to take STAT 213 in person if you can, even if you think you will receive a better grade online.

Had an asynchronous course with her. The course material are very vague and unhelpful. Questions for the tests are mostly stuff that she never taught. Never take class with her.

Everything in Dr. Sun's class was asynchronous; the lectures were boring, and the tests were extremely difficult. The practice questions/homework were FAR easier than what was on the graded tests. The lectures made little to no sense. She has an accent that can be difficult to understand, and I had to rely on the TA's for almost everything I did.

1. very unorganized. 2. I have no idea what she is saying even with live transcription on. 3. horrible for visual and kinesthetic learners. 4. Exams are VERY difficult. Even though I used all the resources provided, I still wasn't prepared enough for the tests. 5. Moves way too fast.

I've never cried from frustration prior to taking Cindy's course. Today I did. She's awful at teaching. Her lecture style is all over the place, assumes your iq is similar to hers, and typically focuses on redundant formulaic points while ignoring core concepts. Find alternatives to learn topics online. Class is awful. She's a vgood person tho.

This professor was terrible! I couldn't understand anything she would say in class and she made the course harder than it seemed to be. Her communication style was ineffective, while the lab exercises were due within one day of opening. She would shut down questions that were related to content during class. Avoid her at all costs!

Lectures always seemed rushed, and questions during lecture were often left unanswered. The time in lecture spent on irrelevant info (theory) far outweighed covering material that was on assessments (R code). Her English skills did not help either.

This is the worst class I have ever taken. Not only was the content disorganized, but there was not even a study guide prepared for the final. When you have a few hundred pages of the professor's slide presentation to read and everything is cumulative, it is helpful to have a study guide. This class was a chaotic disaster.

She can't teach to save her life.

speeds through lecture and it's hard to pay attention

Difficult class

Never seemed confident in course content, and would start many lectures by having to clear up mistakes from previous lectures. Every class example was literally her doing a question with no explanation of what we were doing and why you do it that way. Most unengaging lectures ever, which made it impossible to try and learn as we went. Disappointing

Avoid if possible. If not possible, do not attending lectures, as she confuses students with her meandering lecture style. She does not teach new concepts clearly, and gives very few examples. She is never prepared for lecture. There is nothing to be gained by listening to her teach in class. She should not be teaching.

STAT213 was so irredeemably disorganized and ill-planned this semester. The lack of consistency in the planning, marking and on-the-fly change of deadlines felt disrespectful and was inconsiderate towards the class. Really felt like the syllabus was useless as most of the course is just at her whims.

She is pretty terrible at teaching, and making tests, and grading, and informing students about exams, and uploading notes, and making sure students learn and pass the course. Oh wait - thats everything shes supposed to do! Might be the worst that UofC has to offer, and I sincerely hope that she improves.

Bingrui is very unorganized & condescending during lecture, teaches at a middle school level, and gives out misleading exams. During lecture she'll call out people's names to answer questions and will give out pop quizzes for attendance. Her exams are A-E and say, "If answer is not here put your own." She's infuriating at this level.

This class was incredibly difficult to get through. Lots of errors in lectures, requiring lectures to be re-recorded and you had to watch them later (a second completely different 1+ hour lecture) to be able to get the correct info. Threatened to report students for harassment for asking simple questions, ignored emails. avoid if possible

Poor quality lectures, outdated, very repetitive, and gets sidetracked often about irrelevant topics. She does not explain what is expected for assignments and changes her mind about what she is looking for while you are working on completing the assignment. If you take her class I would suggest just going off of the rubric that is given.

This class had potential; however, it was really frustrating to take as the professor was not present. There were no posted lectures, and often the links she directed us to were links we did not have access to or were taken down. She did not respond to student emails, so this issue never got resolved. I would not recommend this class.

Lectures are horrible, online videos teach better than her. Lack of resources to study for the test. She makes the course 10 times harder than it's supposed to be. Other professors have each the course way better, and the way they explain the course material is better. Her way of explaining is super complicated, compared to other profs Ridiculous

DONT TAKE THIS PROF. overall this would've been one of the easiest classes but this prof doesn't explain things very well. hard to understand. lectures are pointless. group participation really matter if u wanna pass.

Terrible lectures, just reads off extremely wordy documents and doesn't explain anything very well. The documents themselves are pretty useful, so I would just read those and not attend lectures. The tests are fairly easy and the grading on the two projects is super lenient. Prof sucks but the course itself isn't as hard as it might seem.

Absent minded, unreasonable expectations, not accessible. Exams asked for answers which were only skimmed over and processes which were never discussed. Doesn't post classes nor student list so good luck getting notes if you miss class and don't miss too many or you'll literally fail. She's often late or missed class herself.

Bingrui often cancelled class and it felt like she didn't really care about her students. for the final exam there was no outline and she never mentioned about needing to date each lecture slide in order to reference properly. Didn't answer emails regarding questions about the final.

She seems like a good person, however, she isn't the greatest instructor and a middle schooler could pass the class. I'm still waiting on grades for a course that ended a month and a half ago.

I should have taken a look at this website before enrolling in her class

The worst professor in the world!!!! Definitely, you won't learn anything from her class. She only reads from her slides and doesn't also give a good mark to you.

The midterm is so confused, hard, and not related to the theory and practice problems she provided to us at all. She said we should ask for mental health professionals if we feel anxiety, but never introspect why all students feel anxiety. She always believes it is other person's fault, but when all students in class feel uncomfortable......

Truly inspiring how Professor Sun manages to turn even the most straightforward topics into an enigmatic labyrinth of confusion. The syllabus alone was a literary masterpiece like a puzzle wrapped in a riddle, soaked in mystery. Every lecture is an intellectual adventure where comprehension is optional and frustration is guaranteed.

Her syllabus is impossible to follow and her instructions are always unclear. We were bombarded with endless, pointless tasks—group work, random assignments, discussions, quizzes, tests—none of which seemed to have a clear goal.

Horrible instructor, used words I could not find in the dictionary or in the English Literature Glossary of Terms. Worst teacher in five years at UofC.

Get ready to teach yourself everything! She doesn't respond quickly, is condescending, and expects you to already know everything. Her tests almost never have anything to do with what she teaches. This class will drain you of your mental and emotional energy. Take anyone else!

I'm writing this review because I don't want others to go through what I did. She lacks basic compassion and treats students with an unjustified level of suspicion. I hope this helps the next student make a better choice.

So hard to follow lectures. Had to take the course with a different prof and understood it so much better

She is a professor that enjoys very tricky questions. I attended all of her lectures and she spends majority of the time away from course content, delving into history behind math instead of the syllabus content. Her ability to convey the material was very poor and I learned everything from watching other lecturers.

I still have nightmares cuz of this class but I would spend a majority of my Sunday doing work for this class to the point where i couldn't enjoy it. On top of that, the rubrics and assignments were very unclear and overcomplicated. On top of that, the grading scale is very unforgiving and she wants low avgs.

Her lectures are super confusing though, and if you don't have a strong background in mathematical statistics, this class would be very difficult. There's a huge curve at the end for good reason.

Do not take this class unless you're looking to get an unfairly low grade. I average between 80 and 85 for most science-based exams. This class? 65. Her expectations are insanely unreasonable for a 200 level class. Avoid if possible.

Hands down worst professor. Rude, incompetent, disrespectful, inconsiderate & cold. Lectures are long and useless, midterms and finals are very long. Project requirements are very few yet she grades you on criteria not even on the rubric? Takes long to reply to emails, unprofessional and rude. When asking for help she will laugh and belittle you.

She knew absolutely nothing about what she was teaching; her lectures consisted of showing code and repeatedly saying that we should use AI to get detail and answer. The exam involved explaining R code, the only practice question was a past midterm that was so easy it was practically useless. I had no idea what to review or how to review.

She's nice, but got more passive aggressive over the term. Can't blame her really, since everyone stopped showing up to lectures. Exams are easy enough, as the content is not very challenging.

I'm very confused by this course. I truly felt I knew the material very well, but did horrible on the final exam. Her questions are vague, but require specific responses, and could be a tiny detail in her giant (and not good) note packages. Tutorials just went over class material, and didn't really enhance it. Just not great overall