GET OUT IF YOU CAN! That's all that needs to be said.

I hated this class, Never show up anymore because of difficulty understanding her. Just go to recitation with T.A. Don't take class if you hate math, it sucks, put it off!!

completely sucks. takes off points when nothing is wrong. i.e: you can have all the problems correct and get a 95%. tests are much more difficult than other profs.

Impossible to understand.Horrible translations. Just go to class with the T.A. twice a week and get a good study group.

Well i'll have to quote a girl from my class to list this comment "i didnt know you needed a prerequisit in Russian to take this math class" cant understand a single word she says

she can't speak english!!!

Can't speak English, like...seriously !

She didn't make any sense... at all... ever

This woman was impossible to understand and half the time, corrected her own problems because she forgot how to do them. I'm sure that if I had a good TA, I would've been fine. Not worth the gamble though. Only class I didn't get at least a 3, even after going to all reviews. STAY AWAAAAAAAY!!!!!

awful experience with what I thought was my favorite subject. It became so frustrating to attend class that I began to not go. It didn't matter when I showed up to class ready to learn the lady couldn't even do the problems herself. Plus even if she did understand the material she can't talk. Avoid at all costs. waste of time and money

Ouch.

I can understand her accent. She just can't teach. My friend asked a question and she responded "look in book." She says she is interested in you, but really isn't. She makes math harder than it should be. Her "review" sessions consist of you asking questions, not her teaching. Doesn't do examples in class, and when she does, they are irrelevant

Understands math. Does not understand how to teach or present material in a clear way. Teaches straight from notes and presents material with formulas rather than examples, does not show steps in work but merely does it in a massive jumble that is nearly incomprehensible. I have always been proficient in math but I am completely lost.

The only reason I passed is because I took this class sophomore year in high school. So easy. Hard to understand in class, no extra help. Textbook was absolutely useless. I had to keep in contact with my high school teachers if i wanted any help at all. get used to the MLC if you have her.

A terrible professor. Her lectures are useless and she is extremely difficult to understand. Stay away unless you want to teach yourself the material from the book.

Irina and her class are an utter atrocity of what a math class should be. Her methods are ignorant and flawed, overall a terrible class. Lectures do not coincide with any work that is done

cannot understand her and the review answer sheets she gives out are all incorrect

She is very confusing and unclear. When you try to ask her questions she never gives a clear response and IS NOT approachable. I e-mailed her 4 times in a 2 week period and never received a response. I then went to her office hours and she didn't have a student in there and told me to come back at a later date. She should not be a professor.

I don't know how anyone could say she was helpful. English class is one she must have skipped back in her day. If you speak thick Russian accent, she still won't teach you. She was so many lessons behind on our final exam there was a whole chapter our class was tested on but never was taught. Worst Professor I have experienced.

She is terrible! Although she has a passion for math, you cannot understand her. The lectures are pointless and you need to learn everything on your own. If your taking Calc 2, pick someone that is clear in communication because this is one of the hardest math courses I have taken!!

Hard to understand her. I stopped going to lecture and relied solely on my TA to learn the material. I tried asking her a question once and she lectured me for 15 min about something I didn't ask.

Her accent made her incredibly hard to understand. She also wasn't helpful at all. I set up a meeting with her to go over my notes, and she continually canceled or blew me off until I stopped trying. Very difficult and frustrating.

I didn't even bother going to classes. As long as you go to recitation you will be fine. I recommend definitely going to help rooms though because they are awesome and saved my butt. You definitely need the book but you can't resell it which sucks.

Absolutely useless teacher everything is learned in recitation, Examples have almost no relevance to actual test. Lecture is honestly pointless to go to you will learn nothing with her thick accent, bad jokes, and poor teaching method when you can understand her.

I go to class just to show up because i paid for it. My T.A. teaches everything that I need to know.

Pointless to go to the lecture, the teaching is just about useless. I took pre-calc as a junior in high school and passed easily, but for some reason I was placed back into this class this year and I'm struggling to pass. The recitation is the only time you will actually learn, and use of the MLC is crucial to understanding even simple topics.

Kadyrova's class was very pointless. You cannot understand her so it is not helpful to go to the lectures, you learn everything with your TA in recitation. MY TA was very helpful and he retaught everything in a way that made more sense.

I really haven't learned anything from Kadyrova. I'm essentially going off of what I learned in high school

The class is easy to pass, but Kandryova makes it harder with her lectures. The lectures do next to nothing for her students and you will realize that about 2/3'ds of the class skips because other students realize this too. She is quite literally the worst teacher I have ever had as a student. Period. I passed only from my own work.

She's Russian so don't plan on being able to listen and know what she's saying at all. My advice for this class is to make sure you have a good TA that explains or simply, that you can understand. She was the worst professor I've had but you have to get through the class because she's the only one for 116, so good luck.

She's has a strong Russian accent and is a bad professor

Literally the worst professor I've ever had. She knows what she is doing but does not know how to teach. If you have this class i would definitely recommend dropping it while you can because it will kill your GPA. I got a 100 in pre calc in high school, and all the work we did was the same. The organization of the class sucks is all based off exams

-Accent really bad, not her fault but still -No point in lecture, besides knowing the pace of the class -Often uploaded wrong notes and made mistakes in class -Took this class in high school and still struggled, requires a lot of time and work put in -A good TA or MLC is key to understanding topics -Offers up to 40 points in EC, which saved me

I would not take a class with her again. Her accent is very difficult to understand, and on top of that, her grammar is not great. The textbook is "required," but it is only used to rip out the Problem Sets in the back. The rest of the book is only used for recommended problems. I would just buy the online access code if possible.

Kadyrova is an awful teacher. She has a very thick accent that makes it impossible to understand what she is saying during lecture. She commonly makes calculation errors and mistakes while trying to solve problems. If a student asks a question, she assumes the question before the student even finishes asking. Go to the MLC for help instead.

The mathematics isn't bad, its just the professor. Her Russian is very thick and hard to understand and she doesn't always finishes a problem or explain how to do it very well. I stopped going to the lectures and got myself a personal tutor instead.

Good luck trying to figure out your grade, you won't have the class registered on D2L so you won't really know by the end of the semester. Lectures are borderline optional, but you will actually learn in recitation so I strongly recommend you go to those.

This class was made needlessly difficult because of poor teaching. Dr. Kadyrova's explanations of material did not make sense, and most students depended exclusively on recitation to learn anything. Attendance drops astronomically throughout the year because the lectures are so unhelpful. The night class has another teacher, take that if you can.

Her lectures are basicsally useless, she commonly makes mistakes. Most students after the first week have been using the MLC instead of attending her lectures.

Awful. You have to learn everything on your own or find a tutor. Her lectures are hard to understand and she doesn't explain things well at all. Recitation might help if you have a good TA. Not being rude but the teacher is foreign so I would try to get an american TA that you can understand. I would avoid this class at all costs if possible.

Worst teacher ever possible. Does not talk nearly loud enough to hear in lecture and has an extremely strong accent, making it very difficult to understand her.

She is not a good teacher to begin with, she doesn't explain anything and then she has the thickest accent which doesn't help.

During lectures she doesn't explain the process of working out problems, she doesn't spend enough time on challenging concepts, and her expectations of what to know for tests are unclear. The content itself is not terrible, it is just the teaching style that could improve. Avoid this professor at all costs or prepare to teach yourself with youtube.

Irina is hands down the worst math professor. My recitation TA even believes she should be fired, but the problem is she has tenure. Parts of this class are easy and some parts are difficult. The class should be an easy 4.0 if you do the extra credit and do decent on tests, but I would avoid this professor at all costs.

Not a great professor. She gets mad if you ask questions and always makes mistakes when doing math.

Kadyrova was hard to understand in lecture and often times her lectures would be confusing and hard to follow. She often regraded tests because she was unhappy with the TA's grading and she would change grades on some tests and not others even though the answers were exactly the same on both of them.

Worst professor I have had and the tests are hard and makes everything way more difficult than it needs to be.

Makes mistakes on problems during lecture and online notes even her tests have mistakes.

She is the worst teacher ever. Nothing else needs to be said. There is literally no reason to go to lecture. If you do go you will want to tear your hair out. Good luck.

Terrible teacher

Absolutely terrible. Made easy concepts way more difficult than they had to be, did every problem in an extremely complicated way that was in no way necessary. Stopped going to class because there was absolutely no point in going. She gets mad when you have questions and makes no effort to be understood with her incredibly thick accent.

Awful language barrier. Tried taking this class twice and had to drop out because of her lack to communicate both times. I thought online would be easier so I could read what she was saying instead of having to listen and even that was rough. Horrible at doing problems, does not actually teach, and when she does she just does the problem w/out expl

You need 100% attentiveness to understand her accent. The language barrier is incredibly difficult to overcome. Luckily I already took pre-calc, so retaking this class was a breeze.

This professor was maybe the most boring teacher I have had. Her voice was very dull which made the lectures very difficult to get through. I would see a lot of students not show up and if they did they would usually leave half way through. I feel like the amount of homework was decent, but the homework was definitely more difficult than the tests.

Be prepared to do double the amount of work you expect out of this class. My biggest mistake was putting my trust in her for too long, and because of that I had to put hours into getting a decent grade. Her lectures and homework assignments are meaningless. Just read the study guides she sends out and you're set if you understand the concepts.

If you've worked hard in previous math classes, congratulations because this class is 90% review. Kadyrova is useless, so I recommend asking your TA questions or forming a little group to work with. The graded homework will boost your grade, so try to rake in those hundos. Definitely do the test reviews and go to the review she has. You'll be fine.

She's a challenging professor. I wish you luck.

Very hard to understand. Tests are hard. Shes tough, would not recommend this class.

While she is a nice person, she is not a good professor. She was very hard to understand and he lectures often made no sense. Rather than going off of the pre planned in class notes she would go on random incoherent tangents. It was so bad that in my 130 person lecture by the third week in the semester only 6-10 people were attending lecture.

The professor does not lecture about math nor does she explain it. It's about her life. Very thick accent that's difficult to understand; took me 5 weeks to understand her accent. Don't bother showing up, just read the textbook. You'll learn more by reading the book than you will by attending the lectures. I would suggest taking a different prof.

Plenty of homework, as well as weekly worksheets done during recitations that require extra study time. You'll be sinking more time than you expect into this class since you'll have to work around a useless professor and her incomprehensible lectures. Expect broken English in your textbook, worksheets, and any sort of review material.

Rambling in class, difficult to understand, rude and even disrespectful in one on one meetings. Has hard tests as well. I was looking forward to the class, as it is important to my future. I wish that she could have stayed on task a bit more while teaching. Advice for future students: Find friends to study with and make good use of recitations!

I went to lecture for the first week of class and then stopped. You don't need to put yourself through the hassle of hearing this professor explain concepts not in the notes or babble on and on about beautiful Russian girls. Instead of going to lecture, focus on the worksheets and quizzes due in recitation and go to the MLC and you'll be fine.

One of the hardest classes I've ever taken. I went to every lecture and nothing ever made sense until I went to the MLC which is the only reason I did well in the class.

This class was ridiculosuly hard. It's very hard to understand her accent. If you have questions, you might as well not answer them because she won't answer them. Quizzes every week based off of the lectures. But, lot's of times she won't give out the lecture note answers so you really need to know what you're doing in order to pass. Don't take.

This is the worst professor I've had the pleasure of having. Steer clear of her if you can. I'm sure this would have a been a slightly different story had we actually gone on campus this year, but I digress. This prof is disrespectful, refuses to acknowledge when she or her programs are wrong, and she somehow deleted our quiz. Can't learn anything.

DON'T TAKE HER IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO! Her lectures are boring and all she does is read off the notes. She also goes off topic a lot causing us to not get through the information we need. The recitations are fine to get help, but they aren't allowed to show you the answer to a problem which isn't helpful. Take anything but this class, it's horrible.

Honestly the worst professor I've ever had. I struggled in this class which is not typical for me in math, and she was not helpful at all with questions or mistakes. If you end up in this class, I highly recommend you switch out. It's not worth the time nor money.

Professor wasn't good at all during the past semester. A strong accent combined with poor audio quality due to the online format made lectures almost impossible to understand. She also was awful at answering questions, frequently missing the point or not going into enough detail. Class itself isn't too hard, but you'll need to learn it by yourself.

Lecture attendance was not required so I almost never went because I had taken plenty of algebra classes in the past. I dont need to be leaning about slope intercept form as a freshman in college. Did not communicate well with students. Class was an easy 4.0.

Spoke quickly in lectures and rarely went over things multiple times. Often was mean to those who asked her questions in class. I was in her online course so it definitely could have made an impact on my experience, but I did not enjoy this class.

Do not do what I did and think that you can get past an accent. Her accent is very thick and she is very hard to understand. She is also not caring at all. The class material itself isn't too bad, but I think any other professor would have made it a lot easier. Avoid if you can!

She's a bit too silly (derogatory) for my liking

Can't understand a work she's saying, and the TAs didn't give answers during recitations so you couldn't even see if you did things right until the next day or so when they were posted

This class was honestly a joke, and dont bother buying a textbook. The class itself is completley self taught, going to lectures is pointless. The material itself was not tough, quizzes are on d2l and exams are on some other website with no lockdown browser. Dont panic if you have her, just be ready to teach yourself the whole class.

Absolute worst classroom experience I have ever had seriously makes me wonder how she got a job here had her as both a professor and TA and I will jump off a bridge if I have her again barely speaks English, ignores most questions if she does see your question will get mad at you for asking highly doubt she understands the material she teaches

SHE CONNOT BE UNDERSTOOD! She is one of the worst professors I have ever had in my life! She is rude when people ask questions and mumbles through the whole lecture. Lectures are unhelpful and many times a waste. The recitations and MLC are your best bets for learning anything.

Couldnt understand her in a single lecture and contemplated skipping classes because I wasnt getting anything out of the lecture anyway. Had to rely on working on homework with friends because I gained no knowledge through the lecture.

Barely understand her when she speaks because of her thick accent, isn't interactive and her homework is nearly impossible. Graded homework, quizzes, and exams, no partial credit if half of the problems are correct or for your work. If you even put a space accidentally, it will count it wrong and you can't do it again. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASSES!

I did not like this class.

If new to the topic of your class do not take this professor. Hard to understand and seems to not like in class questions.

Worst class i've ever had to endure. Unfortunately (by no fault of her own), I could not understand a single thing said in this lecture. As someone who struggles a little with math, I strongly recommend you don't take this course with her. Most of this class was self-taught, alongside having to go to the math help center bi-weekly.

I four pointed this class, but if you're taking math 116 do not take it with this professor. I took trig in high school and passed it, but her material is still hard. I pretty much did all the work myself and she's very strict in lecture, and her teaching just didn't make sense to me. (Not to her own fault) but she can be difficult to understand.

class is easy, but when asking for help she just tells you what you did wrong instead of actually helping.

Very difficult to understand and she has a hard time explaining things sometimes. She has zero sympat

She has a very thick accent that makes her hard to understand. Often slips up when speaking and takes a while to explain topics. She doesn't explain them thoroughly so I rely on asking the TA my questions. If you ask for help she just explains it again instead of helping you. She uses webassign yet doesn't understand how to retrospectively grade .