Very unfair and difficult teacher. He is hard to understand in class and gives tests without informing the students. Do not take for statistics!

Ok, the real...Don't waste your time even going to class. You will quickly see how to ace his class. ACED it, no final, piece of cake. Wish i hadn't wasted my time in his class though. Seriously, he doesn't stop, doesn't speak to you, and doesn't teach you. And what the heck is a whalyou? Whatever, don't waste your time. You'll figure it out.

had this been my first statistics class I would hate statistics... the class is totally uselessd if at all possible I advise you to take statistics at a community college before wasting your time in this class... he can't see read or hear and has a somewhat bad accent (value = walyou) ...if you must take his class just study the book to death

Ok, so the rank of the matrix is 3 and the Row of A is 4,3,2; what's the point? I learned all these weird number systems and aside from Gaussian elimination (a task that I normally reserve for electronic computation for the sake of brevity) I have no clue what I would ever do with any of them.

He doesn't really teach, he just kinda writes things on the board and expects you to understand everything. Get ready to go to tutoring because that's the only way you'll understand anything in the class. He didn't take attendance at first but decided to start about half way through the semester.

I'm an all A student. I've never had so much difficulty in a class that I've had to drop it before. The guy has a strong Russian accent and extremely sloppy handwriting; writes all over his notes making it impossible to focus; has no sense of grammar or spelling; expects everyone to understand but gets annoyed when of course they don't. Stay away!

Stay away. I have never gotten less than an A in a class before and I had a B in his class when I withdrew. He was so awful and rude that I felt I had no choice to withdraw. He yelled at me in front of the class to say I was making a stupid mistake. I get sick at the thought of ever seeing him again.

Just don't take his class. He does not use Canvas or any such web service. You basically don't know your grade until the end of the semester. His lectures are him going over question answers. The answers are already written so you don't even get to see the thought process. Heavy accent and talks quietly so you can't even hear him. Horrible prof.

I literally didnt understand a thing. I had to do all the work outside of class and I was told I didnt make enough effort. He was bias when it came to grades because I compared my test grades with my friends and they got points for the same exact answer while I got points taken off.

He is a awful professors. Inclass stuff he goes over prewritten hand written notes that you can understand. And Good luck if you messed up on 2 hw assignment, you will be screwd.

Worst professor I've ever had. Doesn't actually explain or teach anything. He prewrites handwritten notes and just skims over them quickly. Condescending if you don't understand things.

His notes are illegible, ended up using Khan Academy for the entire class!

Never in my life, a math course troubles me. Who legit give this man a college license, my high school teacher is way better than this. Just don't take him, even if you have no choices, just take another one next semester, please don't.

He rarely says something that can actually be understood and learned. Tests are very few, and very forgiving. They are tied with your homework. It's a shame you will get a F because of: Lack of time, confusing questions, and things you didn't practice yet. If you get 100s on the homework, you can get a 50% lowest on the test. YOU WILL NEED IT.

Terrible lecturer as he has the work already written down and does not explain anything about how he got the numbers. Textbook is REQUIRED to be read before class if you wanna know anything about what he is talking about. Does not help during class and instead tells students to email him after. Barely responds to those emails and no help given.

You will learn nothing, nothing. I got one question right on the 4th test and got an A. Why, because 2 classes went to the associate chair and complained. He basically pulled an "OH SNAP!" and raise the class average by... 40 POINTS!!!! Every test and question is poorly made, and notes?!?! LECTURES ARE POINTLESS, I GOT AN A BECAUSE I DIDN'T SUBMIT!

If you hate yourself. Take this class. You will hate this teacher instead. Side effects may include still hating yourself for taking this class.

By far the worst professor I have ever had, didnt follow through on his own grading scheme and proceeded to act as if we were in the wrong and didnt read the syllabus correctly. Only graded on a few homeworks and a couple of tests, so if you dont do well on one youre kind of screwed

Treats students with no respect and will shame you infront of the entire class. Don't bother coming to class because he does not teach. Lectures are him going over practice problems that you're supposed to do prior. Tests and homework problems are awful. Best bet is to find other ppl taking the course and teach yourself the material.

Do not register for STAT 2122 with Sonin. If you registered late and his section is the only one remaining, take the course next semester. Sonin is technologically illiterate, a terrible instructor, and also just mean to students who struggle. Neither the Mathematics department nor CLAS cares about his behavior, I assume because he's tenured.

Impossible to understand his English and expects you to teach yourself everything while he goes over random examples that he might not even complete (if you can even understand him). he moves quickly and the notes he gives you are written in a way that only he can understand. I dropped this class b/c this man was going to destroy my 4.0gpa. Run!!!

I've never taken a math class that was this awful. He doesn't speak English very well and doesn't teach anything during lectures. He only goes over problems that are pre-solved and you were supposed to have taught yourself before class. Team up with other students because you won't learn anything from him. Dr Google and YouTube

I cannot stress this enough: DONT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH THIS PROFESSOR! You will learn absolutely nothing and will end up having to learn everything for yourself. He has weekly quizzes and teaches from pre-written notes that he doesn't explain. I have never left a review before, but I am solely to keep other people from making the same mistake I did

Sonin has a thick Russian accent, and doesn't often understand what students are asking, and doesn't try to understand much. Sonin often goes off on rants about more complex math and concepts that are not in the curriculum.

I have never rated a professor before, but am writing this one to tell you to stay away! Your only hope is to make a good study group. He is impossible to understand during lecture. He doesn't explain his grading methods or policy. Only take as a last resort.

Do not take this professor no matter what you do. You have to be an exceptional student to pass this course which of course most people are not. Unless you are ready to teach yourself the entire course material do not take this professor. He is very unclear in his teaching and his questions are vague and hard to understand.

Professor Sonin is probably one of the worse math professors I have had. He teaches via projector and his notes and some of the homeworks are illegible. He assigns home problems and spends over half of the 50 minute class to go over them leaving barely any time to go over the actual notes. Only way I passed was from his 5 point offset grading scale

Prof Sonin is a very intelligent professor but his lectures have no form of structure and are largely incomprehensible. There are 3 tests in which the 2 associated HW assignments contribute to your overall test grade. Not a tough grader. Be prepared to use external resources other than the lectures and the ineffective textbook given for the course.

Hands down the worst math professor I've ever had. Gave lectures that were super unorganized and made no sense most of the time. He knows the material well but doesn't appear to know how to teach it. He was willing to attempt to explain concepts that weren't understood, but those explanations weren't the best.

Having an A be a 85-100 and having extra credit on the homeworks might sound like a plus, but there is a clear reason why they are there. The content is easy, watching other teachers lectures and tests, the content is a lot easier then Professor Sonin makes it. He also made a typo mid test with no compensation. Dont take him, wait for an open seat.

Got an A, but at the cost of my sanity. If you mess up on the homework you pretty much mess up on the test as your HW contributes to your test grade. If you get 2 A's and a minimum of a C on whatever test you can take the short exam which is only 3 questions, and that short exam would replace the lowest exam grade. Short exam was not bad btw.

Do NOT let your pride get in place of your thinking, 32 1 star reviews, stories about how he messes up and doesn't give credit, heavy accent, horrible notes, lectures, and explanations. Look up General Shepherd from MW2 describing Makarov, it should give you a solid idea of what this professor is like. Genuinely the worst professor ever so far.

This class was a confusing mess. His lectures are very confusing and not well-made. The material he gives out is different compared to the other classes so the pal sessions are no help at all. But there is always extra credit on the homework and tests, Also he allows you to bring a formula sheet and notes during the tests. Still wouldn't recommend.

Dr. Sonin was a terrible professor. He did not come prepared for class. He printed out old scribbled notes and projected them, which were incomprehensible. He spoke with such a thick accent that made it impossible to learn. You can easily pass if you just go through the textbook to learn, it is a very helpful book. There is lots of extra credit

Dr. Sonin was not a good Professor. The lectures he gave were hard to follow because of how he presented the material as well as his accent. If you want to pass you need to read the textbook. There's extra credit on the tests and homework. He allows you to bring formula sheets for the tests.

This professor is ROUGH to say the least. There are 6 homeworks, 3 tests, and a final (which has a short or long version). Be prepared to basically learn fully on your own and do everything you can to do well on the homeworks. You will not know what is going on 95% of the time and the professor doesn't go over examples in class. Avoid if you can!!!

Difficult to understand. His accent and handwriting are too difficult to follow. His lectures are printed out handwritten notes. I had to drop this class because he was too difficult to follow. He gave a lot of hw and a test each month. I then retook the class with a different professor and figured out this course was easy af.

Difficult to understand in class. I've had very good teachers with thick accents but Sonin specifically mumbles and is hard to hear. Outside of class he provides no resources and says to solve problems on textbook which doesn't tell you the answers. Most of your grade is rare homework problems which you can only solve by looking up how to do them.

Terrible lectures, weird grading, and a heavy accent with terrible take-home notes. Would not recommend to take unless you can learn the pretty difficult material from just the textbook