Worst experience I've had at university. Would never recommend this course with Dr. Peter but its mandatory. It's been almost 50 days since we submitted our first assignment and grades aren't posted yet. We're two weeks from finals. Absolutely unacceptable. Grading scheme is unnecessarily complicated. We have no idea if we're passing. Terrible.

Peter is notorious for not handing things back in a timely manner. Things submitted in September still have not been returned and we are 2 weeks out from the final. Her grading scheme is insanely confusing, and with the assignment turn around nobody knows whether they are passing or not. Lectures are fluffed up to overcomplicate simple concepts.

Terrible grading scheme. Torture.

We still have not been given back an assignment that was due in September. This is completely unacceptable. The final is in less than a week and I have no idea what my grade it.

never ever ever take a class from this prof. she still hasn't given back assignment marks from two and a half months ago despite the final being in 5 days. the marking scheme is so messed up that someone with 100's on all assignments and an 84 on the exam will earn a lower grade than someone with 85's on all assignments and an 80 on the exam.

Lectures are easy to understand. She seems friendly but inflexible. Assignments from September haven't been returned yet and the final is in 3 days! She blamed the lack of released grades and poor time management on students needing accommodation and sending emails with course questions. We have no idea if we're passing or not and the final is 10%.

Very poor time management skills. The grading scheme is terrible. No feedback or receiving marks from assignments completed in early October. The exam is in 3 days and we have no clue how we are doing in the class. Do not recommend this prof.

Surprised to see so many positive reviews. Worst class I've taken at university with regards to professor time management. She seems to truly have good intentions, but terrible execution. A lot of unnecessary stress caused by the complete lack of graded feedback. Assignments still not returned and the final exam was last week. Horrid experience.

It's been rough. I raised four assignments in this course, and after raising them it seems they've all left me without checking in on me. My first born, Assignment 1, left me 3 months ago... and has not checked in to see how I'm doing. The worst part is that I can't even claim child benefits anymore :(

Grading scheme from hell. Handed in assignment one at the start of the semester and wrote the final exam with still no feedback. Make sure you earn the final exam grade stated in your base grade requirements otherwise it'll count the same as if you never wrote it at all!

Takes forever to grade things. Today we finally just received the assignment that was due in September. This is completely unacceptable.

Literally one of the worst professors I've had. She didn't grade anything on time and the grading scheme for the class is general was such nonsense. If stuff was marked quicker there was a bunch of extra work that I wouldn't have done. It was a waste of my time. She also made all the instructions for the assignments way too long and confusing.

Terrible grading scheme and assignment instructions. Avoid this course if you can.

Just bad. Hard to follow lectures and hard exams. She found a way to somehow make every concept incredibly confusing. talked way too fast and the course was presented in an incredibly difficult to follow manner. The grading scheme was also unfair and confusing.

Most ridiculous marking scheme, super harsh. The notion that "It's possible to get 100% in my course" isn't valid to most students. Normal marking scheme: receiving mostly level 4s and one level 2 would result in a level 3, but nope, instead one level 2 tanks the mark as if it were a level 2. Marks come back too late so you do more work than needed

Course structure is built upon a base grade and increments making the course easy to pass but extremely difficult to do well in. Started the course off with the highest base grade but was instantly dropped to the lowest base grade due to one assignment. Don't expect to know your grade until 2 days before they need to be submitted to the registar.

Horrible, even though I did somewhat okay! She was horrible and I think I just got super lucky with the way things ended in 2021. But yeah, not great and she messed up my grades too, to which she had to regrade it and I had to spend money again on another transcript. so don't recommend it at all, love the grading scheme though, truly relaxing.

I'd like to think that she is trying her best, and maybe she is having trouble managing her time. But the thing is the lectures arent even synchronous. THAT IS, she is using material she had previously created. The marking scheme is bad. THAT IS, it sets you up for failure. To describe what it feels like in one word: incompetence.

This prof somehow makes simple concepts extremely confusing and not straight forward, I wouldn't recommend this class to anyone if they don't have to take it. Also, the marking scheme is not good. If you mess one thing up your grade drops 20%, and you won't even know of that 20% drop until the course is finished. That is, the marking is snail pace

This course is just ridiculous, it is only one day before the final and we still have not gotten our midterm results back nor a majority of the course work. The prof tries to be nice but we've all seen significantly larger courses run more efficiently.

stupidest marking scheme you can ever think of. if you get a 50 on the midterm and an 80 on the final you might not even pass. get it together jenny what is this

Such a bad professor. Makes statistical concepts so confusing for no reason. No time management skills at all. We were forced to teach ourselves the last few lectures on ANOVA and post-hoc tests because she ran out of time to teach them but still put them on the final exam. We did not get our grades back until two weeks into SECOND semester.

1. She cant teach ANY concepts properly 2. her slides are useless on the concepts after the midterm 3. she takes years to mark your assignments/tests 4. I could literally teach the course better than her

I have never seen worse slides, do not go to the lectures. She takes years to explain anything. also takes years to mark anything, hasn't handed anything back before the final. so do not know what mark you are going into the final with. Also the most confusing marking scheme i have ever seen. Do not take this class if you don't have to.

Honestly one of the worst learning experiences I've ever had. Classes were absolutely useless, we were behind 4 weeks worth of content like 2 weeks before our final. Marking scheme sucks you have no idea how you're doing in the course cuz u don't get anything back. If u get a 95 on the midterm and a 70 on the final and you're mark drops like 12%.

Teaching is very poor, explanation of concepts especially for standard deviation and confidence intervals. No point in even watching the videos, you would honestly save more time watching wise-rep or YouTube videos than trying to listen and understand this professor. the amount of frustration is not explainable.

The "base grade" scheme is the worst ever evaluation process I've seen in my life. Lengthy and unclear instructions for assignments, labs, lectures, and basically everything. At this point, I only question her qualifications for teaching people.

Marking scheme is almost impossible to understand. Base grading marks zero sense. Takes ages to release grades for assigned work, yet keeps assigning more work. Grades are received based on a credit system yet you don't know if you have enough credits to skip an assignment since you don't have your grades. Lectures are useless, skip this course.

Horribly disorganized course. Lectures seem like they are thrown together and have no structure. Through 3 classes you get through 4-5 slides of one PowerPoint

Like everyone says her marking is so incredibly slow. It's extremely unfair to students and genuinely caused me so much anxiety waiting to know what my marks were. She didn't hand back stuff handed in in october until literally today. Went into the final with no idea where I was in the course. Marking scheme legit sets you up to get lower marks.

The course is extremely disorganized and horribly paced. It's March 30, and we're just starting a topic that her syllabus says we should have completed 11 days ago. There are 6 school days left before classes finish, and because her pacing is so bad, we have to cram 5 labs, 2 assignments, and all the most important coursework in right before exams.

We just had our last lecture yesterday and didn't even get through the material. She encouraged us to stay past the end of class time to "wrap up a point". Not even sure what the final exam will be on since we didn't finish all the content!

The final is in six days and we have not gotten our midterm marks back yet. She spends most of her time writing unnecessarily long emails. I thought everyone was exaggerating about her but jesus this is absolutely insane. I have no idea what my mark is going into the final because I haven't received a mark back since FEBRUARY.

Terrible professor. Night before the final exam we've only gotten back around 3% of our grade in the course. The grading scheme is outrageous (if you lose 0.5 on an activity, it can drop ur grade down 3%), and is designed for students to get a poor grade. Content isn't that bad, yet its taught in the worst way possible.

In all my 5 years of education, I have never ever met a professor as unorganized as her. Our final exam is TOMORROW and we only got back 2 pieces of work ( worth 3% of our whole grade). No one knows their official standing in the course. Many other STATS courses in different schools do not use coding. Difficult course with terrible way of teaching.

The final exam is tomorrow and we only have gotten back 2 evaluations worth 3% of our final grade back, even though she said she would return other things multiple times throughout the course. Excessive, over-the-top definitions for simple concepts, long modules you can't speed up, and tedious assignments.

This is the worst professor that I have ever met and could ever possibly meet, no course grade and no structure. Overly complicated and simply unnecessary, I was told that the first assignment would be out tonight, but nothing came out yet. Lack of responsibility and care for students.

For a reputable university to which we pay $20,000 per year, one would naturally expect professors who complete their work diligently with organization. I'm afraid this prof is caught up in her delusions, offloading her brain power to responding to students' emails with extensive 8-10 paragraph responses rather than marking our work.

It is now the day before the final exam and all we have is about 6% of our final grade back. She keeps promising dates for assignment returns and then not following through on them.

We still have no marks back except for two activities. It's been a month since we submitted our first assignment. Our final exam is tomorrow. I will be expecting to get my grades back by the time I get my undergrad diploma.

The Statistical Software Program R...

I cannot understand her lectures, she takes 10 mins to explain something that can be explained in a phrase and overcomplicates contents. Exam was easy, but horrible coursen, horrible R studio software, western should fire her.

It's been 16 days since we wrote the final and we still haven't got our midterm marks back lol. As a professor, I would expect better time management skills and responsibility to own up to it. Instead, she makes excuse after excuse thru long e-mails when she could just use that time to grade our stuff.

It's been 18 days since the final exam and 40 days since my midterm. I have the mark for 3/5 activities, 2/3 assignments and no midterm or final. I currently know 36% of my overall mark... She blames it on the TA contract ending on the day of our final, which is understandable, but where are the midterm, and the other activities/assignments???

Never gives back marks when she says she will, complains about all of the things going on in her life in lengthy emails instead of grading the work that she has assigned. The midterm was written on July 9th, it is now august 24th and I STILL have not gotten the mark back, same with the final, and 2 of the assignments. Avoid Peter at all costs!!

She sent us an email 2 weeks ago that we will get our marks back in a week. We haven't heard anything back since then, she ghosted us......

Over/under 3.5 slides. Prof Jen Peter does not stop the yap fest at any point in time.

JENNIFER! The biggest yapper in London, Ontario, all she does is yap yap yap yap yap, one lecture from the yapper gets you clap clap clapped. In all seriousness though, her lectures are useless and I had to take an Adderall to attentively listen to the yap fest. The statistical software R :D The sampling distribution of sample means :D.

This woman created yapping, all of her hour long lectures can be taught by a 10 minute khan academy video. She takes forever to get grades back and her grading scheme is the worst thing ever, like wtf is P M A etc. JUST GAVE ME A PERCENT. Hoping she realizes teaching is not her true calling and quits and finds happiness so future students can too.

Her lecturing style is deeply concerning, as it not only fails to effectively engage students but also creates a detrimental environment for teaching assistants. There is a glaring absence of efficiency in her approach, which results in unnecessary distress for both students and TAs.

If I had the chance to turn back time, do not take this course, taking this course with JP has caused me a lot of stress in future classes which built on top of this class. JP does not prepare us enough and I would recommend taking stats 2857 if you can, It will save you in the future.

This professor provides innapropriate time to complete assignments and quizzes, and on top of that, you will not know your grades for these quizzes and assignments until AFTER your final exam. She marks horrible and has the worst time management known to humankind. she has somehow made an otherwise easy course the bane of my existence.

Crazy marking scheme. The content isnt even hard but the marking scheme is heavily flawed. Yapper.

Nothing is marked in a timely fashion, questions are not answered appropriately, ALWAYS uses more words than necessary and runs out of time to get things done. Content is easy but lectures are painfully slow. Told us to be nice when reviewing her because reviews are "biased against women and minorities" when in reality, she's just bad at her job.

Gives possibly one of the most convoluted and unnecessarily long explanations of all time. I used to love stats and I had an intuitive understanding of t-tests and ANOVA and would use them often to write lab reports in IB, not anymore. My life is now way way harder thanks to JP.

worst class ive taken not that its hard but the teacher and assignment marking and midterm marking are horrible. Never tells us what we got on assignments rather it is just estimated final grade assuming u get 100% on the final like who does that i just wanna know what i got on the assignment. I would avoid this course at all cost.

the only thing you get out of this course is learning how to read paragraphs and paragraphs of information in a short period of time. literally EVERYTHING in the course is so much yap except the lecture slides, which is impossible to understand even when she "annotates" them. yikes!

Can't mark fairly. Final grades can fluctuate by 10% simply from unfair marking. Make sure to review your marks and ask for a regrade for every little thing.

WHat the actual. Cannot mark anything fairly, the syllybus is not understandable. Have a GPA of 90+ before taking this course, and this course just wrecked everything. The Labs are super long, there is 9+ assignments that are super long and involves heavy reading. ITS A STAT COURSE why am i reading ESSAYS and ESSAYS.

Spent half the course explaining in detail the easy topics only to rush through the difficult ones at the end. Everything in this course is so wordy and over complicated. The grading is also quite subjective. I would not recommend taking this in the school year.

I am genuinely in awe at how her marking scheme is approved by Western. The assignments are marked in such a way that if you miss ONE little thing in 1/3 of them (something that isn't even specifically asked), you get a 28% out of 30% overall in the Assignment category??? On the exams you could miss 1 word in your page long answer and get 2/3.

We received our first grades back less than 24 hours before the final exam and the grading scheme was unforgiving for small mistakes. I found that the lecture content was poorly explained and simple topics were overcomplicated.

This is supposed to be a science course, but there's an overwhelming amount of reading and writing assignments. I honestly don't understand why we're spending so much time on writings. It feels more like an English or philosophy class than a science course

Everytime I drove to school I prayed that I would get in a car accident so I didn't have to attend her lecture.

Very terrible class, assignment grading is the stupidest criteria you will ever see in your whole education career. Even if you try your best to make a bad grading for an assignment, you won't make it as bad. Takes forever to grade, you might get your midterm couple days before your final exam while she has a ton of TAs.

Speechless

Don't ever take her courses

Very unclear marking scheme; long, gross, redundant instructions/teaching; take the course on LOP if you can

This professor made me lose interest in stats already

grading scheme makes no sense and she takes forever to get ur grades back to you. for half the course she would spend an entire lecture on 3 slides and then near the end of the course she flies through everything. the midterm only 3 topics when there are 11 topics in total...

Grading scheme incredibly confusing, all assignments were pass/fail and difficult to complete because she was always behind in lecture material and it would take forever to get assignments back, which determines if we do the next assignment(s) because of the grading system. Labs were useless, and we got little help with coding assignments.

Professor Peter was a good professor up until the midterm (which was only on 3 chapters when the final exam was on 11). After the midterm everything changed. She would NEVER return any marks or assignments, and she is so picky with her grading if you miss one word you could lose tons of marks on an answer. If you dont have to, dont take this class.

It's a crime to make this course mandatory. JP doesn't return ANYTHING on time, we are left in the dark until the very last day of the course. In fact it's now 24 hours before the final exam and I still haven't gotten my assignments back, nor has she regraded my midterm. Marking schemes are ridiculous and exams questions are overwhelmingly long.

Do not recommend. Terrible grading schema, lessons are convoluted, and grades come back so late that once you realize you failed an assignment, the course drop date already passed. Grading is terrible, a friend and i submitted the same assignment; I failed and he got a near 100%. Grading schema will fail you out of the course with an 80 course avg.

I wrote the rating below this, just making an adjustment to the difficulty. It is DEFINITELY a difficult. Not because of the content though, it's solely due to the way the tests and assignments are graded and structured. Med Sci student wanting a 4.0 in this course? Dream on.

this is the most terribly managed course at western, maybe even in all of Canada. it (somehow) explains concepts in a way that's too easy AND too complex, which makes you leave the course learning nothing. the cherry on top is that the grading scheme is disgustingly vague and nothing gets returned within a reasonable time frame.

Not gonna lie, the worst course I've ever taken

This is the first time I've seen so many ones for a prof, Western should come and see this.

JP makes her lectures unnecessary confusing, by using scientific jargon that clearly doesn't need to be used. He grading scheme is outdated, she doesn't work on evenings and weekends, and she can't give clear instructions. Instead she provides a 100 page pdf that includes so much unneeded filler. Exams do not reflect how much you study at all.

Avoid her at all cost!

Weekly assignments take hours, yet feedback can take a month or more. The grading scheme is brutal: one Level 2 out of many will cost you 10% of your final grade, and minor combinations still lead to failure. Easily the most unfair and demoralizing grading system I've experienced—avoid if you can, for your own sake.

Avoid this course.

It is time for her to refle ct herself, after asking us doing tons of “refl ection” writing which has nothing related to statistics content.

TWO WEEKS AFTER FINAL, STILL NO MARKS?????