Just read txtbook. Her lectures are pointless unless you want to know how to do the exercises on the slides. My highschool data management teacher teaches better than her.

She is the worst professor I've ever met. In lecture, she just read through the book as well as slides and do some proofs or calculations. Also, she got two term test with 95% similarity for different test section. The later section can easily get the answer from the former one and have 2 more days for preparing. That's ridiculous.

Lecture is a waste of time and test questions are unfair. She made the exact same questions for both sections while the tests were scheduled two days apart. During the test she refuses to clarify ambiguous questions. Avoid her if you can

She doesn't understand statistics well and what she is doing is only reading the slides. This course is useful regarding the knowledge, whereas my experience is really bad.

I do not like her. As statistics prof., she even made simple mistakes in simple calculus. In her lecture, she just read slides and did nothing.

She always made mistakes and give the same tests for two sections in Monday and Wednesday. For unclear questions, she always refuses to answer it. Also, she is not even close to nice during her office hour. I've been there once and I swear I will never go again. She really messed up this attracting course. Anyway, she is really nc.

I've got to say that her lecture is totally useless as well as her office hour. She always gave vague answers and explanation in class and refuse to clear them. Also, she made tons of mistakes in simple calculations which is rarely seen in such a stats course. All in all, she messed up this fascinating course.

Repeating the slides is what she usually does in class, which is kinda useless. She also has tons of typos and wrong answers on her slides, most of the time she could not correct herself and instead ask us to figure out later. She gave two different sections the similar tests for midterms, but the test time was on different days.

Take her lecture if you want to fail. My CGPA is currently 4.0 and I think it will change because of this course. I haven't ever found statistics that hard. Even though her slides are not too bad, there are countless typos and she cannot even fix her mistakes during the lecture. If you have to take courses taught by her, good luck.

Terrible Avoid at all cost, just read the textbook. Has a condensing attitude.

the exam was soooooo hard

Worst prof I had at U of T. DO NOT CHOOSE Katherine for STA257!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!

So bad teaching and so hard test!

Such an difficult exam. Barely understands the problems. Quiz 4 HARD as well. Study for past tests and exercise are not helping.

Same midterm for two class in different days. She said it was absolutely fair. Super hard final, you cant understand what the question is asking. Nothing was covered in class or book.

Hardest test I've ever had

I literally did all the assignments, past tests and even lots of extra problems on the back of the book but nothing helps the exam lol

Definitely the worst professor I've ever met in uoft. Good job reading from slides without explanation. Made mistakes in EVERY LECTURE. Covered knowledge from third year and even fourth year statistics courses in a second year course. Exam was not representative for course material.

The final was far from the content she taught in the lecture, but weighed for 50% (or 70% of the course grade. The wording and question form were totally different. She literally read off the slides, which are copies from the text book. No emphasis for key points, no solutions for quizzes, and nothing learnt actually from her.

Lectures consisted of her reading off her slides which were primarily copy pasted from the textbook. The first few tests were reasonable. Midterm was hard but fair, but the final did not represent what was covered in the course and seemed solley created to test students recall of specific integration tricks shown in lecture and the like.

She is unenthusiastic about teaching and does not prioritize students. Basically told us in the last lecture that this class is not her priority because she needs to study for her own phD finals. Lecture is boring and confusing. The midterm paper was the same for Monday and Wednesday's section so Wednesday got higher and she didn't care.

That final was the hardest test Ive taken in my life despite feeling prepared from doing past tests. In danger of failing the course now.

WORST course ever, what kind of professor reads texts from slides that's directly copied from the textbook? WORD-BY-WORD COPYING... If we could just read the textbook, why would we still need you? She gave the MOST difficult final exam I have ever taken, didn't have a clue what's being tested... DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS, LIKE EVER!!!

Her slides are copy and pasted from the textbook and she doesn't expand on concepts in lectures, making them useless. Even one on one I find that she is not confident in her explanations or isn't clear. As a new prof this is expected but it's unforgivable when she gives us a final with none of the material she has prepared us with.

Lectures are a waste of time. Skipping class and reading the textbook in a library is a better use of time. I dont know how she manages to copy and paste the textbook and do it wrong every week. Every time someone called her out she kind of evaded the question. I attended both evening and night lectures and she rushes through night ones to go home

First of all this was not very mathematically rigorously taught, more like we had to develop the intuition and learn the material on our own as the lectures were just a carbon copy of the textbook. Exam did not appropriately test on the material that we learned throughout the course and was not fair at all, regardless if you did the ALL problems.

I probably gonna fail STA257, she is rediculous. Failing people for fun

During lecture, all she did was copy notes from the textbook (with lots of errors) and recited them to us without explanation. In the night section, she would often rush through content so that she could leave early (class went until 10). The questions on the final were not at all like what we saw in class, on quizzes, or in the textbook.

The worst prof I have seen at UofT, or I should not say she is a prof or a teacher. She does not keen on this course at all. Always make tons of mistakes in every weeks lecture I even do not know how could she make it. I really enjoy studying math and statistics but I cannot get any happiness in her course. Do not take her class!!!

super hard final. Choose her if you want to fail the course

Choose Katherine if you want fail this course. The final exam is too hard, not matching what she taught in the class. It's like a final exam for graduate students. She did not teach you anything in the lectures(slides is literally copy paste from the textbook and still have lots of typos)and expect you just know yourself. It's ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!

dont take it. u'll regret it forever. The final exam is way harder than the materials we leaarnt throughout the term (and the past papers taht were given to us). I knew im going to fail the minute i see the question. I did every single question in the textbook but still got totally lost while writing the final.

The difficulty does not match her quality of teaching. 1.) 6/12 weeks, she has made a typo. Not corrected. With the exception of one time. 2.) The overall attitude, philosophy, environment, organization, of the class is not good. She admitted that she makes awkward typos about 3 times but there is no change 3.) I got no more char left, it goes on

Too many typos in her slides. The final was extremely difficult; even doing every question in the textbook was of little help.

Bad lecture, slides reader. And refuse to help. Worst prof Ive seen ever. I got A in all other second year course except for this one. Her final exam is soooooooooo hard, and not related to what she talk about in lectures.

Absolutely horrible. Lectures were meaningless and the final was much harder than the usual course materials. She fits nicely in the horrible stats department at UofT.

Assignment is hard. Read slides. I have 5 midterms at the same date and I ask for change to other section to write the midterm. But she didnt allowed. No nice at all.

lots of typos, lots of assignments, slides reader

kat has a great personality but that doesnt change the fact that she gives very difficult tests yet she always expects us to do well. i mean, can she try our shoes? like the class avg is always 50% or 40%, doesnt this say enough???? hope she knows how to set up a good test in the future.

tooooooo hard for sta302 students

40% midterm average lots of assignments hard coding dont take it

The professor is juts reading her slides, so it is boring. However, you need to go to class just to have participation mark. This class would have been done in 2h, totally unuseful blablabla from the teacher... I do not recommend at all.

this prof is the laziest thing I've ever met. Honestly she should go back to how-to-become-a-professor school. I'd personally like to thank the textbook for my success in this class.

I got an A, but she is the worst prof I have ever had. I never go to the lecture, but I think that is the reason why I can get an A.

I cant say she is a teacher... Many typos in the slides and she even cant do calculation correctly. I have never thought math and sat be that hard. Though I got A+ in the end, I still dont like her lectures. I have done all the practice she assigned in the textbook, but the coefficient of correlation between practice and exam is 0:)

Everything is hard and ambiguous. Slides are wordy and much of words are useless, hard exams, ambiguous problems on assignments and exams, just read slides during lecture, low midterm grades (42%) and the curve can be neglected, plus full of typos on everything. The worst prof I've met. Just avoid her if you can.

Worst prof. At the beginning of term when the class really disliked her I kind of felt bad, but by the end of term I also can't stand her anymore. Slide reader, lots of typos, cannot answer questions asked in class, unreasonable exams. I learned more from my tutorial TA.. However, could not avoid because there's only one session of this class...

Online quiz extremely difficult. Never give enough time. Lecture sucks.

Just never wanna see her again in my life, worst prof ever

I missed a midterm because I was hospitalized for 3 weeks. It was impossible to submit a verification of illness(VOI) within a week. When I finally submitted it, she didn't accept it and said I didn't provide evidence of hospitalization. This was during the covid-19 pandemic, and this was my only course to graduate school. Screwed my job and life

Extremely hard test. Test materials are not really related to the courses, it is much much harder.

Really bad professor, doesn't know how to teach, doesn't care about teaching AND HAS REALLY TOUGH UNRELATED TESTS!!! Do not take her courses if you can. You will save your mental health.

AVOID AVOID AVOID! Worst prof. Unempathetic. Ignores students' needs and accommodations. She adds ridiculous rules to fail people.

Textbook not mandatory, but you'll need it to prepare for her brutal tests. The lecture material will *not* prepare you for tests - don't like the assignments fool you. Need to ask a question? Don't expect any good responses from Piazza, where she only offers one line answers and sometimes with condescending language.

Midterm average below passing grade says a lot. Plus she only curved up to 50, the minimum grade required to pass. TOO MANY MISTAKES IN SLIDES. I think teachers should know to self-reflect and try to improve when only less than 10% of the students enrolled show up to class, especially while attendance counts for marks.

Very difficult. DO not take with her. Made me hate anything to do with stats and. Did not teach well, lectures were only a summary of modules and did not solve questions that were reflective of the difficulty of the tests.

Insensitive comments when responding to students. Refuses to listen to students needs and does not troubleshoot. Blames students for her own mistakes. Condescending tone and passive aggressive comments. Numerous errors on quiz and yet does not admit her mistakes. Honestly just fix them and move on.

She never answer emails, The length of preparation is the same as lecture hour

I will repeat three times: avoid her, avoid her, avoid her!!!!!!!! If you don't want to have mental health problems or having a headache every single day.

The single biggest thing is her lack of empathy and communication skills with students. She leaves passive-aggressive comments and short answers on Piazza. She blames students whenever there's an opportunity to. She plays the victim when students need help. Instead of taking the time to listen and consider concerns, she deflects. It's pitiful

Lazy. We have to watch close to 1-2 hours of videos before class and then she goes over everything in a hurry. Does not often explain the intuition behind certain statistical theories. Her course is poorly designed.

Unintelligible lectures, tricky quizzes, annoying marked group discussion.

To be honest, her lecture is fine, but the quizzes are sucked, when she wrote the quiz, only Gods and her know what the hell is she doing, and now, only gods know. Her quizzes always appear with some ambiguous options. I wouldn't take this class If it weren't the necessary crouse for my program, and I will Never ever choose her class again.

Recommend her to take CSC165 first. Always write proof informal.

Don't take her

I love statistics, but this course feels more like a chore than a learning experience. The only reason to attend lecture is to get the participation mark and do the unnecessary quiz at the end. There is heavy pre lecture prep and needless synchronous lectures with little value to add to the independent prep. The lectures are boring and repetitive.

Extremely difficult test, easy examples in class. Well done, Katherine!

Reviewing for the test is useless. Prepare to die.

I was actually looking forward to this course but Katherine absolutely ruined it. Why would someone teach stats if they're clearly not interested in the students' learning process?? The probability of you enjoying the lectures is 0. Just read the slides rather than watching the long, boring videos, as that's basically what she's doing.

I gave 1.0 because apparently RMP does not allow me to give 0 or below. Tests are difficult while lectures are useless.

Her lecture is literally just reading from the slides, will not admit her mistakes during the lecture, and definitely does not know how to write proof rigorously. She will not answer the students' questions and literally ignore our questions. Tests are way harder than questions in lecture. DO NOT TAKE HER!!!!!!

Avoid her if possible, worst prof I've had in uoft. Lectures are useless, reads completely off of her slides. Weekly quizzes are weirdly worded. She simply doesn't care about students.

Worst prof I had at uoft as a math specialist. Both bad at explaining and testing Most disrespectful thing is giving us an assignment where we literally just make more multiple choice questions for her to use for her next year class, like seriously why do we have to design your course for you just because you, as a TEACHING STREAM professor, cbf to

The median for the test was 52. This isn't a measure of the students' competency, but solely a reflection of prof. Daignault's absolutely pathetic teaching style. I hope you're not compelled to take her as I was. My sincere condolences to her future employers.

Had such a traumatic experience in STA257, I really wish I had listened to what rate my professor and raddit posts said about her... Run as far as you can

Worst prof ever. The assignment is to make multiple choices for her future use.

Why would she not correct the slides in a PRE-RECORDED lecture!? How lazy can one be? Also why would she not post the annotated slides after the lecture is done!? These are just basic things she could improve on apart from the inaccessibility and mediocre lectures. The slides are all empty when you want to review for the exam to cross-check.

Her final redefines hell, thats all Im going to say

Just don't take this if STA257 is not mandatory. The pre-lecture videos are just reading slides and the lecture is mostly-repeating slides -- but in a faster way. If you do need to take STA257, I recommend you to take the summer section. Tests are really hard compared to what she teaches. Quizzes are time-intensive and need lots of work. GPA killer

I would be lying if I said I had a remotely fruitful or engaging learning experience from STA257. Quizzes were clearly worded with the sole intention to spark confusion, lectures were simply a regurgitation of the slides and the overall class environment was one in which any wrongdoing could only be on the part of students and not Prof Daignault.

Test questions are pretty hard.......

All of her test questions are extremely ambiguous. She takes forever to mark the tests and takes a long time to respond. Has double-standards.

Taking this course is the worst experience in uni and I received the worst grade that I have ever got with no surprise. This is the only course I feel like hard-working gains nothing in the end.

Her question is so strange. I understand every word in her question but I dont understand the question. Her ppt content is very simple but the exam content is very complicated

I mean her lectures and Mini Projects are just fine, but the tests are just terrible. The questions are just completely unrelated to the stuff she covered in lectures and everything u reviewed is just useless. I never expect I'm managed to fail the first course in university, the last semester before graduation.

The midterm for her online course was killer. Unlike any other midterm she or any stats prof has ever written. Her questions are weirdly written and the formulas written were not stuff she taught in class. There were 3 assignments, 1 midterm, 2 "mini-projects" (one being a bs recorded presentation), and one final project. So much work!!!

I hate her. Taking 302 with her in the fall rn, we have discussions, in-class labs, tests, a plethora of exercises and assignments split into many parts, and a final project. I don't get why she's making this course so work-heavy. I spend more time on her 3 part assignments than I do on actual important courses, and all that for 5-10% each.

Although this is a statistics course, KD is good at writing super long slides with text all over it. Prepare to read her fking long slides and around 1.5-2 hours of pre-lecture videos

She successfully makes learning statistics boring and difficult, literally read from slides, and all the example questions are like "1+12" but the midterm questions are like "Please solve Russell's paradox".

I had to create an account on this website just to express how bad of a prof she is. She packs the lectures with way too much content and gives way too much work. Lots of memorization with little intuitive explanations, so it's extremely difficult to actually get a conceptual understanding. I've had bad profs before, but this is incomparable.

Just dropping here that if we can have a course where the class average for the midterm isn't significantly below 50 for all sections, that would be great thanks.

Sooooooo many assignments and tests and projects! And we have a midterm that avg is below 60

She has absolutely no sympathy. Takes every suggestion as personal attack. Lectures are basically reading slides and tests are hard. Avoid her if you need the grades

She doesn't respect our efforts: 1. just reading slides during lecture time without any explanation. 2. Test and assignment marks are very random, answers write in two pages, she will not check the second page, just give 0 based on the first page. 3. most assignment is useless, test your writing skills, not statistic skills.

Can you believe that she does not allow statistics students to find datasets from Kaggle, UCL machine learning, etc? I have to spend days finding a dataset that satisfies her requirements.

She is a ppt reader, totally waste of time to attend her lecture. Always made mistakes in quizzes, quite rude to students. Worst professor I have ever seen.

Overwhelming slides every week, disorganized lectures and overall course structure. Arbitrary grader. Honestly, the content shouldn't even be that difficult - she just makes it extremely hard to piece everything together so, in the end, your understanding is filled with gaps. Even if you grind at her class, there's a good chance you'll fail. F her.

Usually never bother to leave reviews but this prof was absolutely horrendous. Worst prof in my entire undergrad, has no respect or empathy and gives 0 f about students and accommodating accessibilities. Horrible human being, I thought I knew what I was going into taking a course with her but holy I was so wrong. AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS.

Too many assignments that are packed close to each other. Grading was late making impossible to drop course or CR/NCR before deadline. Only took bc it was a mandatory course. Terrible experience. While prof tries to be nice, way too high requirements. Long assignments and will nitpick. Terrible midterm average and will only "consider" curving.

Literally the most difficult course I ever took in UofT. Quizzes are insanely hard and lectures do not help at all. Course is filled with thousands of ridiculous graded discussions and assignments. The time commitment required to marginally do good in this course is extremely high. Don't take this course with Prof Katherine and yourself a favour.

She has absolutely no empathy. I was in hospital and wasn't even given an extension on the midterm. Lectures are completely useless, she just reads off her slides. At least 2 assessments each week, some of them have no takeaways but only to waste your time. She also gives assessments that are due on Sunday and during reading week.

Waste your time!!

Too many meaningless but lengthy assessments. Marking is inconsistent

This professor is by far one of the toughest at UofT. Her tests are very difficult and the rubric for her assignments (which are long and pointless) are unforgiving to any mistakes whatsoever. Avoid this professor if possible as this is the hardest course I've taken at UofT.

Too many assignments to complete (1-5% each) that requires at least a week of work for each + weekly quizzes that are almost impossible to do.

Way too many assessments

Never take a class with her.

The grading in this course are very inconsistent. She's also terrible at teaching. TAs are also just as incompetent as her!!!

Grading is all over the place.

Avoid her if you can.

Awful! Avoid at all costs. Does not care much about students. Grading expectations are unclear.

The most awful professor I have ever seen. Unreasonable marks on projects (She did not even tell us what we should do clearly).

worst prof ever seen, donnnnnnnnnn't choose this ***. I am so regretful taking her course. it would be the nightmare of my whole life

She is the most awful and most disrespectful prof I have ever seennnnnn. Taking her course is the worst choice I have ever made

If STA302 is your requisite course, AVOID this professor. Please consider taking the course in winter or summer term with other professors.

Difficult test & projects, strict grading scheme

Strict criteria and non-sensical grading expectations baffled me. While the course is relatively straightforward, she cannot communicate her ideas. She is easily offended, and questions are taken as criticism taking up a defensive tone as though we're attacking her character. The course isn't comprehensive, and when asked questions, she's vague.

Had to write this review for STA220 since STA288 isn't on the list. This prof does not do a good job at conveying her ideas properly through her lectures. She does a horrendous job at explaining very basic concepts, and goes off on tangents irrelevant for testing. The average for test 1 was 58% for a 2nd year course which says something. Avoid.

She copies equations from the textbooks onto her slides and regurgitates them to the students. A very passive-aggressive person when you direct questions to her. She deliberately made the final exam extremely hard to punish students for leaving in the middle of her lectures. STA257 builds the foundation for ML, and this Prof undeniably failed it.

she puts in 0 effort in her class

Isn't a professor's job to teach students knowledge but why does it seem like her job is to give the students a hard time in the exam? I studied all I could and did multiple past exams, none of which helped me on the exam. For students, the exams and assignments are the only way to show our learning, which is not the case for this midterm.

Bad professor

Midterm is too difficult

Tests are way too difficult, even if you review weeks ahead and do all the practice tests, the exam will still be unexpectedly hard! What is the point🙂?

Awful experience in the lecture, limited you can get from the course but they will all appear in the exam paper. Very tough experience in the exam.

If you want a midterm with an average of 58, come enjoy ^v^

Unclear and extremely unfair in grading/test design

STA302 is the most pointless and meaningless course I have ever taken in this university. The department of statistics should be shame of designing such a horrible and useless course. If you want to get a high mark on the exam, you should probably steal the rubric from the professor and memorize every single word on it.

She actually takes marks off for regrade requests. My group got 3 points off after submitting a regrade request

Her marking scheme is so specific that even a slight deviation means you just get a 0, even if you've done everything else right. Puts no effort into lecture (videos are from 3 years ago and does not teach in person). Refuses to curve even when grades are poor.

Sta302 with katherine was the worst decision of my life. Its 100% self study, immediately dropped 302, because she was teaching it again. She barely teachers, reverse classroom is really bad...

Slides are super hard to understand. Does not teach in person just makes you watch videos where she barely explains course concepts/explains in a way that makes you confused and she's clearly just reading off a script. Midterm had an average of 58% and not curved. Midterm way harder than the exercises which was almost all we were given to practice

Worst experience in my life sitting in the room doing her exams, I'm not sure why she makes the exam so hard that everyone feels horrible after the exam. It has tremendous calculations, many concept explanation, but she barely explains nor writes clearly in her slides...

The final was hard as HELL

Possibly the course with lowest grade over my 4 years' university, despite I dedicated a decent amount of time to study.

Shabi with the tricky final exam and midterm, tough marking of project.

The final is so hard

Lectures don't make sense at all. The material is actually really easy, but she will try her very best to invent new grammar in the lecture slides.

So awful, dont take this professor

The professor really does not know how to teach. Her videos just confuse me even more and I just find it better to self study the concept.

My grandma is better at teaching than this prof.

We have 2 profs in this semester but she was on leave for some reason, while another prof is leading the class to chaos, this does not makes her a good prof because of the diffculty of the midterm is mismatching what was being taught in the lecture

Seems like she enjoys making students suffer. Always gives unreasonable tests, always deducts student's mark for strange reasons even when there is actually a grading mistake while students request a regrade.

Genuinely the worst prof at UofT. I hope she reads this and see how many people went out of their way to log onto rate my prof to give her the worst rating possible. - Lectures are unhelpful and extremely surface level, struggles to answer questions. - Test was not similar to any of the practice material. No curve or support given after.