can't understand a word she says, terrible

zuro=zero, just remember that. hard to understand. doesn't handle questions well

Worst teacher ever!!! Writes horrible notes!! Hard to Understand!! Don't take it

Hard to understand, didn't follow material presented in class.

Do not take her for any class. She is the worst Prof. ever!!!!!!!!

by far the worst instructor on campus. i asked for help once and she told me that if i didn't understand this section then i wouldn't understand any of the following sections. she then turned her back to me and never helped

Absolute worst teacher ever, thru college, high school and grade school. She's super tough to understand and it seems like she likes failing her students. She won't let you use any formulas on quizzes or tests, so you have to memorize it all. AVOID HER

worst teacher ever

This woman likes to fail people. She doesnt help when you ask for help, she confuses you until you just act like you know what she is talking about and leave. She likes to say, "If you dont understand this, you shouldn't be in this class." Do

This professor sucks -- plain and simple. Avoid her like the plague.

Out of 89 credits this is hands down the WORST professor I have ever had. She is hard to understand, does not teach proficiently and is unwilling to help students. I attended tutoring 3 times a week and still did not pass her course. I have had 4 math classes prior with A's. DO TH MATH, STAY AWAY!

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If you are about to talk one of her classes, get out of it right away. She is the worst professors on campus. She can hardly speak english. Don't take her class.

simply put: worst professor at CMU. Her tests are easy if you know the material. If you don't, good luck passing the class. Shes impossible to understand, and has no sympathy for those who dont know the material. Her class is nothing but an unorganized cluster of information. AVOID...seriously...

Didn't teach a thing the whole semester. Took examples straight from the book and didn't show any examples. She would talk about her personal life for about 20-30 min and only lecture for 10-15 min. The one bonus was the amount of extra credit there was. WOULD NOT ADVISE ANYONE IN TAKING HER!!

One word. Horrible! I am a grad student and need this course for prereqs. I learned nothing. True this is a tough course but she would not return e-mails, and when she did she was so rude. She even told she does not have time to help me understand the course. Her syllabus was not accurate and had wrong dates. Avoid her! Take someone else.

I had her a few years ago, when I recieved my report card it showed I had a D in the class. It took her 3 weeks to respond to my calls and emails. In the end, she got my student id number mixed up with another student, I was really suppose to have a B in the class. She acted like it wasn't her fault!

SHE IS FREAKING CRAZY!!! She gave us problems that were IMPOSSIBLE!!!! AVOID AT ALL COSTs!!!!!!!!

This lady is the worst teacher at cmu! Trying to understand her is hard enough, let alone the calc. If you read this and still take her you have no reason to complain. Good luck!

Cannot understand 30% of what she says because of her accent and cannot understand the other 70 because of the material and the way she teaches it. I went to her office for help a couple of times only to wind up listening to her talk on and on about her research.

To her up- she told us a story about when she was walking and grading papers simultaneously. She was in Dow while doing this- she stopped and laughed out loud at an answer that one of her students had written on his/her test. A few of her colleagues asked what she was laughing at. She showed the test and they all laughed at the student

To sum Dr. Rakesh up- she told us a story about when she was walking and grading papers simultaneously. She was in Dow while doing this- she stopped and laughed out loud at an answer that one of her students had written on his/her test. A few of her colleagues asked what she was laughing at. She showed the test and they all laughed at the student

Wow - the comment below was totally made by rakesh herself - its just like her emails.

Avoid this prof at all costs! She lacks passable phonetics, syntax, and grammer in her speech and writting. Once I became accustomed to her speech, I realized that the majority of her lectures have nothing to do with the lesson at hand. She tries to provide a great deal of resources, but should understand that communication is essential to learning

SHE IS THE WORST TEACHER I HAVE HAD IN ALL MY YEARS OF SCHOOL!!!! Take another teacher at all costs! She is terrible, does not help students at all, and half the**** on her tests are wrong! This lady is very smart but she is the worst teacher in the world. She gives a ton of quizzes but doesn't seem to grade any of them. She is terrible!!

First of you can not understand a 70% of what she is saying, i spend more time trying to figure out what she is saying then i do learning. When she finally comes around to teaching a lesson she does half of the problem stops and starts talking about her life and her son. By the end of the class u will end up with a headache from her horrble screech

Hard to understand and is constantly off topic. Its pointless to go to her lectures because between trying to understand her speech and content of what she is saying is almost impossible.

Not helpful. Did not upgrade grades at all until end of semester. Not clear and poor examples in lecture

She's obviously been rating herself. Notice how all of the reviews have come really close together. There's a lot of crappy reviews for a reason. The online homework is useless. I attended her class every day and sat in the front row, and when I went to the office for help, she asked, are you even in my class? Avoid at all costs

Honestly just awful. I had to teach myself everything and slept through classes. Still did better than a lot of kids that paid attention cus im just hardcore like that.

Cant understand her. Quizzes every week. Disrespectful to students. Taught myself everything for the class in the math center and if you for some reason take this class with her, youre going to be teaching yourself everything too.

This professor is possibly the worst teacher here at central Michigan. She is hard to understand while teaching, then while trying to understand her she gets off topic and talks about nothing to do with the class. Also always check over your tests with the person next to you because she often grades very wrong, I found that out the hard way. She is a nice person but bad teacher. If you care about your gpa and want to do good, do not by any means take this class with her. You will regret it I promise you.

Cannot understand the majority of what she says. Does not teach much, just writes the answers "usually". Unless you already know calc I would strongly suggest finding a different prof.

First day of class she told us that people rarely pass this class. Easily the worst teacher I have had during my time at Central. I highly recommend not taking this professor in any classes. She is a very nice person but does not email you back and she is the worst grader. She will tell you what the answer is and then marks it wrong. DO NOT TAKE

She's a nice lady, however, she is hard to understand as she has a heavy accent. She often gets off topic a lot in the middle of solving a problem. However, her quizzes and tests were almost the exact same as the practice ones she posts online, so you pretty much have to teach yourself. She curves heavily, however, I wouldn't recommend taking her

Don't. Just don't. Trust me. She is the worst professor I've ever had. I sat in the front since it is really hard to understand her. She gets off topic very easily and frequently. Halfway through every class, more than half the class would have left. Eventually no one came. She is also horrible at explaining things. REQUIRED: TEACH YOURSELF

So incredibly frustrating taking MATH 133 with her. Does not do much teaching and wastes half the time talking about random things that are not relevant to the topic at hand. Would not recommend. Nice lady, though.

wastes half of every class talking about complete nonsense that has nothing to do with class. Impossible to follow along with her as she works. class avg from first exam exam was around 50% and her answer to this was to give us a 1 question quizz everyday until the entire class passed it.

The worse person ever, Cant understand and is super mean. Do Not Take just do not do it

Awful professor. She is already hard to understand but she gets off topic easily and makes no sense how she teaches. She will usually write the problem then the answer and gets confused easily when you ask for help/ask what she did. She teaches as if you already know calculus. If you want to pass and actually learn DO NOT take her

Easily the WORST Professor at cmu.

If you are looking for a professor that chooses favorites in class then you have the right teacher. She never puts in grades and if you are asking me I'd like to learn math rather than sit there and listen to her ranting about her life.

DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS WITH PROFESSOR RAKESH, she horrible at teaching, all she does is talk about her kids, if you are good at teaching yourself you would be fine because the tests and quizzes are just like the reviews and homework, I only went to class when we had exams or quizzes but had to put on a lot of time outside the class to teach myself

Ms. Rakesh would not post grades. I asked her multiple times through email for access to my grades to no avail. She gets distracted very easily during lectures and her stories go on forever. She is a nice lady and does care about you but you couldn't pay me to take one of her classes again.

Literally the worst professor ever. Doesn't hardly speak a lick of English. Don't take her unless you plan on spending at least 12 hours a week teaching yourself what you are paying her to teach you.

Dr. Rakesh is a very nice woman and knows a lot but she is very bad at conveying it. She spends half of the lecture time talking about the most random things that do not relate to Calculus. She also is a very weird grader in the fact there is no consistency across quizzes and tests. Also, you wont know your grade until the end of the semester.

LISTEN TO ME. if you are enrolled in this class SWITCH OUT WHILE YOU CAN. I took calculus 1 and passed with amazing grades in highschool. She will make everything as hard as possible for you. If you ask questions during class she will take more time than it would take answering the question explaining how she cant answer your question. PLEASE RUN.

Terrible teacher. Had her online due to Covid. She has a very hard accent was hard to understand and her writing was hard to read and it seemed like she wrote her emails while half asleep. She doesn't let you ask any questions about homework or assessments in class ,you have to schedule in her work hours. She can be funny but not a good teacher.

I literally hated this class. Don't take her unless you want to spend all your time doing calculus outside of class. She's good and helpful during office hours but during lecture, you might as well just be teaching yourself. I'm pretty sure I learned more from Khan Academy then her.

She gets very lost in lecture and has a hard time clearly explaining the material. For most of the class period, the group chat is just full of confused people who have no idea what's going. We have to go to the Si sessions so a sophomore can help us understand the material. When most of the class failed a quiz, she wouldn't even go over it.

Honest to god it's been a month in this class and she is easily one of the worst professors I've had so far. Nothing has been explained and I'm stuck there so confused out of my mind. I literally have to figure everything out myself or with a tutor because of the lack of explanation. I am struggling so hard and if you get Rakesh then good luck man.

Horrible professor who gets side-tracked super easily, doesnt involve students and cant explain anything. DONT TAKE, this was supposed to be the easiest math class, and Im stuck teaching myself....

Leela Rakesh is hands down the worst professor I have ever experienced, she reads off the powerpoint and doesn't teach. Leela shouldn't still have a job, she messes up all the time, is very unprofessional, makes mistakes all the time, and so on. Listening to her talk is like listening to a robot reading something helllooo? are you there? DONT TAKE

Worst professor on campus! Don't take her!

all I got to say is I don't know how she received a job from CMU, like its honestly puzzling, you literally teach yourself. Like even if you could understand her it wouldnt matter because she doesnt even know what shes doing! Central Michigan University has some of the worst math teachers ever, My 15 year old sister could teach this class better

Very terrible professor. Felt like I was staring at a blank screen most of this semester. Went out of lectures learning nothing and had to basically teach myself. The sad part is is that the material isn't even that hard, it's just that Professor Rakesh is so poor at her job that I felt confused doing a lot of the quizzes and homework. Don't take

I would not advise anyone to take a class with this prof. It was extremely difficult because all of her lectures are just powerpoint with like 75-100 slides and the class periods consist of her just reading the powerpoint, you're basically forced to teach yourself. She is however, available outside of class for any of your needs and offers help.

She is a nice person but not a good professor. I had to teach myself and go to the math assistance center because she was all over the place during notes. She also just reads over 100 slides per class and there is no time to write anything down. DO NOT TAKE THIS WITH HER. I can't stress that enough. Also exams are taken with camera on over webex.

Prof. Rakesh does not teach. She spends 2/3 of the class going off on random tangents that has nothing to do with the material. I didn't learn or understand anything. She is so unclear and unprofessional. I had to teach the math to myself the whole semester.

Failed this class the first time, tried to retake but had to withdraw - knew I was wasting my time and going to fail again after a few weeks of taking this class. LONG quizzes with very little time and VERY hard lengthy questions. Tried getting a tutor, still didn't help. DO NOT recommend.

Just really bad at teaching

Horrible teacher, doesn't make sense half the time and goes off on random tangents that have nothing to do with the material. Exams are messily put together. Do not take with her.

She does not teach the material, you have to teach yourself. Avoid taking anything with this professor! I wish I would have listened to the other comments before I enrolled for this class.

I was scheduled for this class, it was a classroom sized lecture hall. The teacher was not speaking anywhere near loud enough. I think she had a rule against phones? But I couldn't hear her well enough to tell. She had an IT tech dude in there for around 20 minutes because she didn't know how to unlock blackboard. I dropped the class and left.