Her lectures aren't thorough; she rushes through problems and can't explain the answers clearly. I usually spent days in office hours with GSI's to understand simple concepts. I failed the first exam and dropped the course. Unless you have a background in Stats, e.g. you took AP Stats in high school, I recommend taking it at a community college.

Nadiya has trouble explaining concepts that should be easy to explain. She is also unwilling to admit when she is wrong (or even worse, doesn't understand why she's wrong!). If you like learning, don't take MATH 425 with her. You will hate statistics and life afterwards. The worst part is that she doesn't post completed notes.

During my semester of stats 250, Dr. Fink moved much faster than Gunderson's class. I always felt like concepts were rushed and never fully understood. It got to the point where I went to Fink's lecture to get the clicker points but watched Gunderson's lectures later on. Take this course with Gunderson if you can.

Insane amount of homework. You gotta spend more than 8 hours on homework.

Nadiya FInk is a horrible teacher. Her teaching structure is very unorganized and her lecture is all about computing the problems. NO explanation. NO study guides. Her first exam has an average about C- and she does not curve at all. Straight scaled. Worst teacher I've ever had in my life.

Take stats w/ Gunderson, or at a diff school altogether. Fink does what she can, but she teaches poorly and lacks the concept side of stats that is needed to survive the painfully hard exams. It's unbelievable how much of a waste of time, work, and money this class is, for a widely prereq math class that makes you writes papers and buy hw access.

Worst teacher ever. Obviously, she does NOT know how to teach/explain and she does NOT curve the grade given the fact that her exam was long and heavy. One advice on how to learn stats: DON'T take Nadiya's class.

NO curve. I almost cried. Her exams were sooo long and she took off most of points in an exam question because of only missing minor things. The homework is due weekly and each of them took me around 10 pages of writing. Some of her exam material does not match her homework. If I can give a negative rating for her, I would.

I almost got depression from this class. I did not do really well in the first exam, and I just see no hope in this class. Regardless of how hard and how people perform in this class. This class does not curve. Please if one day she can see those feedback, she would understand how her students feel about her grading.

Homework due every week with about 5-7 pages long, exam is the hardest and longest i have ever taken. The main point is no curve at all, even my class medium was a C. If you have another choice, don't pick her class.

Try to get Gunderson or do not take Stats 250. Stats with Fink I think actually screwed up my thinking on different concepts in stats and wish I hadn't gone to any of her lectures. Seems like a nice lady but I get a headache trying to constantly understand her.

The worst professor I've had in two years at Michigan. She does a bad job of explaining examples in class, homework takes 2-4 hours to complete weekly and the tests are impossible to finish in time, let alone being very hard. She doesn't curve either so almost half the class won't pass. I would never consider a course taught by Fink again. Ever.

Absolutely the worst teacher I've had in all of college. The class is difficult, uncurved, and is extremely work heavy even though it is only supposed to be a 3 credit class. Additionally, her notes are hard to read. A good chunk of my class has a C and below and she still refuses to curve. I would avoid taking classes with her at all costs.

To be honest, I've never seen such a horrible teacher before. Almost every one of my classmates was having a problem with the material she taught. She gave these hard, long exam which obviously was impossible to finish and she did not curve the grade. HORRIBLE!!!

This instructor is a good lecturer but gives ridiculous grade. Medium is C+ to B-, no curve at all. The most unfair issue is that other instructor(s) give much higher grades. Never take Stats 426 with her!!!

Stats 426 with Fink was the worst class that I have ever taken. She is a good lecturer, but she doesnt give adequate practice material, her exams are extremely difficult, and most importantly, her class is totally uncurved. Because of this, a good chunk of my class received in the C range and below. Avoid taking if you care about your GPA.

Nadiya Fink does not even deserve a chance to teach students. Especially at such a great university. She does not know how to care and help students. NO curves. NO explanation. Almost one-third of my classmates received a C range result in some exams. She failed a lot of students in her class. Don't take her class if your GPA matters.

Fink is not a good professor - she is very hard to not only understand but pay attention too. She doesn't phrase things in the best ways and sometimes doesn't handles questions well. Taking it with her, will make you work much harder for your grade. Also the exams are ridiculously hard with a C average sometimes.

Nadiya Fink is the worst!!! Her tests were extremely long and a lot of my friends received B- or C range grade during the midterm. Her lectures were filled with her calculations which only she can understand. No explanation at all!!! Don't take her class if your GPA matters.

Nadiya Fink is the worst. She gives out difficult and long exams and doesn't curve at all. The class median is roughly a B-/C+. Almost 1/3 of the class would fail. Don't take her class if you care about your GPA. She's gonna ruin your future.

I do not recommend to take her classes, ever. Escape her section at all cost, even if it means late withdraw.

The class isn't curved, which makes it hard when the exams end up with averages less than a B. Do not take this prof. She does not explain grading criteria clearly. We use the textbook, but then she has her own rules for how questions are to be done, docking almost all points off if not done her way when she doesn't explain how she wants things.

From the bottom of my heart, do not take this course. No curves at all, class has a B- median. If you mess up once in one of the three tests, your A is gone. Has worse curves than EECS 203. From the 25 courses I have taken at umich, this one was definitely the worst, others are not even close.

Does not explain anything clearly. Uses the textbook but has her own set of rules for grading the test. This class is extremely hard to get a good grade without a curve, especially with no curve and crazy tests.

The rating of 2.3 just cannot explain how bad this lecturer is. Rather eat garbage than take this class again. At this point, it's not even a matter of gpa, this class is just pure nonsense.

Have her own set of rules for everything. Don't follow the book or anything online. Only listen to her and how she wants the hw/test to be graded if you want a good grade.

Listen to the reviews, I wish I did. One of the worst classes Ive taken at Michigan. She doesnt explain anything clearly and you basically have to teach yourself all the material. Exams are VERY hard to do well on bc of super specific grading and no curve whatsoever. Stats shouldve been an easy requirement and her class rly dropped my GPA.

Fink is a sha bi lecturer. Withdrawing from her section is the best decision I've made this semester.

Worst lecturer, worst grader. Poor content

Explains content way too quickly and unclearly. Provides little to no practice and support for exams. Exams are graded super harshly and aren't curved at all. Totally disappointed with how this class is being taught and now I'm having to reteach myself everything because I've forgotten/mislearned all the content from lecture.

This is the first time I have ever rated any professor, but she is horrible. You need to go or watch each lecture as the only notes given out are incomplete. Does not provide nearly as much practice as necessary and explains nothing.

She is terrible. Monotone, uncaring, and she makes the class harder than it needs to be. If you can, avoid taking her classes. She seems like a nice person but that niceness does not translate into her courses. She makes the notes hard to take, the lectures are too fast, and she does not even ask for feedback. Disappointed.

Honestly HWs aren't that bad though they take long. Tests are quite difficult though and not curved. They are also quite harshly graded so do not take this class for an ez A. Previously students were given pages for exam notes and now we are given one side of one small notecard so it is far more difficult. Strongly discourage taking her for 412.

She is probably the worst professor at this school. I hope no one has to suffer through one of her awful classes. Avoid her if you want to actually learn something in class.

The instructional team left good Piazza questions unanswered for weeks, deliberately made information difficult to access, wrote a majority MAMC final w/o giving any representative practice material, and are ghosting regrades and all questions about exam statistics/curve/exam contradictions with the course notes despite posting final grades.

I really should have listened to what was said here before signing up for this class. Unfortunately there aren't too many other professors offering the course. Lectures are long and drawn out. Exam prep and review isn't very representative of what is on the exam. The class fundamentally isn't that hard, so you'll survive, but she won't make it easy

Students are not well prepared for exams and the exams do not do a good job of reflecting the material taught. Lecture notes are only provided in an incomplete format to incentivize lecture attendance, but a final version is never uploaded, meaning the instructor is purposely withholding important material, which is truly bizarre and unfair.

The class overall seems to have differing standards each year, as the "cheat sheets" have gone from one page front and back to one side of an index card this semester. The exams are tricky and do not fairy test on things we have practiced, seemingly focusing on specific aspects that could be easy to brush over.

I am a straight A student and this was the only B I've received due to the final exam being extremely differnet from previous exam review materials and homework. I actually liked the content and felt that I learned a bit, but the final exam was truly unfair and I don't think my grade is refelctive of the effort I put into the class.

The other section got a formula sheet, and had access to recordings. Our section got one side of a 3x5 index card, mandatory lecture attendance with no recordings, and the exam got moved up two days "due to weather." Do. Not. Take.

Exams reviews do NOT prepare you for the exams at all and are extremely hard as well, given the amount of explanation about the content during lecture. I also see 7 positive reviews rated 5/5 from the past, which were written on the SAME DAY, with a very SIMILAR style of writing, so I'm pretty sure you would understand what that means.

Fink is an okay lecturer (monotone and not very engaging). Exams were hard, and I had a grading issue at the end of the semester which I had to wait several weeks to get help with (after emailing her).

Almost every class has pop up quiz and workload is huge. Only incomplete notes are published on to Canvas and need to complete them in class by yourself. NO lecture recordings. Weekly quiz is hard. A torturous class.

Materials are easy and the lecture is boring. Lots of weekly homework and no review session for exams(still teaching new stuff the day of the exam). Exams are super long with a bunch of calculations. The whole staff team barely answered piazza questions. At least 2 pop-up quizzes per class forcing you to attend the lecture.

The workload is larger than MATH 217. Very tough grader. Please do not take her class. YOU will regret!!

She's just the worst. Enforces class attendance with pop quizzes and doesn't release recordings of lectures or even annotated slides so if you miss a lecture, you're just screwed. Makes exams unnecessarily difficult by making them apply to real life situations despite never doing that format in class, homework, or quizzes. Never, ever again.

Workload is unnecessarily heavy compared to the importance of the class. Weekly homework and quizzes, even on the week of the midterm. Staff doesn't care about answering Piazza questions at all. Enforces attendance through multiple pop quizzes throughout class, yet doesn't release lecture recordings. This professor's pettiness is unmatched.

Nothing that hasn't been said - disproportionate workload, time-crunched exams, she *does* record lectures, but only makes them available to people with a verified absence (no slides, ever). Set a pop quiz to expire in less than a minute and said "oh well." Do not take under any circumstances, avoid the class itself if possible.

75% of your grade is exams, and they are very long with a short time period to complete them. Also, very high workload for 3 credit class, and at least two pop quizzes every class.

Originally, I thought everyone on here was exaggerating until I took her course. Exams are worth 75% of final grade and they are not curved. Exam times are 80 minutes for a full length exam that should take 2 hours. Do not take the grade distribution on Atlas seriously.

8 hours of homework per week, plus a quiz, and 2 pop quizzes per lecture. Impossible grader. No curve. Sent an email to all the students not doing well recommending they withdraw- luckily for my ego I had already sent in my withdraw request. W is for winners.

Stats 412 with Nadiya has very poor communication (piazza avg response time was 5+ hrs). The class material itself is not inherently difficult. The slides as the year goes on also get progressively worse in which you have no room to write your own notes. Having a zoom option was very nice. This class is also very exam heavy (study hard for exam 1)

She obsessed over attendance, she checked it with multiple "Pop-up quizzes" per class. She always compared the sections she taught, and consistently reminded us how far behind ours was (we "asked to many questions"). Lectures were extremely boring, and she failed to give accurate instructions or steps for basic concepts and was a very tough grader.

Professor's really amazing at the things she teaches, however, the exam questions are okayish in difficulty but the sheer amount of Ques we get in test is insurmountable and impossible to do. She will teach amazingly well but will expect you to study her course only 24x7. Personal take, go with someone better, don't risk your GPA. Exams r hard.

Though the class is straightforward, Prof Fink makes it incredibly dull. Slow lectures that feel rushed with almost no time for questions. There is little motivation to understand the field deeply because it feels like we're studying for the sake of completing the course content. We were also assigned HW over Fall & Thanksgiving break and exam week

She is bad at explaining statistics, I wanted to do data science but that out the windows, I hate statistics now. She is boring and deviates from the book a lot. You will have homework due the day before thanksgiving and homework due the tuesday you get back from thanksgiving break (2 days to do it).

Overall, professor Fink was a fine lecturer. However, the way she wrote homeworks and tests made the class tedious. The homeworks were way too long despite being 15% of the grade. She also didn't allow us to use basic problem solving methods learned in math 215, a prerequisite, instead making us solve them her way, which also took way too long.

Don't take her class if your GPA matters. teaches more materials than other MATH 425 professor. The grade is not curved. The HW is heavyyyy. Don't want to take it anymore:(

GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD. I would genuinely rather take a full power shot to the crotch from a heavyweight UFC fighter than ever see, let alone speak with this woman again in my life. A large portion of the second exam had content that WAS NOT COVERED IN THE PREP. The homework's have a ridiculous amount of unnecessary/irrelevant work as well.

Take any OTHER class or prof to fill this requirement I beg you. 75% total exam grade and she will state "second exam grades are always bad" there I no curve, and she knows the exams are too much, the are long and tedious. Will mention putting formulas and work for partial credit on exams but is hardly awarded. will mark points off for any mistake.

Does not teach well, makes simple mistakes sometimes, and overcomplicates solutions for no reason, very unclear should not be a teacher

She has a thick accent which is fine, but she speaks so quietly and muffled that it is impossible to follow her. Lectures are very boring. Answers questions about material covered in lecture by saying "just go watch the lecture" instead of answering

She's very particular about the way she wants everything and gives little wiggle room. She is rude and difficult to communicate with. I liked statistics going into this class, but not coming out. Thank God I passed and don't have to see her again.

heavy exam no curve no matter the difficulty of the exam, heavy & unnecessary HWs. Take other class if you can!!!

definitely avoid it. Heavy HW, heavy exams, only allowed to bring small note card while other section allow to being A4 paper.

This is one of the worst classes i've ever taken. Please do not take with her, its very difficult for little reason, unless from now until the grading deadline there are major changes, this section does not follow the atlas historical grading distribution whatsoever. The lectures are hard to understand and the professor doesn't post anything online

The lowest score I can give is 1 but I DO wanted to give a 0. It seems ridiculous to rate a professor from her unorganized and less-communication class mode. We've asked for tons of questions regarding grade curves and regrades while she chose to neglect all of us from piazza. Exams are harsh and HWs are heavy. Worst professor I've ever taken.

There are hundreds of reason not taking her class. She is a real tough grader on the exams that makes 85% of the grade. I went to every single (boring) lectures but learned little. She ignored our questions about curve and regrade policies. Taking her class will cause you mental damage and make you doubt yourself.