Very helpful, and always ready to help..Wants everyone to do well!!

Nice lady, very smart and helpful...wants you to pass. Come to class prepared!

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Good teacher. The tests reflects the review questions and materials taught in class. Just found her exams much too long!!!!!And harder than the tests. OVerall pretty good!

She is great!!! Stats with her is fun.

She is great. Very helpful and eager to teach those who need the help. If you go to class, take good notes and use her reviews you dont even need the text. It will just confuse you. Highly recommend her for this course.

she is the best in the world man she rocks & shes so bestiful god i love her u will hav the most funnest time wif her shes really kool yeh well shes the best person ive ever met!!!!!!!

She is very helpfull and is a nice lady, BUT she needs to work on her presentation style. I was mostly confused by her lectures sometimes. SO if you have her, make sure you do the work and AS A LOT OF QUESTIONS

One of the best professors for QMS102 in my opinion :)

She is a good,nice professor. Her tests are fair but they reflect the textbook alot.Study both the textbook notes&her own notes.She should use powerpoint slides,her notes can be confusing to follow esp the graphs.Emphasize critical values too much!

Great Prof. If you take good notes and listen to her lectures you will do well in her class. She is very helpful and wants her students to do well.

She's a very nice prof, and wants the best for her students, the only thing is she's not good at explaining things and her notes are very confusing so your pretty much learning from the text. So if u don't mind learning on your own then go with her.

I think there is no problem with Orla, the fact of the matter is if you invest time into a course you will reap the benefits. Orla can tend to explain MORE than necessary but she wants students to understand how these formulas really work. AND THIS IS NOT LEFT BY HER!! LOL

This class was a challenge but pretty straight forward. I don't think her test were to hard because when I looked up other universities stats tests to study with they were beyond me. I think that Rye High has pretty low standards compared to other Universities.

My only complaint would be that Orla spent'TOO MUCH' time in class trying to assist people who clearly hadn't held up their end of the academic bargain. If you do the work in this type of course (with open book testing) there is no reason to not acheive a decent mark. I easily finished with an A+.

The problem is letting the prof teach you, in this class,teach yourself how to use the calculator and you can't go wrong. I didn't show up for one lecture and got a B- which means I proved Orla's STATISTICS to be wrong.

She is a good prof. Her marking is easy.

Orla is one of the greatest teachers ever. She makes the class interesting with comic strips that are shown at the beginning of each and every lecture. She helps out students as soon as they ask. Her mid-terms are just comprised of routine questions, which allows students to build up their confidence for the final exam. She rules.

Orla is great, she gives individual attension to those who need extra's, she gives past practice test papers which makes it easier for us to study and wht to expect in the test or exam, although i do agree that the assignments worth 5% was quite heavy and should have weighted atleast 10 or 15%, overall she is a good compared to other stat prof

Mrs. Hegarty is a helpful professor who makes the course relevant for a business student. I actually found the material interesting and important. While the assignments only represent 10% of your final grade, completion of the assignment will greatly assist you in learning the material and reading the appropriate output. Overall, good professor!

I went from a C- in 102 to an A in 202. Orla was an excellent prof. There are no surprises on her tests and what she teaches is what she tests. It was wonderful to have a math professor who actually speaks clearly and with enthusiasm. In addition, she actually made statistics interesting!! Stick with Orla.

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Knowledgeable, personable and fair instructor. Is strict, but is willing to help. Excellent stats teacher!

A fair marker, efficient and effective in teaching. I can hardly ask for much more. I think the assignments are well proportioned and greatly assisted in my understanding of the material. She's definately one of the more professional professors I've met at Ryerson.

I listened to her lectures since day school teacher was talking as if people had done stats like him, that is for 30 years. Couldn't understand concepts in day school, Orla does a great job at explaining. Slides are very helpful. Cannot speak about testing. A lot of help with assignments. Overall, you want to have her, you learn lots.

hot prof.. found her lectures kinda confusing. to do well in her class u have to practise her review exams and if possible the review questions at the end of each chapter.if you dont understand the concept u wont pass this course. the first midterm is the easiest.if you do well in her first midterm, it gets easier for students who just wanna pass.

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Teached Programming for 17 Years!!!

Slides r useless as she doesnt post answers on them practice past exams and you will be set class examples and exam practice questions are easier then on the tests...assignment too much work...final is all SPSS

Stats is a hard course, but if you study and go to all her classes you will walk out with a decent mark. She was a fair marker, worked to ur advantage. I do recommend her for stats.

I really dont know what you guys are talking about. Im in her class now, and I find her to be a very good prof. Adding a few cartoons only adds somethign different to the class. And you need that in Stats. I was almost not going to take her bcz of the comments on this site. Im glad I didnt listen. She shows you how to do the...

I found her very helpful, she explained things very well; I'm not good with math or stats, but while taking the course, I actually got to like these things. I liked her.

She's a great prof! The best Quantitative Prof. I've had. These courses require work, but if you do your work you'll be fine. Her tests are what she teaches. She doesn't throw any curve balls, I totally recommend her! Best QMS prof Ryerson has!

Not sure what all of this uncalled for beef is but she is EASILY the BEST STATS PROF at Ryerson! When you got low life fools like Don Tavares (one of the many horrible stats profs at Rye) WANTING YOU TO FAIL, Orla is way better. Stats isn't one of my strengths but I got an A+ with her cause' she posts past tests. Highly recommended for a good mark!

Excellent professor ... highly reccommended

Excellent prof. I claire for stats 1 and studied my butt off to get a C...with Orla, I just listened and ended up with an A+...sweet. Very helpfull before and after class. 2 midterms are easy, final is reasonable. highly recommended.

The best stats teacher ever! she is very helpful and made stats easier and user friendly with previous tests. Def a #1 choice for stats 2. Btw the txt book is useless so be careful her notes are much more helpful so make sure you go to class.

She's great! Do all the required homework, do all the practice exams and attend all classes and you're guaranteed a good grade.

I would suggest to her maybe taking some time and stating what the p-test shows, what the F-test shows etc. To clarify, I figured out we use the F-test in regression because it shows the variability around our model line; this would have helped me "put it all together". But overall, excellent experience.

I thought she was great. I went to class about half the time and I still came out with a good grade. She posts all the practice tests and in the lectures I attended i thought she was very helpful. And no, she does not follow the textbook, because the textbook is TERRIBLE!!! half of the answers are wrong..similar to doug mckessock's review solutions

Amazing prof! She explains and goes through everything in class.Everything she teaches is everything you need to know to do well in her class. She's clear and consice unlike other profs that teach this course. TAKE HER CLASS, YOU WONT BE DISAPPOINTED =)

Amazing Professor, once you recognize how statistics is supposed to work you will ace the course. The text is useless...like another blubbering in another language. Attend every class, ace the bonuses and the project and you'll end up with an A. I did the project individually compared to with a group.

as long as you show up to class prepared, she makes it sooo much easier than you will get with chua

Best qms 202 prof ever !!! makes everything easy to understand and very helpful :D . Loved being in her class.

Great Prof! I hated Stats n never would have thought that I could get an A. Still don't know how. Attendence is important as she gives bonuses if u attend class. Review class b4 exam was very helpful!

This is one of the best proffs to take stats with. Whoever complained about her didnt bother going to class and do the readings. Her exams are based on her lectures and she provides you with older exams to practise on.She's very helpful and therefore highly recommended for this course!

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I can say with honesty-the negative ratings are from people who probably didn't come to class when Orla showed (on the projector) HOW TO USE the green calculator! The course is a bit confusing, but she tries her best to simplify it! I wouldn't pay attention to the negative ratings. Those ppl don't know what difficult profs are->Shapiro anyone?

she is a good proff, i would recommend her, after the final exam she actually boosts ur mark alot. she tries to help as much as possible, you have to make sure you do all the practice problems tho! i went into the exam with a C+....i came out with an A!!!

She is so nice and helpful always! it is a difficult class, but she tries her best to help her students :) c'mon which prof boots upp the marks after finals?? she was awesome - Thanks Orla!

Very clear in explaining and knows her stuff. Hard marker I must say! so its a decision btwn hard marking vs good prof but you will know your stuff when ur done with the course coz she's so brilliant. Also humorous and has life in her, able to relate to students and uses good real-life examples

One word to describe Orla: FANTASTIC! She's so educated in the subjet matter that she teaches without the aid of any materials. Those of you who are slamming her must be the ones who never attended lecture and/or had no interest in the course. Stop whining and admit that she is one of Ryerson's BEST.

Orla is a very nice prof! QMS 522 (Linear Algebra) was a breeze. But this was mostly attributed to the textbook. It's called "Elementary Linear Algebra" by Spence, Insel and Friedberg. Very good book but not sure if its still used. This course is a lot easier than the math department one so you should be able to pull off a decent mark.

I went into the exam with such a low mark and ended up gettting a B- in her class. Very helpfull when it comes to raising marks :)

Awesome prof, she is fun and shows interest in the class and the material that she teaches. She seems like she genuinely wants everyone to succeed, and provides extra tools to help

THE BEST Stats teacher ever!

I liked Orla. I only have 2 comments that are somewhat negative: 1)please stay on the lecture material, I am not paying to hear what you think of the political stance on the world or Ryerson, this is NOT a poli-sci class, 2) please be a bit more clear when explaining HOW to imput data into the stats calculator, as I got lost, otherwise->great prof!

The fact that she knows her stuff inside and out make it her downfall as well. The first couple of classes were good (I was understanding), but then the last couple prior to dropping (it) were completely outta this world! I was totally lost and couldn't recover (failed a quiz), so I ended up dropping it.

DO all of the questions in the problem sets....