She is a horrible professor. She has a hard time explaining herself and is pretty much teaching herself as she teaches you. She is rude and very unhelpful. You MUST use her way otherwise you get zero points. She does not give partial credit unless she likes you the best. Worst professor ever.

We always correct her work. It seems like she is learning material as she moves along. Then BANG! the test is filled with problems avoided during class time. Her grading is "messy" There is no set points for specific parts of problems, grades it like an ENG paper. She acts nice (until we ask questions)..she grades bad.. if that's what you want..

Awful teacher. Hard to understand. the tests are ridiculously hard. Do not take this lady by any means necessary.

Pal seems like a very good teacher at first, but she goes very fast and didn't give me the time of day for help when I needed it. She goes very fast in class and doesn't like to take time to answer questions while she is teaching. I am a pretty strong math student, but this professor made this course much harder than it needed to be.

Easily worst professor I have ever had. Barely speaks english, does not care about students at all, very rude and unhelpful. Very unfair grading style. I have always been a solid math student but this class left me questioning my life entirely. will be attempting to get grade withdrawn because it is nearly impossible to pass with Pal.

This teacher was probably the worst teacher I have ever had. She does not speak any english. If you go to her for help and can not understand her she just gets mad at you. I would never suggest taking her, and feel bad for anyone who has to take her in the future. Just a terrible teacher.

She was impossible and unhelpful outside of class. During lecture she kept my attention and presented the information well enough but out side of that completely unavailable other than to tell me to go to the tutor, which I already was! She grades her quizzes and homework completely different than her tests so beware!!!

Avoid this professor. Teaching style is extremely disorganized. Grades are not available and the only way to calculate your current grade is to meet with her in person (rarely available) or to save all of your old tests and quizzes and calculate them manually. If taking this course, ignore lectures and learn subject strictly through textbook.

Extra Credit offered often but doesn't help much with the difficuly of quizes and tests. Quizes are every Friday with only 2 or 3 questions so get 1 wrong and you fail. Terrible teaching style and unmerciful grader.

She is a terrible teacher. The worse grader i the world. If you get her drop out and look for another teacher. A lot of extra credit but doesn't because she doesn't teach you. Be prepared to teach yourself

Pal is by far the worst professor Ive ever had. She does her lectures on a google doc and doesnt explain anything at all. Super disorganized and isnt accessible outside of class. She is the hardest grader and wont give you credit if you dont do the work her way. Extra credit doesnt even help on test and quizzes. Better off teaching yourself

Pal is easily the worst professor at Illinois State, possibly worst in the world. Her lectures make zero sense and her tests are near impossible to get a C on. Everyone in my calc 2 class literally failed. Some of the smartest people I know were in her class and couldn't pass. Avoid her. I cried so many tears over this class, and changed my major.

If you get in this class drop it. She is the worst professor at Illinois State. If you dont do the work the way she wants you to, you will not get any credit. She does give extra credit but it is not enough. She grades extremely hard and doesnt answer any questions in class. Do not take her class if you want to keep your GPA up.

This professor is unorganized and doesnt know how to teach a class. She teaches to a brick wall. She doesnt realize there is a class behind her. She doesnt interact with her students or answer questions. She knows the material but doesnt know how to teach it. If you want to struggle take her. But if you can avoid taking her class, do so.

Always vote for in class quizzes, if she gives take home, it will be impossible to earn full credit. She is very unorganized and hardly references the textbook. Online homework has nothing to do with the exams or quizzes. Very hard grader, expects paragraph answers for simple computational problems. Avoid if possible.

Really hard grader... getting the right answer is only half the battle. She takes calc and you feel like you are trying to be weeded out of the class which is not why I came to this school.

Pal is awful at explaining basic concepts and assumes the students have prior knowledge of concepts that are difficult. If you don't answer questions the EXACT way she wants, you'll be marked wrong. For example, I took a test and had mostly right answers (80% if I had to guess) but I received a 56, as I didn't write the answers the way she wanted.

She is terrible, she knows the material but can not convey it. She shows skipping steps making them almost useless since if you did this on a test youd lose half credit.

She teaches as if the students have already taken the class. She knows the material but she is terrible at explaining it. She is also very hard to understand at first. She does not calculate your grade so you have to calculate it yourself.

She is terrible, I could not understand anything she said during lecture, and she would give me a 0/10 on problems where I made a small error. I do not recommend her, take it with anyone else if you can.

Terrible at teaching, of all my professors definitely the worst at teaching

Incredibly tough grader, you can get every question on a quiz right but if you don't put the steps exactly the way she wants it you will fail. Rude and condescending when you ask a question. Overall even if you are good at math avoid this teacher at all cost, save yourself from the unnecessary stress.

This is the worst professor I've ever had. I consider myself fair when ranking teachers but this teacher was actively detrimental to my learning. Correct answer but average work 0 points. She doesn't care at all if you got the right answers you must complete assignments to her standard and exact method. Final is rough because of this.

It saddens me to write that Pal is the worst instructor I have had in all my years of schooling. She teaches the class as if the students already know all the content, going way too fast for me to comprehend. She cancels class on multiple occasions for absurd personal reasons and enters students grades wrong in the grade book.

Would not take again her if my life depended on it. She didn't explain anything clearly and refused to compensate with her classmates. Her grading is HORRENDOUS. She says "explain" when you have no explaining to do or already explained it. She does this because she wants it done HER way. If you don't do it her way, your screwed. gg

If you have this professor drop immediately. This class is the most ridiculous math class I have ever taken. I did not know what my grade was until the day before the final. Tests were moved 2 days before they were supposed to be taken. She did not teach the material and would take off tons of points even if you get the right answer.

Absolutely do not take this professor, drop if you have her right now. She is an extremely tough grader and does not work with her students.

She has a funny personality but that's where the good stops. Was graded based on 2 exams 5 quizzes and the final. If you take her class, don't, you better be brushed up on your algebra and trig because you are going to be doing more of that than calculus. she "does not believe in class average" (test average). the majority failed the first exam.

Run while you still can. Proof that course evals do not work. Beyond worst I have ever had. Must show every single step of work meticulously. Didn't do it her way? Get ready for a 0/10. Writes "Explain" on tests despite no need. You'd think getting the right answer would be enough. Wrong. I turned my quizzes and exams over to the Math Dept. Chair.

I had her for MAT 145 and 146. I got a C in 145 and dropped 146 because I didn't want another C. She is terrible at explaining things and grades tests/quizzes very hard if it is not done her way. Tests are next to impossible and even tutoring didn't help. I can tell she cared about her students she is just not able to teach well at all.

Do not take this class. Yes, you can pass, but she is very degrading. I lost my dad to a stroke and she would not offer any makeups for the time I missed. She vaguely responds to emails and will make you feel awful about asking her questions. Please choose a different professor. ISU needs to reevaluate Pal

Subtracted 19 points out of 90 for not doing it HER way.

After taking MAT145 with her, she was good up too spring break: then afterwards everything tanked. She rushed lectures, barley goes over anything over on the homework, only gives you at most three problems in class and makes you want to learn everything by yourself. This is a class I would not recommend for anyone.

Dr. K is an incredibly tough grader with absolutely impossible criteria to meet, and she expects you to be able to remember all of the previous info you learned in math classes to a t. She offers lots of extra credit every single semester, which proves that her students do not do well enough to pass on average on their own. Avoid this professor.

She grades incredibly harshly, using metrics not traditionally used in math classes. Also, she's awful at teaching, and makes fun of students for asking questions. Awful teacher.

DO NOT take her class if you want to pass calculus. She assigned an obscene amount of homework and quizzes for a 4-credit class. She's also a very tough grader and takes off points for solving problems using different methods. The pace of the class is very fast, and you have to teach yourself a lot. Also, she doesn't review material for exams.

Harsh grader. I got ever answer correct on the first exam but got a 73% because I showed my work incorrectly somehow. The second exam I got a 50% and only had 2 answers wrong. She gave a lot of extra credit at the end of the semester because I think she knew everyone was failing. Would never take a class with her again.

This was, without a doubt, the worst professor I have ever had at this school. While, there is no doubt that she's extremely knowledgable in her field, however she has absolutely no teaching skills. I almost never received full credit on a test question, the questions were 10 points each. I now have to retake the class and my love for math is gone.

Outside of being a friendly and an approachable professor. Dr K is a extremely tough grader. Do not expect full credit on questions even if the work and answers are correct. She marks off for very minor things. Luckily, her tests are taken directly from the study guide.

I never thought I would ever right a review on this app. That was until I took this class with Dr.K. That's how you know it was bad. This class was the hardest class ever because of Dr.K and I'm literally pre-dental and took Organic Chemistry. My girlfriend is pre-med took calc, goes to another school and confirmed it was most definitely the prof.

absolutely awful for anyone not in a math major. often gave me 0/10 points on quizzes bc i did an extra step that slightly affected my answer. no exaggeration. could teach the content well enough but unless u could read her mind by doing exactly what she was looking for on tests in terms of steps & answer formatting, u won't get more than a 50%

Worst teacher. Run! She is rude to students and will take of 3 points out of 10 if you forget an equal sign or a step. It is worth taking somewhere else or with anyone else. She would pull students chairs if she thought they weren't paying attention. 8-10 pm exams every 3 weeks will not take work as an excuse for missing or sickness. RUN!!!!!!

Stay away if taking for credit. Tough grader who cares more about her style than it being the correct answer. Makes accommodations for herself but is very stern to students needs. Be prepared to dedicate your semester to this class over any of your other classes. Would never take again

Not good at teaching

Don't take if you can't handle and Indian professor with a thick accent who also expects you to know how to do everything because “it's just algebra” . You do hw assignments on things you haven't learned then learn them the next day plus your expected to do a different curriculum then everyone else in MAT 145 while doing start of calc 2 questions.

There were two fallen angels from heaven — the Devil and this professor.

3-10m late ~every day and then she went over every day cramming new topic at the end. Class was a mess the whole time. It was hard to be a student. She gave a ton of extra credit so we would pass. Taught myself a lot. Not many good options for MAT160 other than pulley. First time teaching it. Assigns 30 problems grades 3. github for book answers