Teacher does not even describe Pat. I had to learn all the material on my own. I was in class every single day, yet had to teach myself. The tests were a couple questions, yet took me the entire class period to finish. The only good thing is that the tests are open book and open note. I would definitely recommend someone else!!

Worst teacher I've ever had when it comes to helping the student. Funny guy, tests aren't too bad, but makes students feel dumb for asking questions. Apparently he is the best QBA teacher to have, which is quite sad.

It's hard to learn over this guy's arrogance. The only days worth even going to are the study sessions. Write down the questions and answers that day word for word. He says they won't be on the test, but they will. He only changes the amounts. All tests except the first are open book open note. Last test is group. Final is optional.

Not quick to answer emails. Will not answer questions about tests. Sometimes answers questions in class, prefers to answer your question with a question. Tests are ridiculously hard. But he's the only professor offered most semesters, so good luck!

Would not recommend taking his class, his power points are a nightmare he just reads them to you. Quizzes are nothing like the exams. Forget communication, slow to respond to emails and hard to ask for help without making you feel inferior. You will spend most time on Google or YouTube teaching yourself how the material in this class. Good luck

Took the class online. He rarely sent notifications. Took forever to respond to email. Test was different material than the book. Didn't list the book with the bookstore, so it was a month into the class before I could get. I spent hours studying only to fail tests miserably. DO NOT TAKE

It's absolutely ridiculous of how awful of an online course this is. The way the class is taught is very unorthodox, at least in my experience, in the way that there are hardly any assignments you can take to learn the material. He offers lecture presentations but they are very long because he's so long-winded. Each presentation is an hour plus.

His test are nothing like his quizzes. He's very fast to replying to emails but when you get 1 on 1 help if you don't know an answer he gets upset with you. Taking him online was the worst decision ever. He just reads off the slides for his lecture presentations. No help at all.

Absolutely terrible professor. I had taken his online course and it was an atrocity how hard it was. He offers hardly any material to study with and reads off of powerpoint slides that are more broad than the exams are. There was an exam that I had studied 8 days for and there were things on the exam that weren't on the slides. DO NOT TAKE THIS!

DO NO TAKE THIS CLASS ONLINE WHATEVER YOU DO. It will be the worst mistake you make. I had to drop otherwise I would have failed. I will be taking this in person with a different professor last year. HORRIBLE ONLINE CLASS. Avoid at all costs. There are no sound to the lectures, so you can't even learn. This class made me so frustrated.

Taking this as a senior and is by far the worst class and professor I have ever had at Missouri State. 4 tests at 100 points each then only about 100 points for quizzes but not sure cause he doesn't make any sense. The first test is not bad but the rest is about 25 questions @ 4 pts each no partial credit and dont count on him to help you.

Worst online class. Doesnt respond to emails at all. Even in the discussion board. You dont get to know your grade through the semester because he waits till the end to manually grade everything. Lectures dont do any justice so you have to teach yourself everything. Id avoid him if you can.

ABSOLUTE WORST TEACHER AT MISSOURI STATE!! im warning you right now do not take sells he does not know how to teach and the tests and homework are actually impossible. hardest class ive ever taken and im barely passing.

Take this from a 4.0 student, TAKE ANOTHER PROFESSOR. Hardest class I have taken at missouri state as a junior. Homework is plentiful, but exams are extremely difficult. They are open note. Homework is worth almost nothing in terms of overall class points.

This teacher didn't realize till half way through the semester that the audio in his presentations didn't work. He then sent his students a link to make the audio work which ended up not working either. All there was to use to study was very vague power-points that would be much more helpful with audio. Super unprofessional on his parts

Took his online stats class. He's absolutely unclear as to what you need to know for tests. His lectures contradict the book. Sometimes he asks content questions but never answers them in his lectures as if we're supposed to know the answers for the test. Some test questions aren't specific enough. He's just not good at communicating.

Absolutely horrible teacher. Avoid at all costs.

I dont recommend taking him online. He just posts powerpoints with no further explanation. He is not great at answering emails. He is very short and not willing to give a lot of help. It came to the point that classmates were emailing the entire class for help instead of him. If you do not learn well on your own QBA online with sells is not for you

One of the worst classes I've ever had. The lectures really don't help you understand and he goes off on a tangent 7/10 times. He "answers" questions by beating around the bush. I am a straight-A student and great at math and am having to drop this class because there is just no way possible to pass this class. STEER CLEAR!!!

Do not take this professor. He does not care AT ALL. He does not post any of the exams when the syllabus says they will be posted. He is slow to respond to emails if he responds. The class isnt too hard but Sells just sucks.

I have been a 3.5 GPA student throughout college and don't struggle with learning on my own but Prof Sells is a horrible professor. He is condescending in his emails and during lectures. There is no homework so all of the grade relies on tests. Had to drop the course

I had over a 3.9 GPA until this class. The book is useless. He reads straight off the slides while never providing examples. He takes weeks to respond to emails, and when he finally does he is condescending and provides no help. When you ask questions in class he degrades you for not understanding. Everyone is failing and he needs to be fired.

My class with Sells was the worst experience I have had at MSU. From day one, I felt like I was behind due to him not explaining where various numbers/symbols came from. I met with him outside of class to catch up then fell behind again after the next class. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! You're better off teaching yourself with youtube tutorials.

He is one of the worst professors I have had at Missouri State. He explains everything so poorly and expects you to understand him. He throws equations at you with only random symbols and then tells you what they mean, quickly, then never again. They're also not written on the slides, so you're out of luck if you miss it, and It is easy to miss.

I would take any other teacher for this class. I don't usually care enough to review anyone, but this guy is off his rocker. He reads the text book definition of something, then tells you about his life story for half of class. He allows open notes on tests, but what he talks about doesn't always align with the tests. DO NOT TAKE.

Most boring un engaging lectures out of any teacher i've ever had. His second test did not match up with the review whatsoever, I think over half of his students failed it and the only thing he did was offer those students a retake of the test where you had to get at least a 70% on it to replace your grade with a 60%. Worst teacher.

Absolutely do not take this course unless you want to fail or waste your money.

Be prepared to teach yourself this entire class. Lectures seem all over the place with no clear line of thought. I would highly suggest taking Todd Daniel. You use Excel to do all the stats and his focus is much more on understanding when to use formulas instead of memorizing them.

Awful. Failed course

No communication with online class... makes you take the tests the same day as in person and only THAT day. 1st test was closed book, 2nd & 3rd tests were open book, open note and I completely failed it. If you are taking it online you CANNOT access your book anyways. Review before test? Useless as none of it was on test but maybe two questions.

One of the worst teachers I have ever had in my life. This guys lectures make no sense and he talks about the most random stuff half of the time that have nothing to do with the class. His tests are super hard and half of the people in all of his classes get D's and F's on the tests. He bragged the first day that a lot of people fail his class.

If you take this professor, be prepared to study outside of the lectures. I cannot stress enough how much easier the class gets when you abondon this professor's teaching and go to other online resources. The lectures that this professor provide are unnecessarily complicated, and make the material extremely difficult to learn.

Do not take Sells if there are any other possible options. He doesn't teach, he only reads off of the slides in class. You will not learn a single thing. I am literally dropping this course because I haven't learned anything. Your grades are based on quizzes and exams.

Do not take Pat Sells if you can help it. This man does not really know what he is doing in terms of teaching. he will ramble on about his personal life and how he used to sell women's clothes and talks about "gut feelings" every class period. He only reads off the slides and fails to go into detail about his content. DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Do not waste your time or money on this instructor. You do not learn anything and he does not teach. He reads slides with tons of information and does not elaborate on any of it. He doesn't do any problems. The ones on the slides are already filled out and he just reads them out and doesn't explain it. This man can breeze over 100 slides in an hour

This professor's class material is worthless. He gives one quiz per chapter only. This will not prepare you for your test at all, because he writes his test questions to be much more difficult. Worst Professor I could imagine. He spends more time on tangents of how he got to see females in swimwear in the retail business, than on coursework.

This class was awful in every way. Lectures and quizzes failed to prepare students with material that would find its way into his exams. Tests 2 & 3 are open note and most students still fail. I do not recommend this professor.

No clue how to use the internet. Average test grades were F or D for all his sections for this class. Idea of helping you study before a test is going through practice problems in class the day before, and not helping you through them or giving answers to check if you were right.

This low-level class shouldn't be as hard as it is but this guy makes it almost impossible by the way he teaches. Every other professor that teaches this class is way better than Mr. Sells and their students have much better grades than his. Avoid this man at all costs and wait for him to retire.

If you have the opportunity to not take this professor than take anybody else. Only reads from slides and when you go to him for help he just says "make a flow chart". Other classes allow the use of excel which is very helpful and it is more realistic knowing your employer isn't going to want you to write out every equation. Do not recommend.

In a math based class it's amazing how little he explained the math problems. His examples in class are wrong half the time. I reviewd my exams with him and he realized his answer key was wrong. If you get stuck with him, your best bet is to read the textbook and do the sample problems from it to prepare for exams. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Everyone has dropped this course atp in the semester. His lectures do NOT reflect exams. The only reason I'm passing is bc my sister is nice enough to tutor me. This man needs to be fired! not sure how the university is allowing hundreds of students to fail and drop such an important course for all business degrees. Useless.

If you have any chance to not take this professor please do so. He reads off the slides and provides no other information. If he does provide info he goes on a tangent for a half hour at a time and forgets the point. He has errors in quizzes and pp every chapter. Only grades are quizzes and tests. Absolutely horrible.

You will fail. I am an A student and had to drop this class. Lectures are irrelevant to the tests, which are 90% of your grade. The HW and quizzes have errors that force you to lose points. He provides no updates throughout the course. He just reads the already filled out slides in his videos as if you couldn't do that yourself. You've been warned.

In this class there are very few opportunities to gain points. This class is very exam heavy with each exam being about 20 percent of your grade. Very difficult and time consuming class.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS! The teacher is horrible. He just reads from the slides and does not provide any useful info for the tests. Everything you learn from the slides and the few quizzes does not help you on tests. None of it is alike. I have great grades but this class was horrible. There is no homework at all, just a few quizzes worth 5 points.

Assignments consist of 10 questions worth 5 points. 4 exams each worth 20 percent of your grade. Notes allowed for exam 2, you will still fail. Lectures don't explain anything. Assignments provide no examples for tests and tests are purposely made misleading. Overall do not take this class with this professor.

Avoid this class at all costs. The professor barely explains the material and lectures are just reading slides. Exams have little relation to the content covered. The only way to survive is to rely on the textbook and unstuck ai for extra practice. Difficult class, not recommended.