Worst class and teacher of all time. I worked sooo hard in that class, but it was literally impossible to get above a C in that class. If you get a C, just take it and run cuz you will never wanna sit through something so horrific again.

He Just SUCKED all around.

Garbage teacher. Even if he didn't have the accent you couldn't understand him anyway because he mumbles. His power points are never properly formatted. Bring your computer to class to take notes, so that you can do something more interesting when he goes on his little rants about nothing.

Worst class I have ever taken. I literally learned nothing. Entire grade based off of tests and quizzes. Makes it really hard to get a B or A. Textbook was useless. Hated it! Avoid if possible!

In my opinion, he is the worst teacher I have ever had. His accent makes him very difficult to understand. He writes pathetic tests which are nearly impossible to ace because his understanding of economics is that of a child. If you read his notes and tests analytically, there are many fallacies/mistakes. Take 105 with a DIFFERENT TEACHER.

Might be one of the worst teachers I have had. His test are impossible and his study guides dont help at all. Tells us that he wants all of us to do well, but he doesnt care at all.Find another teacher. Grade is made up of 4 Exams

This class was impossible to actually pass. His accent was distracting. His tests were very critical thinking. By Far the worst. Lowered my GPA. Worst class in college by far.

The worst teacher I have ever had in college. Hard to understand and says "Yeah" after every sentence. The study guides are pointless when it comes to the tests. Avoid this teacher at all costs.

Absolutely horrible. Dry, boring lectures that were nearly useless when it came to the tests. Told us not to buy the textbook, but then tested us on things that were not in the notes. Study guides were useless, entire grade based off of 4 tests. His class is frustrating, dull, and uneducational; avoid it at all costs.

Goel is by far the most disorganized, confusing professor I've had in college. I'm a 3.5+ student and I'm struggling to keep a C. His notes are vague and his thick accent only worsens that problem. The material in class is night/day from the tests which are complex and difficult to study for. Avoid this guy. He'll ruin your GPA, good student or not

Worst teach i have ever had at ISU. Cant understand what he is saying half the time, and very disorganized. First class where i have ever gotten a poor grade. a D! incredibly rude and not helpful at all. he wont answer questions half the time because he thinks they are easy questions. makes you feel dumb. worst teacher. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

You can rarely understand what he's saying.

You can barely understand what this man is saying, and he words questions on the test so much different than how we learn it in class.

If you are an A or even B student, and want to keep those kind of grades, then DO NOT TAKE THIS TEACHER. His tests are insanely hard. Some have 6 choices with the last two answers giving you the "none of the above" or "A and C" bullcrap. This class was agony. Sure he has a lot of knowledge, but he should not be teaching.

Horrible. Cannot understand his accent, test questions are really oddly worded. I am a really good student and did awful

Worst class ever went to his office hours was a waste of time he does not help at all!!! DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!!!

AVOID THIS TEACHER! His accent is thick enough to make lectures difficult to understand. He is lazy, not giving people access to his lectures, being unavailable outside class for help, and not even fully utilizing time. his tests are absurdly hard, and you will have to fight to pass, getting an A seems near impossible. Avoid him, I wish I had.

Do not take this class. It is very difficult. Take it with a different professor. I had a 4.0, but no longer because of this class. He is very difficult and impossible to understand and his tests are extremely hard. 20-25 question tests, and every question is impossible. You must try extremely hard to get a C-.

Do not take this class with Goel!!! Showed up every single day and took notes.....still received a D!

There are no attendance points but if you don't go to class you will be behind because he covers 2 hours worth of content. He gives you a 15 min break which is essential because the class is boring. His accent is hard to understand and he is no help when you go in for office hours. It is a hard class if you don't take notes and go to class.

Goel rants all class period and emphasizes key points in a silly accent that I don't think his TAs can even understand. Tests don't correlate with notes and his whole class is based on your best four out of five exams. Good luck if you take him.

DO NOT TAKE GOEL! I have gone to class everyday, and take notes on everything. I study over my notes everyday a week prior to the test and still get a D+ at best. Class based on best 4 of 5 tests and the tests are impossible to do good on. Don't take this class unless you don't care about your GPA

Went to every lecture, took notes, studied really hard for every test, and barely got a C in the class. Final is insanely hard so try to get a C or B in the first 4 exams because a 27 question test on over 200 complicated concepts is almost impossible to study well for...

I can honestly say that Goel is one of the worst professors I've ever had. His accent is hard to understand, he refuses to give students his email address, he was always late, there were only 200 points possible in the entire class... The list goes on. I would highly advise everyone to avoid taking any of his classes.

There's 5 50 point tests, the lowest one gets dropped. Good luck if you don't go to class or understand thick Indian accents

TERRIBLE!! He's very hard to understand because of his accent and even if you memorize every word of the notes the tests are still hard. Only 25 questions on 4 tests and the lowest one gets dropped. He says you don't need the book because apparently he knows more which makes it even more confusing.

He only grades you on 4 exams that are extremely hard and confusing. Good luck.

I am the type of student who is easy to please but this professor is the worst!! I mean the worst! First off, he does not give you his email because apparently the answers to our questions are in the syllabus. There are only 4 exams with 25 questions 2pts each... NO WAY TO PULL your grade up but an extra credit 3 page paper worth only 5 points!

Save your GPA and don't take this class. He doesn't give you his email address so it is impossible to contact him, the only grades are four 25 questions test and one 200 question final, study guides are absolutely useless because all it is are the headings to the powerpoint slides, and I feel like I studied for the wrong test single every time.

Professor Goel could quite possibly be the worst teacher I have ever had in my life. Please do not take this class even if it is the only Eco105 classes available. Wait a semester and make sure you get a different professor. His english is horrible and the tests are not even on the material he teaches. You have to be an economics major to pass.

I'll keep this simple. He is not a professor you want to have if you have to take the class. Lectures are boring and you can just see people wanting to leave 5 mins in. Worst part is the grading, only 5 tests, he drops lowest one. The stuff on the test isn't whats on the review. Final is optional/comprehensive with no additional review for it.

Go to class. 4 out of 5 exams are taken for your grade, that's it. Possibly a 5 point max extra credit paper. Hard exams, hard to study for them.

I attended every single class and took every note to the T and I still performed poorly in this class. If you really want a challenge when it comes to Macro and Micro Economics and understand a very thick Indian accent, then I recommend this class for you. For what I assume are the many others who are just taking this for a Gen Ed, don't take him.

One extra credit assignment. Can get up to 5 points, most people get 2. You better understand the material or you won't pass. Not nice.

your final grade is based on the 5 exams you do. You get no homework or graded on anything else so if you mess up on your exams then you will fail.

Showed up to every class. Took notes exactly the way he described them/ had them on the power point, still got a C. This is the lowest grade i've had in college. After studying all the terms and thinking I knew them, the test questions would be written in a very difficult way that makes you apply the terms to real world problems. Overall hard class

STAY AWAY, he does not post the notes online so you have to go to the lectures. Only points in the class are 5 test which he drops one. One extra credit paper that is only worth 5 points which I don't think anyone received a 5 for.

Honestly very poor teacher in class. Will not let a class use a cheat sheet on the tests. Would not curve test grade when the class average for it was 58. He acts like the class knows everything. He talks crap about the students offers help but the help he offers is useless. Complete tool in class. Hope the school fires him as a teacher.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. There is not one good thing I have to say. First of all he has a hard Indian accent and uses a microphone so there is an echo. Impossible to understand. His reviews have nothing to do with the exams. Whole grade is based on exams. I have done everything in my power to pass and getting a D-. Says rude comments in class.

Terrible teacher that I would never recommend to anybody ever

Should have looked at his review before taking, worst class ever. If you take your academics seriously, this class will take a huge toll on you. I studied for this class so much, and still got a C. He tries to trick you on exams, and the only advice he gave for the final (which is out of 26 points covering 14 chapters) was to study the notes

From being highly inaccessible, to having material like the syllabus, and mandatory reading be confusing, hard to find, and having zero willingness to work with students he seems committed to failing students. Even with TA, for a summer class he refused to communicate by email, and would only allow exams to be open for a few hours.

He doesn't actually teach anything, literally just summarizes wikipedia pages. I've had to teach myself the entire course, he isn't approachable, and your grade is based solely on exams, good luck.

what ever you do, dont take this professor. seriously!!!

I had my class notes imputed onto my calculator for exams. However, non of the questions are based on the notes at all. He says hes bad at his job which hes right about that. Does not care about students hes only here to do research and get paid. I cant wait to be a teacher hes the perfect of example of the teacher I don't want to be.

Rajeev might be the worst professor at ISU. He constantly reminds his students how bad he is at his job and goes off on tangents completely unrelated to econ. The content of his tests are completely unrelated to the material in class. There is only one optional assignment in terms of homework points. Good luck if you think you'll pass this class

If you're on rate my professor looking for a sign: drop this class, take something else, and try for a different professor next semester. You can't understand half of what he says, making lectures useless. No study guides, no final review, zero resources. I taught myself the course on YouTube. Do yourself a favor and drop him.

Easily the worst educator I EVER had. Brags about being the highest paid professor at ISU and how he's basically untouchable due to his tenure. -No hw AT ALL -Pretentious to students w/ questions ("do you have a real ?, we already went over this") -Cancelled class before the final, no review whatsoever (1-10ch btw) DONOTTAKECLASS ECO102

(1/3) If youre on this website looking for a solid professor to take for ECO102, please take this post seriously. Have to split it up into 3 parts.. Never in my academic career have I considered talking to a superior about the realistic expectations of a 100 level class... but regarding this class especially with this prof, I had to.

do not take goel. i didnt miss one class, I studied 20+ hours for each test, 30+ hours for the final and still got a D. His office hours are 30 minutes ONCE a week. Really, do what you can to not take him. I have nothing good to say about him. Hands down the WORST professor I have ever had. He also doesnt curve/round even when 75% of the class fail

In all my years of being a student, Prof Goel has been the worst teacher I've ever had. Grade is straight up 4 exams, 1 gets dropped. 25 questions each. Super hard exams, not even sure he knows the correct answers to some of the questions. Shame he's still a teacher at ISU. Almost positive half of the class didn't pass

He was awful, his 105 class was graded by 3 exams and optional final. Every answer option on the tests were extremely similar to each other, because so many people kept failing or dropping his class econ 105 was broken into eco101 & 102. I would study outside of class and go to every lecture and got a 72. This class is my literal only C in College

This guy is the worst teacher I've experinced in my life! The fact that someone hired this tyrannt is baffling to me. Get ready to teach yourself because any questions you ask him will fall on deaf ears! I would recommend any other teacher in this university besides him. Rati is deaf but atleast he cares about his students.

I'm warning everyone now not to take this awful teacher. Doesn't answer questions, doesn't care, and often times backtracks on what he says in class. How he still is a teacher at Illinois state shows me how poor the administration is. You can all thank me later.

Horrible, I got forced to take him again and he's still the same sucky professor. He expects everyone to just know the material like we aren't students. he made us write a paper on his super specific old paper on a topic we as students won't really know. Rude when answering questions and still has vague test questions. Now he's the only 2 Cs in col

I had to take this class online due to the pandemic and I can say he is by far the least empathetic professor I have had so far. He formats his tests so they are taken in a linear format where you cannot go back to previous problems, so if you skip one you are screwed. 90% of the grade is tests and the other 10% is a paper. AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Professor Goel puts very little effort in and has the stalest and boring lectures. I learned absolutely nothing and felt like I wasted time by being at his lectures. There is no homework to apply the content. All he has you do is take exams.

Lectures are straight off the PowerPoints, give or take a few extra things. You should be able to memorize the info and be able to read the graphs and do well on the exams but somehow I consistently got a 68. No homework, only thing you are graded on is the exams so if you are a bad test taker good luck. One extra credit assignment. Hated it.

In my whole academic career Ive never had a teacher as uncaring, unprofessional, and nonresponsive as Dr. Goel. You receive 4 tests today, 3 count as a grade. No homework, and the major points are posted in power points. Prepare to read and learn on your own, Dr. Goel is worthless as a professor. Would never take again, and Im going to avoid him�

Professor Goel is hard to understand and can't explain a concept differently if you don't understand. Not a great professor and lectures are very note heavy. He really just doesn't have his ish together.

very lecture-heavy, tests are online, and his lectures consist of a lot of rambling

Hard to understand during lectures, makes sitting through them for an hour fifteen absolutely unbearable. Graded by 3 tests and one extra credit assignment. Wouldn't recommend if able to be avoided.

You can stare at a wall and learn more about economics than "learning" from him. He's a nice guy but his lectures are terrible. Incredibly unorganized. Displays information without actually teaching anything. He expects you to be an economist at the undergraduate level. Surprised he was ever hired to teach, as that is not what he does.

Only 200 points available for the whole class and 180 are from the 3 exams. Lectures are confusing and he is not good at clarifying questions. Learned more from my one day reading the book than I ever did from attending his lectures. No homework or attendance grades but the exams make or break your score.

Barely accessible outside of class, lectures are hard to follow as he has a thick accent and is unorganized. He jumps from multiple power points and goes off on tangents. He gives a couple tests and quizzes which his "study guides" are just things that may or may not even be on there. Be ready to teach yourself everything before exams and quizzes.

The worst professor I've ever had. He's the only one that teaches 240 that is required for economics. He teaches severaly class and most students fail. ISU does nothing about it. They do not care as long as they get their money. If you're an econ. major do not go to here. Whole class is 200 points. Two exams and one quiz. No curve/extra credit.

His lectures were borderline unfollowable. He jumps between different PowerPoint in the middle of lectures. When asks clarifying questions he just makes it more confusing. He is barely accessible outside of lectures to answer questions and I learned more by googling the topics and learning it on Khan Academy than from his lectures.

Couldnt understand him at all. The only reason why I passed this class was because all his tests were online. I only showed up to class 3 times. DO NOT TAKE HIM

Has a very odd way of explaining things, and his accent is very strong. He had a previous student come in and explain his teaching style for us and give us tips to help us, didnt really help, just wanted to show us "yeah someone passed" save yourself the trouble.

Class is not hard, but as someone who attended nearly every lecture I don't feel like it was necessary as they really aren't that valuable. You can easily teach yourself the material and do well on the exams without ever actually attending. Grade is based on three exams only.