AWFUL! Condescending and rude.

Raj doesn't "teach", everything is self taught, if you have taken calculus before you will pass this class if you have not be prepare to struggle and probably pay for a tutor.

Worst teacher I've ever had - taught new material by putting one example on board and explaining it at end of class. If I had not taken calculus before I would have definitely failed.

Refuses to answer questions, instead cuts students off when they try to understand things. Loves to stump kids with difficult questions & then hold the answers over their heads condescendingly. She seems to expect that everyone in her calc class has already taken calc, because she doesn't actually teach the content in class. Worst professor ever.

Worst professor I've had so far at Northeastern. She literally expects you to remember everything from Algebra you took in high school and doesn't give you a heads up to review certain Algebra concepts when a quiz comes up. She is unhelpful in class so I basically have to self-teach myself every single time. Take Rekha Bai instead!

Fails to teach anything, and basically expects students to have taken calc already. If you have taken calc in high school, this class is easy, if not, good luck!

Professor Raj doesn't really know how to teach and the class is very hard if you're not good in math. She was late to all my classes and is a very tough grader specially in the group project. She is very unorganized,lost our midterms and made us all retake it and a week later found them which was so unfair. DON'T TAKE THIS CLASS! Self teach to pass

Nice woman but super disorganized/ all over the place and not an effective teacher. Unless you have learned the material before, do not take this class. Lost our midterms and made us retake them over a month later.

Difficult class, not easy to understand concepts

She is Nice but That's it. She goes off on tangents and expects you to know all of the calculus before even stepping foot in her class. She doesn't have clear criteria and refuses to help when students are severely struggling. Her class made me and my friends cry due to the unnecessarily hard content.

Raj means well, but this class is awful.10 quizzes with the lowest 3 dropped, and 2 exams with the final being 40%. She never actually taught, instead just went over examples, and then taught topics not taught in class in a condescending way. Most of the class struggled, and she offered little to no support. Raj's section is way too hard. AVOID

She is way too condescending and Elitest to teach this or any course. she spent majority of class time scolding us for not already being geniuses on the course material. Majority of the class struggled those who didn't had already taken AP Calculus. AVOID FOR YOUR OWN SAKE.

Absolutely horrible. The only good part of this class is Brad, her TA. He is so sweet and willing to help with anything and everything. This Prof. is rude, and condescending, and treats all her students like they should be mathematicians. News flash lady, not everyone is good with numbers and wants to be a Math Professor. Stop answering Q's w Q's.

Awful.

This Professor made me consider dropping my major. She expects you to walk having done 12 hours of review the night before, news flash lady there is only 24 hours in a day. She basically called the entire class stupid and then showed us inspirational videos about the power of positivity. Like ma'am haven't you caused me enough anxiety already?

Taking her class was like slow torture. I would go to office hours and practice on my own and I would still cry over my homework every night. I'm telling you she genuinely gets pleasure out of seeing us suffer. I feel like everyone in my class bonded over surviving her so-called teaching. If you value your mental health avoid it at all costs

Condescending and mean for no reason

Ive never had a teacher pray on my downfall as often as she does. She literally enjoys watching us struggle. My classmates and I low-key have collective anxiety because of struggling through this class.

You can tell that Raj cares about students and likes to teach, she also tries her best to be accessible outside of class. However, she is not good at teaching in an understandable way and teaches things that you don't even need to know since she just rambles a bunch. You'll often find yourself teaching yourself the course content. Try to avoid.

RAJINI IS A BAD TEACHER. She always comes to the 8:00 am class 30 minutes late and tries to make several excuses about how the T broke down 10 times . She leaves confusing reviews on the group projects and cuts points off for unnecessary corrections. She does not what to correct in the group project properly as well . DO NOT TAKE HER .

Always late, doesn't how to teach at all, classes are not helpful and a waste of time.

ALWAYS LATE TO CLASS. She emailed the class that she will be 10 minutes late. 20 minutes later we received another email saying we will meet on zoom... She also rambles a lot. She gives partial credit on exams and quizzes (8 in total) but is just straight up lazy.

She doesn't teach at all. Always late to class (20 minutes) and blame the T (green line) for being too crowded. Always teach easy stuff in class, and then it gets difficult on the test. Homework was chill on Cengage. 100% never retake her class again. If you get picked on, your dead

If you don't know calc and you're taking this class, DO NOT take it with her. Sure she may be a nice person, but she spends very little time on concepts and expects you to understand them. The only reason I was able to do well was because I already knew the stuff. Go for someone else.

If you need to take Calculus or Math Thinking at Northeastern, DO NOT take Raj. The only way I was able to pass this class was by watching all the videos (taught by a different professor) and by going to TA hours (again a different person ). Professor Raj is unclear in her lectures and doesn't seem to know the material she is teaching, herself.

Do not take this class! She did not teach anything and it was so difficult. My best advice is to not take it, it is too much work without the help of the professor

Avoid.

Impossible to do well. She jumps from one topic to another and often goes on tangents about her personal life. Very few examples are done in class and hw has nothing to do with the tests. Claims to be available and willing to help, but will always blame the student, even for illness. Do not miss class! Grades not published until end of semester.

The profesor was nice but she was just bad at teaching, she did not care how the students did at all and was a really though grader.

She hardly teaches the content of the class needed to complete the homework, goes on rants on the most random stuff in class. DO NOT TAKE.

I assure you, Rajini Jesudason is out to get her students. I believe that she's a good person, but she is unfitting as a professor. She will purposefully regrade exams to take points off, cold call, and rush through material the day before the quiz or test. I've had harder courses with lower rated professors, yet none were as inadequate as her.

Goes on random rants about things. Very disorganized with resources and content that will be on the quiz. Gets very defensive when you try to tell her her resources are confusing. No study guide and barely helps coming up with a plan when asked.

If you wanna learn Calc 1, I do NOT recommend this course, especially if you've never taken Calc before. She goes on random long tangents about her personal life which is great for small talk but terrible for class. 0/10.

Avoid at all costs. Worst professor I've ever had. Doesn't teach, is rude, grades extremely unfairly, and makes things so complicated. I took the class in high school and still didn't do great. Just avoid her if you can.

lectures are all over the place, jumps from topic to topic and doesn't tie everything together, super hard grader, tests are sometimes on material we've never learned, overall don't recommend

WORST professor. I was sick for three classes and couldn't catch up.Told me"Ur not the student u used to be" and made me cry. Has no teaching plan. Semester gets increasingly harder.Vids helped. No notes published to review. Doesn't tell u ur grade in class until semester is over and claims that PET PEEVE IS PEOPLE NOT KNOWING THEIR OVERALL GRADE?

just a bad prof.... like, ur just not gonna enjoy this class.

She doesn't show your grade during the class, so you have no idea if you're passing or not. She claims that knowing your grade is 'bad,' which is the dumbest thing I ever heard. Two of my friends didn't realize they were failing and ended up not passing. If they had known earlier, they could have dropped the class. She's the reason that happened

Comes off as very caring and definitely wants to help her students however she depends too much on the students' prior knowledge and somehow say a lot while nearly nothing gets across. She was kind enough to give an extra quiz plus a quiz dropped since the final grade is made up of just quizzes and the final, but no bg knowledge = suffer.

Although she was approachable for extra help, Raj did not use class time in an organized or helpful way. She would talk mostly about her personal life in class and would do very few practice problems. I had to teach myself everything through youtube. The hmwrk did not match up with what was on the tests, making it nearly impossible to do well.

There's only one way to pass - don't take this prof!! No clear teaching, no grade updates, tons of work with no reminders, rude to students, and acts like we're PhD math majors. Creates tension instead of helping. Lowk wants kids to fail to prove her insane points. This class will ruin your semester. Run like a plague is chasing you.

I've seen this professor tell her student he should get EVALUATED because he didn't understand derivatives---------- do I need to say anything else.

She was a calm professor, and if you were struggling, she strongly encouraged you to attend her office hours regularly. However, during office hours she often talked about her business class, which could be distracting. I found the quizzes challenging, and I would sometimes feel overwhelmed after getting them back.

Does not post grades online and is not great at describing or teaching any content in the course. She seems like a nice person, just not a good teacher in my opinion.